[RFC 06/18] init: Add liveupdate cmdline param

James Gowans jgowans at amazon.com
Mon Feb 5 04:01:51 PST 2024


This will allow other subsystems to know when we're going a LU and hence
when they should be restoring rather than reinitialising state.
---
 include/linux/init.h |  1 +
 init/main.c          | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
index 266c3e1640d4..d7c68c7bfaf0 100644
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ extern int do_one_initcall(initcall_t fn);
 extern char __initdata boot_command_line[];
 extern char *saved_command_line;
 extern unsigned int saved_command_line_len;
+extern bool liveupdate;
 extern unsigned int reset_devices;
 
 /* used by init/main.c */
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index e24b0780fdff..7807a56c3473 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -165,6 +165,16 @@ static char *ramdisk_execute_command = "/init";
 bool static_key_initialized __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(static_key_initialized);
 
+bool liveupdate __read_mostly;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(liveupdate);
+
+static int __init set_liveupdate(char *param)
+{
+	liveupdate = true;
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("liveupdate", set_liveupdate);
+
 /*
  * If set, this is an indication to the drivers that reset the underlying
  * device before going ahead with the initialization otherwise driver might
-- 
2.40.1




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