[PATCH 12/14] arm64: enable KEXEC_FILE config

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Thu Aug 24 01:18:09 PDT 2017


Modify arm64/Kconfig and Makefile to enable kexec_file_load support.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig         | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index dfd908630631..cf10bc720d9e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -756,6 +756,28 @@ config KEXEC
 	  but it is independent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
 	  you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
 
+config KEXEC_FILE
+	bool "kexec file based system call"
+	select KEXEC_CORE
+	select BUILD_BIN2C
+	---help---
+	  This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
+	  file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument
+	  for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
+	  accepted by previous system call.
+
+config KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG
+	bool "Verify kernel signature during kexec_file_load() syscall"
+	depends on KEXEC_FILE
+	select SYSTEM_DATA_VERIFICATION
+	---help---
+	  This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for
+	  the kexec_file_load() syscall.
+
+	  In addition to that option, you need to enable signature
+	  verification for the corresponding kernel image type being
+	  loaded in order for this to work.
+
 config CRASH_DUMP
 	bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
 	help
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
index 16e9f56b536a..5df003d6157c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/Makefile
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64_ACPI_PARKING_PROTOCOL)	+= acpi_parking_protocol.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_PARAVIRT)		+= paravirt.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)	+= kaslr.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_HIBERNATION)		+= hibernate.o hibernate-asm.o
-arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC)		+= machine_kexec.o relocate_kernel.o	\
+arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE)		+= machine_kexec.o relocate_kernel.o	\
 					   cpu-reset.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE)		+= machine_kexec_file.o
 arm64-obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64_RELOC_TEST)	+= arm64-reloc-test.o
-- 
2.14.1




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