[PATCH 4/5] kexec: fallback to KEXEC_LOAD when KEXEC_FILE_LOAD is not supported.

[Michal Suchánek]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:44:58 +0100
Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 01:00:37PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Not all architectures implement KEXEC_FILE_LOAD. However, on some
> > archiectures KEXEC_FILE_LOAD is required when secure boot is
> > enabled in locked-down mode. Previously users had to select the
> > KEXEC_FILE_LOAD syscall with undocumented -s option. However, if
> > they did pass the option kexec would fail on architectures that do
> > not support it.
> > 
> > When no option is passed to select one syscall or the other try
> > KEXEC_FILE_LOAD and fall back to KEXEC_LOAD when not suported.  
> 
> Has there been a release of kexec-tools with things arranged they
> way they currently are?

$ git tag --contains
046d1755d2bd723a11a180c265e61a884990712e 
v2.0.10
v2.0.10-rc1
v2.0.11
v2.0.11-rc1
v2.0.12
v2.0.12-rc1
v2.0.13
v2.0.13-rc1
v2.0.14
v2.0.14-rc1
v2.0.15
v2.0.15-rc1
v2.0.16-rc1
v2.0.8
v2.0.8-rc1
v2.0.9
v2.0.9-rc1

> 
> Can we document this behaviour and the related undocumented options?

It's done in a followup patch.

Thanks

Michal