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Diffstat (limited to 'linux/kexec.h')
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1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/linux/kexec.h b/linux/kexec.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..767ccb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/linux/kexec.h @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +#ifndef LINUX_KEXEC_H +#define LINUX_KEXEC_H + +/* kexec system call - It loads the new kernel to boot into. + * kexec does not sync, or unmount filesystems so if you need + * that to happen you need to do that yourself. + */ + +/* kexec flags for different usage scenarios */ +#define KEXEC_ON_CRASH 0x00000001 +#define KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT 0x00000002 +#define KEXEC_ARCH_MASK 0xffff0000 + +/* These values match the ELF architecture values. + * Unless there is a good reason that should continue to be the case. + */ +#define KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT ( 0 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_386 ( 3 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_X86_64 (62 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_PPC (20 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_PPC64 (21 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_IA_64 (50 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_ARM (40 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_S390 (22 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_SH (42 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS_LE (10 << 16) +#define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS ( 8 << 16) + +/* The artificial cap on the number of segments passed to kexec_load. */ +#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16 + +/* + * This structure is used to hold the arguments that are used when + * loading kernel binaries. + */ +struct kexec_segment { + const void *buf; + size_t bufsz; + const void *mem; + size_t memsz; +}; + +/* Load a new kernel image as described by the kexec_segment array + * consisting of passed number of segments at the entry-point address. + * The flags allow different useage types. + */ +extern int kexec_load(void *, size_t, struct kexec_segment *, + unsigned long int); + +#endif /* LINUX_KEXEC_H */ |