linux-kernel - [PATCH v11 7/8] powerpc/kexec: Enable kexec_file

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Message-Id: <1480423554-6411-8-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:45:53 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dyoung@...hat.com, stewart@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH v11 7/8] powerpc/kexec: Enable kexec_file_load() syscall

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Define the Kconfig symbol so that the kexec_file_load() code can be
built, and wire up the syscall so that it can be called.

Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                   | 13 +++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h      |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h      |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h |  1 +
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 6cb59c6e5ba4..897d0f14447d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -455,6 +455,19 @@ config KEXEC
 	  interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be
 	  made.
 
+config KEXEC_FILE
+	bool "kexec file based system call"
+	select KEXEC_CORE
+	select BUILD_BIN2C
+	depends on PPC64
+	depends on CRYPTO=y
+	depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y
+	help
+	  This is a new version of the kexec system call. This call is
+	  file based and takes in file descriptors as system call arguments
+	  for kernel and initramfs as opposed to a list of segments as is the
+	  case for the older kexec call.
+
 config RELOCATABLE
 	bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
 	depends on (PPC64 && !COMPILE_TEST) || (FLATMEM && (44x || FSL_BOOKE))
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
index 2fc5d4db503c..4b369d83fe9c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
@@ -386,3 +386,4 @@ SYSCALL(mlock2)
 SYSCALL(copy_file_range)
 COMPAT_SYS_SPU(preadv2)
 COMPAT_SYS_SPU(pwritev2)
+SYSCALL(kexec_file_load)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
index e8cdfec8d512..eb1acee91a20 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #include <uapi/asm/unistd.h>
 
 
-#define NR_syscalls		382
+#define NR_syscalls		383
 
 #define __NR__exit __NR_exit
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index e9f5f41aa55a..2f26335a3c42 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -392,5 +392,6 @@
 #define __NR_copy_file_range	379
 #define __NR_preadv2		380
 #define __NR_pwritev2		381
+#define __NR_kexec_file_load	382
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_ASM_POWERPC_UNISTD_H_ */
-- 
2.7.4