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[PATCH v8 11/13] arm64: kexec_file: enable KEXEC_FILE config

From: AKASHI Takahiro <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-22 11:20:00
Also in: kexec, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

Modify arm64/Kconfig to enable kexec_file_load support.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <redacted>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 7381eeb7ef8e..79ee27b8d2a0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -829,6 +829,16 @@ 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 CRASH_DUMP
 	bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
 	help
-- 
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