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[v2,06/17] kexec: Add config option for KHO

Message ID 20231222193607.15474-7-graf@amazon.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series kexec: Allow preservation of ftrace buffers | expand

Commit Message

Alexander Graf Dec. 22, 2023, 7:35 p.m. UTC 
We have all generic code in place now to support Kexec with KHO. This
patch adds a config option that depends on architecture support to
enable KHO support.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
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 kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
index 2fd510256604..909ab28f1341 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
@@ -91,6 +91,19 @@  config KEXEC_JUMP
 	  Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
 	  code in physical address mode via KEXEC
 
+config KEXEC_KHO
+	bool "kexec handover"
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_KHO
+	depends on KEXEC
+	select MEMBLOCK_SCRATCH
+	select LIBFDT
+	select CMA
+	help
+	  Allow kexec to hand over state across kernels by generating and
+	  passing additional metadata to the target kernel. This is useful
+	  to keep data or state alive across the kexec. For this to work,
+	  both source and target kernels need to have this option enabled.
+
 config CRASH_DUMP
 	bool "kernel crash dumps"
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_CRASH_DUMP