linux-toradex.git/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h, branch v5.1-rc1

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support

2016-06-27T15:31:25+00:00

Add three new files, kexec.h, machine_kexec.c and relocate_kernel.S to the
arm64 architecture that add support for the kexec re-boot mechanism
(CONFIG_KEXEC) on arm64 platforms.

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand 
Reviewed-by: James Morse 
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: removed dead code following James Morse's comments]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

kexec: Fix make headers_check

2015-02-17T22:34:51+00:00

Remove the unneded declaration for a kexec_load() routine.

Fixes errors like these when running 'make headers_check':

include/uapi/linux/kexec.h: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel

Paul said:

: The kexec_load declaration isn't very useful for userspace, see the patch
: I submitted in http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389791824.17407.9.camel@x220 .
: And After my attempt the export of that declaration has also been
: discussed in
: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/115373b6ac68ee7a305975896e1c4971e8e51d4c.1408731991.git.geoff@infradead.org
:
: In that last discussion no one has been able to point to an actual user of
: it.  So, as far as I can tell, no one actually uses it.  Which makes
: sense, because including this header by itself doesn't give one access to
: a useful definition of kexec_load.  So why bother with the declaration?

Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand 
Acked-by: Paul Bolle 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Maximilian Attems 
Cc: Michal Marek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kexec: implementation of new syscall kexec_file_load

2014-08-08T22:57:32+00:00

Previous patch provided the interface definition and this patch prvides
implementation of new syscall.

Previously segment list was prepared in user space.  Now user space just
passes kernel fd, initrd fd and command line and kernel will create a
segment list internally.

This patch contains generic part of the code.  Actual segment preparation
and loading is done by arch and image specific loader.  Which comes in
next patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Eric Biederman 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Dave Young 
Cc: WANG Chao 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

m68k: Add kexec support

2013-12-08T10:01:47+00:00

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones