Drivers running .shutdown() might want to wait for userspace to complete
before exiting.
If userspace is frozen and we are running kexec they will stall the
computer.
Add a way for them to figure out if they should just skip waiting for
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kexec.h | 3 +++
kernel/kexec_core.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index 41a686996aaa..c22711e0f7b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -426,6 +426,8 @@ extern int kexec_load_disabled;
/* flag to track if kexec reboot is in progress */
extern bool kexec_in_progress;
+bool kexec_with_frozen_processes(void);
+
int crash_shrink_memory(unsigned long new_size);
ssize_t crash_get_memory_size(void);
@@ -507,6 +509,7 @@ static inline void __crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { }
static inline void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { }
static inline int kexec_should_crash(struct task_struct *p) { return 0; }
static inline int kexec_crash_loaded(void) { return 0; }
+static inline bool kexec_with_frozen_processes(void) { return false; }
#define kexec_in_progress false
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE */
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index ca2743f9c634..8bc8257ee7ca 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ note_buf_t __percpu *crash_notes;
/* Flag to indicate we are going to kexec a new kernel */
bool kexec_in_progress = false;
+bool kexec_with_frozen_processes(void)
+{
+ return kexec_in_progress && pm_freezing;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kexec_with_frozen_processes);
/* Location of the reserved area for the crash kernel */
struct resource crashk_res = {
--
2.38.1.584.g0f3c55d4c2-goog-b4-0.11.0-dev-696ae
