This is the new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration/interface. I have reserved the syscall number only for x86_64 so far. Other architectures (including i386) can reserve syscall number when they enable the support for this new syscall. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> CC: linux-api at vger.kernel.org --- arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + include/linux/syscalls.h | 4 ++++ kernel/kexec.c | 7 +++++++ kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl index ec255a1..6d35459 100644 --- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl @@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ 314 common sched_setattr sys_sched_setattr 315 common sched_getattr sys_sched_getattr 316 common renameat2 sys_renameat2 +317 common kexec_file_load sys_kexec_file_load # # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index b0881a0..9e98193 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -317,6 +317,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_restart_syscall(void); asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments, struct kexec_segment __user *segments, unsigned long flags); +asmlinkage long sys_kexec_file_load(int kernel_fd, int initrd_fd, + unsigned long cmdline_len, + const char __user *cmdline_ptr, + unsigned long flags); asmlinkage long sys_exit(int error_code); asmlinkage long sys_exit_group(int error_code); diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c index c69ce00..bdda717 100644 --- a/kernel/kexec.c +++ b/kernel/kexec.c @@ -1057,6 +1057,13 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compat_ulong_t, entry, } #endif +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd, + unsigned long, cmdline_len, const char __user *, cmdline_ptr, + unsigned long, flags) +{ + return -ENOSYS; +} + void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs) { /* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load diff --git a/kernel/sys_ni.c b/kernel/sys_ni.c index 36441b5..51ea89f 100644 --- a/kernel/sys_ni.c +++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ cond_syscall(sys_swapon); cond_syscall(sys_swapoff); cond_syscall(sys_kexec_load); cond_syscall(compat_sys_kexec_load); +cond_syscall(sys_kexec_file_load); cond_syscall(sys_init_module); cond_syscall(sys_finit_module); cond_syscall(sys_delete_module); -- 1.9.0