The patch titled
Subject: kexec: Add kexec reboot string
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kexec-add-kexec-reboot-string.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kexec-add-kexec-reboot-string.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-add-kexec-reboot-string.patch
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From: Joe LeVeque <jolevequ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kexec: Add kexec reboot string
The purpose is to notify the kernel module for fast reboot.
Upstream a patch from the SONiC network operating system [1].
[1]: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/46
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210304124626.13927-1-pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guohan Lu <lguohan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe LeVeque <jolevequ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c~kexec-add-kexec-reboot-string
+++ a/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
#endif
{
kexec_in_progress = true;
- kernel_restart_prepare(NULL);
+ kernel_restart_prepare("kexec reboot");
migrate_to_reboot_cpu();
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jolevequ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
kexec-add-kexec-reboot-string.patch
