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From: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: anthony.yznaga@oracle.com, arnd@arndb.de, ashish.kalra@amd.com,
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	x86@kernel.org,  Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 08/17] kexec: add config option for KHO
Date: Fri,  9 May 2025 00:46:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250509074635.3187114-9-changyuanl@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250509074635.3187114-1-changyuanl@google.com>

From: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>

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>
Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
---
 kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
index 4d111f8719516..4fa212909d699 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
@@ -95,6 +95,20 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP
 	  Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
 	  code in physical address mode via KEXEC
 
+config KEXEC_HANDOVER
+	bool "kexec handover"
+	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
+	select MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
+	select KEXEC_FILE
+	select DEBUG_FS
+	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"
 	default ARCH_DEFAULT_CRASH_DUMP
-- 
2.49.0.1015.ga840276032-goog



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-09  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-09  7:46 [PATCH v8 00/17] kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO) Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 01/17] memblock: add MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN flag Changyuan Lyu
2025-10-10  9:33   ` Breno Leitao
2025-10-13 14:59     ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-10-13 16:40       ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-10-14  8:34         ` Breno Leitao
2025-10-14 13:10           ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-05 10:18             ` Breno Leitao
2025-11-06  8:24               ` Mike Rapoport
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 02/17] memblock: Add support for scratch memory Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 03/17] memblock: introduce memmap_init_kho_scratch() Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 04/17] kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 05/17] kexec: add KHO parsing support Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 06/17] kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 07/17] kexec: add KHO support to kexec file loads Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` Changyuan Lyu [this message]
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 09/17] arm64: add KHO support Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 10/17] x86/setup: use memblock_reserve_kern for memory used by kernel Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 11/17] x86/kexec: add support for passing kexec handover (KHO) data Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 12/17] x86/e820: temporarily enable KHO scratch for memory below 1M Changyuan Lyu
2025-11-24 19:24   ` Usama Arif
2025-11-25  0:56     ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-11-25 12:23       ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-25 13:53       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-25 13:15     ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-11-25 13:50       ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-25 18:47         ` Usama Arif
2025-11-26  6:14           ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-26  7:25             ` Usama Arif
2025-11-25 14:31       ` Usama Arif
2025-11-25 14:39         ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 13/17] x86/boot: make sure KASLR does not step over KHO preserved memory Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 14/17] x86/Kconfig: enable kexec handover for 64 bits Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 15/17] memblock: add KHO support for reserve_mem Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 16/17] Documentation: add documentation for KHO Changyuan Lyu
2025-05-09  7:46 ` [PATCH v8 17/17] Documentation: KHO: Add memblock bindings Changyuan Lyu
2025-12-11  3:00   ` Ricardo Neri

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