From: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 07:46:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: kexec: add config option for KHO
X-Git-Tag: v6.16-rc1~92^2~102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e1d010e3bda2e0e4147e26490dbb1989ef65fc1;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

kexec: add config option for KHO

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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-9-changyuanl@google.com
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>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Cc: Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Gowans <jgowans@amazon.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

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