linux/kernel
Vivek Goyal 74ca317c26 kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall
Currently new system call kexec_file_load() and all the associated code
compiles if CONFIG_KEXEC=y.  But new syscall also compiles purgatory
code which currently uses gcc option -mcmodel=large.  This option seems
to be available only gcc 4.4 onwards.

Hiding new functionality behind a new config option will not break
existing users of old gcc.  Those who wish to enable new functionality
will require new gcc.  Having said that, I am trying to figure out how
can I move away from using -mcmodel=large but that can take a while.

I think there are other advantages of introducing this new config
option.  As this option will be enabled only on x86_64, other arches
don't have to compile generic kexec code which will never be used.  This
new code selects CRYPTO=y and CRYPTO_SHA256=y.  And all other arches had
to do this for CONFIG_KEXEC.  Now with introduction of new config
option, we can remove crypto dependency from other arches.

Now CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE is available only on x86_64.  So whereever I had
CONFIG_X86_64 defined, I got rid of that.

For CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE, instead of doing select CRYPTO=y, I changed it to
"depends on CRYPTO=y".  This should be safer as "select" is not
recursive.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
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bpf
debug
events Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-24 16:16:55 -07:00
gcov kernel/gcov/fs.c: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-05 17:38:45 -07:00
locking
power Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpuidle' 2014-08-11 23:19:48 +02:00
printk printk: Add function to return log buffer address and size 2014-08-13 15:13:44 +10:00
rcu
sched Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpuidle' 2014-08-11 23:19:48 +02:00
time timekeeping: Another fix to the VSYSCALL_OLD update_vsyscall 2014-08-14 11:04:11 -06:00
trace trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries 2014-08-25 20:18:11 -04:00
.gitignore
acct.c kernel/acct.c: fix coding style warnings and errors 2014-08-08 15:57:27 -07:00
async.c
audit.c
audit.h
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c kernel/auditfilter.c: replace count*size kmalloc by kcalloc 2014-08-06 18:01:12 -07:00
auditsc.c
backtracetest.c
bounds.c page-cgroup: get rid of NR_PCG_FLAGS 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
capability.c
cgroup.c
cgroup_freezer.c
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu.c
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c kernel/exit.c: fix coding style warnings and errors 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c seccomp: Replace BUG(!spin_is_locked()) with assert_spin_lock 2014-08-11 13:29:12 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: fix %pB when there's no symbol at the address 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Skip kretprobe hit in NMI context to avoid deadlock 2014-08-08 10:38:04 +02:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
Makefile bin2c: move bin2c in scripts/basic 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -07:00
module-internal.h
module.c module: Clean up ro/nx after early module load failures 2014-08-16 04:47:00 +09:30
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
params.c
pid.c
pid_namespace.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
res_counter.c
resource.c resource: fix the case of null pointer access 2014-08-29 16:28:15 -07:00
seccomp.c seccomp: Replace BUG(!spin_is_locked()) with assert_spin_lock 2014-08-11 13:29:12 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'signal-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc 2014-08-09 09:58:12 -07:00
smp.c kernel/smp.c:on_each_cpu_cond(): fix warning in fallback path 2014-08-06 18:01:22 -07:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c
sys_ni.c kexec: new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration 2014-08-08 15:57:32 -07:00
sysctl.c mm, hugetlb: remove hugetlb_zero and hugetlb_infinity 2014-08-06 18:01:19 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c
system_certificates.S
system_keyring.c
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c kernel/test_kprobes.c: use current logging functions 2014-08-08 15:57:18 -07:00
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c proc: constify seq_operations 2014-08-08 15:57:22 -07:00
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c panic: add TAINT_SOFTLOCKUP 2014-08-08 15:57:24 -07:00
workqueue.c
workqueue_internal.h