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1 #ifndef _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H
2 #define _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H
3 
4 /* kexec system call -  It loads the new kernel to boot into.
5  * kexec does not sync, or unmount filesystems so if you need
6  * that to happen you need to do that yourself.
7  */
8 
9 #include <linux/types.h>
10 
11 /* kexec flags for different usage scenarios */
12 #define KEXEC_ON_CRASH		0x00000001
13 #define KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT	0x00000002
14 #define KEXEC_ARCH_MASK		0xffff0000
15 
16 /* These values match the ELF architecture values.
17  * Unless there is a good reason that should continue to be the case.
18  */
19 #define KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT ( 0 << 16)
20 #define KEXEC_ARCH_386     ( 3 << 16)
21 #define KEXEC_ARCH_X86_64  (62 << 16)
22 #define KEXEC_ARCH_PPC     (20 << 16)
23 #define KEXEC_ARCH_PPC64   (21 << 16)
24 #define KEXEC_ARCH_IA_64   (50 << 16)
25 #define KEXEC_ARCH_ARM     (40 << 16)
26 #define KEXEC_ARCH_S390    (22 << 16)
27 #define KEXEC_ARCH_SH      (42 << 16)
28 #define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS_LE (10 << 16)
29 #define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS    ( 8 << 16)
30 
31 /* The artificial cap on the number of segments passed to kexec_load. */
32 #define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
33 
34 #ifndef __KERNEL__
35 /*
36  * This structure is used to hold the arguments that are used when
37  * loading  kernel binaries.
38  */
39 struct kexec_segment {
40 	const void *buf;
41 	size_t bufsz;
42 	const void *mem;
43 	size_t memsz;
44 };
45 
46 /* Load a new kernel image as described by the kexec_segment array
47  * consisting of passed number of segments at the entry-point address.
48  * The flags allow different useage types.
49  */
50 extern int kexec_load(void *, size_t, struct kexec_segment *,
51 		unsigned long int);
52 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
53 
54 #endif /* _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H */
55