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Alexander Graf 65a5d72785 x86/kexec: add support for passing kexec handover (KHO) data
kexec handover (KHO) creates a metadata that the kernels pass between each
other during kexec.  This metadata is stored in memory and kexec image
contains a (physical) pointer to that memory.

In addition, KHO keeps "scratch regions" available for kexec: physically
contiguous memory regions that are guaranteed to not have any memory that
KHO would preserve.  The new kernel bootstraps itself using the scratch
regions and sets all handed over memory as in use.  When subsystems that
support KHO initialize, they introspect the KHO metadata, restore
preserved memory regions, and retrieve their state stored in the preserved
memory.

Enlighten x86 kexec-file and boot path about the KHO metadata and make
sure it gets passed along to the next kernel.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509074635.3187114-12-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>
Co-developed-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.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: 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>
2025-05-12 23:50:41 -07:00
arch x86/kexec: add support for passing kexec handover (KHO) data 2025-05-12 23:50:41 -07:00
block block-6.15-20250509 2025-05-09 10:34:50 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: scompress - increment scomp_scratch_users when already allocated 2025-04-25 10:33:30 +08:00
Documentation mm: add max swappiness arg to lru_gen for anonymous memory only 2025-05-12 23:50:36 -07:00
drivers arm64: add KHO support 2025-05-12 23:50:41 -07:00
fs fs/proc/page: refactor to reduce code duplication 2025-05-11 17:48:20 -07:00
include kexec: add KHO support to kexec file loads 2025-05-12 23:50:40 -07:00
init mm/memcg: move mem_cgroup_init() ahead of cgroup_init() 2025-05-12 23:50:34 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/sqpoll: Increase task_work submission batch size 2025-05-09 07:56:53 -06:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel kexec: add config option for KHO 2025-05-12 23:50:40 -07:00
lib lib/test_vmalloc.c: allow built-in execution 2025-05-11 17:48:34 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm kexec: add KHO parsing support 2025-05-12 23:50:39 -07:00
net net: export a helper for adding up queue stats 2025-05-08 11:56:12 +02:00
rust task: rust: rework how current is accessed 2025-05-11 17:48:25 -07:00
samples samples/damon: implement a DAMON module for memory tiering 2025-05-12 23:50:30 -07:00
scripts scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section 2025-05-08 12:01:01 +00:00
security Landlock fix for v6.15-rc4 2025-04-24 12:59:05 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.15 2025-05-01 10:22:20 +02:00
tools memblock: add MEMBLOCK_RSRV_KERN flag 2025-05-12 23:50:38 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt ARM: 2025-04-08 13:47:55 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update the ForEachMacros list for v6.15-rc1 2025-04-13 11:03:59 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved 2025-03-17 00:29:50 +09:00
.mailmap Input updates for v6.15-rc5 2025-05-11 10:29:29 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Update Christoph's Email address and make it consistent 2025-05-12 23:50:31 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS kexec: add Kexec HandOver (KHO) generation helpers 2025-05-12 23:50:39 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.15-rc6 2025-05-11 14:54:11 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.