kexec: add KEXEC_ELF

Right now powerpc provides an implementation to read elf files
with the kexec_file_load() syscall. Make that available as a public
kexec interface so it can be re-used on other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index b9b1bc5f9669..da2a6b1d69e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -216,6 +216,30 @@ extern int crash_prepare_elf64_headers(struct crash_mem *mem, int kernel_map,
 				       void **addr, unsigned long *sz);
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_ELF
+struct kexec_elf_info {
+	/*
+	 * Where the ELF binary contents are kept.
+	 * Memory managed by the user of the struct.
+	 */
+	const char *buffer;
+
+	const struct elfhdr *ehdr;
+	const struct elf_phdr *proghdrs;
+	struct elf_shdr *sechdrs;
+};
+
+int kexec_build_elf_info(const char *buf, size_t len, struct elfhdr *ehdr,
+			       struct kexec_elf_info *elf_info);
+
+int kexec_elf_load(struct kimage *image, struct elfhdr *ehdr,
+			 struct kexec_elf_info *elf_info,
+			 struct kexec_buf *kbuf,
+			 unsigned long *lowest_load_addr);
+
+void kexec_free_elf_info(struct kexec_elf_info *elf_info);
+int kexec_elf_probe(const char *buf, unsigned long len);
+#endif
 struct kimage {
 	kimage_entry_t head;
 	kimage_entry_t *entry;