Revision 74ca317c26a3f8543203b61d262c0ab2e30c384e authored by Vivek Goyal on 29 August 2014, 22:18:46 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 29 August 2014, 23:28:16 UTC
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>
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File Mode Size
Kconfig -rw-r--r-- 3.4 KB
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 388 bytes
acl.c -rw-r--r-- 6.1 KB
acl.h -rw-r--r-- 1.5 KB
balloc.c -rw-r--r-- 62.0 KB
bitmap.c -rw-r--r-- 426 bytes
dir.c -rw-r--r-- 14.1 KB
ext3.h -rw-r--r-- 44.3 KB
ext3_jbd.c -rw-r--r-- 1.5 KB
file.c -rw-r--r-- 2.1 KB
fsync.c -rw-r--r-- 3.2 KB
hash.c -rw-r--r-- 4.3 KB
ialloc.c -rw-r--r-- 19.1 KB
inode.c -rw-r--r-- 104.4 KB
ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 7.4 KB
namei.c -rw-r--r-- 69.3 KB
namei.h -rw-r--r-- 570 bytes
resize.c -rw-r--r-- 34.0 KB
super.c -rw-r--r-- 85.0 KB
symlink.c -rw-r--r-- 1.3 KB
xattr.c -rw-r--r-- 34.6 KB
xattr.h -rw-r--r-- 3.7 KB
xattr_security.c -rw-r--r-- 2.0 KB
xattr_trusted.c -rw-r--r-- 1.4 KB
xattr_user.c -rw-r--r-- 1.5 KB

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