[systemd-devel] [PATCH] shutdown: avoid calling `kexec` binary unnessecarily

[Shawn Landden]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
wrote:

> On Fri, 13.02.15 14:18, Shawn Landden (shawn at churchofgit.com) wrote:
>
> > Still use helper when Xen Dom0, to avoid duplicating some hairy
> > code.
>
> Hmm, what precisely does the helper do on xen?
>
> > So we don't have any logic to load kexec kernels?
>
> Currently we don't.
>
> My hope though was that we can make the whole kexec thing work without
> having kexec-tools installed. With the new kernel syscall for loading
> the kernel we should be able to implement this all without any other
> tools.
>
> Ideally we'd not use any external tools anymore, not even in the Xen
> case, hence I am curious what precisely the special hookup for Xen is
> here...?
>
> Lennart
>
>
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/tree/kexec/kexec-xen.c

I've attached my patch.
I'm having a problem with kexec_file_load() returning ENOMEM that I havn't
resolved.

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