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CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE: Enable kexec file based system call

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The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE has multiple definitions:

Enable kexec file based system call found in kernel/Kconfig.kexec

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

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This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as accepted by kexec system call.

kexec file based systmem call found in arch/riscv/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

Help text

This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as accepted by previous system call.

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kexec file based system call found in arch/x86/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

Help text

This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as accepted by previous system call.

kexec file based system call found in arch/s390/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

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Enable the kexec file based system call. In contrast to the normal kexec system call this system call takes file descriptors for the kernel and initramfs as arguments.

kexec file based system call found in arch/powerpc/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

Help text

This is a new version of the kexec system call. This call is file based and takes in file descriptors as system call arguments for kernel and initramfs as opposed to a list of segments as is the case for the older kexec call.

kexec file based system call found in arch/parisc/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

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This enables the kexec_file_load() System call. This is file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as accepted by previous system call.

kexec file based system call found in arch/arm64/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE:

Help text

This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as accepted by previous system call.

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