Unix for Beginners
Unix Shell Programming
Advanced Unix
Unix Useful References
Unix Useful Resources
Selected Reading
Copyright © 2014 by tutorialspoint
|
kexec_load() - Unix, Linux System Call
Advertisements
NAME
kexec_load - loads a new kernel image to memory
SYNOPSIS
#include <syscall.h>
#include <kexec.h>
long kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
struct kexec_segment *flags);
|
DESCRIPTION
kexec_load loads the new kernel from the current address space.
This system call can only be used by root.
entry is a pointer to the entry point of newly loaded executable image.
This is the memory location where kernel will jump to and start
executing instructions of newly loaded image.
nr_segments denotes the number of segments which will be passed to
kexec_load.
The value must not be greater than
KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX.
segments denotes a pointer to the first element of an array of
kexec_segment elements. A
kexec_segment element contains the details of a segment to be
loaded in memory.
flags Sixteen most significant bits of the flag are used to communicate
the architecture information (KEXEC_ARCH_*).
The values for various architectures
are same as defined by ELF specifications.
Lower sixteen bits have been reserved for miscellaneous information.
Currently only one bit is being used and rest fifteen have been
reserved for future use.
The least significant bit (KEXEC_ON_CRASH) can be set to inform the
kernel that the
memory memory image being loaded is to be executed upon a system
crash and not regular boot. For regular boot, this bit is cleared.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, nonzero value is returned,
and
errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EPERM the calling process has not sufficient permissions (is not root).
EINVAL the
flags argument contains an invalid combination of flags, or
nr_segments is greater than KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX.
ENOMEM there is not enough memory to store the kernel image.
EBUSY the memory location which should be written to is not available now.
AVAILABILITY
This syscall is implemented only since kernel 2.6.1
Advertisements
|
|
|