x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec

Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does
not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to
initialize.  In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and
pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI
initialization can succeed finally.

To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so
kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
index f4f268c2b826..cb81741d3b0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
@@ -608,6 +608,9 @@ Protocol:       2.12+
         - If 1, the kernel supports the 64-bit EFI handoff entry point
           given at handover_offset + 0x200.
 
+  Bit 4 (read): XLF_EFI_KEXEC
+        - If 1, the kernel supports kexec EFI boot with EFI runtime support.
+
 Field name:     cmdline_size
 Type:           read
 Offset/size:    0x238/4