[PATCH] Add emergency_restart()

When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly
kernel_restart is the function to use.   But in many instances
the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working
very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler.

This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that
callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling
restart.  emergency_restart() is expected to be callable
from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more
trying circumstances.

This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/emergency-restart.h b/include/asm-x86_64/emergency-restart.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..108d8c48e42e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/emergency-restart.h
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_EMERGENCY_RESTART_H
+#define _ASM_EMERGENCY_RESTART_H
+
+#include <asm-generic/emergency-restart.h>
+
+#endif /* _ASM_EMERGENCY_RESTART_H */