[PATCH] Add a sysfs file to determine if a kexec kernel is loaded

Create two files in /sys/kernel, kexec_loaded and kexec_crash_loaded.  Each
file contains a simple boolean value indicating whether the relevant kernel
has been loaded into memory.  The motivation for this is geared around
support.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index bf39d28e4c0e..58f0f382597c 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -902,14 +902,14 @@ static int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image,
  * kexec does not sync, or unmount filesystems so if you need
  * that to happen you need to do that yourself.
  */
-struct kimage *kexec_image = NULL;
-static struct kimage *kexec_crash_image = NULL;
+struct kimage *kexec_image;
+struct kimage *kexec_crash_image;
 /*
  * A home grown binary mutex.
  * Nothing can wait so this mutex is safe to use
  * in interrupt context :)
  */
-static int kexec_lock = 0;
+static int kexec_lock;
 
 asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(unsigned long entry, unsigned long nr_segments,
                                 struct kexec_segment __user *segments,