[PATCH] kexec: Add kexec reboot string

From: Paul Menzel
Date: Tue Nov 03 2020 - 08:40:56 EST


From: Joe LeVeque <jolevequ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The purpose is to notify the kernel module for fast reboot.

Upstream a patch from the SONiC network operating system [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/46

Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
index 8798a8183974..9aaa6ce48cdf 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
#endif
{
kexec_in_progress = true;
- kernel_restart_prepare(NULL);
+ kernel_restart_prepare("kexec reboot");
migrate_to_reboot_cpu();

/*
--
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