[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, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c
index f119e09..9e28478 100644
--- a/kernel/ksysfs.c
+++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
 
 #define KERNEL_ATTR_RO(_name) \
 static struct subsys_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
@@ -48,6 +49,20 @@ static ssize_t uevent_helper_store(struct subsystem *subsys, const char *page, s
 KERNEL_ATTR_RW(uevent_helper);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+static ssize_t kexec_loaded_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%d\n", !!kexec_image);
+}
+KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_loaded);
+
+static ssize_t kexec_crash_loaded_show(struct subsystem *subsys, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%d\n", !!kexec_crash_image);
+}
+KERNEL_ATTR_RO(kexec_crash_loaded);
+#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
+
 decl_subsys(kernel, NULL, NULL);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_subsys);
 
@@ -56,6 +71,10 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = {
 	&uevent_seqnum_attr.attr,
 	&uevent_helper_attr.attr,
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+	&kexec_loaded_attr.attr,
+	&kexec_crash_loaded_attr.attr,
+#endif
 	NULL
 };