From: Alexander Graf <g...@amazon.com>

We have all generic code in place now to support Kexec with KHO. This
patch adds a config option that depends on architecture support to
enable KHO support.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <g...@amazon.com>
Co-developed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <r...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <r...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Changyuan Lyu <changyu...@google.com>
---
 kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
index 4d111f8719516..4fa212909d699 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
@@ -95,6 +95,20 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP
          Jump between original kernel and kexeced kernel and invoke
          code in physical address mode via KEXEC
 
+config KEXEC_HANDOVER
+       bool "kexec handover"
+       depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
+       select MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
+       select KEXEC_FILE
+       select DEBUG_FS
+       select LIBFDT
+       select CMA
+       help
+         Allow kexec to hand over state across kernels by generating and
+         passing additional metadata to the target kernel. This is useful
+         to keep data or state alive across the kexec. For this to work,
+         both source and target kernels need to have this option enabled.
+
 config CRASH_DUMP
        bool "kernel crash dumps"
        default ARCH_DEFAULT_CRASH_DUMP
-- 
2.49.0.1015.ga840276032-goog


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