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The kernel cmdline reboot= option offers some sort of control on how the reboot is issued. We don't always know in advance what type of reboot to perform. Sometimes a warm reboot is preferred to persist certain memory regions across the reboot. Others a cold one is needed to apply a future system update that makes a memory memory model change, like changing the base page size or resizing a persistent memory region. Or simply we want to enable reboot_force because we noticed that something bad happened. Add handles in sysfs to allow setting these reboot options, so they can be changed when the system is booted, other than at boot time. The handlers are under <sysfs>/kernel/reboot, can be read to get the current configuration and written to alter it. # cd /sys/kernel/reboot/ # grep . * cpu:0 force:0 mode:cold type:acpi # echo 2 >cpu # echo yes >force # echo soft >mode # echo bios >type # grep . * cpu:2 force:1 mode:soft type:bios Before setting anything, check for CAP_SYS_BOOT capability, so it's possible to allow an unpriviledged process to change these settings simply by relaxing the handles permissions, without opening them to the world. [natechancellor@gmail.com: fix variable assignments in type_store] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112035023.974748-1-natechancellor@gmail.com Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1197 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110202746.9690-1-mcroce@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.