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kexec: update manpage with explicit mention of clean kexec 

Resolves: RHEL-14000
Upstream: https://github.com/horms/kexec-tools
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commit bd0200c47c45dd420244b39ddabcecdab1fb9a8e
Author: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 20 17:29:27 2023 +0530

    kexec: update manpage with explicit mention of clean kexec

    While the manpage does mention about kexec boot with a clean shutdown,
    it is not explicit about it. Make it explicit.

    Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Lichen Liu <lichliu@redhat.com>
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Lichen Liu 2023-10-31 12:56:33 +08:00
parent 332f2041dc
commit 30eecb0312
2 changed files with 42 additions and 0 deletions
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@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ Requires: systemd-udev%{?_isa}
#
# Patches 601 onward are generic patches
#
Patch601: kexec-update-manpage-with-explicit-mention-of-clean-.patch
%description
kexec-tools provides /sbin/kexec binary that facilitates a new
@ -128,6 +129,8 @@ mkdir -p -m755 kcp
tar -z -x -v -f %{SOURCE9}
tar -z -x -v -f %{SOURCE19}
%patch601 -p1
%ifarch ppc
%define archdef ARCH=ppc
%endif

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@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
From bd0200c47c45dd420244b39ddabcecdab1fb9a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:29:27 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] kexec: update manpage with explicit mention of clean kexec
While the manpage does mention about kexec boot with a clean shutdown,
it is not explicit about it. Make it explicit.
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
---
kexec/kexec.8 | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kexec/kexec.8 b/kexec/kexec.8
index 3a344c5..179dcf2 100644
--- a/kexec/kexec.8
+++ b/kexec/kexec.8
@@ -95,8 +95,15 @@ then you would use the following command to load the kernel:
.RB "\-\-append=" "root=/dev/hda1" "\ \-\-initrd=" /boot/initrd
.RE
.PP
-After this kernel is loaded, it can be booted to at any time using the
-command:
+After this kernel is loaded, assuming the user-space supports kexec-based
+rebooting, it can be booted to, with a clean shutdown, using the command:
+
+.RS
+.BR reboot
+.RE
+.PP
+Alternatively, it can also be booted to, without calling shutdown(8), with
+the command:
.RS
.BR kexec \ \-e
--
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