[PATCH] kexec: increase max segment limit

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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

- In some cases, the number of segments, on a kexec load, exceeds the
  existing cap of 8.  This patch increases the KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX limit from 8
  to 16.

Signed-off-by: Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec.h b/include/linux/kexec.h
index c1cd9b31159e837b7d0febb182a2952fd17fb1e2..94abc07cb1648b72692b5c02654bea3c1451c6b1 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/kexec.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ typedef unsigned long kimage_entry_t;
 #define IND_DONE         0x4
 #define IND_SOURCE       0x8
 
-#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 8
+#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
 struct kexec_segment {
        void __user *buf;
        size_t bufsz;