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Kexec API
Discussed & agreed to in 2003 on lkml
Syscall interface merged in 2.6.6
Load: asmlinkage long sys_kexec_load(
void *entry,
unsigned long nr_segments,
struct kexec_segment *segments,
unsigned long flags);
Reboot: use sys_reboot() with cmd == LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC