(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.64

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / kexec_load.2

diff --git a/original/man2/kexec_load.2 b/original/man2/kexec_load.2
index 0afa887..0aac566 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/kexec_load.2
+++ b/original/man2/kexec_load.2
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source.
-.\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 2010 Intel Corporation
 .\" Author: Andi Kleen
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -22,7 +21,9 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
-.TH KEXEC_LOAD 2 2010-11-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.\"
+.TH KEXEC_LOAD 2 2012-07-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 kexec_load \- load a new kernel for later execution
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -32,6 +33,9 @@ kexec_load \- load a new kernel for later execution
 .br
 .BI "                struct kexec_segment *" segments \
 ", unsigned long " flags ");"
+
+.IR Note :
+There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR kexec_load ()
@@ -48,13 +52,13 @@ The following values can be specified in
 Execute the new kernel automatically on a system crash.
 .\" FIXME figure out how this is really used
 .TP
-.BR KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT " (since Linux 2.7.27)"
+.BR KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT " (since Linux 2.6.27)"
 Preserve the system hardware and
 software states before executing the new kernel.
 This could be used for system suspend.
-This flag is only available if the kernel was configured with
+This flag is available only if the kernel was configured with
 .BR CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP ,
-and is only effective if
+and is effective only if
 .I nr_segments
 is greater than 0.
 .PP
@@ -143,15 +147,23 @@ Currently, there is no glibc support for
 Call it using
 .BR syscall (2).
 .PP
-The required constants are in the kernel source file
+The required constants are in the Linux kernel source file
 .IR linux/kexec.h ,
 which is not currently exported to glibc.
 .\" FIXME Andi submitted a patch for this.
 .\" Check if it got accepted later.
 Therefore, these constants must be defined manually.
 
-This system call is only available if the kernel was configured with
+This system call is available only if the kernel was configured with
 .BR CONFIG_KEXEC .
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR reboot (2),
 .BR syscall (2)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.64 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.