kho: add Kconfig option to enable KHO by default

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Currently, Kexec Handover must be explicitly enabled via the kernel
command line parameter `kho=on`.

For workloads that rely on KHO as a foundational requirement (such as the
upcoming Live Update Orchestrator), requiring an explicit boot parameter
adds redundant configuration steps.

Introduce CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_ENABLE_DEFAULT.  When selected, KHO
defaults to enabled.  This is equivalent to passing kho=on at boot.  The
behavior can still be disabled at runtime by passing kho=off.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-14-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Pasha Tatashin 2025-11-14 14:00:02 -05:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c

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