loader: Add support for grub-emu to kexec Linux menu entries

The GRUB emulator is used as a debugging utility but it could also be
used as a user-space bootloader if there is support to boot an operating
system.

The Linux kernel is already able to (re)boot another kernel via the
kexec boot mechanism. So the grub-emu tool could rely on this feature
and have linux and initrd commands that are used to pass a kernel,
initramfs image and command line parameters to kexec for booting
a selected menu entry.

By default the systemctl kexec option is used so systemd can shutdown
all of the running services before doing a reboot using kexec. But if
this is not present, it can fall back to executing the kexec user-space
tool directly. The ability to force a kexec-reboot when systemctl kexec
fails must only be used in controlled environments to avoid possible
filesystem corruption and data loss.

Signed-off-by: Raymund Will <rw@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: John Jolly <jjolly@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

grub-core/kern/emu/main.c

@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {
    N_("use GRUB files in the directory DIR [default=%s]"), 0},
   {"verbose",     'v', 0,      0, N_("print verbose messages."), 0},
   {"hold",     'H', N_("SECS"),      OPTION_ARG_OPTIONAL, N_("wait until a debugger will attach"), 0},
+  {"kexec",       'X', 0,      0, N_("use kexec to boot Linux kernels via systemctl (pass twice to enable dangerous fallback to non-systemctl)."), 0},
   { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
 };
 
@@ -164,6 +165,9 @@ argp_parser (int key, char *arg, struct argp_state *state)
     case 'v':
       verbosity++;
       break;
+    case 'X':
+      grub_util_set_kexecute ();
+      break;
 
     case ARGP_KEY_ARG:
       {