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authorLuck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>2013-12-18 15:17:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-12-20 13:12:01 -0800
commitdf36ac1bc2a166eef90785d584e4cfed6f52bd32 (patch)
tree024eb6ee8e997889d9cd31ed97503a158ebf898b /fs
parenteaadcfeb31e959028dfa2cc48741e126e3e15b28 (diff)
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pstore: Don't allow high traffic options on fragile devices
Some pstore backing devices use on board flash as persistent storage. These have limited numbers of write cycles so it is a poor idea to use them from high frequency operations. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/pstore/platform.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index b8e93a40a5d3..78c3c2097787 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -443,8 +443,11 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
pstore_get_records(0);
kmsg_dump_register(&pstore_dumper);
- pstore_register_console();
- pstore_register_ftrace();
+
+ if ((psi->flags & PSTORE_FLAGS_FRAGILE) == 0) {
+ pstore_register_console();
+ pstore_register_ftrace();
+ }
if (pstore_update_ms >= 0) {
pstore_timer.expires = jiffies +