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>
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Luck, Tony
2013-12-18 15:17:10 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent eaadcfeb31
commit df36ac1bc2
4 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ static int efi_pstore_erase(enum pstore_type_id type, u64 id, int count,
static struct pstore_info efi_pstore_info = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.name = "efi",
.flags = PSTORE_FLAGS_FRAGILE,
.open = efi_pstore_open,
.close = efi_pstore_close,
.read = efi_pstore_read,