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| author | Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2013-12-18 15:17:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-12-20 13:12:01 -0800 |
| commit | df36ac1bc2a166eef90785d584e4cfed6f52bd32 (patch) | |
| tree | 024eb6ee8e997889d9cd31ed97503a158ebf898b | |
| parent | eaadcfeb31e959028dfa2cc48741e126e3e15b28 (diff) | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/pstore/platform.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/pstore.h | 3 |
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c index 26311f23c824..cb1d557fc22c 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c @@ -942,6 +942,7 @@ static int erst_clearer(enum pstore_type_id type, u64 id, int count, static struct pstore_info erst_info = { .owner = THIS_MODULE, .name = "erst", + .flags = PSTORE_FLAGS_FRAGILE, .open = erst_open_pstore, .close = erst_close_pstore, .read = erst_reader, diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c index 743fd426f21b..4b9dc836dcf9 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c @@ -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, 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 + diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h index abd437d0a8a7..ece0c6bbfcc5 100644 --- a/include/linux/pstore.h +++ b/include/linux/pstore.h @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct pstore_info { char *buf; size_t bufsize; struct mutex read_mutex; /* serialize open/read/close */ + int flags; int (*open)(struct pstore_info *psi); int (*close)(struct pstore_info *psi); ssize_t (*read)(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type, @@ -70,6 +71,8 @@ struct pstore_info { void *data; }; +#define PSTORE_FLAGS_FRAGILE 1 + #ifdef CONFIG_PSTORE extern int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *); extern bool pstore_cannot_block_path(enum kmsg_dump_reason reason); |