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>
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index b8e93a4..78c3c20 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -443,8 +443,11 @@
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 +