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>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 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,