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>

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 +