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, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

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);