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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efivars.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig index 898023d8e48..42c759a4d04 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig @@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ config EFI_VARS_PSTORE will allow writing console messages, crash dumps, or anything else supported by pstore to EFI variables. +config EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE + bool "Disable using efivars as a pstore backend by default" + depends on EFI_VARS_PSTORE + default n + help + Saying Y here will disable the use of efivars as a storage + backend for pstore by default. This setting can be overridden + using the efivars module's pstore_disable parameter. + config EFI_PCDP bool "Console device selection via EFI PCDP or HCDP table" depends on ACPI && EFI && IA64 diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c index 37b6f247399..6607daf5a08 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efivars.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efivars.c @@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ MODULE_VERSION(EFIVARS_VERSION); */ #define GUID_LEN 36 +static bool efivars_pstore_disable = + IS_ENABLED(EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE); + +module_param_named(pstore_disable, efivars_pstore_disable, bool, 0644); + /* * The maximum size of VariableName + Data = 1024 * Therefore, it's reasonable to save that much @@ -2009,7 +2014,8 @@ int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars, if (error) unregister_efivars(efivars); - efivar_pstore_register(efivars); + if (!efivars_pstore_disable) + efivar_pstore_register(efivars); register_filesystem(&efivarfs_type); |