pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend

pstore only allows one backend to be registered at present, but the
system may provide several. Add a parameter to allow the user to choose
which backend will be used rather than just relying on load order.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore b/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore
index ddf451ee2a08..ff1df4e3b059 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/pstore
@@ -39,3 +39,9 @@ Description:	Generic interface to platform dependent persistent storage.
 		multiple) files based on the record size of the underlying
 		persistent storage until at least this amount is reached.
 		Default is 10 Kbytes.
+
+		Pstore only supports one backend at a time. If multiple
+		backends are available, the preferred backend may be
+		set by passing the pstore.backend= argument to the kernel at
+		boot time.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index aa47be71df4c..8789d0c9291a 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2151,6 +2151,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			[HW,MOUSE] Controls Logitech smartscroll autorepeat.
 			0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default).
 
+	pstore.backend=	Specify the name of the pstore backend to use
+
 	pt.		[PARIDE]
 			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
 
diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 49ff1de2178a..c5300ec31696 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pstore_lock);
 static struct pstore_info *psinfo;
 
+static char *backend;
+
 /* How much of the console log to snapshot */
 static unsigned long kmsg_bytes = 10240;
 
@@ -131,6 +133,12 @@ int pstore_register(struct pstore_info *psi)
 		spin_unlock(&pstore_lock);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
+
+	if (backend && strcmp(backend, psi->name)) {
+		spin_unlock(&pstore_lock);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	psinfo = psi;
 	spin_unlock(&pstore_lock);
 
@@ -208,3 +216,6 @@ int pstore_write(enum pstore_type_id type, char *buf, size_t size)
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pstore_write);
+
+module_param(backend, charp, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(backend, "Pstore backend to use");