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-rw-r--r--include/linux/pstore.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index a15bc4d48752..30fcec375a3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ struct pstore_record {
*
* @buf_lock: spinlock to serialize access to @buf
* @buf: preallocated crash dump buffer
- * @bufsize: size of @buf available for crash dump writes
+ * @bufsize: size of @buf available for crash dump bytes (must match
+ * smallest number of bytes available for writing to a
+ * backend entry, since compressed bytes don't take kindly
+ * to being truncated)
*
* @read_mutex: serializes @open, @read, @close, and @erase callbacks
* @flags: bitfield of frontends the backend can accept writes for