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authorAvri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>2018-10-07 17:30:35 +0300
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2018-10-10 23:09:46 -0400
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scsi: ufs: Add a bsg endpoint that supports UPIUs
For now, just provide an API to allocate and remove ufs-bsg node. We will use this framework to manage ufs devices by sending UPIU transactions. For the time being, implements an empty bsg_request() - will add some more functionality in coming patches. Nonetheless, we reveal here the protocol we are planning to use: UFS Transport Protocol Transactions. UFS transactions consist of packets called UFS Protocol Information Units (UPIU). There are UPIU’s defined for UFS SCSI commands, responses, data in and data out, task management, utility functions, vendor functions, transaction synchronization and control, and more. By using UPIUs, we get access to the most fine-grained internals of this protocol, and able to communicate with the device in ways, that are sometimes beyond the capacity of the ufs driver. Moreover and as a result, our core structure - ufs_bsg_node has a pretty lean structure: using upiu transactions that contains the outmost detailed info, so we don't really need complex constructs to support it. Signed-off-by: Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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@@ -128,6 +128,26 @@ The current UFSHCD implementation supports following functionality,
In this version of UFSHCD Query requests and power management
functionality are not implemented.
+4. BSG Support
+------------------
+
+This transport driver supports exchanging UFS protocol information units
+(UPIUs) with a UFS device. Typically, user space will allocate
+struct ufs_bsg_request and struct ufs_bsg_reply (see ufs_bsg.h) as
+request_upiu and reply_upiu respectively. Filling those UPIUs should
+be done in accordance with JEDEC spec UFS2.1 paragraph 10.7.
+*Caveat emptor*: The driver makes no further input validations and sends the
+UPIU to the device as it is. Open the bsg device in /dev/ufs-bsg and
+send SG_IO with the applicable sg_io_v4:
+
+ io_hdr_v4.guard = 'Q';
+ io_hdr_v4.protocol = BSG_PROTOCOL_SCSI;
+ io_hdr_v4.subprotocol = BSG_SUB_PROTOCOL_SCSI_TRANSPORT;
+ io_hdr_v4.response = (__u64)reply_upiu;
+ io_hdr_v4.max_response_len = reply_len;
+ io_hdr_v4.request_len = request_len;
+ io_hdr_v4.request = (__u64)request_upiu;
+
UFS Specifications can be found at,
UFS - http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/JESD220.pdf
UFSHCI - http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/JESD223.pdf