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| Universal Flash Storage |
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| .. Contents |
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| 1. Overview |
| 2. UFS Architecture Overview |
| 2.1 Application Layer |
| 2.2 UFS Transport Protocol(UTP) layer |
| 2.3 UFS Interconnect(UIC) Layer |
| 3. UFSHCD Overview |
| 3.1 UFS controller initialization |
| 3.2 UTP Transfer requests |
| 3.3 UFS error handling |
| 3.4 SCSI Error handling |
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| 1. Overview |
| =========== |
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| Universal Flash Storage(UFS) is a storage specification for flash devices. |
| It is aimed to provide a universal storage interface for both |
| embedded and removable flash memory based storage in mobile |
| devices such as smart phones and tablet computers. The specification |
| is defined by JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. UFS is based |
| on MIPI M-PHY physical layer standard. UFS uses MIPI M-PHY as the |
| physical layer and MIPI Unipro as the link layer. |
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| The main goals of UFS is to provide: |
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| * Optimized performance: |
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| For UFS version 1.0 and 1.1 the target performance is as follows: |
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| - Support for Gear1 is mandatory (rate A: 1248Mbps, rate B: 1457.6Mbps) |
| - Support for Gear2 is optional (rate A: 2496Mbps, rate B: 2915.2Mbps) |
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| Future version of the standard, |
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| - Gear3 (rate A: 4992Mbps, rate B: 5830.4Mbps) |
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| * Low power consumption |
| * High random IOPs and low latency |
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| 2. UFS Architecture Overview |
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| UFS has a layered communication architecture which is based on SCSI |
| SAM-5 architectural model. |
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| UFS communication architecture consists of following layers, |
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| 2.1 Application Layer |
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| The Application layer is composed of UFS command set layer(UCS), |
| Task Manager and Device manager. The UFS interface is designed to be |
| protocol agnostic, however SCSI has been selected as a baseline |
| protocol for versions 1.0 and 1.1 of UFS protocol layer. |
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| UFS supports subset of SCSI commands defined by SPC-4 and SBC-3. |
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| * UCS: |
| It handles SCSI commands supported by UFS specification. |
| * Task manager: |
| It handles task management functions defined by the |
| UFS which are meant for command queue control. |
| * Device manager: |
| It handles device level operations and device |
| configuration operations. Device level operations mainly involve |
| device power management operations and commands to Interconnect |
| layers. Device level configurations involve handling of query |
| requests which are used to modify and retrieve configuration |
| information of the device. |
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| 2.2 UFS Transport Protocol(UTP) layer |
| ------------------------------------- |
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| UTP layer provides services for |
| the higher layers through Service Access Points. UTP defines 3 |
| service access points for higher layers. |
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| * UDM_SAP: Device manager service access point is exposed to device |
| manager for device level operations. These device level operations |
| are done through query requests. |
| * UTP_CMD_SAP: Command service access point is exposed to UFS command |
| set layer(UCS) to transport commands. |
| * UTP_TM_SAP: Task management service access point is exposed to task |
| manager to transport task management functions. |
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| UTP transports messages through UFS protocol information unit(UPIU). |
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| 2.3 UFS Interconnect(UIC) Layer |
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| UIC is the lowest layer of UFS layered architecture. It handles |
| connection between UFS host and UFS device. UIC consists of |
| MIPI UniPro and MIPI M-PHY. UIC provides 2 service access points |
| to upper layer, |
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| * UIC_SAP: To transport UPIU between UFS host and UFS device. |
| * UIO_SAP: To issue commands to Unipro layers. |
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| 3. UFSHCD Overview |
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| The UFS host controller driver is based on Linux SCSI Framework. |
| UFSHCD is a low level device driver which acts as an interface between |
| SCSI Midlayer and PCIe based UFS host controllers. |
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| The current UFSHCD implementation supports following functionality, |
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| 3.1 UFS controller initialization |
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| The initialization module brings UFS host controller to active state |
| and prepares the controller to transfer commands/response between |
| UFSHCD and UFS device. |
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| 3.2 UTP Transfer requests |
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| Transfer request handling module of UFSHCD receives SCSI commands |
| from SCSI Midlayer, forms UPIUs and issues the UPIUs to UFS Host |
| controller. Also, the module decodes, responses received from UFS |
| host controller in the form of UPIUs and intimates the SCSI Midlayer |
| of the status of the command. |
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| 3.3 UFS error handling |
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| Error handling module handles Host controller fatal errors, |
| Device fatal errors and UIC interconnect layer related errors. |
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| 3.4 SCSI Error handling |
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| This is done through UFSHCD SCSI error handling routines registered |
| with SCSI Midlayer. Examples of some of the error handling commands |
| issues by SCSI Midlayer are Abort task, Lun reset and host reset. |
| UFSHCD Routines to perform these tasks are registered with |
| SCSI Midlayer through .eh_abort_handler, .eh_device_reset_handler and |
| .eh_host_reset_handler. |
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| In this version of UFSHCD Query requests and power management |
| functionality are not implemented. |
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| 4. BSG Support |
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| 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:: |
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| 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; |
| if (dir == SG_DXFER_TO_DEV) { |
| io_hdr_v4.dout_xfer_len = (uint32_t)byte_cnt; |
| io_hdr_v4.dout_xferp = (uintptr_t)(__u64)buff; |
| } else { |
| io_hdr_v4.din_xfer_len = (uint32_t)byte_cnt; |
| io_hdr_v4.din_xferp = (uintptr_t)(__u64)buff; |
| } |
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| If you wish to read or write a descriptor, use the appropriate xferp of |
| sg_io_v4. |
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| The userspace tool that interacts with the ufs-bsg endpoint and uses its |
| upiu-based protocol is available at: |
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| https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/ufs-tool |
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| For more detailed information about the tool and its supported |
| features, please see the tool's README. |
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| UFS Specifications can be found at: |
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| - UFS - http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/JESD220.pdf |
| - UFSHCI - http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/JESD223.pdf |