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Universal Flash Storage
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Contents
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1. Overview
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2. UFS Architecture Overview
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2.1 Application Layer
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2.2 UFS Transport Protocol(UTP) layer
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2.3 UFS Interconnect(UIC) Layer
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3. UFSHCD Overview
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3.1 UFS controller initialization
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3.2 UTP Transfer requests
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3.3 UFS error handling
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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.
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It is aimed to provide a universal storage interface for both
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embedded and removable flash memory based storage in mobile
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devices such as smart phones and tablet computers. The specification
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is defined by JEDEC Solid State Technology Association. UFS is based
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on MIPI M-PHY physical layer standard. UFS uses MIPI M-PHY as the
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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)
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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
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* 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
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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),
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Task Manager and Device manager. The UFS interface is designed to be
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protocol agnostic, however SCSI has been selected as a baseline
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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.
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* Task manager: It handles task management functions defined by the
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UFS which are meant for command queue control.
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* Device manager: It handles device level operations and device
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configuration operations. Device level operations mainly involve
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device power management operations and commands to Interconnect
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layers. Device level configurations involve handling of query
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requests which are used to modify and retrieve configuration
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information of the device.
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2.2 UFS Transport Protocol(UTP) layer
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UTP layer provides services for
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the higher layers through Service Access Points. UTP defines 3
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service access points for higher layers.
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* UDM_SAP: Device manager service access point is exposed to device
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manager for device level operations. These device level operations
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are done through query requests.
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* UTP_CMD_SAP: Command service access point is exposed to UFS command
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set layer(UCS) to transport commands.
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* UTP_TM_SAP: Task management service access point is exposed to task
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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
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connection between UFS host and UFS device. UIC consists of
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MIPI UniPro and MIPI M-PHY. UIC provides 2 service access points
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to upper layer,
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* UIC_SAP: To transport UPIU between UFS host and UFS device.
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* 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.
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UFSHCD is a low level device driver which acts as an interface between
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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
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and prepares the controller to transfer commands/response between
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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
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from SCSI Midlayer, forms UPIUs and issues the UPIUs to UFS Host
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controller. Also, the module decodes, responses received from UFS
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host controller in the form of UPIUs and intimates the SCSI Midlayer
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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,
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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
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with SCSI Midlayer. Examples of some of the error handling commands
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issues by SCSI Midlayer are Abort task, Lun reset and host reset.
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UFSHCD Routines to perform these tasks are registered with
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SCSI Midlayer through .eh_abort_handler, .eh_device_reset_handler and
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.eh_host_reset_handler.
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In this version of UFSHCD Query requests and power management
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functionality are not implemented.
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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
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UFSHCI - http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/docs/JESD223.pdf
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