UFSHCI(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual UFSHCI(4) NAME ufshci -- Universal Flash Storage Host Controller Interface driver SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in the kernel configuration file: device ufshci Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following line in loader.conf(5): ufshci_load="YES" DESCRIPTION Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is a low-power, high-performance storage standard composed of a host controller and a single target device. The driver currently provides: * Initialization of the host controller and the target device * Handling of UFS Interconnect (UIC) commands * Support for UTP Transfer Requests (UTR) and UTP Task Management Re- quests (UTMR) * Support for the SCSI command set * Operation in the legacy single-doorbell queue mode * Support for the PCI Express bus After initialization, the controller is registered with the cam(4) subsys- tem and its logical unit appears as the device node /dev/daX. The driver is under active development; upcoming work includes full UFS 4.1 feature coverage, additional power-management modes, and ACPI/FDT-based at- tach support. HARDWARE The ufshci driver supports both host controllers and devices implementing the Universal Flash Storage Host Controller Interface 4.1 and earlier. CONFIGURATION The ufshci driver currently operates with a single doorbell (one I/O- queue), so any tunables that change the queue count are ignored. When Multi-Circular Queue (MCQ) support is added and multiple queues become available, the following queue count tunable values will take effect: To force a single I/O queue pair shared by all CPUs, set the following tun- able value in loader.conf(5): hw.ufshci.per_cpu_io_queues=0 To assign more than one CPU per I/O queue pair, thereby reducing the number of MSI-X vectors consumed by the device, set the following tunable value in loader.conf(5): hw.ufshci.min_cpus_per_ioq=X To change the I/O command timeout value (in seconds), set the following tunable value in loader.conf(5): hw.ufshci.timeout_period=X To change the I/O command retry count, set the following tunable value in loader.conf(5): hw.ufshci.retry_count=X To force the driver to use legacy INTx interrupts, set the following tun- able value in loader.conf(5): (Note: until MCQ support is available the driver always uses legacy INTx, so this value effectively remains 1) hw.ufshci.force_intx=1 SYSCTL VARIABLES The following controller-level sysctl(8) nodes are currently implemented: dev.ufshci.0.num_failures (R) Number of command failures for the entire controller. dev.ufshci.0.num_retries (R) Number of command retries for the entire controller. dev.ufshci.0.num_intr_handler_calls (R) Number of times the interrupt handler has been called. dev.ufshci.0.num_cmds (R) Total number of commands issued by the controller. dev.ufshci.0.timeout_period (RW) Configured timeout period (in seconds). dev.ufshci.0.cap (R) Host controller capabilities register value. dev.ufshci.0.num_io_queues (R) Number of I/O-queue pairs. dev.ufshci.0.io_queue_mode (R) Indicates single doorbell mode or multi circular queue mode. dev.ufshci.0.minor_version (R) Host controller minor version. dev.ufshci.0.major_version (R) Host controller major version. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.num_failures (R) Number of failed UTP task-management requests. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.ioq.num_retries (R) Number of retried UTP task-management requests. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.num_intr_handler_calls (R) Number of interrupt handler calls caused by UTP task-management requests. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.num_cmds (R) Number of UTP task-management requests issued. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.cq_head (R) Current location of the UTP task-management completion queue head. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.sq_tail (R) Current location of the UTP task-management submission queue tail. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.sq_head (R) Current location of the UTP task-management submission queue head. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.num_trackers (R) Number of trackers in the UTP task-management queue. dev.ufshci.0.utmrq.num_entries (R) Number of entries in the UTP task-management queue. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.num_failures (R) Number of failed UTP transfer requests. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.num_retries (R) Number of retried UTP transfer requests. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.num_intr_handler_calls (R) Number of interrupt-handler calls caused by UTP transfer re- quests. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.num_cmds (R) Number of UTP transfer requests issued. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.cq_head (R) Current location of the UTP transfer completion queue head. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.sq_tail (R) Current location of the UTP transfer submission queue tail. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.sq_head (R) Current location of the UTP transfer submission queue head. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.num_trackers (R) Number of trackers in the UTP transfer queue. dev.ufshci.0.ioq.0.num_entries (R) Number of entries in the UTP transfer queue. SEE ALSO cam(4), pci(4), disk(9) HISTORY The ufshci driver first appeared in FreeBSD 15.0. AUTHORS The ufshci driver was developed by Samsung Electronics and originally writ- ten by Jaeyoon Choi <j_yoon.choi@samsung.com>. This manual page was written by Jaeyoon Choi <j_yoon.choi@samsung.com>. FreeBSD 15.1 July 17, 2025 UFSHCI(4)
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