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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] scsi: ufs-debugfs: Add user-defined exception_event_mask
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On 3/02/21 11:45 am, Bean Huo wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 16:15 +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> Allow users to enable specific exception events via debugfs.
>>
>> The bits enabled by the driver ee_drv_ctrl are separated from the
>> bits
>> enabled by the user ee_usr_ctrl. The control mask ee_mask_ctrl is the
>> logical-or of those two. A mutex is needed to ensure that the masks
>> match
>> what was written to the device.
>
> Hallo Adrian

Hi Bean

Thanks for the review

>
> Would you like sharing the advantage of this debugfs node comparing to
> sysfs node "attributes/exception_event_control(if it is writable)"?

Primarily this is being done as a debug interface, but the user's exception
events also need to be kept separate from the driver's ones.

> what is the value of this?

To be able to determine if the UFS device is being affected by exception events.

> Also, now I can disable/enable UFS event over ufs-bsg.

That will be overwritten by the driver when it updates the e.g. bkops
control, or sometimes also suspend/resume.

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