Re: [PATCH v4] scsi: ufs: critical health condition

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 2/10/25 10:58 PM, Avri Altman wrote:
> The UFS4.1 standard, released on January 8, 2025, added a new exception
> event: HEALTH_CRITICAL, which notifies the host of a device's critical
> health condition. This notification implies that the device is
> approaching the end of its lifetime based on the amount of performed
> program/erase cycles.
> 
> Once an EOL (End-of-Life) exception event is received, we increment a
> designated member, which is exposed via a `sysfs` entry. This new entry,
> will report the number of times a critical health event has been
> reported by a UFS device.
> 
> To handle this new `sysfs` entry, userspace applications can use
> `select()`, `poll()`, or `epoll()` to monitor changes in the
> `critical_health` attribute. The kernel will call `sysfs_notify()` to
> signal changes, allowing the userspace application to detect and respond
> to these changes efficiently.
> 
> The host can gain further insight into the specific issue by reading one
> of the following attributes: bPreEOLInfo, bDeviceLifeTimeEstA,
> bDeviceLifeTimeEstB, bWriteBoosterBufferLifeTimeEst, and
> bRPMBLifeTimeEst. All those are available for reading via the driver's
> sysfs entries or through an applicable utility. It is up to user-space
> to read these attributes if needed.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>