Patch "scsi: ufs: add capability to keep auto bkops always enabled" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

@@ -3340,18 +3340,25 @@ out:
 }
 
 /**
- * ufshcd_force_reset_auto_bkops - force enable of auto bkops
+ * ufshcd_force_reset_auto_bkops - force reset auto bkops state
  * @hba: per adapter instance
  *
  * After a device reset the device may toggle the BKOPS_EN flag
  * to default value. The s/w tracking variables should be updated
- * as well. Do this by forcing enable of auto bkops.
+ * as well. This function would change the auto-bkops state based on
+ * UFSHCD_CAP_KEEP_AUTO_BKOPS_ENABLED_EXCEPT_SUSPEND.
  */
-static void  ufshcd_force_reset_auto_bkops(struct ufs_hba *hba)
+static void ufshcd_force_reset_auto_bkops(struct ufs_hba *hba)
 {
-	hba->auto_bkops_enabled = false;
-	hba->ee_ctrl_mask |= MASK_EE_URGENT_BKOPS;
-	ufshcd_enable_auto_bkops(hba);
+	if (ufshcd_keep_autobkops_enabled_except_suspend(hba)) {
+		hba->auto_bkops_enabled = false;
+		hba->ee_ctrl_mask |= MASK_EE_URGENT_BKOPS;
+		ufshcd_enable_auto_bkops(hba);
+	} else {
+		hba->auto_bkops_enabled = true;
+		hba->ee_ctrl_mask &= ~MASK_EE_URGENT_BKOPS;
+		ufshcd_disable_auto_bkops(hba);
+	}
 }
 
 static inline int ufshcd_get_bkops_status(struct ufs_hba *hba, u32 *status)

@@ -5149,11 +5156,15 @@ static int ufshcd_resume(struct ufs_hba
 			goto set_old_link_state;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * If BKOPs operations are urgently needed at this moment then
-	 * keep auto-bkops enabled or else disable it.
-	 */
-	ufshcd_urgent_bkops(hba);
+	if (ufshcd_keep_autobkops_enabled_except_suspend(hba))
+		ufshcd_enable_auto_bkops(hba);
+	else
+		/*
+		 * If BKOPs operations are urgently needed at this moment then
+		 * keep auto-bkops enabled or else disable it.
+		 */
+		ufshcd_urgent_bkops(hba);
+
 	hba->clk_gating.is_suspended = false;
 
 	if (ufshcd_is_clkscaling_enabled(hba))

@@ -528,6 +528,14 @@ struct ufs_hba {
 	 * CAUTION: Enabling this might reduce overall UFS throughput.
 	 */
 #define UFSHCD_CAP_INTR_AGGR (1 << 4)
+	/*
+	 * This capability allows the device auto-bkops to be always enabled
+	 * except during suspend (both runtime and suspend).
+	 * Enabling this capability means that device will always be allowed
+	 * to do background operation when it's active but it might degrade
+	 * the performance of ongoing read/write operations.
+	 */
+#define UFSHCD_CAP_KEEP_AUTO_BKOPS_ENABLED_EXCEPT_SUSPEND (1 << 5)
 
 	struct devfreq *devfreq;
 	struct ufs_clk_scaling clk_scaling;

@@ -623,6 +631,11 @@ static inline void *ufshcd_get_variant(s
 	BUG_ON(!hba);
 	return hba->priv;
 }
+static inline bool ufshcd_keep_autobkops_enabled_except_suspend(
+							struct ufs_hba *hba)
+{
+	return hba->caps & UFSHCD_CAP_KEEP_AUTO_BKOPS_ENABLED_EXCEPT_SUSPEND;
+}
 
 extern int ufshcd_runtime_suspend(struct ufs_hba *hba);
 extern int ufshcd_runtime_resume(struct ufs_hba *hba);