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1 ============================================================================ 2 3 can.txt 4 5 Readme file for the Controller Area Network Protocol Family (aka SocketCAN) 6 7 This file contains 8 9 1 Overview / What is SocketCAN 10 11 2 Motivation / Why using the socket API 12 13 3 SocketCAN concept 14 3.1 receive lists 15 3.2 local loopback of sent frames 16 3.3 network problem notifications 17 18 4 How to use SocketCAN 19 4.1 RAW protocol sockets with can_filters (SOCK_RAW) 20 4.1.1 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FILTER 21 4.1.2 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER 22 4.1.3 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK 23 4.1.4 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS 24 4.1.5 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES 25 4.1.6 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS 26 4.1.7 RAW socket returned message flags 27 4.2 Broadcast Manager protocol sockets (SOCK_DGRAM) 28 4.2.1 Broadcast Manager operations 29 4.2.2 Broadcast Manager message flags 30 4.2.3 Broadcast Manager transmission timers 31 4.2.4 Broadcast Manager message sequence transmission 32 4.2.5 Broadcast Manager receive filter timers 33 4.2.6 Broadcast Manager multiplex message receive filter 34 4.2.7 Broadcast Manager CAN FD support 35 4.3 connected transport protocols (SOCK_SEQPACKET) 36 4.4 unconnected transport protocols (SOCK_DGRAM) 37 38 5 SocketCAN core module 39 5.1 can.ko module params 40 5.2 procfs content 41 5.3 writing own CAN protocol modules 42 43 6 CAN network drivers 44 6.1 general settings 45 6.2 local loopback of sent frames 46 6.3 CAN controller hardware filters 47 6.4 The virtual CAN driver (vcan) 48 6.5 The CAN network device driver interface 49 6.5.1 Netlink interface to set/get devices properties 50 6.5.2 Setting the CAN bit-timing 51 6.5.3 Starting and stopping the CAN network device 52 6.6 CAN FD (flexible data rate) driver support 53 6.7 supported CAN hardware 54 55 7 SocketCAN resources 56 57 8 Credits 58 59 ============================================================================ 60 61 1. Overview / What is SocketCAN 62 -------------------------------- 63 64 The socketcan package is an implementation of CAN protocols 65 (Controller Area Network) for Linux. CAN is a networking technology 66 which has widespread use in automation, embedded devices, and 67 automotive fields. While there have been other CAN implementations 68 for Linux based on character devices, SocketCAN uses the Berkeley 69 socket API, the Linux network stack and implements the CAN device 70 drivers as network interfaces. The CAN socket API has been designed 71 as similar as possible to the TCP/IP protocols to allow programmers, 72 familiar with network programming, to easily learn how to use CAN 73 sockets. 74 75 2. Motivation / Why using the socket API 76 ---------------------------------------- 77 78 There have been CAN implementations for Linux before SocketCAN so the 79 question arises, why we have started another project. Most existing 80 implementations come as a device driver for some CAN hardware, they 81 are based on character devices and provide comparatively little 82 functionality. Usually, there is only a hardware-specific device 83 driver which provides a character device interface to send and 84 receive raw CAN frames, directly to/from the controller hardware. 85 Queueing of frames and higher-level transport protocols like ISO-TP 86 have to be implemented in user space applications. Also, most 87 character-device implementations support only one single process to 88 open the device at a time, similar to a serial interface. Exchanging 89 the CAN controller requires employment of another device driver and 90 often the need for adaption of large parts of the application to the 91 new driver's API. 92 93 SocketCAN was designed to overcome all of these limitations. A new 94 protocol family has been implemented which provides a socket interface 95 to user space applications and which builds upon the Linux network 96 layer, enabling use all of the provided queueing functionality. A device 97 driver for CAN controller hardware registers itself with the Linux 98 network layer as a network device, so that CAN frames from the 99 controller can be passed up to the network layer and on to the CAN 100 protocol family module and also vice-versa. Also, the protocol family 101 module provides an API for transport protocol modules to register, so 102 that any number of transport protocols can be loaded or unloaded 103 dynamically. In fact, the can core module alone does not provide any 104 protocol and cannot be used without loading at least one additional 105 protocol module. Multiple sockets can be opened at the same time, 106 on different or the same protocol module and they can listen/send 107 frames on different or the same CAN IDs. Several sockets listening on 108 the same interface for frames with the same CAN ID are all passed the 109 same received matching CAN frames. An application wishing to 110 communicate using a specific transport protocol, e.g. ISO-TP, just 111 selects that protocol when opening the socket, and then can read and 112 write application data byte streams, without having to deal with 113 CAN-IDs, frames, etc. 114 115 Similar functionality visible from user-space could be provided by a 116 character device, too, but this would lead to a technically inelegant 117 solution for a couple of reasons: 118 119 * Intricate usage. Instead of passing a protocol argument to 120 socket(2) and using bind(2) to select a CAN interface and CAN ID, an 121 application would have to do all these operations using ioctl(2)s. 122 123 * Code duplication. A character device cannot make use of the Linux 124 network queueing code, so all that code would have to be duplicated 125 for CAN networking. 126 127 * Abstraction. In most existing character-device implementations, the 128 hardware-specific device driver for a CAN controller directly 129 provides the character device for the application to work with. 130 This is at least very unusual in Unix systems for both, char and 131 block devices. For example you don't have a character device for a 132 certain UART of a serial interface, a certain sound chip in your 133 computer, a SCSI or IDE controller providing access to your hard 134 disk or tape streamer device. Instead, you have abstraction layers 135 which provide a unified character or block device interface to the 136 application on the one hand, and a interface for hardware-specific 137 device drivers on the other hand. These abstractions are provided 138 by subsystems like the tty layer, the audio subsystem or the SCSI 139 and IDE subsystems for the devices mentioned above. 140 141 The easiest way to implement a CAN device driver is as a character 142 device without such a (complete) abstraction layer, as is done by most 143 existing drivers. The right way, however, would be to add such a 144 layer with all the functionality like registering for certain CAN 145 IDs, supporting several open file descriptors and (de)multiplexing 146 CAN frames between them, (sophisticated) queueing of CAN frames, and 147 providing an API for device drivers to register with. However, then 148 it would be no more difficult, or may be even easier, to use the 149 networking framework provided by the Linux kernel, and this is what 150 SocketCAN does. 151 152 The use of the networking framework of the Linux kernel is just the 153 natural and most appropriate way to implement CAN for Linux. 154 155 3. SocketCAN concept 156 --------------------- 157 158 As described in chapter 2 it is the main goal of SocketCAN to 159 provide a socket interface to user space applications which builds 160 upon the Linux network layer. In contrast to the commonly known 161 TCP/IP and ethernet networking, the CAN bus is a broadcast-only(!) 162 medium that has no MAC-layer addressing like ethernet. The CAN-identifier 163 (can_id) is used for arbitration on the CAN-bus. Therefore the CAN-IDs 164 have to be chosen uniquely on the bus. When designing a CAN-ECU 165 network the CAN-IDs are mapped to be sent by a specific ECU. 166 For this reason a CAN-ID can be treated best as a kind of source address. 167 168 3.1 receive lists 169 170 The network transparent access of multiple applications leads to the 171 problem that different applications may be interested in the same 172 CAN-IDs from the same CAN network interface. The SocketCAN core 173 module - which implements the protocol family CAN - provides several 174 high efficient receive lists for this reason. If e.g. a user space 175 application opens a CAN RAW socket, the raw protocol module itself 176 requests the (range of) CAN-IDs from the SocketCAN core that are 177 requested by the user. The subscription and unsubscription of 178 CAN-IDs can be done for specific CAN interfaces or for all(!) known 179 CAN interfaces with the can_rx_(un)register() functions provided to 180 CAN protocol modules by the SocketCAN core (see chapter 5). 181 To optimize the CPU usage at runtime the receive lists are split up 182 into several specific lists per device that match the requested 183 filter complexity for a given use-case. 184 185 3.2 local loopback of sent frames 186 187 As known from other networking concepts the data exchanging 188 applications may run on the same or different nodes without any 189 change (except for the according addressing information): 190 191 ___ ___ ___ _______ ___ 192 | _ | | _ | | _ | | _ _ | | _ | 193 ||A|| ||B|| ||C|| ||A| |B|| ||C|| 194 |___| |___| |___| |_______| |___| 195 | | | | | 196 -----------------(1)- CAN bus -(2)--------------- 197 198 To ensure that application A receives the same information in the 199 example (2) as it would receive in example (1) there is need for 200 some kind of local loopback of the sent CAN frames on the appropriate 201 node. 202 203 The Linux network devices (by default) just can handle the 204 transmission and reception of media dependent frames. Due to the 205 arbitration on the CAN bus the transmission of a low prio CAN-ID 206 may be delayed by the reception of a high prio CAN frame. To 207 reflect the correct* traffic on the node the loopback of the sent 208 data has to be performed right after a successful transmission. If 209 the CAN network interface is not capable of performing the loopback for 210 some reason the SocketCAN core can do this task as a fallback solution. 211 See chapter 6.2 for details (recommended). 212 213 The loopback functionality is enabled by default to reflect standard 214 networking behaviour for CAN applications. Due to some requests from 215 the RT-SocketCAN group the loopback optionally may be disabled for each 216 separate socket. See sockopts from the CAN RAW sockets in chapter 4.1. 217 218 * = you really like to have this when you're running analyser tools 219 like 'candump' or 'cansniffer' on the (same) node. 220 221 3.3 network problem notifications 222 223 The use of the CAN bus may lead to several problems on the physical 224 and media access control layer. Detecting and logging of these lower 225 layer problems is a vital requirement for CAN users to identify 226 hardware issues on the physical transceiver layer as well as 227 arbitration problems and error frames caused by the different 228 ECUs. The occurrence of detected errors are important for diagnosis 229 and have to be logged together with the exact timestamp. For this 230 reason the CAN interface driver can generate so called Error Message 231 Frames that can optionally be passed to the user application in the 232 same way as other CAN frames. Whenever an error on the physical layer 233 or the MAC layer is detected (e.g. by the CAN controller) the driver 234 creates an appropriate error message frame. Error messages frames can 235 be requested by the user application using the common CAN filter 236 mechanisms. Inside this filter definition the (interested) type of 237 errors may be selected. The reception of error messages is disabled 238 by default. The format of the CAN error message frame is briefly 239 described in the Linux header file "include/uapi/linux/can/error.h". 240 241 4. How to use SocketCAN 242 ------------------------ 243 244 Like TCP/IP, you first need to open a socket for communicating over a 245 CAN network. Since SocketCAN implements a new protocol family, you 246 need to pass PF_CAN as the first argument to the socket(2) system 247 call. Currently, there are two CAN protocols to choose from, the raw 248 socket protocol and the broadcast manager (BCM). So to open a socket, 249 you would write 250 251 s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW); 252 253 and 254 255 s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM); 256 257 respectively. After the successful creation of the socket, you would 258 normally use the bind(2) system call to bind the socket to a CAN 259 interface (which is different from TCP/IP due to different addressing 260 - see chapter 3). After binding (CAN_RAW) or connecting (CAN_BCM) 261 the socket, you can read(2) and write(2) from/to the socket or use 262 send(2), sendto(2), sendmsg(2) and the recv* counterpart operations 263 on the socket as usual. There are also CAN specific socket options 264 described below. 265 266 The basic CAN frame structure and the sockaddr structure are defined 267 in include/linux/can.h: 268 269 struct can_frame { 270 canid_t can_id; /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */ 271 __u8 can_dlc; /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 8) */ 272 __u8 __pad; /* padding */ 273 __u8 __res0; /* reserved / padding */ 274 __u8 __res1; /* reserved / padding */ 275 __u8 data[8] __attribute__((aligned(8))); 276 }; 277 278 The alignment of the (linear) payload data[] to a 64bit boundary 279 allows the user to define their own structs and unions to easily access 280 the CAN payload. There is no given byteorder on the CAN bus by 281 default. A read(2) system call on a CAN_RAW socket transfers a 282 struct can_frame to the user space. 283 284 The sockaddr_can structure has an interface index like the 285 PF_PACKET socket, that also binds to a specific interface: 286 287 struct sockaddr_can { 288 sa_family_t can_family; 289 int can_ifindex; 290 union { 291 /* transport protocol class address info (e.g. ISOTP) */ 292 struct { canid_t rx_id, tx_id; } tp; 293 294 /* reserved for future CAN protocols address information */ 295 } can_addr; 296 }; 297 298 To determine the interface index an appropriate ioctl() has to 299 be used (example for CAN_RAW sockets without error checking): 300 301 int s; 302 struct sockaddr_can addr; 303 struct ifreq ifr; 304 305 s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW); 306 307 strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0" ); 308 ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr); 309 310 addr.can_family = AF_CAN; 311 addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex; 312 313 bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)); 314 315 (..) 316 317 To bind a socket to all(!) CAN interfaces the interface index must 318 be 0 (zero). In this case the socket receives CAN frames from every 319 enabled CAN interface. To determine the originating CAN interface 320 the system call recvfrom(2) may be used instead of read(2). To send 321 on a socket that is bound to 'any' interface sendto(2) is needed to 322 specify the outgoing interface. 323 324 Reading CAN frames from a bound CAN_RAW socket (see above) consists 325 of reading a struct can_frame: 326 327 struct can_frame frame; 328 329 nbytes = read(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame)); 330 331 if (nbytes < 0) { 332 perror("can raw socket read"); 333 return 1; 334 } 335 336 /* paranoid check ... */ 337 if (nbytes < sizeof(struct can_frame)) { 338 fprintf(stderr, "read: incomplete CAN frame\n"); 339 return 1; 340 } 341 342 /* do something with the received CAN frame */ 343 344 Writing CAN frames can be done similarly, with the write(2) system call: 345 346 nbytes = write(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame)); 347 348 When the CAN interface is bound to 'any' existing CAN interface 349 (addr.can_ifindex = 0) it is recommended to use recvfrom(2) if the 350 information about the originating CAN interface is needed: 351 352 struct sockaddr_can addr; 353 struct ifreq ifr; 354 socklen_t len = sizeof(addr); 355 struct can_frame frame; 356 357 nbytes = recvfrom(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame), 358 0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &len); 359 360 /* get interface name of the received CAN frame */ 361 ifr.ifr_ifindex = addr.can_ifindex; 362 ioctl(s, SIOCGIFNAME, &ifr); 363 printf("Received a CAN frame from interface %s", ifr.ifr_name); 364 365 To write CAN frames on sockets bound to 'any' CAN interface the 366 outgoing interface has to be defined certainly. 367 368 strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0"); 369 ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr); 370 addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex; 371 addr.can_family = AF_CAN; 372 373 nbytes = sendto(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame), 374 0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr)); 375 376 An accurate timestamp can be obtained with an ioctl(2) call after reading 377 a message from the socket: 378 379 struct timeval tv; 380 ioctl(s, SIOCGSTAMP, &tv); 381 382 The timestamp has a resolution of one microsecond and is set automatically 383 at the reception of a CAN frame. 384 385 Remark about CAN FD (flexible data rate) support: 386 387 Generally the handling of CAN FD is very similar to the formerly described 388 examples. The new CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different 389 bitrates for the arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame 390 and up to 64 bytes of payload. This extended payload length breaks all the 391 kernel interfaces (ABI) which heavily rely on the CAN frame with fixed eight 392 bytes of payload (struct can_frame) like the CAN_RAW socket. Therefore e.g. 393 the CAN_RAW socket supports a new socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES that 394 switches the socket into a mode that allows the handling of CAN FD frames 395 and (legacy) CAN frames simultaneously (see section 4.1.5). 396 397 The struct canfd_frame is defined in include/linux/can.h: 398 399 struct canfd_frame { 400 canid_t can_id; /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */ 401 __u8 len; /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 64) */ 402 __u8 flags; /* additional flags for CAN FD */ 403 __u8 __res0; /* reserved / padding */ 404 __u8 __res1; /* reserved / padding */ 405 __u8 data[64] __attribute__((aligned(8))); 406 }; 407 408 The struct canfd_frame and the existing struct can_frame have the can_id, 409 the payload length and the payload data at the same offset inside their 410 structures. This allows to handle the different structures very similar. 411 When the content of a struct can_frame is copied into a struct canfd_frame 412 all structure elements can be used as-is - only the data[] becomes extended. 413 414 When introducing the struct canfd_frame it turned out that the data length 415 code (DLC) of the struct can_frame was used as a length information as the 416 length and the DLC has a 1:1 mapping in the range of 0 .. 8. To preserve 417 the easy handling of the length information the canfd_frame.len element 418 contains a plain length value from 0 .. 64. So both canfd_frame.len and 419 can_frame.can_dlc are equal and contain a length information and no DLC. 420 For details about the distinction of CAN and CAN FD capable devices and 421 the mapping to the bus-relevant data length code (DLC), see chapter 6.6. 422 423 The length of the two CAN(FD) frame structures define the maximum transfer 424 unit (MTU) of the CAN(FD) network interface and skbuff data length. Two 425 definitions are specified for CAN specific MTUs in include/linux/can.h : 426 427 #define CAN_MTU (sizeof(struct can_frame)) == 16 => 'legacy' CAN frame 428 #define CANFD_MTU (sizeof(struct canfd_frame)) == 72 => CAN FD frame 429 430 4.1 RAW protocol sockets with can_filters (SOCK_RAW) 431 432 Using CAN_RAW sockets is extensively comparable to the commonly 433 known access to CAN character devices. To meet the new possibilities 434 provided by the multi user SocketCAN approach, some reasonable 435 defaults are set at RAW socket binding time: 436 437 - The filters are set to exactly one filter receiving everything 438 - The socket only receives valid data frames (=> no error message frames) 439 - The loopback of sent CAN frames is enabled (see chapter 3.2) 440 - The socket does not receive its own sent frames (in loopback mode) 441 442 These default settings may be changed before or after binding the socket. 443 To use the referenced definitions of the socket options for CAN_RAW 444 sockets, include <linux/can/raw.h>. 445 446 4.1.1 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FILTER 447 448 The reception of CAN frames using CAN_RAW sockets can be controlled 449 by defining 0 .. n filters with the CAN_RAW_FILTER socket option. 450 451 The CAN filter structure is defined in include/linux/can.h: 452 453 struct can_filter { 454 canid_t can_id; 455 canid_t can_mask; 456 }; 457 458 A filter matches, when 459 460 <received_can_id> & mask == can_id & mask 461 462 which is analogous to known CAN controllers hardware filter semantics. 463 The filter can be inverted in this semantic, when the CAN_INV_FILTER 464 bit is set in can_id element of the can_filter structure. In 465 contrast to CAN controller hardware filters the user may set 0 .. n 466 receive filters for each open socket separately: 467 468 struct can_filter rfilter[2]; 469 470 rfilter[0].can_id = 0x123; 471 rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK; 472 rfilter[1].can_id = 0x200; 473 rfilter[1].can_mask = 0x700; 474 475 setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter)); 476 477 To disable the reception of CAN frames on the selected CAN_RAW socket: 478 479 setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, NULL, 0); 480 481 To set the filters to zero filters is quite obsolete as to not read 482 data causes the raw socket to discard the received CAN frames. But 483 having this 'send only' use-case we may remove the receive list in the 484 Kernel to save a little (really a very little!) CPU usage. 485 486 4.1.1.1 CAN filter usage optimisation 487 488 The CAN filters are processed in per-device filter lists at CAN frame 489 reception time. To reduce the number of checks that need to be performed 490 while walking through the filter lists the CAN core provides an optimized 491 filter handling when the filter subscription focusses on a single CAN ID. 492 493 For the possible 2048 SFF CAN identifiers the identifier is used as an index 494 to access the corresponding subscription list without any further checks. 495 For the 2^29 possible EFF CAN identifiers a 10 bit XOR folding is used as 496 hash function to retrieve the EFF table index. 497 498 To benefit from the optimized filters for single CAN identifiers the 499 CAN_SFF_MASK or CAN_EFF_MASK have to be set into can_filter.mask together 500 with set CAN_EFF_FLAG and CAN_RTR_FLAG bits. A set CAN_EFF_FLAG bit in the 501 can_filter.mask makes clear that it matters whether a SFF or EFF CAN ID is 502 subscribed. E.g. in the example from above 503 504 rfilter[0].can_id = 0x123; 505 rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK; 506 507 both SFF frames with CAN ID 0x123 and EFF frames with 0xXXXXX123 can pass. 508 509 To filter for only 0x123 (SFF) and 0x12345678 (EFF) CAN identifiers the 510 filter has to be defined in this way to benefit from the optimized filters: 511 512 struct can_filter rfilter[2]; 513 514 rfilter[0].can_id = 0x123; 515 rfilter[0].can_mask = (CAN_EFF_FLAG | CAN_RTR_FLAG | CAN_SFF_MASK); 516 rfilter[1].can_id = 0x12345678 | CAN_EFF_FLAG; 517 rfilter[1].can_mask = (CAN_EFF_FLAG | CAN_RTR_FLAG | CAN_EFF_MASK); 518 519 setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter)); 520 521 4.1.2 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER 522 523 As described in chapter 3.3 the CAN interface driver can generate so 524 called Error Message Frames that can optionally be passed to the user 525 application in the same way as other CAN frames. The possible 526 errors are divided into different error classes that may be filtered 527 using the appropriate error mask. To register for every possible 528 error condition CAN_ERR_MASK can be used as value for the error mask. 529 The values for the error mask are defined in linux/can/error.h . 530 531 can_err_mask_t err_mask = ( CAN_ERR_TX_TIMEOUT | CAN_ERR_BUSOFF ); 532 533 setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER, 534 &err_mask, sizeof(err_mask)); 535 536 4.1.3 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK 537 538 To meet multi user needs the local loopback is enabled by default 539 (see chapter 3.2 for details). But in some embedded use-cases 540 (e.g. when only one application uses the CAN bus) this loopback 541 functionality can be disabled (separately for each socket): 542 543 int loopback = 0; /* 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default) */ 544 545 setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK, &loopback, sizeof(loopback)); 546 547 4.1.4 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS 548 549 When the local loopback is enabled, all the sent CAN frames are 550 looped back to the open CAN sockets that registered for the CAN 551 frames' CAN-ID on this given interface to meet the multi user 552 needs. The reception of the CAN frames on the same socket that was 553 sending the CAN frame is assumed to be unwanted and therefore 554 disabled by default. This default behaviour may be changed on 555 demand: 556 557 int recv_own_msgs = 1; /* 0 = disabled (default), 1 = enabled */ 558 559 setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS, 560 &recv_own_msgs, sizeof(recv_own_msgs)); 561 562 4.1.5 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES 563 564 CAN FD support in CAN_RAW sockets can be enabled with a new socket option 565 CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES which is off by default. When the new socket option is 566 not supported by the CAN_RAW socket (e.g. on older kernels), switching the 567 CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES option returns the error -ENOPROTOOPT. 568 569 Once CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES is enabled the application can send both CAN frames 570 and CAN FD frames. OTOH the application has to handle CAN and CAN FD frames 571 when reading from the socket. 572 573 CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES enabled: CAN_MTU and CANFD_MTU are allowed 574 CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES disabled: only CAN_MTU is allowed (default) 575 576 Example: 577 [ remember: CANFD_MTU == sizeof(struct canfd_frame) ] 578 579 struct canfd_frame cfd; 580 581 nbytes = read(s, &cfd, CANFD_MTU); 582 583 if (nbytes == CANFD_MTU) { 584 printf("got CAN FD frame with length %d\n", cfd.len); 585 /* cfd.flags contains valid data */ 586 } else if (nbytes == CAN_MTU) { 587 printf("got legacy CAN frame with length %d\n", cfd.len); 588 /* cfd.flags is undefined */ 589 } else { 590 fprintf(stderr, "read: invalid CAN(FD) frame\n"); 591 return 1; 592 } 593 594 /* the content can be handled independently from the received MTU size */ 595 596 printf("can_id: %X data length: %d data: ", cfd.can_id, cfd.len); 597 for (i = 0; i < cfd.len; i++) 598 printf("%02X ", cfd.data[i]); 599 600 When reading with size CANFD_MTU only returns CAN_MTU bytes that have 601 been received from the socket a legacy CAN frame has been read into the 602 provided CAN FD structure. Note that the canfd_frame.flags data field is 603 not specified in the struct can_frame and therefore it is only valid in 604 CANFD_MTU sized CAN FD frames. 605 606 Implementation hint for new CAN applications: 607 608 To build a CAN FD aware application use struct canfd_frame as basic CAN 609 data structure for CAN_RAW based applications. When the application is 610 executed on an older Linux kernel and switching the CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES 611 socket option returns an error: No problem. You'll get legacy CAN frames 612 or CAN FD frames and can process them the same way. 613 614 When sending to CAN devices make sure that the device is capable to handle 615 CAN FD frames by checking if the device maximum transfer unit is CANFD_MTU. 616 The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall. 617 618 4.1.6 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS 619 620 The CAN_RAW socket can set multiple CAN identifier specific filters that 621 lead to multiple filters in the af_can.c filter processing. These filters 622 are indenpendent from each other which leads to logical OR'ed filters when 623 applied (see 4.1.1). 624 625 This socket option joines the given CAN filters in the way that only CAN 626 frames are passed to user space that matched *all* given CAN filters. The 627 semantic for the applied filters is therefore changed to a logical AND. 628 629 This is useful especially when the filterset is a combination of filters 630 where the CAN_INV_FILTER flag is set in order to notch single CAN IDs or 631 CAN ID ranges from the incoming traffic. 632 633 4.1.7 RAW socket returned message flags 634 635 When using recvmsg() call, the msg->msg_flags may contain following flags: 636 637 MSG_DONTROUTE: set when the received frame was created on the local host. 638 639 MSG_CONFIRM: set when the frame was sent via the socket it is received on. 640 This flag can be interpreted as a 'transmission confirmation' when the 641 CAN driver supports the echo of frames on driver level, see 3.2 and 6.2. 642 In order to receive such messages, CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS must be set. 643 644 4.2 Broadcast Manager protocol sockets (SOCK_DGRAM) 645 646 The Broadcast Manager protocol provides a command based configuration 647 interface to filter and send (e.g. cyclic) CAN messages in kernel space. 648 649 Receive filters can be used to down sample frequent messages; detect events 650 such as message contents changes, packet length changes, and do time-out 651 monitoring of received messages. 652 653 Periodic transmission tasks of CAN frames or a sequence of CAN frames can be 654 created and modified at runtime; both the message content and the two 655 possible transmit intervals can be altered. 656 657 A BCM socket is not intended for sending individual CAN frames using the 658 struct can_frame as known from the CAN_RAW socket. Instead a special BCM 659 configuration message is defined. The basic BCM configuration message used 660 to communicate with the broadcast manager and the available operations are 661 defined in the linux/can/bcm.h include. The BCM message consists of a 662 message header with a command ('opcode') followed by zero or more CAN frames. 663 The broadcast manager sends responses to user space in the same form: 664 665 struct bcm_msg_head { 666 __u32 opcode; /* command */ 667 __u32 flags; /* special flags */ 668 __u32 count; /* run 'count' times with ival1 */ 669 struct timeval ival1, ival2; /* count and subsequent interval */ 670 canid_t can_id; /* unique can_id for task */ 671 __u32 nframes; /* number of can_frames following */ 672 struct can_frame frames[0]; 673 }; 674 675 The aligned payload 'frames' uses the same basic CAN frame structure defined 676 at the beginning of section 4 and in the include/linux/can.h include. All 677 messages to the broadcast manager from user space have this structure. 678 679 Note a CAN_BCM socket must be connected instead of bound after socket 680 creation (example without error checking): 681 682 int s; 683 struct sockaddr_can addr; 684 struct ifreq ifr; 685 686 s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM); 687 688 strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0"); 689 ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr); 690 691 addr.can_family = AF_CAN; 692 addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex; 693 694 connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)); 695 696 (..) 697 698 The broadcast manager socket is able to handle any number of in flight 699 transmissions or receive filters concurrently. The different RX/TX jobs are 700 distinguished by the unique can_id in each BCM message. However additional 701 CAN_BCM sockets are recommended to communicate on multiple CAN interfaces. 702 When the broadcast manager socket is bound to 'any' CAN interface (=> the 703 interface index is set to zero) the configured receive filters apply to any 704 CAN interface unless the sendto() syscall is used to overrule the 'any' CAN 705 interface index. When using recvfrom() instead of read() to retrieve BCM 706 socket messages the originating CAN interface is provided in can_ifindex. 707 708 4.2.1 Broadcast Manager operations 709 710 The opcode defines the operation for the broadcast manager to carry out, 711 or details the broadcast managers response to several events, including 712 user requests. 713 714 Transmit Operations (user space to broadcast manager): 715 716 TX_SETUP: Create (cyclic) transmission task. 717 718 TX_DELETE: Remove (cyclic) transmission task, requires only can_id. 719 720 TX_READ: Read properties of (cyclic) transmission task for can_id. 721 722 TX_SEND: Send one CAN frame. 723 724 Transmit Responses (broadcast manager to user space): 725 726 TX_STATUS: Reply to TX_READ request (transmission task configuration). 727 728 TX_EXPIRED: Notification when counter finishes sending at initial interval 729 'ival1'. Requires the TX_COUNTEVT flag to be set at TX_SETUP. 730 731 Receive Operations (user space to broadcast manager): 732 733 RX_SETUP: Create RX content filter subscription. 734 735 RX_DELETE: Remove RX content filter subscription, requires only can_id. 736 737 RX_READ: Read properties of RX content filter subscription for can_id. 738 739 Receive Responses (broadcast manager to user space): 740 741 RX_STATUS: Reply to RX_READ request (filter task configuration). 742 743 RX_TIMEOUT: Cyclic message is detected to be absent (timer ival1 expired). 744 745 RX_CHANGED: BCM message with updated CAN frame (detected content change). 746 Sent on first message received or on receipt of revised CAN messages. 747 748 4.2.2 Broadcast Manager message flags 749 750 When sending a message to the broadcast manager the 'flags' element may 751 contain the following flag definitions which influence the behaviour: 752 753 SETTIMER: Set the values of ival1, ival2 and count 754 755 STARTTIMER: Start the timer with the actual values of ival1, ival2 756 and count. Starting the timer leads simultaneously to emit a CAN frame. 757 758 TX_COUNTEVT: Create the message TX_EXPIRED when count expires 759 760 TX_ANNOUNCE: A change of data by the process is emitted immediately. 761 762 TX_CP_CAN_ID: Copies the can_id from the message header to each 763 subsequent frame in frames. This is intended as usage simplification. For 764 TX tasks the unique can_id from the message header may differ from the 765 can_id(s) stored for transmission in the subsequent struct can_frame(s). 766 767 RX_FILTER_ID: Filter by can_id alone, no frames required (nframes=0). 768 769 RX_CHECK_DLC: A change of the DLC leads to an RX_CHANGED. 770 771 RX_NO_AUTOTIMER: Prevent automatically starting the timeout monitor. 772 773 RX_ANNOUNCE_RESUME: If passed at RX_SETUP and a receive timeout occurred, a 774 RX_CHANGED message will be generated when the (cyclic) receive restarts. 775 776 TX_RESET_MULTI_IDX: Reset the index for the multiple frame transmission. 777 778 RX_RTR_FRAME: Send reply for RTR-request (placed in op->frames[0]). 779 780 4.2.3 Broadcast Manager transmission timers 781 782 Periodic transmission configurations may use up to two interval timers. 783 In this case the BCM sends a number of messages ('count') at an interval 784 'ival1', then continuing to send at another given interval 'ival2'. When 785 only one timer is needed 'count' is set to zero and only 'ival2' is used. 786 When SET_TIMER and START_TIMER flag were set the timers are activated. 787 The timer values can be altered at runtime when only SET_TIMER is set. 788 789 4.2.4 Broadcast Manager message sequence transmission 790 791 Up to 256 CAN frames can be transmitted in a sequence in the case of a cyclic 792 TX task configuration. The number of CAN frames is provided in the 'nframes' 793 element of the BCM message head. The defined number of CAN frames are added 794 as array to the TX_SETUP BCM configuration message. 795 796 /* create a struct to set up a sequence of four CAN frames */ 797 struct { 798 struct bcm_msg_head msg_head; 799 struct can_frame frame[4]; 800 } mytxmsg; 801 802 (..) 803 mytxmsg.msg_head.nframes = 4; 804 (..) 805 806 write(s, &mytxmsg, sizeof(mytxmsg)); 807 808 With every transmission the index in the array of CAN frames is increased 809 and set to zero at index overflow. 810 811 4.2.5 Broadcast Manager receive filter timers 812 813 The timer values ival1 or ival2 may be set to non-zero values at RX_SETUP. 814 When the SET_TIMER flag is set the timers are enabled: 815 816 ival1: Send RX_TIMEOUT when a received message is not received again within 817 the given time. When START_TIMER is set at RX_SETUP the timeout detection 818 is activated directly - even without a former CAN frame reception. 819 820 ival2: Throttle the received message rate down to the value of ival2. This 821 is useful to reduce messages for the application when the signal inside the 822 CAN frame is stateless as state changes within the ival2 periode may get 823 lost. 824 825 4.2.6 Broadcast Manager multiplex message receive filter 826 827 To filter for content changes in multiplex message sequences an array of more 828 than one CAN frames can be passed in a RX_SETUP configuration message. The 829 data bytes of the first CAN frame contain the mask of relevant bits that 830 have to match in the subsequent CAN frames with the received CAN frame. 831 If one of the subsequent CAN frames is matching the bits in that frame data 832 mark the relevant content to be compared with the previous received content. 833 Up to 257 CAN frames (multiplex filter bit mask CAN frame plus 256 CAN 834 filters) can be added as array to the TX_SETUP BCM configuration message. 835 836 /* usually used to clear CAN frame data[] - beware of endian problems! */ 837 #define U64_DATA(p) (*(unsigned long long*)(p)->data) 838 839 struct { 840 struct bcm_msg_head msg_head; 841 struct can_frame frame[5]; 842 } msg; 843 844 msg.msg_head.opcode = RX_SETUP; 845 msg.msg_head.can_id = 0x42; 846 msg.msg_head.flags = 0; 847 msg.msg_head.nframes = 5; 848 U64_DATA(&msg.frame[0]) = 0xFF00000000000000ULL; /* MUX mask */ 849 U64_DATA(&msg.frame[1]) = 0x01000000000000FFULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x01) */ 850 U64_DATA(&msg.frame[2]) = 0x0200FFFF000000FFULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x02) */ 851 U64_DATA(&msg.frame[3]) = 0x330000FFFFFF0003ULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x33) */ 852 U64_DATA(&msg.frame[4]) = 0x4F07FC0FF0000000ULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x4F) */ 853 854 write(s, &msg, sizeof(msg)); 855 856 4.2.7 Broadcast Manager CAN FD support 857 858 The programming API of the CAN_BCM depends on struct can_frame which is 859 given as array directly behind the bcm_msg_head structure. To follow this 860 schema for the CAN FD frames a new flag 'CAN_FD_FRAME' in the bcm_msg_head 861 flags indicates that the concatenated CAN frame structures behind the 862 bcm_msg_head are defined as struct canfd_frame. 863 864 struct { 865 struct bcm_msg_head msg_head; 866 struct canfd_frame frame[5]; 867 } msg; 868 869 msg.msg_head.opcode = RX_SETUP; 870 msg.msg_head.can_id = 0x42; 871 msg.msg_head.flags = CAN_FD_FRAME; 872 msg.msg_head.nframes = 5; 873 (..) 874 875 When using CAN FD frames for multiplex filtering the MUX mask is still 876 expected in the first 64 bit of the struct canfd_frame data section. 877 878 4.3 connected transport protocols (SOCK_SEQPACKET) 879 4.4 unconnected transport protocols (SOCK_DGRAM) 880 881 882 5. SocketCAN core module 883 ------------------------- 884 885 The SocketCAN core module implements the protocol family 886 PF_CAN. CAN protocol modules are loaded by the core module at 887 runtime. The core module provides an interface for CAN protocol 888 modules to subscribe needed CAN IDs (see chapter 3.1). 889 890 5.1 can.ko module params 891 892 - stats_timer: To calculate the SocketCAN core statistics 893 (e.g. current/maximum frames per second) this 1 second timer is 894 invoked at can.ko module start time by default. This timer can be 895 disabled by using stattimer=0 on the module commandline. 896 897 - debug: (removed since SocketCAN SVN r546) 898 899 5.2 procfs content 900 901 As described in chapter 3.1 the SocketCAN core uses several filter 902 lists to deliver received CAN frames to CAN protocol modules. These 903 receive lists, their filters and the count of filter matches can be 904 checked in the appropriate receive list. All entries contain the 905 device and a protocol module identifier: 906 907 foo@bar:~$ cat /proc/net/can/rcvlist_all 908 909 receive list 'rx_all': 910 (vcan3: no entry) 911 (vcan2: no entry) 912 (vcan1: no entry) 913 device can_id can_mask function userdata matches ident 914 vcan0 000 00000000 f88e6370 f6c6f400 0 raw 915 (any: no entry) 916 917 In this example an application requests any CAN traffic from vcan0. 918 919 rcvlist_all - list for unfiltered entries (no filter operations) 920 rcvlist_eff - list for single extended frame (EFF) entries 921 rcvlist_err - list for error message frames masks 922 rcvlist_fil - list for mask/value filters 923 rcvlist_inv - list for mask/value filters (inverse semantic) 924 rcvlist_sff - list for single standard frame (SFF) entries 925 926 Additional procfs files in /proc/net/can 927 928 stats - SocketCAN core statistics (rx/tx frames, match ratios, ...) 929 reset_stats - manual statistic reset 930 version - prints the SocketCAN core version and the ABI version 931 932 5.3 writing own CAN protocol modules 933 934 To implement a new protocol in the protocol family PF_CAN a new 935 protocol has to be defined in include/linux/can.h . 936 The prototypes and definitions to use the SocketCAN core can be 937 accessed by including include/linux/can/core.h . 938 In addition to functions that register the CAN protocol and the 939 CAN device notifier chain there are functions to subscribe CAN 940 frames received by CAN interfaces and to send CAN frames: 941 942 can_rx_register - subscribe CAN frames from a specific interface 943 can_rx_unregister - unsubscribe CAN frames from a specific interface 944 can_send - transmit a CAN frame (optional with local loopback) 945 946 For details see the kerneldoc documentation in net/can/af_can.c or 947 the source code of net/can/raw.c or net/can/bcm.c . 948 949 6. CAN network drivers 950 ---------------------- 951 952 Writing a CAN network device driver is much easier than writing a 953 CAN character device driver. Similar to other known network device 954 drivers you mainly have to deal with: 955 956 - TX: Put the CAN frame from the socket buffer to the CAN controller. 957 - RX: Put the CAN frame from the CAN controller to the socket buffer. 958 959 See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt . The differences 960 for writing CAN network device driver are described below: 961 962 6.1 general settings 963 964 dev->type = ARPHRD_CAN; /* the netdevice hardware type */ 965 dev->flags = IFF_NOARP; /* CAN has no arp */ 966 967 dev->mtu = CAN_MTU; /* sizeof(struct can_frame) -> legacy CAN interface */ 968 969 or alternative, when the controller supports CAN with flexible data rate: 970 dev->mtu = CANFD_MTU; /* sizeof(struct canfd_frame) -> CAN FD interface */ 971 972 The struct can_frame or struct canfd_frame is the payload of each socket 973 buffer (skbuff) in the protocol family PF_CAN. 974 975 6.2 local loopback of sent frames 976 977 As described in chapter 3.2 the CAN network device driver should 978 support a local loopback functionality similar to the local echo 979 e.g. of tty devices. In this case the driver flag IFF_ECHO has to be 980 set to prevent the PF_CAN core from locally echoing sent frames 981 (aka loopback) as fallback solution: 982 983 dev->flags = (IFF_NOARP | IFF_ECHO); 984 985 6.3 CAN controller hardware filters 986 987 To reduce the interrupt load on deep embedded systems some CAN 988 controllers support the filtering of CAN IDs or ranges of CAN IDs. 989 These hardware filter capabilities vary from controller to 990 controller and have to be identified as not feasible in a multi-user 991 networking approach. The use of the very controller specific 992 hardware filters could make sense in a very dedicated use-case, as a 993 filter on driver level would affect all users in the multi-user 994 system. The high efficient filter sets inside the PF_CAN core allow 995 to set different multiple filters for each socket separately. 996 Therefore the use of hardware filters goes to the category 'handmade 997 tuning on deep embedded systems'. The author is running a MPC603e 998 @133MHz with four SJA1000 CAN controllers from 2002 under heavy bus 999 load without any problems ... 1000 1001 6.4 The virtual CAN driver (vcan) 1002 1003 Similar to the network loopback devices, vcan offers a virtual local 1004 CAN interface. A full qualified address on CAN consists of 1005 1006 - a unique CAN Identifier (CAN ID) 1007 - the CAN bus this CAN ID is transmitted on (e.g. can0) 1008 1009 so in common use cases more than one virtual CAN interface is needed. 1010 1011 The virtual CAN interfaces allow the transmission and reception of CAN 1012 frames without real CAN controller hardware. Virtual CAN network 1013 devices are usually named 'vcanX', like vcan0 vcan1 vcan2 ... 1014 When compiled as a module the virtual CAN driver module is called vcan.ko 1015 1016 Since Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 the vcan driver supports the Kernel 1017 netlink interface to create vcan network devices. The creation and 1018 removal of vcan network devices can be managed with the ip(8) tool: 1019 1020 - Create a virtual CAN network interface: 1021 $ ip link add type vcan 1022 1023 - Create a virtual CAN network interface with a specific name 'vcan42': 1024 $ ip link add dev vcan42 type vcan 1025 1026 - Remove a (virtual CAN) network interface 'vcan42': 1027 $ ip link del vcan42 1028 1029 6.5 The CAN network device driver interface 1030 1031 The CAN network device driver interface provides a generic interface 1032 to setup, configure and monitor CAN network devices. The user can then 1033 configure the CAN device, like setting the bit-timing parameters, via 1034 the netlink interface using the program "ip" from the "IPROUTE2" 1035 utility suite. The following chapter describes briefly how to use it. 1036 Furthermore, the interface uses a common data structure and exports a 1037 set of common functions, which all real CAN network device drivers 1038 should use. Please have a look to the SJA1000 or MSCAN driver to 1039 understand how to use them. The name of the module is can-dev.ko. 1040 1041 6.5.1 Netlink interface to set/get devices properties 1042 1043 The CAN device must be configured via netlink interface. The supported 1044 netlink message types are defined and briefly described in 1045 "include/linux/can/netlink.h". CAN link support for the program "ip" 1046 of the IPROUTE2 utility suite is available and it can be used as shown 1047 below: 1048 1049 - Setting CAN device properties: 1050 1051 $ ip link set can0 type can help 1052 Usage: ip link set DEVICE type can 1053 [ bitrate BITRATE [ sample-point SAMPLE-POINT] ] | 1054 [ tq TQ prop-seg PROP_SEG phase-seg1 PHASE-SEG1 1055 phase-seg2 PHASE-SEG2 [ sjw SJW ] ] 1056 1057 [ dbitrate BITRATE [ dsample-point SAMPLE-POINT] ] | 1058 [ dtq TQ dprop-seg PROP_SEG dphase-seg1 PHASE-SEG1 1059 dphase-seg2 PHASE-SEG2 [ dsjw SJW ] ] 1060 1061 [ loopback { on | off } ] 1062 [ listen-only { on | off } ] 1063 [ triple-sampling { on | off } ] 1064 [ one-shot { on | off } ] 1065 [ berr-reporting { on | off } ] 1066 [ fd { on | off } ] 1067 [ fd-non-iso { on | off } ] 1068 [ presume-ack { on | off } ] 1069 1070 [ restart-ms TIME-MS ] 1071 [ restart ] 1072 1073 Where: BITRATE := { 1..1000000 } 1074 SAMPLE-POINT := { 0.000..0.999 } 1075 TQ := { NUMBER } 1076 PROP-SEG := { 1..8 } 1077 PHASE-SEG1 := { 1..8 } 1078 PHASE-SEG2 := { 1..8 } 1079 SJW := { 1..4 } 1080 RESTART-MS := { 0 | NUMBER } 1081 1082 - Display CAN device details and statistics: 1083 1084 $ ip -details -statistics link show can0 1085 2: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 10 1086 link/can 1087 can <TRIPLE-SAMPLING> state ERROR-ACTIVE restart-ms 100 1088 bitrate 125000 sample_point 0.875 1089 tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1 1090 sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1 1091 clock 8000000 1092 re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off 1093 41 17457 0 41 42 41 1094 RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 1095 140859 17608 17457 0 0 0 1096 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns 1097 861 112 0 41 0 0 1098 1099 More info to the above output: 1100 1101 "<TRIPLE-SAMPLING>" 1102 Shows the list of selected CAN controller modes: LOOPBACK, 1103 LISTEN-ONLY, or TRIPLE-SAMPLING. 1104 1105 "state ERROR-ACTIVE" 1106 The current state of the CAN controller: "ERROR-ACTIVE", 1107 "ERROR-WARNING", "ERROR-PASSIVE", "BUS-OFF" or "STOPPED" 1108 1109 "restart-ms 100" 1110 Automatic restart delay time. If set to a non-zero value, a 1111 restart of the CAN controller will be triggered automatically 1112 in case of a bus-off condition after the specified delay time 1113 in milliseconds. By default it's off. 1114 1115 "bitrate 125000 sample-point 0.875" 1116 Shows the real bit-rate in bits/sec and the sample-point in the 1117 range 0.000..0.999. If the calculation of bit-timing parameters 1118 is enabled in the kernel (CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING=y), the 1119 bit-timing can be defined by setting the "bitrate" argument. 1120 Optionally the "sample-point" can be specified. By default it's 1121 0.000 assuming CIA-recommended sample-points. 1122 1123 "tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1" 1124 Shows the time quanta in ns, propagation segment, phase buffer 1125 segment 1 and 2 and the synchronisation jump width in units of 1126 tq. They allow to define the CAN bit-timing in a hardware 1127 independent format as proposed by the Bosch CAN 2.0 spec (see 1128 chapter 8 of http://www.semiconductors.bosch.de/pdf/can2spec.pdf). 1129 1130 "sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1 1131 clock 8000000" 1132 Shows the bit-timing constants of the CAN controller, here the 1133 "sja1000". The minimum and maximum values of the time segment 1 1134 and 2, the synchronisation jump width in units of tq, the 1135 bitrate pre-scaler and the CAN system clock frequency in Hz. 1136 These constants could be used for user-defined (non-standard) 1137 bit-timing calculation algorithms in user-space. 1138 1139 "re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off" 1140 Shows the number of restarts, bus and arbitration lost errors, 1141 and the state changes to the error-warning, error-passive and 1142 bus-off state. RX overrun errors are listed in the "overrun" 1143 field of the standard network statistics. 1144 1145 6.5.2 Setting the CAN bit-timing 1146 1147 The CAN bit-timing parameters can always be defined in a hardware 1148 independent format as proposed in the Bosch CAN 2.0 specification 1149 specifying the arguments "tq", "prop_seg", "phase_seg1", "phase_seg2" 1150 and "sjw": 1151 1152 $ ip link set canX type can tq 125 prop-seg 6 \ 1153 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1 1154 1155 If the kernel option CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING is enabled, CIA 1156 recommended CAN bit-timing parameters will be calculated if the bit- 1157 rate is specified with the argument "bitrate": 1158 1159 $ ip link set canX type can bitrate 125000 1160 1161 Note that this works fine for the most common CAN controllers with 1162 standard bit-rates but may *fail* for exotic bit-rates or CAN system 1163 clock frequencies. Disabling CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING saves some 1164 space and allows user-space tools to solely determine and set the 1165 bit-timing parameters. The CAN controller specific bit-timing 1166 constants can be used for that purpose. They are listed by the 1167 following command: 1168 1169 $ ip -details link show can0 1170 ... 1171 sja1000: clock 8000000 tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1 1172 1173 6.5.3 Starting and stopping the CAN network device 1174 1175 A CAN network device is started or stopped as usual with the command 1176 "ifconfig canX up/down" or "ip link set canX up/down". Be aware that 1177 you *must* define proper bit-timing parameters for real CAN devices 1178 before you can start it to avoid error-prone default settings: 1179 1180 $ ip link set canX up type can bitrate 125000 1181 1182 A device may enter the "bus-off" state if too many errors occurred on 1183 the CAN bus. Then no more messages are received or sent. An automatic 1184 bus-off recovery can be enabled by setting the "restart-ms" to a 1185 non-zero value, e.g.: 1186 1187 $ ip link set canX type can restart-ms 100 1188 1189 Alternatively, the application may realize the "bus-off" condition 1190 by monitoring CAN error message frames and do a restart when 1191 appropriate with the command: 1192 1193 $ ip link set canX type can restart 1194 1195 Note that a restart will also create a CAN error message frame (see 1196 also chapter 3.3). 1197 1198 6.6 CAN FD (flexible data rate) driver support 1199 1200 CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different bitrates for the 1201 arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame. Therefore a 1202 second bit timing has to be specified in order to enable the CAN FD bitrate. 1203 1204 Additionally CAN FD capable CAN controllers support up to 64 bytes of 1205 payload. The representation of this length in can_frame.can_dlc and 1206 canfd_frame.len for userspace applications and inside the Linux network 1207 layer is a plain value from 0 .. 64 instead of the CAN 'data length code'. 1208 The data length code was a 1:1 mapping to the payload length in the legacy 1209 CAN frames anyway. The payload length to the bus-relevant DLC mapping is 1210 only performed inside the CAN drivers, preferably with the helper 1211 functions can_dlc2len() and can_len2dlc(). 1212 1213 The CAN netdevice driver capabilities can be distinguished by the network 1214 devices maximum transfer unit (MTU): 1215 1216 MTU = 16 (CAN_MTU) => sizeof(struct can_frame) => 'legacy' CAN device 1217 MTU = 72 (CANFD_MTU) => sizeof(struct canfd_frame) => CAN FD capable device 1218 1219 The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall. 1220 N.B. CAN FD capable devices can also handle and send legacy CAN frames. 1221 1222 When configuring CAN FD capable CAN controllers an additional 'data' bitrate 1223 has to be set. This bitrate for the data phase of the CAN FD frame has to be 1224 at least the bitrate which was configured for the arbitration phase. This 1225 second bitrate is specified analogue to the first bitrate but the bitrate 1226 setting keywords for the 'data' bitrate start with 'd' e.g. dbitrate, 1227 dsample-point, dsjw or dtq and similar settings. When a data bitrate is set 1228 within the configuration process the controller option "fd on" can be 1229 specified to enable the CAN FD mode in the CAN controller. This controller 1230 option also switches the device MTU to 72 (CANFD_MTU). 1231 1232 The first CAN FD specification presented as whitepaper at the International 1233 CAN Conference 2012 needed to be improved for data integrity reasons. 1234 Therefore two CAN FD implementations have to be distinguished today: 1235 1236 - ISO compliant: The ISO 11898-1:2015 CAN FD implementation (default) 1237 - non-ISO compliant: The CAN FD implementation following the 2012 whitepaper 1238 1239 Finally there are three types of CAN FD controllers: 1240 1241 1. ISO compliant (fixed) 1242 2. non-ISO compliant (fixed, like the M_CAN IP core v3.0.1 in m_can.c) 1243 3. ISO/non-ISO CAN FD controllers (switchable, like the PEAK PCAN-USB FD) 1244 1245 The current ISO/non-ISO mode is announced by the CAN controller driver via 1246 netlink and displayed by the 'ip' tool (controller option FD-NON-ISO). 1247 The ISO/non-ISO-mode can be altered by setting 'fd-non-iso {on|off}' for 1248 switchable CAN FD controllers only. 1249 1250 Example configuring 500 kbit/s arbitration bitrate and 4 Mbit/s data bitrate: 1251 1252 $ ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.75 \ 1253 dbitrate 4000000 dsample-point 0.8 fd on 1254 $ ip -details link show can0 1255 5: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 72 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN \ 1256 mode DEFAULT group default qlen 10 1257 link/can promiscuity 0 1258 can <FD> state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0 1259 bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.750 1260 tq 50 prop-seg 14 phase-seg1 15 phase-seg2 10 sjw 1 1261 pcan_usb_pro_fd: tseg1 1..64 tseg2 1..16 sjw 1..16 brp 1..1024 \ 1262 brp-inc 1 1263 dbitrate 4000000 dsample-point 0.800 1264 dtq 12 dprop-seg 7 dphase-seg1 8 dphase-seg2 4 dsjw 1 1265 pcan_usb_pro_fd: dtseg1 1..16 dtseg2 1..8 dsjw 1..4 dbrp 1..1024 \ 1266 dbrp-inc 1 1267 clock 80000000 1268 1269 Example when 'fd-non-iso on' is added on this switchable CAN FD adapter: 1270 can <FD,FD-NON-ISO> state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0 1271 1272 6.7 Supported CAN hardware 1273 1274 Please check the "Kconfig" file in "drivers/net/can" to get an actual 1275 list of the support CAN hardware. On the SocketCAN project website 1276 (see chapter 7) there might be further drivers available, also for 1277 older kernel versions. 1278 1279 7. SocketCAN resources 1280 ----------------------- 1281 1282 The Linux CAN / SocketCAN project resources (project site / mailing list) 1283 are referenced in the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux source tree. 1284 Search for CAN NETWORK [LAYERS|DRIVERS]. 1285 1286 8. Credits 1287 ---------- 1288 1289 Oliver Hartkopp (PF_CAN core, filters, drivers, bcm, SJA1000 driver) 1290 Urs Thuermann (PF_CAN core, kernel integration, socket interfaces, raw, vcan) 1291 Jan Kizka (RT-SocketCAN core, Socket-API reconciliation) 1292 Wolfgang Grandegger (RT-SocketCAN core & drivers, Raw Socket-API reviews, 1293 CAN device driver interface, MSCAN driver) 1294 Robert Schwebel (design reviews, PTXdist integration) 1295 Marc Kleine-Budde (design reviews, Kernel 2.6 cleanups, drivers) 1296 Benedikt Spranger (reviews) 1297 Thomas Gleixner (LKML reviews, coding style, posting hints) 1298 Andrey Volkov (kernel subtree structure, ioctls, MSCAN driver) 1299 Matthias Brukner (first SJA1000 CAN netdevice implementation Q2/2003) 1300 Klaus Hitschler (PEAK driver integration) 1301 Uwe Koppe (CAN netdevices with PF_PACKET approach) 1302 Michael Schulze (driver layer loopback requirement, RT CAN drivers review) 1303 Pavel Pisa (Bit-timing calculation) 1304 Sascha Hauer (SJA1000 platform driver) 1305 Sebastian Haas (SJA1000 EMS PCI driver) 1306 Markus Plessing (SJA1000 EMS PCI driver) 1307 Per Dalen (SJA1000 Kvaser PCI driver) 1308 Sam Ravnborg (reviews, coding style, kbuild help)