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| ===================================
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| SocketCAN - Controller Area Network
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| ===================================
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| 
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| Overview / What is SocketCAN
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| ============================
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| 
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| The socketcan package is an implementation of CAN protocols
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| (Controller Area Network) for Linux.  CAN is a networking technology
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| which has widespread use in automation, embedded devices, and
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| automotive fields.  While there have been other CAN implementations
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| for Linux based on character devices, SocketCAN uses the Berkeley
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| socket API, the Linux network stack and implements the CAN device
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| drivers as network interfaces.  The CAN socket API has been designed
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| as similar as possible to the TCP/IP protocols to allow programmers,
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| familiar with network programming, to easily learn how to use CAN
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| sockets.
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-motivation:
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| 
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| Motivation / Why Using the Socket API
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| =====================================
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| 
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| There have been CAN implementations for Linux before SocketCAN so the
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| question arises, why we have started another project.  Most existing
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| implementations come as a device driver for some CAN hardware, they
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| are based on character devices and provide comparatively little
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| functionality.  Usually, there is only a hardware-specific device
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| driver which provides a character device interface to send and
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| receive raw CAN frames, directly to/from the controller hardware.
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| Queueing of frames and higher-level transport protocols like ISO-TP
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| have to be implemented in user space applications.  Also, most
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| character-device implementations support only one single process to
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| open the device at a time, similar to a serial interface.  Exchanging
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| the CAN controller requires employment of another device driver and
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| often the need for adaption of large parts of the application to the
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| new driver's API.
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| 
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| SocketCAN was designed to overcome all of these limitations.  A new
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| protocol family has been implemented which provides a socket interface
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| to user space applications and which builds upon the Linux network
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| layer, enabling use all of the provided queueing functionality.  A device
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| driver for CAN controller hardware registers itself with the Linux
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| network layer as a network device, so that CAN frames from the
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| controller can be passed up to the network layer and on to the CAN
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| protocol family module and also vice-versa.  Also, the protocol family
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| module provides an API for transport protocol modules to register, so
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| that any number of transport protocols can be loaded or unloaded
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| dynamically.  In fact, the can core module alone does not provide any
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| protocol and cannot be used without loading at least one additional
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| protocol module.  Multiple sockets can be opened at the same time,
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| on different or the same protocol module and they can listen/send
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| frames on different or the same CAN IDs.  Several sockets listening on
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| the same interface for frames with the same CAN ID are all passed the
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| same received matching CAN frames.  An application wishing to
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| communicate using a specific transport protocol, e.g. ISO-TP, just
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| selects that protocol when opening the socket, and then can read and
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| write application data byte streams, without having to deal with
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| CAN-IDs, frames, etc.
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| 
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| Similar functionality visible from user-space could be provided by a
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| character device, too, but this would lead to a technically inelegant
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| solution for a couple of reasons:
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| 
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| * **Intricate usage:**  Instead of passing a protocol argument to
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|   socket(2) and using bind(2) to select a CAN interface and CAN ID, an
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|   application would have to do all these operations using ioctl(2)s.
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| 
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| * **Code duplication:**  A character device cannot make use of the Linux
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|   network queueing code, so all that code would have to be duplicated
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|   for CAN networking.
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| 
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| * **Abstraction:**  In most existing character-device implementations, the
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|   hardware-specific device driver for a CAN controller directly
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|   provides the character device for the application to work with.
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|   This is at least very unusual in Unix systems for both, char and
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|   block devices.  For example you don't have a character device for a
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|   certain UART of a serial interface, a certain sound chip in your
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|   computer, a SCSI or IDE controller providing access to your hard
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|   disk or tape streamer device.  Instead, you have abstraction layers
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|   which provide a unified character or block device interface to the
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|   application on the one hand, and a interface for hardware-specific
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|   device drivers on the other hand.  These abstractions are provided
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|   by subsystems like the tty layer, the audio subsystem or the SCSI
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|   and IDE subsystems for the devices mentioned above.
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| 
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|   The easiest way to implement a CAN device driver is as a character
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|   device without such a (complete) abstraction layer, as is done by most
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|   existing drivers.  The right way, however, would be to add such a
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|   layer with all the functionality like registering for certain CAN
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|   IDs, supporting several open file descriptors and (de)multiplexing
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|   CAN frames between them, (sophisticated) queueing of CAN frames, and
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|   providing an API for device drivers to register with.  However, then
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|   it would be no more difficult, or may be even easier, to use the
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|   networking framework provided by the Linux kernel, and this is what
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|   SocketCAN does.
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| 
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| The use of the networking framework of the Linux kernel is just the
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| natural and most appropriate way to implement CAN for Linux.
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-concept:
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| 
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| SocketCAN Concept
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| =================
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| 
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| As described in :ref:`socketcan-motivation` the main goal of SocketCAN is to
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| provide a socket interface to user space applications which builds
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| upon the Linux network layer. In contrast to the commonly known
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| TCP/IP and ethernet networking, the CAN bus is a broadcast-only(!)
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| medium that has no MAC-layer addressing like ethernet. The CAN-identifier
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| (can_id) is used for arbitration on the CAN-bus. Therefore the CAN-IDs
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| have to be chosen uniquely on the bus. When designing a CAN-ECU
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| network the CAN-IDs are mapped to be sent by a specific ECU.
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| For this reason a CAN-ID can be treated best as a kind of source address.
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-receive-lists:
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| 
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| Receive Lists
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| -------------
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| 
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| The network transparent access of multiple applications leads to the
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| problem that different applications may be interested in the same
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| CAN-IDs from the same CAN network interface. The SocketCAN core
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| module - which implements the protocol family CAN - provides several
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| high efficient receive lists for this reason. If e.g. a user space
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| application opens a CAN RAW socket, the raw protocol module itself
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| requests the (range of) CAN-IDs from the SocketCAN core that are
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| requested by the user. The subscription and unsubscription of
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| CAN-IDs can be done for specific CAN interfaces or for all(!) known
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| CAN interfaces with the can_rx_(un)register() functions provided to
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| CAN protocol modules by the SocketCAN core (see :ref:`socketcan-core-module`).
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| To optimize the CPU usage at runtime the receive lists are split up
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| into several specific lists per device that match the requested
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| filter complexity for a given use-case.
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-local-loopback1:
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| 
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| Local Loopback of Sent Frames
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| -----------------------------
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| 
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| As known from other networking concepts the data exchanging
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| applications may run on the same or different nodes without any
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| change (except for the according addressing information):
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| 
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| .. code::
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| 
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| 	 ___   ___   ___                   _______   ___
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| 	| _ | | _ | | _ |                 | _   _ | | _ |
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| 	||A|| ||B|| ||C||                 ||A| |B|| ||C||
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| 	|___| |___| |___|                 |_______| |___|
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| 	  |     |     |                       |       |
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| 	-----------------(1)- CAN bus -(2)---------------
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| 
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| To ensure that application A receives the same information in the
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| example (2) as it would receive in example (1) there is need for
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| some kind of local loopback of the sent CAN frames on the appropriate
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| node.
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| 
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| The Linux network devices (by default) just can handle the
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| transmission and reception of media dependent frames. Due to the
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| arbitration on the CAN bus the transmission of a low prio CAN-ID
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| may be delayed by the reception of a high prio CAN frame. To
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| reflect the correct [#f1]_ traffic on the node the loopback of the sent
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| data has to be performed right after a successful transmission. If
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| the CAN network interface is not capable of performing the loopback for
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| some reason the SocketCAN core can do this task as a fallback solution.
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| See :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` for details (recommended).
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| 
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| The loopback functionality is enabled by default to reflect standard
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| networking behaviour for CAN applications. Due to some requests from
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| the RT-SocketCAN group the loopback optionally may be disabled for each
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| separate socket. See sockopts from the CAN RAW sockets in :ref:`socketcan-raw-sockets`.
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| 
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| .. [#f1] you really like to have this when you're running analyser
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|        tools like 'candump' or 'cansniffer' on the (same) node.
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-network-problem-notifications:
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| 
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| Network Problem Notifications
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| -----------------------------
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| 
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| The use of the CAN bus may lead to several problems on the physical
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| and media access control layer. Detecting and logging of these lower
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| layer problems is a vital requirement for CAN users to identify
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| hardware issues on the physical transceiver layer as well as
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| arbitration problems and error frames caused by the different
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| ECUs. The occurrence of detected errors are important for diagnosis
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| and have to be logged together with the exact timestamp. For this
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| reason the CAN interface driver can generate so called Error Message
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| Frames that can optionally be passed to the user application in the
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| same way as other CAN frames. Whenever an error on the physical layer
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| or the MAC layer is detected (e.g. by the CAN controller) the driver
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| creates an appropriate error message frame. Error messages frames can
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| be requested by the user application using the common CAN filter
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| mechanisms. Inside this filter definition the (interested) type of
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| errors may be selected. The reception of error messages is disabled
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| by default. The format of the CAN error message frame is briefly
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| described in the Linux header file "include/uapi/linux/can/error.h".
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| 
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| 
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| How to use SocketCAN
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| ====================
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| 
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| Like TCP/IP, you first need to open a socket for communicating over a
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| CAN network. Since SocketCAN implements a new protocol family, you
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| need to pass PF_CAN as the first argument to the socket(2) system
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| call. Currently, there are two CAN protocols to choose from, the raw
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| socket protocol and the broadcast manager (BCM). So to open a socket,
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| you would write::
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| 
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|     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW);
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| 
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| and::
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| 
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|     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM);
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| 
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| respectively.  After the successful creation of the socket, you would
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| normally use the bind(2) system call to bind the socket to a CAN
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| interface (which is different from TCP/IP due to different addressing
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| - see :ref:`socketcan-concept`). After binding (CAN_RAW) or connecting (CAN_BCM)
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| the socket, you can read(2) and write(2) from/to the socket or use
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| send(2), sendto(2), sendmsg(2) and the recv* counterpart operations
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| on the socket as usual. There are also CAN specific socket options
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| described below.
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| 
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| The basic CAN frame structure and the sockaddr structure are defined
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| in include/linux/can.h:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct can_frame {
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|             canid_t can_id;  /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */
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|             __u8    can_dlc; /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 8) */
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|             __u8    __pad;   /* padding */
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|             __u8    __res0;  /* reserved / padding */
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|             __u8    __res1;  /* reserved / padding */
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|             __u8    data[8] __attribute__((aligned(8)));
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|     };
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| 
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| The alignment of the (linear) payload data[] to a 64bit boundary
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| allows the user to define their own structs and unions to easily access
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| the CAN payload. There is no given byteorder on the CAN bus by
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| default. A read(2) system call on a CAN_RAW socket transfers a
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| struct can_frame to the user space.
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| 
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| The sockaddr_can structure has an interface index like the
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| PF_PACKET socket, that also binds to a specific interface:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct sockaddr_can {
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|             sa_family_t can_family;
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|             int         can_ifindex;
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|             union {
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|                     /* transport protocol class address info (e.g. ISOTP) */
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|                     struct { canid_t rx_id, tx_id; } tp;
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| 
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|                     /* reserved for future CAN protocols address information */
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|             } can_addr;
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|     };
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| 
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| To determine the interface index an appropriate ioctl() has to
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| be used (example for CAN_RAW sockets without error checking):
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     int s;
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|     struct sockaddr_can addr;
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|     struct ifreq ifr;
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| 
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|     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW);
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| 
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|     strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0" );
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|     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
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| 
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|     addr.can_family = AF_CAN;
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|     addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
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| 
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|     bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
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| 
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|     (..)
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| 
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| To bind a socket to all(!) CAN interfaces the interface index must
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| be 0 (zero). In this case the socket receives CAN frames from every
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| enabled CAN interface. To determine the originating CAN interface
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| the system call recvfrom(2) may be used instead of read(2). To send
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| on a socket that is bound to 'any' interface sendto(2) is needed to
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| specify the outgoing interface.
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| 
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| Reading CAN frames from a bound CAN_RAW socket (see above) consists
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| of reading a struct can_frame:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct can_frame frame;
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| 
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|     nbytes = read(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame));
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| 
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|     if (nbytes < 0) {
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|             perror("can raw socket read");
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|             return 1;
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|     }
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| 
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|     /* paranoid check ... */
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|     if (nbytes < sizeof(struct can_frame)) {
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|             fprintf(stderr, "read: incomplete CAN frame\n");
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|             return 1;
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|     }
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| 
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|     /* do something with the received CAN frame */
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| 
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| Writing CAN frames can be done similarly, with the write(2) system call::
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| 
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|     nbytes = write(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame));
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| 
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| When the CAN interface is bound to 'any' existing CAN interface
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| (addr.can_ifindex = 0) it is recommended to use recvfrom(2) if the
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| information about the originating CAN interface is needed:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct sockaddr_can addr;
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|     struct ifreq ifr;
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|     socklen_t len = sizeof(addr);
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|     struct can_frame frame;
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| 
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|     nbytes = recvfrom(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame),
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|                       0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &len);
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| 
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|     /* get interface name of the received CAN frame */
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|     ifr.ifr_ifindex = addr.can_ifindex;
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|     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFNAME, &ifr);
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|     printf("Received a CAN frame from interface %s", ifr.ifr_name);
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| 
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| To write CAN frames on sockets bound to 'any' CAN interface the
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| outgoing interface has to be defined certainly:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0");
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|     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
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|     addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
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|     addr.can_family  = AF_CAN;
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| 
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|     nbytes = sendto(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame),
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|                     0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr));
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| 
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| An accurate timestamp can be obtained with an ioctl(2) call after reading
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| a message from the socket:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct timeval tv;
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|     ioctl(s, SIOCGSTAMP, &tv);
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| 
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| The timestamp has a resolution of one microsecond and is set automatically
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| at the reception of a CAN frame.
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| 
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| Remark about CAN FD (flexible data rate) support:
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| 
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| Generally the handling of CAN FD is very similar to the formerly described
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| examples. The new CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different
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| bitrates for the arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame
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| and up to 64 bytes of payload. This extended payload length breaks all the
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| kernel interfaces (ABI) which heavily rely on the CAN frame with fixed eight
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| bytes of payload (struct can_frame) like the CAN_RAW socket. Therefore e.g.
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| the CAN_RAW socket supports a new socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES that
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| switches the socket into a mode that allows the handling of CAN FD frames
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| and (legacy) CAN frames simultaneously (see :ref:`socketcan-rawfd`).
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| 
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| The struct canfd_frame is defined in include/linux/can.h:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct canfd_frame {
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|             canid_t can_id;  /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */
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|             __u8    len;     /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 64) */
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|             __u8    flags;   /* additional flags for CAN FD */
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|             __u8    __res0;  /* reserved / padding */
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|             __u8    __res1;  /* reserved / padding */
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|             __u8    data[64] __attribute__((aligned(8)));
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|     };
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| 
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| The struct canfd_frame and the existing struct can_frame have the can_id,
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| the payload length and the payload data at the same offset inside their
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| structures. This allows to handle the different structures very similar.
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| When the content of a struct can_frame is copied into a struct canfd_frame
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| all structure elements can be used as-is - only the data[] becomes extended.
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| 
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| When introducing the struct canfd_frame it turned out that the data length
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| code (DLC) of the struct can_frame was used as a length information as the
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| length and the DLC has a 1:1 mapping in the range of 0 .. 8. To preserve
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| the easy handling of the length information the canfd_frame.len element
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| contains a plain length value from 0 .. 64. So both canfd_frame.len and
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| can_frame.can_dlc are equal and contain a length information and no DLC.
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| For details about the distinction of CAN and CAN FD capable devices and
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| the mapping to the bus-relevant data length code (DLC), see :ref:`socketcan-can-fd-driver`.
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| 
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| The length of the two CAN(FD) frame structures define the maximum transfer
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| unit (MTU) of the CAN(FD) network interface and skbuff data length. Two
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| definitions are specified for CAN specific MTUs in include/linux/can.h:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|   #define CAN_MTU   (sizeof(struct can_frame))   == 16  => 'legacy' CAN frame
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|   #define CANFD_MTU (sizeof(struct canfd_frame)) == 72  => CAN FD frame
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-raw-sockets:
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| 
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| RAW Protocol Sockets with can_filters (SOCK_RAW)
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| ------------------------------------------------
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| 
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| Using CAN_RAW sockets is extensively comparable to the commonly
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| known access to CAN character devices. To meet the new possibilities
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| provided by the multi user SocketCAN approach, some reasonable
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| defaults are set at RAW socket binding time:
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| 
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| - The filters are set to exactly one filter receiving everything
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| - The socket only receives valid data frames (=> no error message frames)
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| - The loopback of sent CAN frames is enabled (see :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback2`)
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| - The socket does not receive its own sent frames (in loopback mode)
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| 
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| These default settings may be changed before or after binding the socket.
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| To use the referenced definitions of the socket options for CAN_RAW
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| sockets, include <linux/can/raw.h>.
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| 
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| 
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| .. _socketcan-rawfilter:
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| 
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| RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FILTER
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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| 
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| The reception of CAN frames using CAN_RAW sockets can be controlled
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| by defining 0 .. n filters with the CAN_RAW_FILTER socket option.
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| 
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| The CAN filter structure is defined in include/linux/can.h:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct can_filter {
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|             canid_t can_id;
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|             canid_t can_mask;
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|     };
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| 
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| A filter matches, when:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     <received_can_id> & mask == can_id & mask
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| 
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| which is analogous to known CAN controllers hardware filter semantics.
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| The filter can be inverted in this semantic, when the CAN_INV_FILTER
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| bit is set in can_id element of the can_filter structure. In
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| contrast to CAN controller hardware filters the user may set 0 .. n
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| receive filters for each open socket separately:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     struct can_filter rfilter[2];
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| 
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|     rfilter[0].can_id   = 0x123;
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|     rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK;
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|     rfilter[1].can_id   = 0x200;
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|     rfilter[1].can_mask = 0x700;
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| 
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|     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter));
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| 
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| To disable the reception of CAN frames on the selected CAN_RAW socket:
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, NULL, 0);
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| 
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| To set the filters to zero filters is quite obsolete as to not read
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| data causes the raw socket to discard the received CAN frames. But
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| having this 'send only' use-case we may remove the receive list in the
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| Kernel to save a little (really a very little!) CPU usage.
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| 
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| CAN Filter Usage Optimisation
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| .............................
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| 
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| The CAN filters are processed in per-device filter lists at CAN frame
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| reception time. To reduce the number of checks that need to be performed
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| while walking through the filter lists the CAN core provides an optimized
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| filter handling when the filter subscription focusses on a single CAN ID.
 | |
| 
 | |
| For the possible 2048 SFF CAN identifiers the identifier is used as an index
 | |
| to access the corresponding subscription list without any further checks.
 | |
| For the 2^29 possible EFF CAN identifiers a 10 bit XOR folding is used as
 | |
| hash function to retrieve the EFF table index.
 | |
| 
 | |
| To benefit from the optimized filters for single CAN identifiers the
 | |
| CAN_SFF_MASK or CAN_EFF_MASK have to be set into can_filter.mask together
 | |
| with set CAN_EFF_FLAG and CAN_RTR_FLAG bits. A set CAN_EFF_FLAG bit in the
 | |
| can_filter.mask makes clear that it matters whether a SFF or EFF CAN ID is
 | |
| subscribed. E.g. in the example from above:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     rfilter[0].can_id   = 0x123;
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|     rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK;
 | |
| 
 | |
| both SFF frames with CAN ID 0x123 and EFF frames with 0xXXXXX123 can pass.
 | |
| 
 | |
| To filter for only 0x123 (SFF) and 0x12345678 (EFF) CAN identifiers the
 | |
| filter has to be defined in this way to benefit from the optimized filters:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     struct can_filter rfilter[2];
 | |
| 
 | |
|     rfilter[0].can_id   = 0x123;
 | |
|     rfilter[0].can_mask = (CAN_EFF_FLAG | CAN_RTR_FLAG | CAN_SFF_MASK);
 | |
|     rfilter[1].can_id   = 0x12345678 | CAN_EFF_FLAG;
 | |
|     rfilter[1].can_mask = (CAN_EFF_FLAG | CAN_RTR_FLAG | CAN_EFF_MASK);
 | |
| 
 | |
|     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter));
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| RAW Socket Option CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| As described in :ref:`socketcan-network-problem-notifications` the CAN interface driver can generate so
 | |
| called Error Message Frames that can optionally be passed to the user
 | |
| application in the same way as other CAN frames. The possible
 | |
| errors are divided into different error classes that may be filtered
 | |
| using the appropriate error mask. To register for every possible
 | |
| error condition CAN_ERR_MASK can be used as value for the error mask.
 | |
| The values for the error mask are defined in linux/can/error.h:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     can_err_mask_t err_mask = ( CAN_ERR_TX_TIMEOUT | CAN_ERR_BUSOFF );
 | |
| 
 | |
|     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER,
 | |
|                &err_mask, sizeof(err_mask));
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| RAW Socket Option CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| To meet multi user needs the local loopback is enabled by default
 | |
| (see :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` for details). But in some embedded use-cases
 | |
| (e.g. when only one application uses the CAN bus) this loopback
 | |
| functionality can be disabled (separately for each socket):
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     int loopback = 0; /* 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default) */
 | |
| 
 | |
|     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK, &loopback, sizeof(loopback));
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| RAW socket option CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| When the local loopback is enabled, all the sent CAN frames are
 | |
| looped back to the open CAN sockets that registered for the CAN
 | |
| frames' CAN-ID on this given interface to meet the multi user
 | |
| needs. The reception of the CAN frames on the same socket that was
 | |
| sending the CAN frame is assumed to be unwanted and therefore
 | |
| disabled by default. This default behaviour may be changed on
 | |
| demand:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     int recv_own_msgs = 1; /* 0 = disabled (default), 1 = enabled */
 | |
| 
 | |
|     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS,
 | |
|                &recv_own_msgs, sizeof(recv_own_msgs));
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _socketcan-rawfd:
 | |
| 
 | |
| RAW Socket Option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| CAN FD support in CAN_RAW sockets can be enabled with a new socket option
 | |
| CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES which is off by default. When the new socket option is
 | |
| not supported by the CAN_RAW socket (e.g. on older kernels), switching the
 | |
| CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES option returns the error -ENOPROTOOPT.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Once CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES is enabled the application can send both CAN frames
 | |
| and CAN FD frames. OTOH the application has to handle CAN and CAN FD frames
 | |
| when reading from the socket:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES enabled:  CAN_MTU and CANFD_MTU are allowed
 | |
|     CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES disabled: only CAN_MTU is allowed (default)
 | |
| 
 | |
| Example:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     [ remember: CANFD_MTU == sizeof(struct canfd_frame) ]
 | |
| 
 | |
|     struct canfd_frame cfd;
 | |
| 
 | |
|     nbytes = read(s, &cfd, CANFD_MTU);
 | |
| 
 | |
|     if (nbytes == CANFD_MTU) {
 | |
|             printf("got CAN FD frame with length %d\n", cfd.len);
 | |
|             /* cfd.flags contains valid data */
 | |
|     } else if (nbytes == CAN_MTU) {
 | |
|             printf("got legacy CAN frame with length %d\n", cfd.len);
 | |
|             /* cfd.flags is undefined */
 | |
|     } else {
 | |
|             fprintf(stderr, "read: invalid CAN(FD) frame\n");
 | |
|             return 1;
 | |
|     }
 | |
| 
 | |
|     /* the content can be handled independently from the received MTU size */
 | |
| 
 | |
|     printf("can_id: %X data length: %d data: ", cfd.can_id, cfd.len);
 | |
|     for (i = 0; i < cfd.len; i++)
 | |
|             printf("%02X ", cfd.data[i]);
 | |
| 
 | |
| When reading with size CANFD_MTU only returns CAN_MTU bytes that have
 | |
| been received from the socket a legacy CAN frame has been read into the
 | |
| provided CAN FD structure. Note that the canfd_frame.flags data field is
 | |
| not specified in the struct can_frame and therefore it is only valid in
 | |
| CANFD_MTU sized CAN FD frames.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Implementation hint for new CAN applications:
 | |
| 
 | |
| To build a CAN FD aware application use struct canfd_frame as basic CAN
 | |
| data structure for CAN_RAW based applications. When the application is
 | |
| executed on an older Linux kernel and switching the CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES
 | |
| socket option returns an error: No problem. You'll get legacy CAN frames
 | |
| or CAN FD frames and can process them the same way.
 | |
| 
 | |
| When sending to CAN devices make sure that the device is capable to handle
 | |
| CAN FD frames by checking if the device maximum transfer unit is CANFD_MTU.
 | |
| The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| RAW socket option CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN_RAW socket can set multiple CAN identifier specific filters that
 | |
| lead to multiple filters in the af_can.c filter processing. These filters
 | |
| are indenpendent from each other which leads to logical OR'ed filters when
 | |
| applied (see :ref:`socketcan-rawfilter`).
 | |
| 
 | |
| This socket option joines the given CAN filters in the way that only CAN
 | |
| frames are passed to user space that matched *all* given CAN filters. The
 | |
| semantic for the applied filters is therefore changed to a logical AND.
 | |
| 
 | |
| This is useful especially when the filterset is a combination of filters
 | |
| where the CAN_INV_FILTER flag is set in order to notch single CAN IDs or
 | |
| CAN ID ranges from the incoming traffic.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| RAW Socket Returned Message Flags
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| When using recvmsg() call, the msg->msg_flags may contain following flags:
 | |
| 
 | |
| MSG_DONTROUTE:
 | |
| 	set when the received frame was created on the local host.
 | |
| 
 | |
| MSG_CONFIRM:
 | |
| 	set when the frame was sent via the socket it is received on.
 | |
| 	This flag can be interpreted as a 'transmission confirmation' when the
 | |
| 	CAN driver supports the echo of frames on driver level, see
 | |
| 	:ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` and :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback2`.
 | |
| 	In order to receive such messages, CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS must be set.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager Protocol Sockets (SOCK_DGRAM)
 | |
| -----------------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| The Broadcast Manager protocol provides a command based configuration
 | |
| interface to filter and send (e.g. cyclic) CAN messages in kernel space.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Receive filters can be used to down sample frequent messages; detect events
 | |
| such as message contents changes, packet length changes, and do time-out
 | |
| monitoring of received messages.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Periodic transmission tasks of CAN frames or a sequence of CAN frames can be
 | |
| created and modified at runtime; both the message content and the two
 | |
| possible transmit intervals can be altered.
 | |
| 
 | |
| A BCM socket is not intended for sending individual CAN frames using the
 | |
| struct can_frame as known from the CAN_RAW socket. Instead a special BCM
 | |
| configuration message is defined. The basic BCM configuration message used
 | |
| to communicate with the broadcast manager and the available operations are
 | |
| defined in the linux/can/bcm.h include. The BCM message consists of a
 | |
| message header with a command ('opcode') followed by zero or more CAN frames.
 | |
| The broadcast manager sends responses to user space in the same form:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     struct bcm_msg_head {
 | |
|             __u32 opcode;                   /* command */
 | |
|             __u32 flags;                    /* special flags */
 | |
|             __u32 count;                    /* run 'count' times with ival1 */
 | |
|             struct timeval ival1, ival2;    /* count and subsequent interval */
 | |
|             canid_t can_id;                 /* unique can_id for task */
 | |
|             __u32 nframes;                  /* number of can_frames following */
 | |
|             struct can_frame frames[0];
 | |
|     };
 | |
| 
 | |
| The aligned payload 'frames' uses the same basic CAN frame structure defined
 | |
| at the beginning of :ref:`socketcan-rawfd` and in the include/linux/can.h include. All
 | |
| messages to the broadcast manager from user space have this structure.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Note a CAN_BCM socket must be connected instead of bound after socket
 | |
| creation (example without error checking):
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     int s;
 | |
|     struct sockaddr_can addr;
 | |
|     struct ifreq ifr;
 | |
| 
 | |
|     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM);
 | |
| 
 | |
|     strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0");
 | |
|     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
 | |
| 
 | |
|     addr.can_family = AF_CAN;
 | |
|     addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
 | |
| 
 | |
|     connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
 | |
| 
 | |
|     (..)
 | |
| 
 | |
| The broadcast manager socket is able to handle any number of in flight
 | |
| transmissions or receive filters concurrently. The different RX/TX jobs are
 | |
| distinguished by the unique can_id in each BCM message. However additional
 | |
| CAN_BCM sockets are recommended to communicate on multiple CAN interfaces.
 | |
| When the broadcast manager socket is bound to 'any' CAN interface (=> the
 | |
| interface index is set to zero) the configured receive filters apply to any
 | |
| CAN interface unless the sendto() syscall is used to overrule the 'any' CAN
 | |
| interface index. When using recvfrom() instead of read() to retrieve BCM
 | |
| socket messages the originating CAN interface is provided in can_ifindex.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager Operations
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| The opcode defines the operation for the broadcast manager to carry out,
 | |
| or details the broadcast managers response to several events, including
 | |
| user requests.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Transmit Operations (user space to broadcast manager):
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_SETUP:
 | |
| 	Create (cyclic) transmission task.
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_DELETE:
 | |
| 	Remove (cyclic) transmission task, requires only can_id.
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_READ:
 | |
| 	Read properties of (cyclic) transmission task for can_id.
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_SEND:
 | |
| 	Send one CAN frame.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Transmit Responses (broadcast manager to user space):
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_STATUS:
 | |
| 	Reply to TX_READ request (transmission task configuration).
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_EXPIRED:
 | |
| 	Notification when counter finishes sending at initial interval
 | |
| 	'ival1'. Requires the TX_COUNTEVT flag to be set at TX_SETUP.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Receive Operations (user space to broadcast manager):
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_SETUP:
 | |
| 	Create RX content filter subscription.
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_DELETE:
 | |
| 	Remove RX content filter subscription, requires only can_id.
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_READ:
 | |
| 	Read properties of RX content filter subscription for can_id.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Receive Responses (broadcast manager to user space):
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_STATUS:
 | |
| 	Reply to RX_READ request (filter task configuration).
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_TIMEOUT:
 | |
| 	Cyclic message is detected to be absent (timer ival1 expired).
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_CHANGED:
 | |
| 	BCM message with updated CAN frame (detected content change).
 | |
| 	Sent on first message received or on receipt of revised CAN messages.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager Message Flags
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| When sending a message to the broadcast manager the 'flags' element may
 | |
| contain the following flag definitions which influence the behaviour:
 | |
| 
 | |
| SETTIMER:
 | |
| 	Set the values of ival1, ival2 and count
 | |
| 
 | |
| STARTTIMER:
 | |
| 	Start the timer with the actual values of ival1, ival2
 | |
| 	and count. Starting the timer leads simultaneously to emit a CAN frame.
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_COUNTEVT:
 | |
| 	Create the message TX_EXPIRED when count expires
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_ANNOUNCE:
 | |
| 	A change of data by the process is emitted immediately.
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_CP_CAN_ID:
 | |
| 	Copies the can_id from the message header to each
 | |
| 	subsequent frame in frames. This is intended as usage simplification. For
 | |
| 	TX tasks the unique can_id from the message header may differ from the
 | |
| 	can_id(s) stored for transmission in the subsequent struct can_frame(s).
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_FILTER_ID:
 | |
| 	Filter by can_id alone, no frames required (nframes=0).
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_CHECK_DLC:
 | |
| 	A change of the DLC leads to an RX_CHANGED.
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_NO_AUTOTIMER:
 | |
| 	Prevent automatically starting the timeout monitor.
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_ANNOUNCE_RESUME:
 | |
| 	If passed at RX_SETUP and a receive timeout occurred, a
 | |
| 	RX_CHANGED message will be generated when the (cyclic) receive restarts.
 | |
| 
 | |
| TX_RESET_MULTI_IDX:
 | |
| 	Reset the index for the multiple frame transmission.
 | |
| 
 | |
| RX_RTR_FRAME:
 | |
| 	Send reply for RTR-request (placed in op->frames[0]).
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager Transmission Timers
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| Periodic transmission configurations may use up to two interval timers.
 | |
| In this case the BCM sends a number of messages ('count') at an interval
 | |
| 'ival1', then continuing to send at another given interval 'ival2'. When
 | |
| only one timer is needed 'count' is set to zero and only 'ival2' is used.
 | |
| When SET_TIMER and START_TIMER flag were set the timers are activated.
 | |
| The timer values can be altered at runtime when only SET_TIMER is set.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager message sequence transmission
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| Up to 256 CAN frames can be transmitted in a sequence in the case of a cyclic
 | |
| TX task configuration. The number of CAN frames is provided in the 'nframes'
 | |
| element of the BCM message head. The defined number of CAN frames are added
 | |
| as array to the TX_SETUP BCM configuration message:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     /* create a struct to set up a sequence of four CAN frames */
 | |
|     struct {
 | |
|             struct bcm_msg_head msg_head;
 | |
|             struct can_frame frame[4];
 | |
|     } mytxmsg;
 | |
| 
 | |
|     (..)
 | |
|     mytxmsg.msg_head.nframes = 4;
 | |
|     (..)
 | |
| 
 | |
|     write(s, &mytxmsg, sizeof(mytxmsg));
 | |
| 
 | |
| With every transmission the index in the array of CAN frames is increased
 | |
| and set to zero at index overflow.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager Receive Filter Timers
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| The timer values ival1 or ival2 may be set to non-zero values at RX_SETUP.
 | |
| When the SET_TIMER flag is set the timers are enabled:
 | |
| 
 | |
| ival1:
 | |
| 	Send RX_TIMEOUT when a received message is not received again within
 | |
| 	the given time. When START_TIMER is set at RX_SETUP the timeout detection
 | |
| 	is activated directly - even without a former CAN frame reception.
 | |
| 
 | |
| ival2:
 | |
| 	Throttle the received message rate down to the value of ival2. This
 | |
| 	is useful to reduce messages for the application when the signal inside the
 | |
| 	CAN frame is stateless as state changes within the ival2 periode may get
 | |
| 	lost.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager Multiplex Message Receive Filter
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| To filter for content changes in multiplex message sequences an array of more
 | |
| than one CAN frames can be passed in a RX_SETUP configuration message. The
 | |
| data bytes of the first CAN frame contain the mask of relevant bits that
 | |
| have to match in the subsequent CAN frames with the received CAN frame.
 | |
| If one of the subsequent CAN frames is matching the bits in that frame data
 | |
| mark the relevant content to be compared with the previous received content.
 | |
| Up to 257 CAN frames (multiplex filter bit mask CAN frame plus 256 CAN
 | |
| filters) can be added as array to the TX_SETUP BCM configuration message:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     /* usually used to clear CAN frame data[] - beware of endian problems! */
 | |
|     #define U64_DATA(p) (*(unsigned long long*)(p)->data)
 | |
| 
 | |
|     struct {
 | |
|             struct bcm_msg_head msg_head;
 | |
|             struct can_frame frame[5];
 | |
|     } msg;
 | |
| 
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.opcode  = RX_SETUP;
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.can_id  = 0x42;
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.flags   = 0;
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.nframes = 5;
 | |
|     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[0]) = 0xFF00000000000000ULL; /* MUX mask */
 | |
|     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[1]) = 0x01000000000000FFULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x01) */
 | |
|     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[2]) = 0x0200FFFF000000FFULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x02) */
 | |
|     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[3]) = 0x330000FFFFFF0003ULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x33) */
 | |
|     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[4]) = 0x4F07FC0FF0000000ULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x4F) */
 | |
| 
 | |
|     write(s, &msg, sizeof(msg));
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Broadcast Manager CAN FD Support
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| The programming API of the CAN_BCM depends on struct can_frame which is
 | |
| given as array directly behind the bcm_msg_head structure. To follow this
 | |
| schema for the CAN FD frames a new flag 'CAN_FD_FRAME' in the bcm_msg_head
 | |
| flags indicates that the concatenated CAN frame structures behind the
 | |
| bcm_msg_head are defined as struct canfd_frame:
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. code-block:: C
 | |
| 
 | |
|     struct {
 | |
|             struct bcm_msg_head msg_head;
 | |
|             struct canfd_frame frame[5];
 | |
|     } msg;
 | |
| 
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.opcode  = RX_SETUP;
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.can_id  = 0x42;
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.flags   = CAN_FD_FRAME;
 | |
|     msg.msg_head.nframes = 5;
 | |
|     (..)
 | |
| 
 | |
| When using CAN FD frames for multiplex filtering the MUX mask is still
 | |
| expected in the first 64 bit of the struct canfd_frame data section.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Connected Transport Protocols (SOCK_SEQPACKET)
 | |
| ----------------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| (to be written)
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Unconnected Transport Protocols (SOCK_DGRAM)
 | |
| --------------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| (to be written)
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _socketcan-core-module:
 | |
| 
 | |
| SocketCAN Core Module
 | |
| =====================
 | |
| 
 | |
| The SocketCAN core module implements the protocol family
 | |
| PF_CAN. CAN protocol modules are loaded by the core module at
 | |
| runtime. The core module provides an interface for CAN protocol
 | |
| modules to subscribe needed CAN IDs (see :ref:`socketcan-receive-lists`).
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| can.ko Module Params
 | |
| --------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| - **stats_timer**:
 | |
|   To calculate the SocketCAN core statistics
 | |
|   (e.g. current/maximum frames per second) this 1 second timer is
 | |
|   invoked at can.ko module start time by default. This timer can be
 | |
|   disabled by using stattimer=0 on the module commandline.
 | |
| 
 | |
| - **debug**:
 | |
|   (removed since SocketCAN SVN r546)
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| procfs content
 | |
| --------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| As described in :ref:`socketcan-receive-lists` the SocketCAN core uses several filter
 | |
| lists to deliver received CAN frames to CAN protocol modules. These
 | |
| receive lists, their filters and the count of filter matches can be
 | |
| checked in the appropriate receive list. All entries contain the
 | |
| device and a protocol module identifier::
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| 
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|     foo@bar:~$ cat /proc/net/can/rcvlist_all
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| 
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|     receive list 'rx_all':
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|       (vcan3: no entry)
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|       (vcan2: no entry)
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|       (vcan1: no entry)
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|       device   can_id   can_mask  function  userdata   matches  ident
 | |
|        vcan0     000    00000000  f88e6370  f6c6f400         0  raw
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|       (any: no entry)
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| 
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| In this example an application requests any CAN traffic from vcan0::
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| 
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|     rcvlist_all - list for unfiltered entries (no filter operations)
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|     rcvlist_eff - list for single extended frame (EFF) entries
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|     rcvlist_err - list for error message frames masks
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|     rcvlist_fil - list for mask/value filters
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|     rcvlist_inv - list for mask/value filters (inverse semantic)
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|     rcvlist_sff - list for single standard frame (SFF) entries
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| 
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| Additional procfs files in /proc/net/can::
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| 
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|     stats       - SocketCAN core statistics (rx/tx frames, match ratios, ...)
 | |
|     reset_stats - manual statistic reset
 | |
|     version     - prints the SocketCAN core version and the ABI version
 | |
| 
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| 
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| Writing Own CAN Protocol Modules
 | |
| --------------------------------
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| 
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| To implement a new protocol in the protocol family PF_CAN a new
 | |
| protocol has to be defined in include/linux/can.h .
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| The prototypes and definitions to use the SocketCAN core can be
 | |
| accessed by including include/linux/can/core.h .
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| In addition to functions that register the CAN protocol and the
 | |
| CAN device notifier chain there are functions to subscribe CAN
 | |
| frames received by CAN interfaces and to send CAN frames::
 | |
| 
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|     can_rx_register   - subscribe CAN frames from a specific interface
 | |
|     can_rx_unregister - unsubscribe CAN frames from a specific interface
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|     can_send          - transmit a CAN frame (optional with local loopback)
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| 
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| For details see the kerneldoc documentation in net/can/af_can.c or
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| the source code of net/can/raw.c or net/can/bcm.c .
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| 
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| 
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| CAN Network Drivers
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| ===================
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| 
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| Writing a CAN network device driver is much easier than writing a
 | |
| CAN character device driver. Similar to other known network device
 | |
| drivers you mainly have to deal with:
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| 
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| - TX: Put the CAN frame from the socket buffer to the CAN controller.
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| - RX: Put the CAN frame from the CAN controller to the socket buffer.
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| 
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| See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt . The differences
 | |
| for writing CAN network device driver are described below:
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| 
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| 
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| General Settings
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| ----------------
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| 
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| .. code-block:: C
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| 
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|     dev->type  = ARPHRD_CAN; /* the netdevice hardware type */
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|     dev->flags = IFF_NOARP;  /* CAN has no arp */
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| 
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|     dev->mtu = CAN_MTU; /* sizeof(struct can_frame) -> legacy CAN interface */
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| 
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|     or alternative, when the controller supports CAN with flexible data rate:
 | |
|     dev->mtu = CANFD_MTU; /* sizeof(struct canfd_frame) -> CAN FD interface */
 | |
| 
 | |
| The struct can_frame or struct canfd_frame is the payload of each socket
 | |
| buffer (skbuff) in the protocol family PF_CAN.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _socketcan-local-loopback2:
 | |
| 
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| Local Loopback of Sent Frames
 | |
| -----------------------------
 | |
| 
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| As described in :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` the CAN network device driver should
 | |
| support a local loopback functionality similar to the local echo
 | |
| e.g. of tty devices. In this case the driver flag IFF_ECHO has to be
 | |
| set to prevent the PF_CAN core from locally echoing sent frames
 | |
| (aka loopback) as fallback solution::
 | |
| 
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|     dev->flags = (IFF_NOARP | IFF_ECHO);
 | |
| 
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| 
 | |
| CAN Controller Hardware Filters
 | |
| -------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| To reduce the interrupt load on deep embedded systems some CAN
 | |
| controllers support the filtering of CAN IDs or ranges of CAN IDs.
 | |
| These hardware filter capabilities vary from controller to
 | |
| controller and have to be identified as not feasible in a multi-user
 | |
| networking approach. The use of the very controller specific
 | |
| hardware filters could make sense in a very dedicated use-case, as a
 | |
| filter on driver level would affect all users in the multi-user
 | |
| system. The high efficient filter sets inside the PF_CAN core allow
 | |
| to set different multiple filters for each socket separately.
 | |
| Therefore the use of hardware filters goes to the category 'handmade
 | |
| tuning on deep embedded systems'. The author is running a MPC603e
 | |
| @133MHz with four SJA1000 CAN controllers from 2002 under heavy bus
 | |
| load without any problems ...
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| The Virtual CAN Driver (vcan)
 | |
| -----------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| Similar to the network loopback devices, vcan offers a virtual local
 | |
| CAN interface. A full qualified address on CAN consists of
 | |
| 
 | |
| - a unique CAN Identifier (CAN ID)
 | |
| - the CAN bus this CAN ID is transmitted on (e.g. can0)
 | |
| 
 | |
| so in common use cases more than one virtual CAN interface is needed.
 | |
| 
 | |
| The virtual CAN interfaces allow the transmission and reception of CAN
 | |
| frames without real CAN controller hardware. Virtual CAN network
 | |
| devices are usually named 'vcanX', like vcan0 vcan1 vcan2 ...
 | |
| When compiled as a module the virtual CAN driver module is called vcan.ko
 | |
| 
 | |
| Since Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 the vcan driver supports the Kernel
 | |
| netlink interface to create vcan network devices. The creation and
 | |
| removal of vcan network devices can be managed with the ip(8) tool::
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Create a virtual CAN network interface:
 | |
|        $ ip link add type vcan
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Create a virtual CAN network interface with a specific name 'vcan42':
 | |
|        $ ip link add dev vcan42 type vcan
 | |
| 
 | |
|   - Remove a (virtual CAN) network interface 'vcan42':
 | |
|        $ ip link del vcan42
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN Network Device Driver Interface
 | |
| ---------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN network device driver interface provides a generic interface
 | |
| to setup, configure and monitor CAN network devices. The user can then
 | |
| configure the CAN device, like setting the bit-timing parameters, via
 | |
| the netlink interface using the program "ip" from the "IPROUTE2"
 | |
| utility suite. The following chapter describes briefly how to use it.
 | |
| Furthermore, the interface uses a common data structure and exports a
 | |
| set of common functions, which all real CAN network device drivers
 | |
| should use. Please have a look to the SJA1000 or MSCAN driver to
 | |
| understand how to use them. The name of the module is can-dev.ko.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Netlink interface to set/get devices properties
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN device must be configured via netlink interface. The supported
 | |
| netlink message types are defined and briefly described in
 | |
| "include/linux/can/netlink.h". CAN link support for the program "ip"
 | |
| of the IPROUTE2 utility suite is available and it can be used as shown
 | |
| below:
 | |
| 
 | |
| Setting CAN device properties::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set can0 type can help
 | |
|     Usage: ip link set DEVICE type can
 | |
|         [ bitrate BITRATE [ sample-point SAMPLE-POINT] ] |
 | |
|         [ tq TQ prop-seg PROP_SEG phase-seg1 PHASE-SEG1
 | |
|           phase-seg2 PHASE-SEG2 [ sjw SJW ] ]
 | |
| 
 | |
|         [ dbitrate BITRATE [ dsample-point SAMPLE-POINT] ] |
 | |
|         [ dtq TQ dprop-seg PROP_SEG dphase-seg1 PHASE-SEG1
 | |
|           dphase-seg2 PHASE-SEG2 [ dsjw SJW ] ]
 | |
| 
 | |
|         [ loopback { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ listen-only { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ triple-sampling { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ one-shot { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ berr-reporting { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ fd { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ fd-non-iso { on | off } ]
 | |
|         [ presume-ack { on | off } ]
 | |
| 
 | |
|         [ restart-ms TIME-MS ]
 | |
|         [ restart ]
 | |
| 
 | |
|         Where: BITRATE       := { 1..1000000 }
 | |
|                SAMPLE-POINT  := { 0.000..0.999 }
 | |
|                TQ            := { NUMBER }
 | |
|                PROP-SEG      := { 1..8 }
 | |
|                PHASE-SEG1    := { 1..8 }
 | |
|                PHASE-SEG2    := { 1..8 }
 | |
|                SJW           := { 1..4 }
 | |
|                RESTART-MS    := { 0 | NUMBER }
 | |
| 
 | |
| Display CAN device details and statistics::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip -details -statistics link show can0
 | |
|     2: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 10
 | |
|       link/can
 | |
|       can <TRIPLE-SAMPLING> state ERROR-ACTIVE restart-ms 100
 | |
|       bitrate 125000 sample_point 0.875
 | |
|       tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1
 | |
|       sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1
 | |
|       clock 8000000
 | |
|       re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off
 | |
|       41         17457      0          41         42         41
 | |
|       RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
 | |
|       140859     17608    17457   0       0       0
 | |
|       TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
 | |
|       861        112      0       41      0       0
 | |
| 
 | |
| More info to the above output:
 | |
| 
 | |
| "<TRIPLE-SAMPLING>"
 | |
| 	Shows the list of selected CAN controller modes: LOOPBACK,
 | |
| 	LISTEN-ONLY, or TRIPLE-SAMPLING.
 | |
| 
 | |
| "state ERROR-ACTIVE"
 | |
| 	The current state of the CAN controller: "ERROR-ACTIVE",
 | |
| 	"ERROR-WARNING", "ERROR-PASSIVE", "BUS-OFF" or "STOPPED"
 | |
| 
 | |
| "restart-ms 100"
 | |
| 	Automatic restart delay time. If set to a non-zero value, a
 | |
| 	restart of the CAN controller will be triggered automatically
 | |
| 	in case of a bus-off condition after the specified delay time
 | |
| 	in milliseconds. By default it's off.
 | |
| 
 | |
| "bitrate 125000 sample-point 0.875"
 | |
| 	Shows the real bit-rate in bits/sec and the sample-point in the
 | |
| 	range 0.000..0.999. If the calculation of bit-timing parameters
 | |
| 	is enabled in the kernel (CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING=y), the
 | |
| 	bit-timing can be defined by setting the "bitrate" argument.
 | |
| 	Optionally the "sample-point" can be specified. By default it's
 | |
| 	0.000 assuming CIA-recommended sample-points.
 | |
| 
 | |
| "tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1"
 | |
| 	Shows the time quanta in ns, propagation segment, phase buffer
 | |
| 	segment 1 and 2 and the synchronisation jump width in units of
 | |
| 	tq. They allow to define the CAN bit-timing in a hardware
 | |
| 	independent format as proposed by the Bosch CAN 2.0 spec (see
 | |
| 	chapter 8 of http://www.semiconductors.bosch.de/pdf/can2spec.pdf).
 | |
| 
 | |
| "sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1 clock 8000000"
 | |
| 	Shows the bit-timing constants of the CAN controller, here the
 | |
| 	"sja1000". The minimum and maximum values of the time segment 1
 | |
| 	and 2, the synchronisation jump width in units of tq, the
 | |
| 	bitrate pre-scaler and the CAN system clock frequency in Hz.
 | |
| 	These constants could be used for user-defined (non-standard)
 | |
| 	bit-timing calculation algorithms in user-space.
 | |
| 
 | |
| "re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off"
 | |
| 	Shows the number of restarts, bus and arbitration lost errors,
 | |
| 	and the state changes to the error-warning, error-passive and
 | |
| 	bus-off state. RX overrun errors are listed in the "overrun"
 | |
| 	field of the standard network statistics.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Setting the CAN Bit-Timing
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN bit-timing parameters can always be defined in a hardware
 | |
| independent format as proposed in the Bosch CAN 2.0 specification
 | |
| specifying the arguments "tq", "prop_seg", "phase_seg1", "phase_seg2"
 | |
| and "sjw"::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set canX type can tq 125 prop-seg 6 \
 | |
| 				phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1
 | |
| 
 | |
| If the kernel option CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING is enabled, CIA
 | |
| recommended CAN bit-timing parameters will be calculated if the bit-
 | |
| rate is specified with the argument "bitrate"::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set canX type can bitrate 125000
 | |
| 
 | |
| Note that this works fine for the most common CAN controllers with
 | |
| standard bit-rates but may *fail* for exotic bit-rates or CAN system
 | |
| clock frequencies. Disabling CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING saves some
 | |
| space and allows user-space tools to solely determine and set the
 | |
| bit-timing parameters. The CAN controller specific bit-timing
 | |
| constants can be used for that purpose. They are listed by the
 | |
| following command::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip -details link show can0
 | |
|     ...
 | |
|       sja1000: clock 8000000 tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Starting and Stopping the CAN Network Device
 | |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 | |
| 
 | |
| A CAN network device is started or stopped as usual with the command
 | |
| "ifconfig canX up/down" or "ip link set canX up/down". Be aware that
 | |
| you *must* define proper bit-timing parameters for real CAN devices
 | |
| before you can start it to avoid error-prone default settings::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set canX up type can bitrate 125000
 | |
| 
 | |
| A device may enter the "bus-off" state if too many errors occurred on
 | |
| the CAN bus. Then no more messages are received or sent. An automatic
 | |
| bus-off recovery can be enabled by setting the "restart-ms" to a
 | |
| non-zero value, e.g.::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set canX type can restart-ms 100
 | |
| 
 | |
| Alternatively, the application may realize the "bus-off" condition
 | |
| by monitoring CAN error message frames and do a restart when
 | |
| appropriate with the command::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set canX type can restart
 | |
| 
 | |
| Note that a restart will also create a CAN error message frame (see
 | |
| also :ref:`socketcan-network-problem-notifications`).
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _socketcan-can-fd-driver:
 | |
| 
 | |
| CAN FD (Flexible Data Rate) Driver Support
 | |
| ------------------------------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different bitrates for the
 | |
| arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame. Therefore a
 | |
| second bit timing has to be specified in order to enable the CAN FD bitrate.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Additionally CAN FD capable CAN controllers support up to 64 bytes of
 | |
| payload. The representation of this length in can_frame.can_dlc and
 | |
| canfd_frame.len for userspace applications and inside the Linux network
 | |
| layer is a plain value from 0 .. 64 instead of the CAN 'data length code'.
 | |
| The data length code was a 1:1 mapping to the payload length in the legacy
 | |
| CAN frames anyway. The payload length to the bus-relevant DLC mapping is
 | |
| only performed inside the CAN drivers, preferably with the helper
 | |
| functions can_dlc2len() and can_len2dlc().
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN netdevice driver capabilities can be distinguished by the network
 | |
| devices maximum transfer unit (MTU)::
 | |
| 
 | |
|   MTU = 16 (CAN_MTU)   => sizeof(struct can_frame)   => 'legacy' CAN device
 | |
|   MTU = 72 (CANFD_MTU) => sizeof(struct canfd_frame) => CAN FD capable device
 | |
| 
 | |
| The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall.
 | |
| N.B. CAN FD capable devices can also handle and send legacy CAN frames.
 | |
| 
 | |
| When configuring CAN FD capable CAN controllers an additional 'data' bitrate
 | |
| has to be set. This bitrate for the data phase of the CAN FD frame has to be
 | |
| at least the bitrate which was configured for the arbitration phase. This
 | |
| second bitrate is specified analogue to the first bitrate but the bitrate
 | |
| setting keywords for the 'data' bitrate start with 'd' e.g. dbitrate,
 | |
| dsample-point, dsjw or dtq and similar settings. When a data bitrate is set
 | |
| within the configuration process the controller option "fd on" can be
 | |
| specified to enable the CAN FD mode in the CAN controller. This controller
 | |
| option also switches the device MTU to 72 (CANFD_MTU).
 | |
| 
 | |
| The first CAN FD specification presented as whitepaper at the International
 | |
| CAN Conference 2012 needed to be improved for data integrity reasons.
 | |
| Therefore two CAN FD implementations have to be distinguished today:
 | |
| 
 | |
| - ISO compliant:     The ISO 11898-1:2015 CAN FD implementation (default)
 | |
| - non-ISO compliant: The CAN FD implementation following the 2012 whitepaper
 | |
| 
 | |
| Finally there are three types of CAN FD controllers:
 | |
| 
 | |
| 1. ISO compliant (fixed)
 | |
| 2. non-ISO compliant (fixed, like the M_CAN IP core v3.0.1 in m_can.c)
 | |
| 3. ISO/non-ISO CAN FD controllers (switchable, like the PEAK PCAN-USB FD)
 | |
| 
 | |
| The current ISO/non-ISO mode is announced by the CAN controller driver via
 | |
| netlink and displayed by the 'ip' tool (controller option FD-NON-ISO).
 | |
| The ISO/non-ISO-mode can be altered by setting 'fd-non-iso {on|off}' for
 | |
| switchable CAN FD controllers only.
 | |
| 
 | |
| Example configuring 500 kbit/s arbitration bitrate and 4 Mbit/s data bitrate::
 | |
| 
 | |
|     $ ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.75 \
 | |
|                                    dbitrate 4000000 dsample-point 0.8 fd on
 | |
|     $ ip -details link show can0
 | |
|     5: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 72 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN \
 | |
|              mode DEFAULT group default qlen 10
 | |
|     link/can  promiscuity 0
 | |
|     can <FD> state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0
 | |
|           bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.750
 | |
|           tq 50 prop-seg 14 phase-seg1 15 phase-seg2 10 sjw 1
 | |
|           pcan_usb_pro_fd: tseg1 1..64 tseg2 1..16 sjw 1..16 brp 1..1024 \
 | |
|           brp-inc 1
 | |
|           dbitrate 4000000 dsample-point 0.800
 | |
|           dtq 12 dprop-seg 7 dphase-seg1 8 dphase-seg2 4 dsjw 1
 | |
|           pcan_usb_pro_fd: dtseg1 1..16 dtseg2 1..8 dsjw 1..4 dbrp 1..1024 \
 | |
|           dbrp-inc 1
 | |
|           clock 80000000
 | |
| 
 | |
| Example when 'fd-non-iso on' is added on this switchable CAN FD adapter::
 | |
| 
 | |
|    can <FD,FD-NON-ISO> state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| Supported CAN Hardware
 | |
| ----------------------
 | |
| 
 | |
| Please check the "Kconfig" file in "drivers/net/can" to get an actual
 | |
| list of the support CAN hardware. On the SocketCAN project website
 | |
| (see :ref:`socketcan-resources`) there might be further drivers available, also for
 | |
| older kernel versions.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| .. _socketcan-resources:
 | |
| 
 | |
| SocketCAN Resources
 | |
| ===================
 | |
| 
 | |
| The Linux CAN / SocketCAN project resources (project site / mailing list)
 | |
| are referenced in the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux source tree.
 | |
| Search for CAN NETWORK [LAYERS|DRIVERS].
 | |
| 
 | |
| Credits
 | |
| =======
 | |
| 
 | |
| - Oliver Hartkopp (PF_CAN core, filters, drivers, bcm, SJA1000 driver)
 | |
| - Urs Thuermann (PF_CAN core, kernel integration, socket interfaces, raw, vcan)
 | |
| - Jan Kizka (RT-SocketCAN core, Socket-API reconciliation)
 | |
| - Wolfgang Grandegger (RT-SocketCAN core & drivers, Raw Socket-API reviews, CAN device driver interface, MSCAN driver)
 | |
| - Robert Schwebel (design reviews, PTXdist integration)
 | |
| - Marc Kleine-Budde (design reviews, Kernel 2.6 cleanups, drivers)
 | |
| - Benedikt Spranger (reviews)
 | |
| - Thomas Gleixner (LKML reviews, coding style, posting hints)
 | |
| - Andrey Volkov (kernel subtree structure, ioctls, MSCAN driver)
 | |
| - Matthias Brukner (first SJA1000 CAN netdevice implementation Q2/2003)
 | |
| - Klaus Hitschler (PEAK driver integration)
 | |
| - Uwe Koppe (CAN netdevices with PF_PACKET approach)
 | |
| - Michael Schulze (driver layer loopback requirement, RT CAN drivers review)
 | |
| - Pavel Pisa (Bit-timing calculation)
 | |
| - Sascha Hauer (SJA1000 platform driver)
 | |
| - Sebastian Haas (SJA1000 EMS PCI driver)
 | |
| - Markus Plessing (SJA1000 EMS PCI driver)
 | |
| - Per Dalen (SJA1000 Kvaser PCI driver)
 | |
| - Sam Ravnborg (reviews, coding style, kbuild help)
 | 
