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0001 ===================================
0002 SocketCAN - Controller Area Network
0003 ===================================
0004 
0005 Overview / What is SocketCAN
0006 ============================
0007 
0008 The socketcan package is an implementation of CAN protocols
0009 (Controller Area Network) for Linux.  CAN is a networking technology
0010 which has widespread use in automation, embedded devices, and
0011 automotive fields.  While there have been other CAN implementations
0012 for Linux based on character devices, SocketCAN uses the Berkeley
0013 socket API, the Linux network stack and implements the CAN device
0014 drivers as network interfaces.  The CAN socket API has been designed
0015 as similar as possible to the TCP/IP protocols to allow programmers,
0016 familiar with network programming, to easily learn how to use CAN
0017 sockets.
0018 
0019 
0020 .. _socketcan-motivation:
0021 
0022 Motivation / Why Using the Socket API
0023 =====================================
0024 
0025 There have been CAN implementations for Linux before SocketCAN so the
0026 question arises, why we have started another project.  Most existing
0027 implementations come as a device driver for some CAN hardware, they
0028 are based on character devices and provide comparatively little
0029 functionality.  Usually, there is only a hardware-specific device
0030 driver which provides a character device interface to send and
0031 receive raw CAN frames, directly to/from the controller hardware.
0032 Queueing of frames and higher-level transport protocols like ISO-TP
0033 have to be implemented in user space applications.  Also, most
0034 character-device implementations support only one single process to
0035 open the device at a time, similar to a serial interface.  Exchanging
0036 the CAN controller requires employment of another device driver and
0037 often the need for adaption of large parts of the application to the
0038 new driver's API.
0039 
0040 SocketCAN was designed to overcome all of these limitations.  A new
0041 protocol family has been implemented which provides a socket interface
0042 to user space applications and which builds upon the Linux network
0043 layer, enabling use all of the provided queueing functionality.  A device
0044 driver for CAN controller hardware registers itself with the Linux
0045 network layer as a network device, so that CAN frames from the
0046 controller can be passed up to the network layer and on to the CAN
0047 protocol family module and also vice-versa.  Also, the protocol family
0048 module provides an API for transport protocol modules to register, so
0049 that any number of transport protocols can be loaded or unloaded
0050 dynamically.  In fact, the can core module alone does not provide any
0051 protocol and cannot be used without loading at least one additional
0052 protocol module.  Multiple sockets can be opened at the same time,
0053 on different or the same protocol module and they can listen/send
0054 frames on different or the same CAN IDs.  Several sockets listening on
0055 the same interface for frames with the same CAN ID are all passed the
0056 same received matching CAN frames.  An application wishing to
0057 communicate using a specific transport protocol, e.g. ISO-TP, just
0058 selects that protocol when opening the socket, and then can read and
0059 write application data byte streams, without having to deal with
0060 CAN-IDs, frames, etc.
0061 
0062 Similar functionality visible from user-space could be provided by a
0063 character device, too, but this would lead to a technically inelegant
0064 solution for a couple of reasons:
0065 
0066 * **Intricate usage:**  Instead of passing a protocol argument to
0067   socket(2) and using bind(2) to select a CAN interface and CAN ID, an
0068   application would have to do all these operations using ioctl(2)s.
0069 
0070 * **Code duplication:**  A character device cannot make use of the Linux
0071   network queueing code, so all that code would have to be duplicated
0072   for CAN networking.
0073 
0074 * **Abstraction:**  In most existing character-device implementations, the
0075   hardware-specific device driver for a CAN controller directly
0076   provides the character device for the application to work with.
0077   This is at least very unusual in Unix systems for both, char and
0078   block devices.  For example you don't have a character device for a
0079   certain UART of a serial interface, a certain sound chip in your
0080   computer, a SCSI or IDE controller providing access to your hard
0081   disk or tape streamer device.  Instead, you have abstraction layers
0082   which provide a unified character or block device interface to the
0083   application on the one hand, and a interface for hardware-specific
0084   device drivers on the other hand.  These abstractions are provided
0085   by subsystems like the tty layer, the audio subsystem or the SCSI
0086   and IDE subsystems for the devices mentioned above.
0087 
0088   The easiest way to implement a CAN device driver is as a character
0089   device without such a (complete) abstraction layer, as is done by most
0090   existing drivers.  The right way, however, would be to add such a
0091   layer with all the functionality like registering for certain CAN
0092   IDs, supporting several open file descriptors and (de)multiplexing
0093   CAN frames between them, (sophisticated) queueing of CAN frames, and
0094   providing an API for device drivers to register with.  However, then
0095   it would be no more difficult, or may be even easier, to use the
0096   networking framework provided by the Linux kernel, and this is what
0097   SocketCAN does.
0098 
0099 The use of the networking framework of the Linux kernel is just the
0100 natural and most appropriate way to implement CAN for Linux.
0101 
0102 
0103 .. _socketcan-concept:
0104 
0105 SocketCAN Concept
0106 =================
0107 
0108 As described in :ref:`socketcan-motivation` the main goal of SocketCAN is to
0109 provide a socket interface to user space applications which builds
0110 upon the Linux network layer. In contrast to the commonly known
0111 TCP/IP and ethernet networking, the CAN bus is a broadcast-only(!)
0112 medium that has no MAC-layer addressing like ethernet. The CAN-identifier
0113 (can_id) is used for arbitration on the CAN-bus. Therefore the CAN-IDs
0114 have to be chosen uniquely on the bus. When designing a CAN-ECU
0115 network the CAN-IDs are mapped to be sent by a specific ECU.
0116 For this reason a CAN-ID can be treated best as a kind of source address.
0117 
0118 
0119 .. _socketcan-receive-lists:
0120 
0121 Receive Lists
0122 -------------
0123 
0124 The network transparent access of multiple applications leads to the
0125 problem that different applications may be interested in the same
0126 CAN-IDs from the same CAN network interface. The SocketCAN core
0127 module - which implements the protocol family CAN - provides several
0128 high efficient receive lists for this reason. If e.g. a user space
0129 application opens a CAN RAW socket, the raw protocol module itself
0130 requests the (range of) CAN-IDs from the SocketCAN core that are
0131 requested by the user. The subscription and unsubscription of
0132 CAN-IDs can be done for specific CAN interfaces or for all(!) known
0133 CAN interfaces with the can_rx_(un)register() functions provided to
0134 CAN protocol modules by the SocketCAN core (see :ref:`socketcan-core-module`).
0135 To optimize the CPU usage at runtime the receive lists are split up
0136 into several specific lists per device that match the requested
0137 filter complexity for a given use-case.
0138 
0139 
0140 .. _socketcan-local-loopback1:
0141 
0142 Local Loopback of Sent Frames
0143 -----------------------------
0144 
0145 As known from other networking concepts the data exchanging
0146 applications may run on the same or different nodes without any
0147 change (except for the according addressing information):
0148 
0149 .. code::
0150 
0151          ___   ___   ___                   _______   ___
0152         | _ | | _ | | _ |                 | _   _ | | _ |
0153         ||A|| ||B|| ||C||                 ||A| |B|| ||C||
0154         |___| |___| |___|                 |_______| |___|
0155           |     |     |                       |       |
0156         -----------------(1)- CAN bus -(2)---------------
0157 
0158 To ensure that application A receives the same information in the
0159 example (2) as it would receive in example (1) there is need for
0160 some kind of local loopback of the sent CAN frames on the appropriate
0161 node.
0162 
0163 The Linux network devices (by default) just can handle the
0164 transmission and reception of media dependent frames. Due to the
0165 arbitration on the CAN bus the transmission of a low prio CAN-ID
0166 may be delayed by the reception of a high prio CAN frame. To
0167 reflect the correct [#f1]_ traffic on the node the loopback of the sent
0168 data has to be performed right after a successful transmission. If
0169 the CAN network interface is not capable of performing the loopback for
0170 some reason the SocketCAN core can do this task as a fallback solution.
0171 See :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback2` for details (recommended).
0172 
0173 The loopback functionality is enabled by default to reflect standard
0174 networking behaviour for CAN applications. Due to some requests from
0175 the RT-SocketCAN group the loopback optionally may be disabled for each
0176 separate socket. See sockopts from the CAN RAW sockets in :ref:`socketcan-raw-sockets`.
0177 
0178 .. [#f1] you really like to have this when you're running analyser
0179        tools like 'candump' or 'cansniffer' on the (same) node.
0180 
0181 
0182 .. _socketcan-network-problem-notifications:
0183 
0184 Network Problem Notifications
0185 -----------------------------
0186 
0187 The use of the CAN bus may lead to several problems on the physical
0188 and media access control layer. Detecting and logging of these lower
0189 layer problems is a vital requirement for CAN users to identify
0190 hardware issues on the physical transceiver layer as well as
0191 arbitration problems and error frames caused by the different
0192 ECUs. The occurrence of detected errors are important for diagnosis
0193 and have to be logged together with the exact timestamp. For this
0194 reason the CAN interface driver can generate so called Error Message
0195 Frames that can optionally be passed to the user application in the
0196 same way as other CAN frames. Whenever an error on the physical layer
0197 or the MAC layer is detected (e.g. by the CAN controller) the driver
0198 creates an appropriate error message frame. Error messages frames can
0199 be requested by the user application using the common CAN filter
0200 mechanisms. Inside this filter definition the (interested) type of
0201 errors may be selected. The reception of error messages is disabled
0202 by default. The format of the CAN error message frame is briefly
0203 described in the Linux header file "include/uapi/linux/can/error.h".
0204 
0205 
0206 How to use SocketCAN
0207 ====================
0208 
0209 Like TCP/IP, you first need to open a socket for communicating over a
0210 CAN network. Since SocketCAN implements a new protocol family, you
0211 need to pass PF_CAN as the first argument to the socket(2) system
0212 call. Currently, there are two CAN protocols to choose from, the raw
0213 socket protocol and the broadcast manager (BCM). So to open a socket,
0214 you would write::
0215 
0216     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW);
0217 
0218 and::
0219 
0220     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM);
0221 
0222 respectively.  After the successful creation of the socket, you would
0223 normally use the bind(2) system call to bind the socket to a CAN
0224 interface (which is different from TCP/IP due to different addressing
0225 - see :ref:`socketcan-concept`). After binding (CAN_RAW) or connecting (CAN_BCM)
0226 the socket, you can read(2) and write(2) from/to the socket or use
0227 send(2), sendto(2), sendmsg(2) and the recv* counterpart operations
0228 on the socket as usual. There are also CAN specific socket options
0229 described below.
0230 
0231 The Classical CAN frame structure (aka CAN 2.0B), the CAN FD frame structure
0232 and the sockaddr structure are defined in include/linux/can.h:
0233 
0234 .. code-block:: C
0235 
0236     struct can_frame {
0237             canid_t can_id;  /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */
0238             union {
0239                     /* CAN frame payload length in byte (0 .. CAN_MAX_DLEN)
0240                      * was previously named can_dlc so we need to carry that
0241                      * name for legacy support
0242                      */
0243                     __u8 len;
0244                     __u8 can_dlc; /* deprecated */
0245             };
0246             __u8    __pad;   /* padding */
0247             __u8    __res0;  /* reserved / padding */
0248             __u8    len8_dlc; /* optional DLC for 8 byte payload length (9 .. 15) */
0249             __u8    data[8] __attribute__((aligned(8)));
0250     };
0251 
0252 Remark: The len element contains the payload length in bytes and should be
0253 used instead of can_dlc. The deprecated can_dlc was misleadingly named as
0254 it always contained the plain payload length in bytes and not the so called
0255 'data length code' (DLC).
0256 
0257 To pass the raw DLC from/to a Classical CAN network device the len8_dlc
0258 element can contain values 9 .. 15 when the len element is 8 (the real
0259 payload length for all DLC values greater or equal to 8).
0260 
0261 The alignment of the (linear) payload data[] to a 64bit boundary
0262 allows the user to define their own structs and unions to easily access
0263 the CAN payload. There is no given byteorder on the CAN bus by
0264 default. A read(2) system call on a CAN_RAW socket transfers a
0265 struct can_frame to the user space.
0266 
0267 The sockaddr_can structure has an interface index like the
0268 PF_PACKET socket, that also binds to a specific interface:
0269 
0270 .. code-block:: C
0271 
0272     struct sockaddr_can {
0273             sa_family_t can_family;
0274             int         can_ifindex;
0275             union {
0276                     /* transport protocol class address info (e.g. ISOTP) */
0277                     struct { canid_t rx_id, tx_id; } tp;
0278 
0279                     /* J1939 address information */
0280                     struct {
0281                             /* 8 byte name when using dynamic addressing */
0282                             __u64 name;
0283 
0284                             /* pgn:
0285                              * 8 bit: PS in PDU2 case, else 0
0286                              * 8 bit: PF
0287                              * 1 bit: DP
0288                              * 1 bit: reserved
0289                              */
0290                             __u32 pgn;
0291 
0292                             /* 1 byte address */
0293                             __u8 addr;
0294                     } j1939;
0295 
0296                     /* reserved for future CAN protocols address information */
0297             } can_addr;
0298     };
0299 
0300 To determine the interface index an appropriate ioctl() has to
0301 be used (example for CAN_RAW sockets without error checking):
0302 
0303 .. code-block:: C
0304 
0305     int s;
0306     struct sockaddr_can addr;
0307     struct ifreq ifr;
0308 
0309     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW);
0310 
0311     strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0" );
0312     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
0313 
0314     addr.can_family = AF_CAN;
0315     addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
0316 
0317     bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
0318 
0319     (..)
0320 
0321 To bind a socket to all(!) CAN interfaces the interface index must
0322 be 0 (zero). In this case the socket receives CAN frames from every
0323 enabled CAN interface. To determine the originating CAN interface
0324 the system call recvfrom(2) may be used instead of read(2). To send
0325 on a socket that is bound to 'any' interface sendto(2) is needed to
0326 specify the outgoing interface.
0327 
0328 Reading CAN frames from a bound CAN_RAW socket (see above) consists
0329 of reading a struct can_frame:
0330 
0331 .. code-block:: C
0332 
0333     struct can_frame frame;
0334 
0335     nbytes = read(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame));
0336 
0337     if (nbytes < 0) {
0338             perror("can raw socket read");
0339             return 1;
0340     }
0341 
0342     /* paranoid check ... */
0343     if (nbytes < sizeof(struct can_frame)) {
0344             fprintf(stderr, "read: incomplete CAN frame\n");
0345             return 1;
0346     }
0347 
0348     /* do something with the received CAN frame */
0349 
0350 Writing CAN frames can be done similarly, with the write(2) system call::
0351 
0352     nbytes = write(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame));
0353 
0354 When the CAN interface is bound to 'any' existing CAN interface
0355 (addr.can_ifindex = 0) it is recommended to use recvfrom(2) if the
0356 information about the originating CAN interface is needed:
0357 
0358 .. code-block:: C
0359 
0360     struct sockaddr_can addr;
0361     struct ifreq ifr;
0362     socklen_t len = sizeof(addr);
0363     struct can_frame frame;
0364 
0365     nbytes = recvfrom(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame),
0366                       0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &len);
0367 
0368     /* get interface name of the received CAN frame */
0369     ifr.ifr_ifindex = addr.can_ifindex;
0370     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFNAME, &ifr);
0371     printf("Received a CAN frame from interface %s", ifr.ifr_name);
0372 
0373 To write CAN frames on sockets bound to 'any' CAN interface the
0374 outgoing interface has to be defined certainly:
0375 
0376 .. code-block:: C
0377 
0378     strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0");
0379     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
0380     addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
0381     addr.can_family  = AF_CAN;
0382 
0383     nbytes = sendto(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame),
0384                     0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr));
0385 
0386 An accurate timestamp can be obtained with an ioctl(2) call after reading
0387 a message from the socket:
0388 
0389 .. code-block:: C
0390 
0391     struct timeval tv;
0392     ioctl(s, SIOCGSTAMP, &tv);
0393 
0394 The timestamp has a resolution of one microsecond and is set automatically
0395 at the reception of a CAN frame.
0396 
0397 Remark about CAN FD (flexible data rate) support:
0398 
0399 Generally the handling of CAN FD is very similar to the formerly described
0400 examples. The new CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different
0401 bitrates for the arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame
0402 and up to 64 bytes of payload. This extended payload length breaks all the
0403 kernel interfaces (ABI) which heavily rely on the CAN frame with fixed eight
0404 bytes of payload (struct can_frame) like the CAN_RAW socket. Therefore e.g.
0405 the CAN_RAW socket supports a new socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES that
0406 switches the socket into a mode that allows the handling of CAN FD frames
0407 and Classical CAN frames simultaneously (see :ref:`socketcan-rawfd`).
0408 
0409 The struct canfd_frame is defined in include/linux/can.h:
0410 
0411 .. code-block:: C
0412 
0413     struct canfd_frame {
0414             canid_t can_id;  /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */
0415             __u8    len;     /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 64) */
0416             __u8    flags;   /* additional flags for CAN FD */
0417             __u8    __res0;  /* reserved / padding */
0418             __u8    __res1;  /* reserved / padding */
0419             __u8    data[64] __attribute__((aligned(8)));
0420     };
0421 
0422 The struct canfd_frame and the existing struct can_frame have the can_id,
0423 the payload length and the payload data at the same offset inside their
0424 structures. This allows to handle the different structures very similar.
0425 When the content of a struct can_frame is copied into a struct canfd_frame
0426 all structure elements can be used as-is - only the data[] becomes extended.
0427 
0428 When introducing the struct canfd_frame it turned out that the data length
0429 code (DLC) of the struct can_frame was used as a length information as the
0430 length and the DLC has a 1:1 mapping in the range of 0 .. 8. To preserve
0431 the easy handling of the length information the canfd_frame.len element
0432 contains a plain length value from 0 .. 64. So both canfd_frame.len and
0433 can_frame.len are equal and contain a length information and no DLC.
0434 For details about the distinction of CAN and CAN FD capable devices and
0435 the mapping to the bus-relevant data length code (DLC), see :ref:`socketcan-can-fd-driver`.
0436 
0437 The length of the two CAN(FD) frame structures define the maximum transfer
0438 unit (MTU) of the CAN(FD) network interface and skbuff data length. Two
0439 definitions are specified for CAN specific MTUs in include/linux/can.h:
0440 
0441 .. code-block:: C
0442 
0443   #define CAN_MTU   (sizeof(struct can_frame))   == 16  => Classical CAN frame
0444   #define CANFD_MTU (sizeof(struct canfd_frame)) == 72  => CAN FD frame
0445 
0446 
0447 .. _socketcan-raw-sockets:
0448 
0449 RAW Protocol Sockets with can_filters (SOCK_RAW)
0450 ------------------------------------------------
0451 
0452 Using CAN_RAW sockets is extensively comparable to the commonly
0453 known access to CAN character devices. To meet the new possibilities
0454 provided by the multi user SocketCAN approach, some reasonable
0455 defaults are set at RAW socket binding time:
0456 
0457 - The filters are set to exactly one filter receiving everything
0458 - The socket only receives valid data frames (=> no error message frames)
0459 - The loopback of sent CAN frames is enabled (see :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback2`)
0460 - The socket does not receive its own sent frames (in loopback mode)
0461 
0462 These default settings may be changed before or after binding the socket.
0463 To use the referenced definitions of the socket options for CAN_RAW
0464 sockets, include <linux/can/raw.h>.
0465 
0466 
0467 .. _socketcan-rawfilter:
0468 
0469 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FILTER
0470 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0471 
0472 The reception of CAN frames using CAN_RAW sockets can be controlled
0473 by defining 0 .. n filters with the CAN_RAW_FILTER socket option.
0474 
0475 The CAN filter structure is defined in include/linux/can.h:
0476 
0477 .. code-block:: C
0478 
0479     struct can_filter {
0480             canid_t can_id;
0481             canid_t can_mask;
0482     };
0483 
0484 A filter matches, when:
0485 
0486 .. code-block:: C
0487 
0488     <received_can_id> & mask == can_id & mask
0489 
0490 which is analogous to known CAN controllers hardware filter semantics.
0491 The filter can be inverted in this semantic, when the CAN_INV_FILTER
0492 bit is set in can_id element of the can_filter structure. In
0493 contrast to CAN controller hardware filters the user may set 0 .. n
0494 receive filters for each open socket separately:
0495 
0496 .. code-block:: C
0497 
0498     struct can_filter rfilter[2];
0499 
0500     rfilter[0].can_id   = 0x123;
0501     rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK;
0502     rfilter[1].can_id   = 0x200;
0503     rfilter[1].can_mask = 0x700;
0504 
0505     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter));
0506 
0507 To disable the reception of CAN frames on the selected CAN_RAW socket:
0508 
0509 .. code-block:: C
0510 
0511     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, NULL, 0);
0512 
0513 To set the filters to zero filters is quite obsolete as to not read
0514 data causes the raw socket to discard the received CAN frames. But
0515 having this 'send only' use-case we may remove the receive list in the
0516 Kernel to save a little (really a very little!) CPU usage.
0517 
0518 CAN Filter Usage Optimisation
0519 .............................
0520 
0521 The CAN filters are processed in per-device filter lists at CAN frame
0522 reception time. To reduce the number of checks that need to be performed
0523 while walking through the filter lists the CAN core provides an optimized
0524 filter handling when the filter subscription focusses on a single CAN ID.
0525 
0526 For the possible 2048 SFF CAN identifiers the identifier is used as an index
0527 to access the corresponding subscription list without any further checks.
0528 For the 2^29 possible EFF CAN identifiers a 10 bit XOR folding is used as
0529 hash function to retrieve the EFF table index.
0530 
0531 To benefit from the optimized filters for single CAN identifiers the
0532 CAN_SFF_MASK or CAN_EFF_MASK have to be set into can_filter.mask together
0533 with set CAN_EFF_FLAG and CAN_RTR_FLAG bits. A set CAN_EFF_FLAG bit in the
0534 can_filter.mask makes clear that it matters whether a SFF or EFF CAN ID is
0535 subscribed. E.g. in the example from above:
0536 
0537 .. code-block:: C
0538 
0539     rfilter[0].can_id   = 0x123;
0540     rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK;
0541 
0542 both SFF frames with CAN ID 0x123 and EFF frames with 0xXXXXX123 can pass.
0543 
0544 To filter for only 0x123 (SFF) and 0x12345678 (EFF) CAN identifiers the
0545 filter has to be defined in this way to benefit from the optimized filters:
0546 
0547 .. code-block:: C
0548 
0549     struct can_filter rfilter[2];
0550 
0551     rfilter[0].can_id   = 0x123;
0552     rfilter[0].can_mask = (CAN_EFF_FLAG | CAN_RTR_FLAG | CAN_SFF_MASK);
0553     rfilter[1].can_id   = 0x12345678 | CAN_EFF_FLAG;
0554     rfilter[1].can_mask = (CAN_EFF_FLAG | CAN_RTR_FLAG | CAN_EFF_MASK);
0555 
0556     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter));
0557 
0558 
0559 RAW Socket Option CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER
0560 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0561 
0562 As described in :ref:`socketcan-network-problem-notifications` the CAN interface driver can generate so
0563 called Error Message Frames that can optionally be passed to the user
0564 application in the same way as other CAN frames. The possible
0565 errors are divided into different error classes that may be filtered
0566 using the appropriate error mask. To register for every possible
0567 error condition CAN_ERR_MASK can be used as value for the error mask.
0568 The values for the error mask are defined in linux/can/error.h:
0569 
0570 .. code-block:: C
0571 
0572     can_err_mask_t err_mask = ( CAN_ERR_TX_TIMEOUT | CAN_ERR_BUSOFF );
0573 
0574     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER,
0575                &err_mask, sizeof(err_mask));
0576 
0577 
0578 RAW Socket Option CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK
0579 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0580 
0581 To meet multi user needs the local loopback is enabled by default
0582 (see :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` for details). But in some embedded use-cases
0583 (e.g. when only one application uses the CAN bus) this loopback
0584 functionality can be disabled (separately for each socket):
0585 
0586 .. code-block:: C
0587 
0588     int loopback = 0; /* 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled (default) */
0589 
0590     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_LOOPBACK, &loopback, sizeof(loopback));
0591 
0592 
0593 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS
0594 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0595 
0596 When the local loopback is enabled, all the sent CAN frames are
0597 looped back to the open CAN sockets that registered for the CAN
0598 frames' CAN-ID on this given interface to meet the multi user
0599 needs. The reception of the CAN frames on the same socket that was
0600 sending the CAN frame is assumed to be unwanted and therefore
0601 disabled by default. This default behaviour may be changed on
0602 demand:
0603 
0604 .. code-block:: C
0605 
0606     int recv_own_msgs = 1; /* 0 = disabled (default), 1 = enabled */
0607 
0608     setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS,
0609                &recv_own_msgs, sizeof(recv_own_msgs));
0610 
0611 Note that reception of a socket's own CAN frames are subject to the same
0612 filtering as other CAN frames (see :ref:`socketcan-rawfilter`).
0613 
0614 .. _socketcan-rawfd:
0615 
0616 RAW Socket Option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES
0617 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0618 
0619 CAN FD support in CAN_RAW sockets can be enabled with a new socket option
0620 CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES which is off by default. When the new socket option is
0621 not supported by the CAN_RAW socket (e.g. on older kernels), switching the
0622 CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES option returns the error -ENOPROTOOPT.
0623 
0624 Once CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES is enabled the application can send both CAN frames
0625 and CAN FD frames. OTOH the application has to handle CAN and CAN FD frames
0626 when reading from the socket:
0627 
0628 .. code-block:: C
0629 
0630     CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES enabled:  CAN_MTU and CANFD_MTU are allowed
0631     CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES disabled: only CAN_MTU is allowed (default)
0632 
0633 Example:
0634 
0635 .. code-block:: C
0636 
0637     [ remember: CANFD_MTU == sizeof(struct canfd_frame) ]
0638 
0639     struct canfd_frame cfd;
0640 
0641     nbytes = read(s, &cfd, CANFD_MTU);
0642 
0643     if (nbytes == CANFD_MTU) {
0644             printf("got CAN FD frame with length %d\n", cfd.len);
0645             /* cfd.flags contains valid data */
0646     } else if (nbytes == CAN_MTU) {
0647             printf("got Classical CAN frame with length %d\n", cfd.len);
0648             /* cfd.flags is undefined */
0649     } else {
0650             fprintf(stderr, "read: invalid CAN(FD) frame\n");
0651             return 1;
0652     }
0653 
0654     /* the content can be handled independently from the received MTU size */
0655 
0656     printf("can_id: %X data length: %d data: ", cfd.can_id, cfd.len);
0657     for (i = 0; i < cfd.len; i++)
0658             printf("%02X ", cfd.data[i]);
0659 
0660 When reading with size CANFD_MTU only returns CAN_MTU bytes that have
0661 been received from the socket a Classical CAN frame has been read into the
0662 provided CAN FD structure. Note that the canfd_frame.flags data field is
0663 not specified in the struct can_frame and therefore it is only valid in
0664 CANFD_MTU sized CAN FD frames.
0665 
0666 Implementation hint for new CAN applications:
0667 
0668 To build a CAN FD aware application use struct canfd_frame as basic CAN
0669 data structure for CAN_RAW based applications. When the application is
0670 executed on an older Linux kernel and switching the CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES
0671 socket option returns an error: No problem. You'll get Classical CAN frames
0672 or CAN FD frames and can process them the same way.
0673 
0674 When sending to CAN devices make sure that the device is capable to handle
0675 CAN FD frames by checking if the device maximum transfer unit is CANFD_MTU.
0676 The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall.
0677 
0678 
0679 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_JOIN_FILTERS
0680 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0681 
0682 The CAN_RAW socket can set multiple CAN identifier specific filters that
0683 lead to multiple filters in the af_can.c filter processing. These filters
0684 are indenpendent from each other which leads to logical OR'ed filters when
0685 applied (see :ref:`socketcan-rawfilter`).
0686 
0687 This socket option joines the given CAN filters in the way that only CAN
0688 frames are passed to user space that matched *all* given CAN filters. The
0689 semantic for the applied filters is therefore changed to a logical AND.
0690 
0691 This is useful especially when the filterset is a combination of filters
0692 where the CAN_INV_FILTER flag is set in order to notch single CAN IDs or
0693 CAN ID ranges from the incoming traffic.
0694 
0695 
0696 RAW Socket Returned Message Flags
0697 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0698 
0699 When using recvmsg() call, the msg->msg_flags may contain following flags:
0700 
0701 MSG_DONTROUTE:
0702         set when the received frame was created on the local host.
0703 
0704 MSG_CONFIRM:
0705         set when the frame was sent via the socket it is received on.
0706         This flag can be interpreted as a 'transmission confirmation' when the
0707         CAN driver supports the echo of frames on driver level, see
0708         :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` and :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback2`.
0709         In order to receive such messages, CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS must be set.
0710 
0711 
0712 Broadcast Manager Protocol Sockets (SOCK_DGRAM)
0713 -----------------------------------------------
0714 
0715 The Broadcast Manager protocol provides a command based configuration
0716 interface to filter and send (e.g. cyclic) CAN messages in kernel space.
0717 
0718 Receive filters can be used to down sample frequent messages; detect events
0719 such as message contents changes, packet length changes, and do time-out
0720 monitoring of received messages.
0721 
0722 Periodic transmission tasks of CAN frames or a sequence of CAN frames can be
0723 created and modified at runtime; both the message content and the two
0724 possible transmit intervals can be altered.
0725 
0726 A BCM socket is not intended for sending individual CAN frames using the
0727 struct can_frame as known from the CAN_RAW socket. Instead a special BCM
0728 configuration message is defined. The basic BCM configuration message used
0729 to communicate with the broadcast manager and the available operations are
0730 defined in the linux/can/bcm.h include. The BCM message consists of a
0731 message header with a command ('opcode') followed by zero or more CAN frames.
0732 The broadcast manager sends responses to user space in the same form:
0733 
0734 .. code-block:: C
0735 
0736     struct bcm_msg_head {
0737             __u32 opcode;                   /* command */
0738             __u32 flags;                    /* special flags */
0739             __u32 count;                    /* run 'count' times with ival1 */
0740             struct timeval ival1, ival2;    /* count and subsequent interval */
0741             canid_t can_id;                 /* unique can_id for task */
0742             __u32 nframes;                  /* number of can_frames following */
0743             struct can_frame frames[0];
0744     };
0745 
0746 The aligned payload 'frames' uses the same basic CAN frame structure defined
0747 at the beginning of :ref:`socketcan-rawfd` and in the include/linux/can.h include. All
0748 messages to the broadcast manager from user space have this structure.
0749 
0750 Note a CAN_BCM socket must be connected instead of bound after socket
0751 creation (example without error checking):
0752 
0753 .. code-block:: C
0754 
0755     int s;
0756     struct sockaddr_can addr;
0757     struct ifreq ifr;
0758 
0759     s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM);
0760 
0761     strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0");
0762     ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr);
0763 
0764     addr.can_family = AF_CAN;
0765     addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex;
0766 
0767     connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
0768 
0769     (..)
0770 
0771 The broadcast manager socket is able to handle any number of in flight
0772 transmissions or receive filters concurrently. The different RX/TX jobs are
0773 distinguished by the unique can_id in each BCM message. However additional
0774 CAN_BCM sockets are recommended to communicate on multiple CAN interfaces.
0775 When the broadcast manager socket is bound to 'any' CAN interface (=> the
0776 interface index is set to zero) the configured receive filters apply to any
0777 CAN interface unless the sendto() syscall is used to overrule the 'any' CAN
0778 interface index. When using recvfrom() instead of read() to retrieve BCM
0779 socket messages the originating CAN interface is provided in can_ifindex.
0780 
0781 
0782 Broadcast Manager Operations
0783 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0784 
0785 The opcode defines the operation for the broadcast manager to carry out,
0786 or details the broadcast managers response to several events, including
0787 user requests.
0788 
0789 Transmit Operations (user space to broadcast manager):
0790 
0791 TX_SETUP:
0792         Create (cyclic) transmission task.
0793 
0794 TX_DELETE:
0795         Remove (cyclic) transmission task, requires only can_id.
0796 
0797 TX_READ:
0798         Read properties of (cyclic) transmission task for can_id.
0799 
0800 TX_SEND:
0801         Send one CAN frame.
0802 
0803 Transmit Responses (broadcast manager to user space):
0804 
0805 TX_STATUS:
0806         Reply to TX_READ request (transmission task configuration).
0807 
0808 TX_EXPIRED:
0809         Notification when counter finishes sending at initial interval
0810         'ival1'. Requires the TX_COUNTEVT flag to be set at TX_SETUP.
0811 
0812 Receive Operations (user space to broadcast manager):
0813 
0814 RX_SETUP:
0815         Create RX content filter subscription.
0816 
0817 RX_DELETE:
0818         Remove RX content filter subscription, requires only can_id.
0819 
0820 RX_READ:
0821         Read properties of RX content filter subscription for can_id.
0822 
0823 Receive Responses (broadcast manager to user space):
0824 
0825 RX_STATUS:
0826         Reply to RX_READ request (filter task configuration).
0827 
0828 RX_TIMEOUT:
0829         Cyclic message is detected to be absent (timer ival1 expired).
0830 
0831 RX_CHANGED:
0832         BCM message with updated CAN frame (detected content change).
0833         Sent on first message received or on receipt of revised CAN messages.
0834 
0835 
0836 Broadcast Manager Message Flags
0837 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0838 
0839 When sending a message to the broadcast manager the 'flags' element may
0840 contain the following flag definitions which influence the behaviour:
0841 
0842 SETTIMER:
0843         Set the values of ival1, ival2 and count
0844 
0845 STARTTIMER:
0846         Start the timer with the actual values of ival1, ival2
0847         and count. Starting the timer leads simultaneously to emit a CAN frame.
0848 
0849 TX_COUNTEVT:
0850         Create the message TX_EXPIRED when count expires
0851 
0852 TX_ANNOUNCE:
0853         A change of data by the process is emitted immediately.
0854 
0855 TX_CP_CAN_ID:
0856         Copies the can_id from the message header to each
0857         subsequent frame in frames. This is intended as usage simplification. For
0858         TX tasks the unique can_id from the message header may differ from the
0859         can_id(s) stored for transmission in the subsequent struct can_frame(s).
0860 
0861 RX_FILTER_ID:
0862         Filter by can_id alone, no frames required (nframes=0).
0863 
0864 RX_CHECK_DLC:
0865         A change of the DLC leads to an RX_CHANGED.
0866 
0867 RX_NO_AUTOTIMER:
0868         Prevent automatically starting the timeout monitor.
0869 
0870 RX_ANNOUNCE_RESUME:
0871         If passed at RX_SETUP and a receive timeout occurred, a
0872         RX_CHANGED message will be generated when the (cyclic) receive restarts.
0873 
0874 TX_RESET_MULTI_IDX:
0875         Reset the index for the multiple frame transmission.
0876 
0877 RX_RTR_FRAME:
0878         Send reply for RTR-request (placed in op->frames[0]).
0879 
0880 CAN_FD_FRAME:
0881         The CAN frames following the bcm_msg_head are struct canfd_frame's
0882 
0883 Broadcast Manager Transmission Timers
0884 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0885 
0886 Periodic transmission configurations may use up to two interval timers.
0887 In this case the BCM sends a number of messages ('count') at an interval
0888 'ival1', then continuing to send at another given interval 'ival2'. When
0889 only one timer is needed 'count' is set to zero and only 'ival2' is used.
0890 When SET_TIMER and START_TIMER flag were set the timers are activated.
0891 The timer values can be altered at runtime when only SET_TIMER is set.
0892 
0893 
0894 Broadcast Manager message sequence transmission
0895 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0896 
0897 Up to 256 CAN frames can be transmitted in a sequence in the case of a cyclic
0898 TX task configuration. The number of CAN frames is provided in the 'nframes'
0899 element of the BCM message head. The defined number of CAN frames are added
0900 as array to the TX_SETUP BCM configuration message:
0901 
0902 .. code-block:: C
0903 
0904     /* create a struct to set up a sequence of four CAN frames */
0905     struct {
0906             struct bcm_msg_head msg_head;
0907             struct can_frame frame[4];
0908     } mytxmsg;
0909 
0910     (..)
0911     mytxmsg.msg_head.nframes = 4;
0912     (..)
0913 
0914     write(s, &mytxmsg, sizeof(mytxmsg));
0915 
0916 With every transmission the index in the array of CAN frames is increased
0917 and set to zero at index overflow.
0918 
0919 
0920 Broadcast Manager Receive Filter Timers
0921 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0922 
0923 The timer values ival1 or ival2 may be set to non-zero values at RX_SETUP.
0924 When the SET_TIMER flag is set the timers are enabled:
0925 
0926 ival1:
0927         Send RX_TIMEOUT when a received message is not received again within
0928         the given time. When START_TIMER is set at RX_SETUP the timeout detection
0929         is activated directly - even without a former CAN frame reception.
0930 
0931 ival2:
0932         Throttle the received message rate down to the value of ival2. This
0933         is useful to reduce messages for the application when the signal inside the
0934         CAN frame is stateless as state changes within the ival2 periode may get
0935         lost.
0936 
0937 Broadcast Manager Multiplex Message Receive Filter
0938 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0939 
0940 To filter for content changes in multiplex message sequences an array of more
0941 than one CAN frames can be passed in a RX_SETUP configuration message. The
0942 data bytes of the first CAN frame contain the mask of relevant bits that
0943 have to match in the subsequent CAN frames with the received CAN frame.
0944 If one of the subsequent CAN frames is matching the bits in that frame data
0945 mark the relevant content to be compared with the previous received content.
0946 Up to 257 CAN frames (multiplex filter bit mask CAN frame plus 256 CAN
0947 filters) can be added as array to the TX_SETUP BCM configuration message:
0948 
0949 .. code-block:: C
0950 
0951     /* usually used to clear CAN frame data[] - beware of endian problems! */
0952     #define U64_DATA(p) (*(unsigned long long*)(p)->data)
0953 
0954     struct {
0955             struct bcm_msg_head msg_head;
0956             struct can_frame frame[5];
0957     } msg;
0958 
0959     msg.msg_head.opcode  = RX_SETUP;
0960     msg.msg_head.can_id  = 0x42;
0961     msg.msg_head.flags   = 0;
0962     msg.msg_head.nframes = 5;
0963     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[0]) = 0xFF00000000000000ULL; /* MUX mask */
0964     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[1]) = 0x01000000000000FFULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x01) */
0965     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[2]) = 0x0200FFFF000000FFULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x02) */
0966     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[3]) = 0x330000FFFFFF0003ULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x33) */
0967     U64_DATA(&msg.frame[4]) = 0x4F07FC0FF0000000ULL; /* data mask (MUX 0x4F) */
0968 
0969     write(s, &msg, sizeof(msg));
0970 
0971 
0972 Broadcast Manager CAN FD Support
0973 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0974 
0975 The programming API of the CAN_BCM depends on struct can_frame which is
0976 given as array directly behind the bcm_msg_head structure. To follow this
0977 schema for the CAN FD frames a new flag 'CAN_FD_FRAME' in the bcm_msg_head
0978 flags indicates that the concatenated CAN frame structures behind the
0979 bcm_msg_head are defined as struct canfd_frame:
0980 
0981 .. code-block:: C
0982 
0983     struct {
0984             struct bcm_msg_head msg_head;
0985             struct canfd_frame frame[5];
0986     } msg;
0987 
0988     msg.msg_head.opcode  = RX_SETUP;
0989     msg.msg_head.can_id  = 0x42;
0990     msg.msg_head.flags   = CAN_FD_FRAME;
0991     msg.msg_head.nframes = 5;
0992     (..)
0993 
0994 When using CAN FD frames for multiplex filtering the MUX mask is still
0995 expected in the first 64 bit of the struct canfd_frame data section.
0996 
0997 
0998 Connected Transport Protocols (SOCK_SEQPACKET)
0999 ----------------------------------------------
1000 
1001 (to be written)
1002 
1003 
1004 Unconnected Transport Protocols (SOCK_DGRAM)
1005 --------------------------------------------
1006 
1007 (to be written)
1008 
1009 
1010 .. _socketcan-core-module:
1011 
1012 SocketCAN Core Module
1013 =====================
1014 
1015 The SocketCAN core module implements the protocol family
1016 PF_CAN. CAN protocol modules are loaded by the core module at
1017 runtime. The core module provides an interface for CAN protocol
1018 modules to subscribe needed CAN IDs (see :ref:`socketcan-receive-lists`).
1019 
1020 
1021 can.ko Module Params
1022 --------------------
1023 
1024 - **stats_timer**:
1025   To calculate the SocketCAN core statistics
1026   (e.g. current/maximum frames per second) this 1 second timer is
1027   invoked at can.ko module start time by default. This timer can be
1028   disabled by using stattimer=0 on the module commandline.
1029 
1030 - **debug**:
1031   (removed since SocketCAN SVN r546)
1032 
1033 
1034 procfs content
1035 --------------
1036 
1037 As described in :ref:`socketcan-receive-lists` the SocketCAN core uses several filter
1038 lists to deliver received CAN frames to CAN protocol modules. These
1039 receive lists, their filters and the count of filter matches can be
1040 checked in the appropriate receive list. All entries contain the
1041 device and a protocol module identifier::
1042 
1043     foo@bar:~$ cat /proc/net/can/rcvlist_all
1044 
1045     receive list 'rx_all':
1046       (vcan3: no entry)
1047       (vcan2: no entry)
1048       (vcan1: no entry)
1049       device   can_id   can_mask  function  userdata   matches  ident
1050        vcan0     000    00000000  f88e6370  f6c6f400         0  raw
1051       (any: no entry)
1052 
1053 In this example an application requests any CAN traffic from vcan0::
1054 
1055     rcvlist_all - list for unfiltered entries (no filter operations)
1056     rcvlist_eff - list for single extended frame (EFF) entries
1057     rcvlist_err - list for error message frames masks
1058     rcvlist_fil - list for mask/value filters
1059     rcvlist_inv - list for mask/value filters (inverse semantic)
1060     rcvlist_sff - list for single standard frame (SFF) entries
1061 
1062 Additional procfs files in /proc/net/can::
1063 
1064     stats       - SocketCAN core statistics (rx/tx frames, match ratios, ...)
1065     reset_stats - manual statistic reset
1066     version     - prints SocketCAN core and ABI version (removed in Linux 5.10)
1067 
1068 
1069 Writing Own CAN Protocol Modules
1070 --------------------------------
1071 
1072 To implement a new protocol in the protocol family PF_CAN a new
1073 protocol has to be defined in include/linux/can.h .
1074 The prototypes and definitions to use the SocketCAN core can be
1075 accessed by including include/linux/can/core.h .
1076 In addition to functions that register the CAN protocol and the
1077 CAN device notifier chain there are functions to subscribe CAN
1078 frames received by CAN interfaces and to send CAN frames::
1079 
1080     can_rx_register   - subscribe CAN frames from a specific interface
1081     can_rx_unregister - unsubscribe CAN frames from a specific interface
1082     can_send          - transmit a CAN frame (optional with local loopback)
1083 
1084 For details see the kerneldoc documentation in net/can/af_can.c or
1085 the source code of net/can/raw.c or net/can/bcm.c .
1086 
1087 
1088 CAN Network Drivers
1089 ===================
1090 
1091 Writing a CAN network device driver is much easier than writing a
1092 CAN character device driver. Similar to other known network device
1093 drivers you mainly have to deal with:
1094 
1095 - TX: Put the CAN frame from the socket buffer to the CAN controller.
1096 - RX: Put the CAN frame from the CAN controller to the socket buffer.
1097 
1098 See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst . The differences
1099 for writing CAN network device driver are described below:
1100 
1101 
1102 General Settings
1103 ----------------
1104 
1105 .. code-block:: C
1106 
1107     dev->type  = ARPHRD_CAN; /* the netdevice hardware type */
1108     dev->flags = IFF_NOARP;  /* CAN has no arp */
1109 
1110     dev->mtu = CAN_MTU; /* sizeof(struct can_frame) -> Classical CAN interface */
1111 
1112     or alternative, when the controller supports CAN with flexible data rate:
1113     dev->mtu = CANFD_MTU; /* sizeof(struct canfd_frame) -> CAN FD interface */
1114 
1115 The struct can_frame or struct canfd_frame is the payload of each socket
1116 buffer (skbuff) in the protocol family PF_CAN.
1117 
1118 
1119 .. _socketcan-local-loopback2:
1120 
1121 Local Loopback of Sent Frames
1122 -----------------------------
1123 
1124 As described in :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` the CAN network device driver should
1125 support a local loopback functionality similar to the local echo
1126 e.g. of tty devices. In this case the driver flag IFF_ECHO has to be
1127 set to prevent the PF_CAN core from locally echoing sent frames
1128 (aka loopback) as fallback solution::
1129 
1130     dev->flags = (IFF_NOARP | IFF_ECHO);
1131 
1132 
1133 CAN Controller Hardware Filters
1134 -------------------------------
1135 
1136 To reduce the interrupt load on deep embedded systems some CAN
1137 controllers support the filtering of CAN IDs or ranges of CAN IDs.
1138 These hardware filter capabilities vary from controller to
1139 controller and have to be identified as not feasible in a multi-user
1140 networking approach. The use of the very controller specific
1141 hardware filters could make sense in a very dedicated use-case, as a
1142 filter on driver level would affect all users in the multi-user
1143 system. The high efficient filter sets inside the PF_CAN core allow
1144 to set different multiple filters for each socket separately.
1145 Therefore the use of hardware filters goes to the category 'handmade
1146 tuning on deep embedded systems'. The author is running a MPC603e
1147 @133MHz with four SJA1000 CAN controllers from 2002 under heavy bus
1148 load without any problems ...
1149 
1150 
1151 The Virtual CAN Driver (vcan)
1152 -----------------------------
1153 
1154 Similar to the network loopback devices, vcan offers a virtual local
1155 CAN interface. A full qualified address on CAN consists of
1156 
1157 - a unique CAN Identifier (CAN ID)
1158 - the CAN bus this CAN ID is transmitted on (e.g. can0)
1159 
1160 so in common use cases more than one virtual CAN interface is needed.
1161 
1162 The virtual CAN interfaces allow the transmission and reception of CAN
1163 frames without real CAN controller hardware. Virtual CAN network
1164 devices are usually named 'vcanX', like vcan0 vcan1 vcan2 ...
1165 When compiled as a module the virtual CAN driver module is called vcan.ko
1166 
1167 Since Linux Kernel version 2.6.24 the vcan driver supports the Kernel
1168 netlink interface to create vcan network devices. The creation and
1169 removal of vcan network devices can be managed with the ip(8) tool::
1170 
1171   - Create a virtual CAN network interface:
1172        $ ip link add type vcan
1173 
1174   - Create a virtual CAN network interface with a specific name 'vcan42':
1175        $ ip link add dev vcan42 type vcan
1176 
1177   - Remove a (virtual CAN) network interface 'vcan42':
1178        $ ip link del vcan42
1179 
1180 
1181 The CAN Network Device Driver Interface
1182 ---------------------------------------
1183 
1184 The CAN network device driver interface provides a generic interface
1185 to setup, configure and monitor CAN network devices. The user can then
1186 configure the CAN device, like setting the bit-timing parameters, via
1187 the netlink interface using the program "ip" from the "IPROUTE2"
1188 utility suite. The following chapter describes briefly how to use it.
1189 Furthermore, the interface uses a common data structure and exports a
1190 set of common functions, which all real CAN network device drivers
1191 should use. Please have a look to the SJA1000 or MSCAN driver to
1192 understand how to use them. The name of the module is can-dev.ko.
1193 
1194 
1195 Netlink interface to set/get devices properties
1196 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1197 
1198 The CAN device must be configured via netlink interface. The supported
1199 netlink message types are defined and briefly described in
1200 "include/linux/can/netlink.h". CAN link support for the program "ip"
1201 of the IPROUTE2 utility suite is available and it can be used as shown
1202 below:
1203 
1204 Setting CAN device properties::
1205 
1206     $ ip link set can0 type can help
1207     Usage: ip link set DEVICE type can
1208         [ bitrate BITRATE [ sample-point SAMPLE-POINT] ] |
1209         [ tq TQ prop-seg PROP_SEG phase-seg1 PHASE-SEG1
1210           phase-seg2 PHASE-SEG2 [ sjw SJW ] ]
1211 
1212         [ dbitrate BITRATE [ dsample-point SAMPLE-POINT] ] |
1213         [ dtq TQ dprop-seg PROP_SEG dphase-seg1 PHASE-SEG1
1214           dphase-seg2 PHASE-SEG2 [ dsjw SJW ] ]
1215 
1216         [ loopback { on | off } ]
1217         [ listen-only { on | off } ]
1218         [ triple-sampling { on | off } ]
1219         [ one-shot { on | off } ]
1220         [ berr-reporting { on | off } ]
1221         [ fd { on | off } ]
1222         [ fd-non-iso { on | off } ]
1223         [ presume-ack { on | off } ]
1224         [ cc-len8-dlc { on | off } ]
1225 
1226         [ restart-ms TIME-MS ]
1227         [ restart ]
1228 
1229         Where: BITRATE       := { 1..1000000 }
1230                SAMPLE-POINT  := { 0.000..0.999 }
1231                TQ            := { NUMBER }
1232                PROP-SEG      := { 1..8 }
1233                PHASE-SEG1    := { 1..8 }
1234                PHASE-SEG2    := { 1..8 }
1235                SJW           := { 1..4 }
1236                RESTART-MS    := { 0 | NUMBER }
1237 
1238 Display CAN device details and statistics::
1239 
1240     $ ip -details -statistics link show can0
1241     2: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 16 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 10
1242       link/can
1243       can <TRIPLE-SAMPLING> state ERROR-ACTIVE restart-ms 100
1244       bitrate 125000 sample_point 0.875
1245       tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1
1246       sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1
1247       clock 8000000
1248       re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off
1249       41         17457      0          41         42         41
1250       RX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped overrun mcast
1251       140859     17608    17457   0       0       0
1252       TX: bytes  packets  errors  dropped carrier collsns
1253       861        112      0       41      0       0
1254 
1255 More info to the above output:
1256 
1257 "<TRIPLE-SAMPLING>"
1258         Shows the list of selected CAN controller modes: LOOPBACK,
1259         LISTEN-ONLY, or TRIPLE-SAMPLING.
1260 
1261 "state ERROR-ACTIVE"
1262         The current state of the CAN controller: "ERROR-ACTIVE",
1263         "ERROR-WARNING", "ERROR-PASSIVE", "BUS-OFF" or "STOPPED"
1264 
1265 "restart-ms 100"
1266         Automatic restart delay time. If set to a non-zero value, a
1267         restart of the CAN controller will be triggered automatically
1268         in case of a bus-off condition after the specified delay time
1269         in milliseconds. By default it's off.
1270 
1271 "bitrate 125000 sample-point 0.875"
1272         Shows the real bit-rate in bits/sec and the sample-point in the
1273         range 0.000..0.999. If the calculation of bit-timing parameters
1274         is enabled in the kernel (CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING=y), the
1275         bit-timing can be defined by setting the "bitrate" argument.
1276         Optionally the "sample-point" can be specified. By default it's
1277         0.000 assuming CIA-recommended sample-points.
1278 
1279 "tq 125 prop-seg 6 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1"
1280         Shows the time quanta in ns, propagation segment, phase buffer
1281         segment 1 and 2 and the synchronisation jump width in units of
1282         tq. They allow to define the CAN bit-timing in a hardware
1283         independent format as proposed by the Bosch CAN 2.0 spec (see
1284         chapter 8 of http://www.semiconductors.bosch.de/pdf/can2spec.pdf).
1285 
1286 "sja1000: tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1 clock 8000000"
1287         Shows the bit-timing constants of the CAN controller, here the
1288         "sja1000". The minimum and maximum values of the time segment 1
1289         and 2, the synchronisation jump width in units of tq, the
1290         bitrate pre-scaler and the CAN system clock frequency in Hz.
1291         These constants could be used for user-defined (non-standard)
1292         bit-timing calculation algorithms in user-space.
1293 
1294 "re-started bus-errors arbit-lost error-warn error-pass bus-off"
1295         Shows the number of restarts, bus and arbitration lost errors,
1296         and the state changes to the error-warning, error-passive and
1297         bus-off state. RX overrun errors are listed in the "overrun"
1298         field of the standard network statistics.
1299 
1300 Setting the CAN Bit-Timing
1301 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1302 
1303 The CAN bit-timing parameters can always be defined in a hardware
1304 independent format as proposed in the Bosch CAN 2.0 specification
1305 specifying the arguments "tq", "prop_seg", "phase_seg1", "phase_seg2"
1306 and "sjw"::
1307 
1308     $ ip link set canX type can tq 125 prop-seg 6 \
1309                                 phase-seg1 7 phase-seg2 2 sjw 1
1310 
1311 If the kernel option CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING is enabled, CIA
1312 recommended CAN bit-timing parameters will be calculated if the bit-
1313 rate is specified with the argument "bitrate"::
1314 
1315     $ ip link set canX type can bitrate 125000
1316 
1317 Note that this works fine for the most common CAN controllers with
1318 standard bit-rates but may *fail* for exotic bit-rates or CAN system
1319 clock frequencies. Disabling CONFIG_CAN_CALC_BITTIMING saves some
1320 space and allows user-space tools to solely determine and set the
1321 bit-timing parameters. The CAN controller specific bit-timing
1322 constants can be used for that purpose. They are listed by the
1323 following command::
1324 
1325     $ ip -details link show can0
1326     ...
1327       sja1000: clock 8000000 tseg1 1..16 tseg2 1..8 sjw 1..4 brp 1..64 brp-inc 1
1328 
1329 
1330 Starting and Stopping the CAN Network Device
1331 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1332 
1333 A CAN network device is started or stopped as usual with the command
1334 "ifconfig canX up/down" or "ip link set canX up/down". Be aware that
1335 you *must* define proper bit-timing parameters for real CAN devices
1336 before you can start it to avoid error-prone default settings::
1337 
1338     $ ip link set canX up type can bitrate 125000
1339 
1340 A device may enter the "bus-off" state if too many errors occurred on
1341 the CAN bus. Then no more messages are received or sent. An automatic
1342 bus-off recovery can be enabled by setting the "restart-ms" to a
1343 non-zero value, e.g.::
1344 
1345     $ ip link set canX type can restart-ms 100
1346 
1347 Alternatively, the application may realize the "bus-off" condition
1348 by monitoring CAN error message frames and do a restart when
1349 appropriate with the command::
1350 
1351     $ ip link set canX type can restart
1352 
1353 Note that a restart will also create a CAN error message frame (see
1354 also :ref:`socketcan-network-problem-notifications`).
1355 
1356 
1357 .. _socketcan-can-fd-driver:
1358 
1359 CAN FD (Flexible Data Rate) Driver Support
1360 ------------------------------------------
1361 
1362 CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different bitrates for the
1363 arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame. Therefore a
1364 second bit timing has to be specified in order to enable the CAN FD bitrate.
1365 
1366 Additionally CAN FD capable CAN controllers support up to 64 bytes of
1367 payload. The representation of this length in can_frame.len and
1368 canfd_frame.len for userspace applications and inside the Linux network
1369 layer is a plain value from 0 .. 64 instead of the CAN 'data length code'.
1370 The data length code was a 1:1 mapping to the payload length in the Classical
1371 CAN frames anyway. The payload length to the bus-relevant DLC mapping is
1372 only performed inside the CAN drivers, preferably with the helper
1373 functions can_fd_dlc2len() and can_fd_len2dlc().
1374 
1375 The CAN netdevice driver capabilities can be distinguished by the network
1376 devices maximum transfer unit (MTU)::
1377 
1378   MTU = 16 (CAN_MTU)   => sizeof(struct can_frame)   => Classical CAN device
1379   MTU = 72 (CANFD_MTU) => sizeof(struct canfd_frame) => CAN FD capable device
1380 
1381 The CAN device MTU can be retrieved e.g. with a SIOCGIFMTU ioctl() syscall.
1382 N.B. CAN FD capable devices can also handle and send Classical CAN frames.
1383 
1384 When configuring CAN FD capable CAN controllers an additional 'data' bitrate
1385 has to be set. This bitrate for the data phase of the CAN FD frame has to be
1386 at least the bitrate which was configured for the arbitration phase. This
1387 second bitrate is specified analogue to the first bitrate but the bitrate
1388 setting keywords for the 'data' bitrate start with 'd' e.g. dbitrate,
1389 dsample-point, dsjw or dtq and similar settings. When a data bitrate is set
1390 within the configuration process the controller option "fd on" can be
1391 specified to enable the CAN FD mode in the CAN controller. This controller
1392 option also switches the device MTU to 72 (CANFD_MTU).
1393 
1394 The first CAN FD specification presented as whitepaper at the International
1395 CAN Conference 2012 needed to be improved for data integrity reasons.
1396 Therefore two CAN FD implementations have to be distinguished today:
1397 
1398 - ISO compliant:     The ISO 11898-1:2015 CAN FD implementation (default)
1399 - non-ISO compliant: The CAN FD implementation following the 2012 whitepaper
1400 
1401 Finally there are three types of CAN FD controllers:
1402 
1403 1. ISO compliant (fixed)
1404 2. non-ISO compliant (fixed, like the M_CAN IP core v3.0.1 in m_can.c)
1405 3. ISO/non-ISO CAN FD controllers (switchable, like the PEAK PCAN-USB FD)
1406 
1407 The current ISO/non-ISO mode is announced by the CAN controller driver via
1408 netlink and displayed by the 'ip' tool (controller option FD-NON-ISO).
1409 The ISO/non-ISO-mode can be altered by setting 'fd-non-iso {on|off}' for
1410 switchable CAN FD controllers only.
1411 
1412 Example configuring 500 kbit/s arbitration bitrate and 4 Mbit/s data bitrate::
1413 
1414     $ ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.75 \
1415                                    dbitrate 4000000 dsample-point 0.8 fd on
1416     $ ip -details link show can0
1417     5: can0: <NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP,ECHO> mtu 72 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN \
1418              mode DEFAULT group default qlen 10
1419     link/can  promiscuity 0
1420     can <FD> state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0
1421           bitrate 500000 sample-point 0.750
1422           tq 50 prop-seg 14 phase-seg1 15 phase-seg2 10 sjw 1
1423           pcan_usb_pro_fd: tseg1 1..64 tseg2 1..16 sjw 1..16 brp 1..1024 \
1424           brp-inc 1
1425           dbitrate 4000000 dsample-point 0.800
1426           dtq 12 dprop-seg 7 dphase-seg1 8 dphase-seg2 4 dsjw 1
1427           pcan_usb_pro_fd: dtseg1 1..16 dtseg2 1..8 dsjw 1..4 dbrp 1..1024 \
1428           dbrp-inc 1
1429           clock 80000000
1430 
1431 Example when 'fd-non-iso on' is added on this switchable CAN FD adapter::
1432 
1433    can <FD,FD-NON-ISO> state ERROR-ACTIVE (berr-counter tx 0 rx 0) restart-ms 0
1434 
1435 
1436 Supported CAN Hardware
1437 ----------------------
1438 
1439 Please check the "Kconfig" file in "drivers/net/can" to get an actual
1440 list of the support CAN hardware. On the SocketCAN project website
1441 (see :ref:`socketcan-resources`) there might be further drivers available, also for
1442 older kernel versions.
1443 
1444 
1445 .. _socketcan-resources:
1446 
1447 SocketCAN Resources
1448 ===================
1449 
1450 The Linux CAN / SocketCAN project resources (project site / mailing list)
1451 are referenced in the MAINTAINERS file in the Linux source tree.
1452 Search for CAN NETWORK [LAYERS|DRIVERS].
1453 
1454 Credits
1455 =======
1456 
1457 - Oliver Hartkopp (PF_CAN core, filters, drivers, bcm, SJA1000 driver)
1458 - Urs Thuermann (PF_CAN core, kernel integration, socket interfaces, raw, vcan)
1459 - Jan Kizka (RT-SocketCAN core, Socket-API reconciliation)
1460 - Wolfgang Grandegger (RT-SocketCAN core & drivers, Raw Socket-API reviews, CAN device driver interface, MSCAN driver)
1461 - Robert Schwebel (design reviews, PTXdist integration)
1462 - Marc Kleine-Budde (design reviews, Kernel 2.6 cleanups, drivers)
1463 - Benedikt Spranger (reviews)
1464 - Thomas Gleixner (LKML reviews, coding style, posting hints)
1465 - Andrey Volkov (kernel subtree structure, ioctls, MSCAN driver)
1466 - Matthias Brukner (first SJA1000 CAN netdevice implementation Q2/2003)
1467 - Klaus Hitschler (PEAK driver integration)
1468 - Uwe Koppe (CAN netdevices with PF_PACKET approach)
1469 - Michael Schulze (driver layer loopback requirement, RT CAN drivers review)
1470 - Pavel Pisa (Bit-timing calculation)
1471 - Sascha Hauer (SJA1000 platform driver)
1472 - Sebastian Haas (SJA1000 EMS PCI driver)
1473 - Markus Plessing (SJA1000 EMS PCI driver)
1474 - Per Dalen (SJA1000 Kvaser PCI driver)
1475 - Sam Ravnborg (reviews, coding style, kbuild help)