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The CAN socket API has been designed +as similar as possible to the TCP/IP protocols to allow programmers, +familiar with network programming, to easily learn how to use CAN +sockets. + + +.. _socketcan-motivation: + +Motivation / Why Using the Socket API +===================================== + +There have been CAN implementations for Linux before SocketCAN so the +question arises, why we have started another project. Most existing +implementations come as a device driver for some CAN hardware, they +are based on character devices and provide comparatively little +functionality. Usually, there is only a hardware-specific device +driver which provides a character device interface to send and +receive raw CAN frames, directly to/from the controller hardware. +Queueing of frames and higher-level transport protocols like ISO-TP +have to be implemented in user space applications. Also, most +character-device implementations support only one single process to +open the device at a time, similar to a serial interface. Exchanging +the CAN controller requires employment of another device driver and +often the need for adaption of large parts of the application to the +new driver's API. + +SocketCAN was designed to overcome all of these limitations. A new +protocol family has been implemented which provides a socket interface +to user space applications and which builds upon the Linux network +layer, enabling use all of the provided queueing functionality. A device +driver for CAN controller hardware registers itself with the Linux +network layer as a network device, so that CAN frames from the +controller can be passed up to the network layer and on to the CAN +protocol family module and also vice-versa. Also, the protocol family +module provides an API for transport protocol modules to register, so +that any number of transport protocols can be loaded or unloaded +dynamically. In fact, the can core module alone does not provide any +protocol and cannot be used without loading at least one additional +protocol module. Multiple sockets can be opened at the same time, +on different or the same protocol module and they can listen/send +frames on different or the same CAN IDs. Several sockets listening on +the same interface for frames with the same CAN ID are all passed the +same received matching CAN frames. An application wishing to +communicate using a specific transport protocol, e.g. ISO-TP, just +selects that protocol when opening the socket, and then can read and +write application data byte streams, without having to deal with +CAN-IDs, frames, etc. + +Similar functionality visible from user-space could be provided by a +character device, too, but this would lead to a technically inelegant +solution for a couple of reasons: + +* **Intricate usage:** Instead of passing a protocol argument to + socket(2) and using bind(2) to select a CAN interface and CAN ID, an + application would have to do all these operations using ioctl(2)s. + +* **Code duplication:** A character device cannot make use of the Linux + network queueing code, so all that code would have to be duplicated + for CAN networking. + +* **Abstraction:** In most existing character-device implementations, the + hardware-specific device driver for a CAN controller directly + provides the character device for the application to work with. + This is at least very unusual in Unix systems for both, char and + block devices. For example you don't have a character device for a + certain UART of a serial interface, a certain sound chip in your + computer, a SCSI or IDE controller providing access to your hard + disk or tape streamer device. Instead, you have abstraction layers + which provide a unified character or block device interface to the + application on the one hand, and a interface for hardware-specific + device drivers on the other hand. These abstractions are provided + by subsystems like the tty layer, the audio subsystem or the SCSI + and IDE subsystems for the devices mentioned above. + + The easiest way to implement a CAN device driver is as a character + device without such a (complete) abstraction layer, as is done by most + existing drivers. The right way, however, would be to add such a + layer with all the functionality like registering for certain CAN + IDs, supporting several open file descriptors and (de)multiplexing + CAN frames between them, (sophisticated) queueing of CAN frames, and + providing an API for device drivers to register with. However, then + it would be no more difficult, or may be even easier, to use the + networking framework provided by the Linux kernel, and this is what + SocketCAN does. + +The use of the networking framework of the Linux kernel is just the +natural and most appropriate way to implement CAN for Linux. + + +.. _socketcan-concept: + +SocketCAN Concept +================= + +As described in :ref:`socketcan-motivation` the main goal of SocketCAN is to +provide a socket interface to user space applications which builds +upon the Linux network layer. In contrast to the commonly known +TCP/IP and ethernet networking, the CAN bus is a broadcast-only(!) +medium that has no MAC-layer addressing like ethernet. The CAN-identifier +(can_id) is used for arbitration on the CAN-bus. Therefore the CAN-IDs +have to be chosen uniquely on the bus. When designing a CAN-ECU +network the CAN-IDs are mapped to be sent by a specific ECU. +For this reason a CAN-ID can be treated best as a kind of source address. + + +.. _socketcan-receive-lists: + +Receive Lists +------------- + +The network transparent access of multiple applications leads to the +problem that different applications may be interested in the same +CAN-IDs from the same CAN network interface. The SocketCAN core +module - which implements the protocol family CAN - provides several +high efficient receive lists for this reason. If e.g. a user space +application opens a CAN RAW socket, the raw protocol module itself +requests the (range of) CAN-IDs from the SocketCAN core that are +requested by the user. The subscription and unsubscription of +CAN-IDs can be done for specific CAN interfaces or for all(!) known +CAN interfaces with the can_rx_(un)register() functions provided to +CAN protocol modules by the SocketCAN core (see :ref:`socketcan-core-module`). +To optimize the CPU usage at runtime the receive lists are split up +into several specific lists per device that match the requested +filter complexity for a given use-case. + + +.. _socketcan-local-loopback1: + +Local Loopback of Sent Frames +----------------------------- + +As known from other networking concepts the data exchanging +applications may run on the same or different nodes without any +change (except for the according addressing information): + +.. code:: + + ___ ___ ___ _______ ___ + | _ | | _ | | _ | | _ _ | | _ | + ||A|| ||B|| ||C|| ||A| |B|| ||C|| + |___| |___| |___| |_______| |___| + | | | | | + -----------------(1)- CAN bus -(2)--------------- + +To ensure that application A receives the same information in the +example (2) as it would receive in example (1) there is need for +some kind of local loopback of the sent CAN frames on the appropriate +node. + +The Linux network devices (by default) just can handle the +transmission and reception of media dependent frames. Due to the +arbitration on the CAN bus the transmission of a low prio CAN-ID +may be delayed by the reception of a high prio CAN frame. To +reflect the correct [*]_ traffic on the node the loopback of the sent +data has to be performed right after a successful transmission. If +the CAN network interface is not capable of performing the loopback for +some reason the SocketCAN core can do this task as a fallback solution. +See :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback1` for details (recommended). + +The loopback functionality is enabled by default to reflect standard +networking behaviour for CAN applications. Due to some requests from +the RT-SocketCAN group the loopback optionally may be disabled for each +separate socket. See sockopts from the CAN RAW sockets in :ref:`socketcan-raw-sockets`. + +.. [*] you really like to have this when you're running analyser + tools like 'candump' or 'cansniffer' on the (same) node. + + +.. _socketcan-network-problem-notifications: + +Network Problem Notifications +----------------------------- + +The use of the CAN bus may lead to several problems on the physical +and media access control layer. Detecting and logging of these lower +layer problems is a vital requirement for CAN users to identify +hardware issues on the physical transceiver layer as well as +arbitration problems and error frames caused by the different +ECUs. The occurrence of detected errors are important for diagnosis +and have to be logged together with the exact timestamp. For this +reason 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. Whenever an error on the physical layer +or the MAC layer is detected (e.g. by the CAN controller) the driver +creates an appropriate error message frame. Error messages frames can +be requested by the user application using the common CAN filter +mechanisms. Inside this filter definition the (interested) type of +errors may be selected. The reception of error messages is disabled +by default. The format of the CAN error message frame is briefly +described in the Linux header file "include/uapi/linux/can/error.h". + + +How to use SocketCAN +==================== + +Like TCP/IP, you first need to open a socket for communicating over a +CAN network. Since SocketCAN implements a new protocol family, you +need to pass PF_CAN as the first argument to the socket(2) system +call. Currently, there are two CAN protocols to choose from, the raw +socket protocol and the broadcast manager (BCM). So to open a socket, +you would write:: + + s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW); + +and:: + + s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_BCM); + +respectively. After the successful creation of the socket, you would +normally use the bind(2) system call to bind the socket to a CAN +interface (which is different from TCP/IP due to different addressing +- see :ref:`socketcan-concept`). After binding (CAN_RAW) or connecting (CAN_BCM) +the socket, you can read(2) and write(2) from/to the socket or use +send(2), sendto(2), sendmsg(2) and the recv* counterpart operations +on the socket as usual. There are also CAN specific socket options +described below. + +The basic CAN frame structure and the sockaddr structure are defined +in include/linux/can.h: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct can_frame { + canid_t can_id; /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */ + __u8 can_dlc; /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 8) */ + __u8 __pad; /* padding */ + __u8 __res0; /* reserved / padding */ + __u8 __res1; /* reserved / padding */ + __u8 data[8] __attribute__((aligned(8))); + }; + +The alignment of the (linear) payload data[] to a 64bit boundary +allows the user to define their own structs and unions to easily access +the CAN payload. There is no given byteorder on the CAN bus by +default. A read(2) system call on a CAN_RAW socket transfers a +struct can_frame to the user space. + +The sockaddr_can structure has an interface index like the +PF_PACKET socket, that also binds to a specific interface: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct sockaddr_can { + sa_family_t can_family; + int can_ifindex; + union { + /* transport protocol class address info (e.g. ISOTP) */ + struct { canid_t rx_id, tx_id; } tp; + + /* reserved for future CAN protocols address information */ + } can_addr; + }; + +To determine the interface index an appropriate ioctl() has to +be used (example for CAN_RAW sockets without error checking): + +.. code-block:: C + + int s; + struct sockaddr_can addr; + struct ifreq ifr; + + s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW); + + strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0" ); + ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr); + + addr.can_family = AF_CAN; + addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex; + + bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)); + + (..) + +To bind a socket to all(!) CAN interfaces the interface index must +be 0 (zero). In this case the socket receives CAN frames from every +enabled CAN interface. To determine the originating CAN interface +the system call recvfrom(2) may be used instead of read(2). To send +on a socket that is bound to 'any' interface sendto(2) is needed to +specify the outgoing interface. + +Reading CAN frames from a bound CAN_RAW socket (see above) consists +of reading a struct can_frame: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct can_frame frame; + + nbytes = read(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame)); + + if (nbytes < 0) { + perror("can raw socket read"); + return 1; + } + + /* paranoid check ... */ + if (nbytes < sizeof(struct can_frame)) { + fprintf(stderr, "read: incomplete CAN frame\n"); + return 1; + } + + /* do something with the received CAN frame */ + +Writing CAN frames can be done similarly, with the write(2) system call:: + + nbytes = write(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame)); + +When the CAN interface is bound to 'any' existing CAN interface +(addr.can_ifindex = 0) it is recommended to use recvfrom(2) if the +information about the originating CAN interface is needed: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct sockaddr_can addr; + struct ifreq ifr; + socklen_t len = sizeof(addr); + struct can_frame frame; + + nbytes = recvfrom(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame), + 0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, &len); + + /* get interface name of the received CAN frame */ + ifr.ifr_ifindex = addr.can_ifindex; + ioctl(s, SIOCGIFNAME, &ifr); + printf("Received a CAN frame from interface %s", ifr.ifr_name); + +To write CAN frames on sockets bound to 'any' CAN interface the +outgoing interface has to be defined certainly: + +.. code-block:: C + + strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, "can0"); + ioctl(s, SIOCGIFINDEX, &ifr); + addr.can_ifindex = ifr.ifr_ifindex; + addr.can_family = AF_CAN; + + nbytes = sendto(s, &frame, sizeof(struct can_frame), + 0, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr)); + +An accurate timestamp can be obtained with an ioctl(2) call after reading +a message from the socket: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct timeval tv; + ioctl(s, SIOCGSTAMP, &tv); + +The timestamp has a resolution of one microsecond and is set automatically +at the reception of a CAN frame. + +Remark about CAN FD (flexible data rate) support: + +Generally the handling of CAN FD is very similar to the formerly described +examples. The new CAN FD capable CAN controllers support two different +bitrates for the arbitration phase and the payload phase of the CAN FD frame +and up to 64 bytes of payload. This extended payload length breaks all the +kernel interfaces (ABI) which heavily rely on the CAN frame with fixed eight +bytes of payload (struct can_frame) like the CAN_RAW socket. Therefore e.g. +the CAN_RAW socket supports a new socket option CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES that +switches the socket into a mode that allows the handling of CAN FD frames +and (legacy) CAN frames simultaneously (see :ref:`socketcan-rawfd`). + +The struct canfd_frame is defined in include/linux/can.h: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct canfd_frame { + canid_t can_id; /* 32 bit CAN_ID + EFF/RTR/ERR flags */ + __u8 len; /* frame payload length in byte (0 .. 64) */ + __u8 flags; /* additional flags for CAN FD */ + __u8 __res0; /* reserved / padding */ + __u8 __res1; /* reserved / padding */ + __u8 data[64] __attribute__((aligned(8))); + }; + +The struct canfd_frame and the existing struct can_frame have the can_id, +the payload length and the payload data at the same offset inside their +structures. This allows to handle the different structures very similar. +When the content of a struct can_frame is copied into a struct canfd_frame +all structure elements can be used as-is - only the data[] becomes extended. + +When introducing the struct canfd_frame it turned out that the data length +code (DLC) of the struct can_frame was used as a length information as the +length and the DLC has a 1:1 mapping in the range of 0 .. 8. To preserve +the easy handling of the length information the canfd_frame.len element +contains a plain length value from 0 .. 64. So both canfd_frame.len and +can_frame.can_dlc are equal and contain a length information and no DLC. +For details about the distinction of CAN and CAN FD capable devices and +the mapping to the bus-relevant data length code (DLC), see :ref:`socketcan-can-fd-driver`. + +The length of the two CAN(FD) frame structures define the maximum transfer +unit (MTU) of the CAN(FD) network interface and skbuff data length. Two +definitions are specified for CAN specific MTUs in include/linux/can.h: + +.. code-block:: C + + #define CAN_MTU (sizeof(struct can_frame)) == 16 => 'legacy' CAN frame + #define CANFD_MTU (sizeof(struct canfd_frame)) == 72 => CAN FD frame + + +.. _socketcan-raw-sockets: + +RAW Protocol Sockets with can_filters (SOCK_RAW) +------------------------------------------------ + +Using CAN_RAW sockets is extensively comparable to the commonly +known access to CAN character devices. To meet the new possibilities +provided by the multi user SocketCAN approach, some reasonable +defaults are set at RAW socket binding time: + +- The filters are set to exactly one filter receiving everything +- The socket only receives valid data frames (=> no error message frames) +- The loopback of sent CAN frames is enabled (see :ref:`socketcan-local-loopback2`) +- The socket does not receive its own sent frames (in loopback mode) + +These default settings may be changed before or after binding the socket. +To use the referenced definitions of the socket options for CAN_RAW +sockets, include <linux/can/raw.h>. + + +.. _socketcan-rawfilter: + +RAW socket option CAN_RAW_FILTER +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The reception of CAN frames using CAN_RAW sockets can be controlled +by defining 0 .. n filters with the CAN_RAW_FILTER socket option. + +The CAN filter structure is defined in include/linux/can.h: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct can_filter { + canid_t can_id; + canid_t can_mask; + }; + +A filter matches, when: + +.. code-block:: C + + <received_can_id> & mask == can_id & mask + +which is analogous to known CAN controllers hardware filter semantics. +The filter can be inverted in this semantic, when the CAN_INV_FILTER +bit is set in can_id element of the can_filter structure. In +contrast to CAN controller hardware filters the user may set 0 .. n +receive filters for each open socket separately: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct can_filter rfilter[2]; + + rfilter[0].can_id = 0x123; + rfilter[0].can_mask = CAN_SFF_MASK; + rfilter[1].can_id = 0x200; + rfilter[1].can_mask = 0x700; + + setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, &rfilter, sizeof(rfilter)); + +To disable the reception of CAN frames on the selected CAN_RAW socket: + +.. code-block:: C + + setsockopt(s, SOL_CAN_RAW, CAN_RAW_FILTER, NULL, 0); + +To set the filters to zero filters is quite obsolete as to not read +data causes the raw socket to discard the received CAN frames. But +having this 'send only' use-case we may remove the receive list in the +Kernel to save a little (really a very little!) CPU usage. + +CAN Filter Usage Optimisation +............................. + +The CAN filters are processed in per-device filter lists at CAN frame +reception time. To reduce the number of checks that need to be performed +while walking through the filter lists the CAN core provides an optimized +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; + 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:: + + foo@bar:~$ cat /proc/net/can/rcvlist_all + + receive list 'rx_all': + (vcan3: no entry) + (vcan2: no entry) + (vcan1: no entry) + device can_id can_mask function userdata matches ident + vcan0 000 00000000 f88e6370 f6c6f400 0 raw + (any: no entry) + +In this example an application requests any CAN traffic from vcan0:: + + rcvlist_all - list for unfiltered entries (no filter operations) + rcvlist_eff - list for single extended frame (EFF) entries + rcvlist_err - list for error message frames masks + rcvlist_fil - list for mask/value filters + rcvlist_inv - list for mask/value filters (inverse semantic) + rcvlist_sff - list for single standard frame (SFF) entries + +Additional procfs files in /proc/net/can:: + + stats - SocketCAN core statistics (rx/tx frames, match ratios, ...) + reset_stats - manual statistic reset + version - prints the SocketCAN core version and the ABI version + + +Writing Own CAN Protocol Modules +-------------------------------- + +To implement a new protocol in the protocol family PF_CAN a new +protocol has to be defined in include/linux/can.h . +The prototypes and definitions to use the SocketCAN core can be +accessed by including include/linux/can/core.h . +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:: + + can_rx_register - subscribe CAN frames from a specific interface + can_rx_unregister - unsubscribe CAN frames from a specific interface + can_send - transmit a CAN frame (optional with local loopback) + +For details see the kerneldoc documentation in net/can/af_can.c or +the source code of net/can/raw.c or net/can/bcm.c . + + +CAN Network Drivers +=================== + +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: + +- TX: Put the CAN frame from the socket buffer to the CAN controller. +- RX: Put the CAN frame from the CAN controller to the socket buffer. + +See e.g. at Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt . The differences +for writing CAN network device driver are described below: + + +General Settings +---------------- + +.. code-block:: C + + dev->type = ARPHRD_CAN; /* the netdevice hardware type */ + dev->flags = IFF_NOARP; /* CAN has no arp */ + + dev->mtu = CAN_MTU; /* sizeof(struct can_frame) -> legacy CAN interface */ + + 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: + +Local Loopback of Sent Frames +----------------------------- + +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:: + + dev->flags = (IFF_NOARP | IFF_ECHO); + + +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) |