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