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7 Overview / What Is J1939
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10 SAE J1939 defines a higher layer protocol on CAN. It implements a more
11 sophisticated addressing scheme and extends the maximum packet size above 8
12 bytes. Several derived specifications exist, which differ from the original
13 J1939 on the application level, like MilCAN A, NMEA2000 and especially
14 ISO-11783 (ISOBUS). This last one specifies the so-called ETP (Extended
15 Transport Protocol) which is has been included in this implementation. This
16 results in a maximum packet size of ((2 ^ 24) - 1) * 7 bytes == 111 MiB.
21 * SAE J1939-21 : data link layer
22 * SAE J1939-81 : network management
23 * ISO 11783-6 : Virtual Terminal (Extended Transport Protocol)
30 Given the fact there's something like SocketCAN with an API similar to BSD
31 sockets, we found some reasons to justify a kernel implementation for the
32 addressing and transport methods used by J1939.
34 * **Addressing:** when a process on an ECU communicates via J1939, it should
35 not necessarily know its source address. Although at least one process per
36 ECU should know the source address. Other processes should be able to reuse
37 that address. This way, address parameters for different processes
38 cooperating for the same ECU, are not duplicated. This way of working is
39 closely related to the UNIX concept where programs do just one thing, and do
42 * **Dynamic addressing:** Address Claiming in J1939 is time critical.
43 Furthermore data transport should be handled properly during the address
44 negotiation. Putting this functionality in the kernel eliminates it as a
45 requirement for _every_ user space process that communicates via J1939. This
46 results in a consistent J1939 bus with proper addressing.
48 * **Transport:** both TP & ETP reuse some PGNs to relay big packets over them.
49 Different processes may thus use the same TP & ETP PGNs without actually
50 knowing it. The individual TP & ETP sessions _must_ be serialized
51 (synchronized) between different processes. The kernel solves this problem
52 properly and eliminates the serialization (synchronization) as a requirement
53 for _every_ user space process that communicates via J1939.
55 J1939 defines some other features (relaying, gateway, fast packet transport,
56 ...). In-kernel code for these would not contribute to protocol stability.
57 Therefore, these parts are left to user space.
59 The J1939 sockets operate on CAN network devices (see SocketCAN). Any J1939
60 user space library operating on CAN raw sockets will still operate properly.
61 Since such library does not communicate with the in-kernel implementation, care
62 must be taken that these two do not interfere. In practice, this means they
63 cannot share ECU addresses. A single ECU (or virtual ECU) address is used by
64 the library exclusively, or by the in-kernel system exclusively.
72 The PGN (Parameter Group Number) is a number to identify a packet. The PGN
73 is composed as follows:
76 8 bits : PF (PDU Format)
77 8 bits : PS (PDU Specific)
79 In J1939-21 distinction is made between PDU1 format (where PF < 240) and PDU2
80 format (where PF >= 240). Furthermore, when using PDU2 format, the PS-field
81 contains a so-called Group Extension, which is part of the PGN. When using PDU2
82 format, the Group Extension is set in the PS-field.
84 On the other hand, when using PDU1 format, the PS-field contains a so-called
85 Destination Address, which is _not_ part of the PGN. When communicating a PGN
86 from user space to kernel (or visa versa) and PDU2 format is used, the PS-field
87 of the PGN shall be set to zero. The Destination Address shall be set
90 Regarding PGN mapping to 29-bit CAN identifier, the Destination Address shall
91 be get/set from/to the appropriate bits of the identifier by the kernel.
97 Both static and dynamic addressing methods can be used.
99 For static addresses, no extra checks are made by the kernel, and provided
100 addresses are considered right. This responsibility is for the OEM or system
103 For dynamic addressing, so-called Address Claiming, extra support is foreseen
104 in the kernel. In J1939 any ECU is known by it's 64-bit NAME. At the moment of
105 a successful address claim, the kernel keeps track of both NAME and source
106 address being claimed. This serves as a base for filter schemes. By default,
107 packets with a destination that is not locally, will be rejected.
109 Mixed mode packets (from a static to a dynamic address or vice versa) are
110 allowed. The BSD sockets define separate API calls for getting/setting the
111 local & remote address and are applicable for J1939 sockets.
116 J1939 defines white list filters per socket that a user can set in order to
117 receive a subset of the J1939 traffic. Filtering can be based on:
123 When multiple filters are in place for a single socket, and a packet comes in
124 that matches several of those filters, the packet is only received once for
133 On CAN, you first need to open a socket for communicating over a CAN network.
134 To use J1939, #include <linux/can/j1939.h>. From there, <linux/can.h> will be
135 included too. To open a socket, use:
139 s = socket(PF_CAN, SOCK_DGRAM, CAN_J1939);
141 J1939 does use SOCK_DGRAM sockets. In the J1939 specification, connections are
142 mentioned in the context of transport protocol sessions. These still deliver
143 packets to the other end (using several CAN packets). SOCK_STREAM is not
146 After the successful creation of the socket, you would normally use the bind(2)
147 and/or connect(2) system call to bind the socket to a CAN interface. After
148 binding and/or connecting the socket, you can read(2) and write(2) from/to the
149 socket or use send(2), sendto(2), sendmsg(2) and the recv*() counterpart
150 operations on the socket as usual. There are also J1939 specific socket options
153 In order to send data, a bind(2) must have been successful. bind(2) assigns a
154 local address to a socket.
156 Different from CAN is that the payload data is just the data that get send,
157 without it's header info. The header info is derived from the sockaddr supplied
158 to bind(2), connect(2), sendto(2) and recvfrom(2). A write(2) with size 4 will
159 result in a packet with 4 bytes.
161 The sockaddr structure has extensions for use with J1939 as specified below:
165 struct sockaddr_can {
166 sa_family_t can_family;
172 * 8 bit: PS in PDU2 case, else 0
183 can_family & can_ifindex serve the same purpose as for other SocketCAN sockets.
185 can_addr.j1939.pgn specifies the PGN (max 0x3ffff). Individual bits are
188 can_addr.j1939.name contains the 64-bit J1939 NAME.
190 can_addr.j1939.addr contains the address.
192 The bind(2) system call assigns the local address, i.e. the source address when
193 sending packages. If a PGN during bind(2) is set, it's used as a RX filter.
194 I.e. only packets with a matching PGN are received. If an ADDR or NAME is set
195 it is used as a receive filter, too. It will match the destination NAME or ADDR
196 of the incoming packet. The NAME filter will work only if appropriate Address
197 Claiming for this name was done on the CAN bus and registered/cached by the
200 On the other hand connect(2) assigns the remote address, i.e. the destination
201 address. The PGN from connect(2) is used as the default PGN when sending
202 packets. If ADDR or NAME is set it will be used as the default destination ADDR
203 or NAME. Further a set ADDR or NAME during connect(2) is used as a receive
204 filter. It will match the source NAME or ADDR of the incoming packet.
206 Both write(2) and send(2) will send a packet with local address from bind(2) and
207 the remote address from connect(2). Use sendto(2) to overwrite the destination
210 If can_addr.j1939.name is set (!= 0) the NAME is looked up by the kernel and
211 the corresponding ADDR is used. If can_addr.j1939.name is not set (== 0),
212 can_addr.j1939.addr is used.
214 When creating a socket, reasonable defaults are set. Some options can be
215 modified with setsockopt(2) & getsockopt(2).
217 RX path related options:
219 - SO_J1939_FILTER - configure array of filters
220 - SO_J1939_PROMISC - disable filters set by bind(2) and connect(2)
222 By default no broadcast packets can be send or received. To enable sending or
223 receiving broadcast packets use the socket option SO_BROADCAST:
228 setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, &value, sizeof(value));
230 The following diagram illustrates the RX path:
234 +--------------------+
236 +--------------------+
239 +--------------------+
240 | SO_J1939_PROMISC? |
241 +--------------------+
245 .---------' `---------.
247 +---------------------------+ |
248 | bind() + connect() + | |
249 | SOCK_BROADCAST filter | |
250 +---------------------------+ |
252 |<---------------------'
254 +---------------------------+
256 +---------------------------+
259 +---------------------------+
261 +---------------------------+
263 TX path related options:
264 SO_J1939_SEND_PRIO - change default send priority for the socket
266 Message Flags during send() and Related System Calls
267 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
269 send(2), sendto(2) and sendmsg(2) take a 'flags' argument. Currently
272 * MSG_DONTWAIT, i.e. non-blocking operation.
277 In most cases recvmsg(2) is needed if you want to extract more information than
278 recvfrom(2) can provide. For example package priority and timestamp. The
279 Destination Address, name and packet priority (if applicable) are attached to
280 the msghdr in the recvmsg(2) call. They can be extracted using cmsg(3) macros,
281 with cmsg_level == SOL_J1939 && cmsg_type == SCM_J1939_DEST_ADDR,
282 SCM_J1939_DEST_NAME or SCM_J1939_PRIO. The returned data is a uint8_t for
283 priority and dst_addr, and uint64_t for dst_name.
287 uint8_t priority, dst_addr;
290 for (cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg); cmsg; cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR(&msg, cmsg)) {
291 switch (cmsg->cmsg_level) {
293 if (cmsg->cmsg_type == SCM_J1939_DEST_ADDR)
294 dst_addr = *CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
295 else if (cmsg->cmsg_type == SCM_J1939_DEST_NAME)
296 memcpy(&dst_name, CMSG_DATA(cmsg), cmsg->cmsg_len - CMSG_LEN(0));
297 else if (cmsg->cmsg_type == SCM_J1939_PRIO)
298 priority = *CMSG_DATA(cmsg);
306 Distinction has to be made between using the claimed address and doing an
307 address claim. To use an already claimed address, one has to fill in the
308 j1939.name member and provide it to bind(2). If the name had claimed an address
309 earlier, all further messages being sent will use that address. And the
310 j1939.addr member will be ignored.
312 An exception on this is PGN 0x0ee00. This is the "Address Claim/Cannot Claim
313 Address" message and the kernel will use the j1939.addr member for that PGN if
316 To claim an address following code example can be used:
320 struct sockaddr_can baddr = {
321 .can_family = AF_CAN,
324 .addr = J1939_IDLE_ADDR,
325 .pgn = J1939_NO_PGN, /* to disable bind() rx filter for PGN */
327 .can_ifindex = if_nametoindex("can0"),
330 bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&baddr, sizeof(baddr));
332 /* for Address Claiming broadcast must be allowed */
334 setsockopt(sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, &value, sizeof(value));
336 /* configured advanced RX filter with PGN needed for Address Claiming */
337 const struct j1939_filter filt[] = {
339 .pgn = J1939_PGN_ADDRESS_CLAIMED,
340 .pgn_mask = J1939_PGN_PDU1_MAX,
342 .pgn = J1939_PGN_REQUEST,
343 .pgn_mask = J1939_PGN_PDU1_MAX,
345 .pgn = J1939_PGN_ADDRESS_COMMANDED,
346 .pgn_mask = J1939_PGN_MAX,
350 setsockopt(sock, SOL_CAN_J1939, SO_J1939_FILTER, &filt, sizeof(filt));
352 uint64_t dat = htole64(name);
353 const struct sockaddr_can saddr = {
354 .can_family = AF_CAN,
356 .pgn = J1939_PGN_ADDRESS_CLAIMED,
357 .addr = J1939_NO_ADDR,
361 /* Afterwards do a sendto(2) with data set to the NAME (Little Endian). If the
362 * NAME provided, does not match the j1939.name provided to bind(2), EPROTO
365 sendto(sock, dat, sizeof(dat), 0, (const struct sockaddr *)&saddr, sizeof(saddr));
367 If no-one else contests the address claim within 250ms after transmission, the
368 kernel marks the NAME-SA assignment as valid. The valid assignment will be kept
369 among other valid NAME-SA assignments. From that point, any socket bound to the
370 NAME can send packets.
372 If another ECU claims the address, the kernel will mark the NAME-SA expired.
373 No socket bound to the NAME can send packets (other than address claims). To
374 claim another address, some socket bound to NAME, must bind(2) again, but with
375 only j1939.addr changed to the new SA, and must then send a valid address claim
376 packet. This restarts the state machine in the kernel (and any other
377 participant on the bus) for this NAME.
379 can-utils also include the jacd tool, so it can be used as code example or as
380 default Address Claiming daemon.
388 This example will send a PGN (0x12300) from SA 0x20 to DA 0x30.
394 struct sockaddr_can baddr = {
395 .can_family = AF_CAN,
397 .name = J1939_NO_NAME,
401 .can_ifindex = if_nametoindex("can0"),
404 bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)&baddr, sizeof(baddr));
406 Now, the socket 'sock' is bound to the SA 0x20. Since no connect(2) was called,
407 at this point we can use only sendto(2) or sendmsg(2).
413 const struct sockaddr_can saddr = {
414 .can_family = AF_CAN,
416 .name = J1939_NO_NAME;
422 sendto(sock, dat, sizeof(dat), 0, (const struct sockaddr *)&saddr, sizeof(saddr));