* [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
@ 2014-09-18 16:25 Andri Yngvason
2014-09-19 21:10 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andri Yngvason @ 2014-09-18 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfgang Grandegger, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
---
drivers/net/can/flexcan.c | 66
+++--------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c b/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
index 2700865..96a0755 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
@@ -559,74 +559,15 @@ static int flexcan_poll_bus_err(struct net_device
*dev, u32 reg_esr)
static void do_state(struct net_device *dev,
struct can_frame *cf, enum can_state new_state)
{
- struct flexcan_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
struct can_berr_counter bec;
__flexcan_get_berr_counter(dev, &bec);
- switch (priv->can.state) {
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
- /*
- * from: ERROR_ACTIVE
- * to : ERROR_WARNING, ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
- * => : there was a warning int
- */
- if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING &&
- new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning IRQ\n");
- priv->can.can_stats.error_warning++;
-
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
- cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
- }
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING: /* fallthrough */
- /*
- * from: ERROR_ACTIVE, ERROR_WARNING
- * to : ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
- * => : error passive int
- */
- if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE &&
- new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Passive IRQ\n");
- priv->can.can_stats.error_passive++;
-
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
- cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_PASSIVE :
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_PASSIVE;
- }
- break;
- case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
- netdev_err(dev, "BUG! "
- "hardware recovered automatically from BUS_OFF\n");
- break;
- default:
- break;
- }
+ can_change_state(dev, cf, new_state,
+ can_get_err_dir(bec.rxerr, bec.txerr));
- /* process state changes depending on the new state */
- switch (new_state) {
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING:
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning\n");
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
- cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
- break;
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Active\n");
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_PROT;
- cf->data[2] = CAN_ERR_PROT_ACTIVE;
- break;
- case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_BUSOFF;
+ if (unlikely(new_state == CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF))
can_bus_off(dev);
- break;
- default:
- break;
- }
}
static int flexcan_poll_state(struct net_device *dev, u32 reg_esr)
@@ -658,7 +599,6 @@ static int flexcan_poll_state(struct net_device
*dev, u32 reg_esr)
return 0;
do_state(dev, cf, new_state);
- priv->can.state = new_state;
netif_receive_skb(skb);
dev->stats.rx_packets++;
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* [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
@ 2014-09-18 16:38 Andri Yngvason
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andri Yngvason @ 2014-09-18 16:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-can
Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
---
drivers/net/can/flexcan.c | 66
+++--------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c b/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
index 2700865..96a0755 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
@@ -559,74 +559,15 @@ static int flexcan_poll_bus_err(struct net_device
*dev, u32 reg_esr)
static void do_state(struct net_device *dev,
struct can_frame *cf, enum can_state new_state)
{
- struct flexcan_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
struct can_berr_counter bec;
__flexcan_get_berr_counter(dev, &bec);
- switch (priv->can.state) {
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
- /*
- * from: ERROR_ACTIVE
- * to : ERROR_WARNING, ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
- * => : there was a warning int
- */
- if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING &&
- new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning IRQ\n");
- priv->can.can_stats.error_warning++;
-
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
- cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
- }
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING: /* fallthrough */
- /*
- * from: ERROR_ACTIVE, ERROR_WARNING
- * to : ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
- * => : error passive int
- */
- if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE &&
- new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Passive IRQ\n");
- priv->can.can_stats.error_passive++;
-
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
- cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_PASSIVE :
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_PASSIVE;
- }
- break;
- case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
- netdev_err(dev, "BUG! "
- "hardware recovered automatically from BUS_OFF\n");
- break;
- default:
- break;
- }
+ can_change_state(dev, cf, new_state,
+ can_get_err_dir(bec.rxerr, bec.txerr));
- /* process state changes depending on the new state */
- switch (new_state) {
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING:
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning\n");
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
- cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
- CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
- break;
- case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
- netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Active\n");
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_PROT;
- cf->data[2] = CAN_ERR_PROT_ACTIVE;
- break;
- case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
- cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_BUSOFF;
+ if (unlikely(new_state == CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF))
can_bus_off(dev);
- break;
- default:
- break;
- }
}
static int flexcan_poll_state(struct net_device *dev, u32 reg_esr)
@@ -658,7 +599,6 @@ static int flexcan_poll_state(struct net_device
*dev, u32 reg_esr)
return 0;
do_state(dev, cf, new_state);
- priv->can.state = new_state;
netif_receive_skb(skb);
dev->stats.rx_packets++;
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-18 16:25 Andri Yngvason
@ 2014-09-19 21:10 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2014-09-21 14:47 ` Andri Yngvason
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Grandegger @ 2014-09-19 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andri Yngvason, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On 09/18/2014 06:25 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/can/flexcan.c | 66
> +++--------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c b/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
> index 2700865..96a0755 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/flexcan.c
> @@ -559,74 +559,15 @@ static int flexcan_poll_bus_err(struct net_device
> *dev, u32 reg_esr)
> static void do_state(struct net_device *dev,
> struct can_frame *cf, enum can_state new_state)
> {
> - struct flexcan_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> struct can_berr_counter bec;
>
> __flexcan_get_berr_counter(dev, &bec);
>
> - switch (priv->can.state) {
> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
> - /*
> - * from: ERROR_ACTIVE
> - * to : ERROR_WARNING, ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
> - * => : there was a warning int
> - */
> - if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING &&
> - new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning IRQ\n");
> - priv->can.can_stats.error_warning++;
> -
> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
Hm, can_change_state() handles the equal case differently. In the
SJA1000 manual I found:
"Errors detected during reception or transmission will affect the error
counters according to the CAN 2.0B protocol
specification. The error status bit is set when at least one of the
error counters has reached or exceeded the CPU
warning limit of 96. An error interrupt is generated, if enabled."
If both are equal we do not known if rx or tx has caused the state
change and therefore setting "CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING |
CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING" seems more logical, indeed. But maybe it simply
does not happen. Any other opinions?
> - }
> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING: /* fallthrough */
> - /*
> - * from: ERROR_ACTIVE, ERROR_WARNING
> - * to : ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
> - * => : error passive int
> - */
> - if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE &&
> - new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Passive IRQ\n");
> - priv->can.can_stats.error_passive++;
> -
> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_PASSIVE :
> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_PASSIVE;
> - }
> - break;
> - case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
> - netdev_err(dev, "BUG! "
> - "hardware recovered automatically from BUS_OFF\n");
> - break;
> - default:
> - break;
> - }
> + can_change_state(dev, cf, new_state,
> + can_get_err_dir(bec.rxerr, bec.txerr));
Saves a lot of lines :).
>
> - /* process state changes depending on the new state */
> - switch (new_state) {
> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING:
> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning\n");
> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
> - break;
> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Active\n");
> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_PROT;
> - cf->data[2] = CAN_ERR_PROT_ACTIVE;
> - break;
> - case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_BUSOFF;
> + if (unlikely(new_state == CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF))
> can_bus_off(dev);
> - break;
> - default:
> - break;
> - }
> }
>
> static int flexcan_poll_state(struct net_device *dev, u32 reg_esr)
> @@ -658,7 +599,6 @@ static int flexcan_poll_state(struct net_device
> *dev, u32 reg_esr)
> return 0;
>
> do_state(dev, cf, new_state);
> - priv->can.state = new_state;
> netif_receive_skb(skb);
>
> dev->stats.rx_packets++;
> --
To validate the correct behaviour could you please send messages while
the cable is disconnected. Then reconnect the cable and see how the
error state decreases. You can monitor the behaviour with ""candump -td
-e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF" in another shell.
Wolfgang.
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-19 21:10 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
@ 2014-09-21 14:47 ` Andri Yngvason
2014-09-21 15:30 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andri Yngvason @ 2014-09-21 14:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfgang Grandegger, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On fös 19.sep 2014 21:10, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 09/18/2014 06:25 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
>> ---
>> ...
>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
> Hm, can_change_state() handles the equal case differently. In the
> SJA1000 manual I found:
>
> "Errors detected during reception or transmission will affect the error
> counters according to the CAN 2.0B protocol
> specification. The error status bit is set when at least one of the
> error counters has reached or exceeded the CPU
> warning limit of 96. An error interrupt is generated, if enabled."
>
> If both are equal we do not known if rx or tx has caused the state
> change and therefore setting "CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING |
> CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING" seems more logical, indeed. But maybe it simply
> does not happen. Any other opinions?
I think that not specifically handling the equal case would be wrong. Let's
consider the following sequence of events:
* txerr reaches warning level
* rxerr reaches warning level
If they are both equal at this point, you will only get a second
CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING in the current implementation, whereas in the
proposed
implementation, the user would get
CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING | CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING and because the user
can know
the prior error state message, he can find out which state actually changed.
But this is all based on the premise that txerr hasn't progressed since.
In fact,
because we cannot assume that txerr stays in place until rxerr catches
up, this
is what we should be doing:
enum can_state errcount_to_state(unsigned int count)
{
if (unlikely(count > 127))
return CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE;
if (unlikely(count > 96))
return CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING;
return CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE;
}
enum can_err_dir can_get_err_dir(unsigned int txerr, unsigned int rxerr)
{
enum can_err_dir dir;
enum can_state tx_state = errcount_to_state(txerr);
enum can_state rx_state = errcount_to_state(rxerr);
if (tx_state > rx_state)
return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX;
if (tx_state < rx_state)
return CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX | CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
}
However, now that we've introduced errcount_to_state(), it seems to me
that it would
be simpler to dump the proposed CAN_ERR_DIR enum in favour of passing
the two states
directly to can_change_state().
>> - }
>> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING: /* fallthrough */
>> - /*
>> - * from: ERROR_ACTIVE, ERROR_WARNING
>> - * to : ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
>> - * => : error passive int
>> - */
>> - if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE &&
>> - new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
>> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Passive IRQ\n");
>> - priv->can.can_stats.error_passive++;
>> -
>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_PASSIVE :
>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_PASSIVE;
>> - }
>> - break;
>> - case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
>> - netdev_err(dev, "BUG! "
>> - "hardware recovered automatically from BUS_OFF\n");
>> - break;
>> - default:
>> - break;
>> - }
>> + can_change_state(dev, cf, new_state,
>> + can_get_err_dir(bec.rxerr, bec.txerr));
> Saves a lot of lines :).
Indeed ;)
>
>> - /* process state changes depending on the new state */
>> - switch (new_state) {
>> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING:
>> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning\n");
>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
> To validate the correct behaviour could you please send messages while
> the cable is disconnected. Then reconnect the cable and see how the
> error state decreases. You can monitor the behaviour with ""candump -td
> -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF" in another shell.
>
I'm using PCAN-USB Pro to generate errors on the bus. It works quite well.
I can generate tx errors by sending from the device and then have the pcan
ruin a few frames. rx errors can be generated by having an other device on
the bus outputting random data and then let the pcan corrupt the frames.
Sadly the error generation mechanism only works on windows. :(
I've tried the "disconnected cable" method too in the past. It usually
puts mscan into bus-off quite fast.
Thanks for the comments!
Andri
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-21 14:47 ` Andri Yngvason
@ 2014-09-21 15:30 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2014-09-21 17:27 ` Andri Yngvason
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Grandegger @ 2014-09-21 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andri Yngvason, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On 09/21/2014 04:47 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>
> On fös 19.sep 2014 21:10, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> On 09/18/2014 06:25 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
>>> ---
>>> ...
>>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
>> Hm, can_change_state() handles the equal case differently. In the
>> SJA1000 manual I found:
>>
>> "Errors detected during reception or transmission will affect the error
>> counters according to the CAN 2.0B protocol
>> specification. The error status bit is set when at least one of the
>> error counters has reached or exceeded the CPU
>> warning limit of 96. An error interrupt is generated, if enabled."
>>
>> If both are equal we do not known if rx or tx has caused the state
>> change and therefore setting "CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING |
>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING" seems more logical, indeed. But maybe it simply
>> does not happen. Any other opinions?
> I think that not specifically handling the equal case would be wrong. Let's
> consider the following sequence of events:
> * txerr reaches warning level
> * rxerr reaches warning level
> If they are both equal at this point, you will only get a second
> CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING in the current implementation, whereas in the
> proposed
> implementation, the user would get
> CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING | CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING and because the user
> can know
> the prior error state message, he can find out which state actually
> changed.
The question is what error (rx or tx) error did triger the error state
change interrupt. I doubt that such an interrupt is triggered when one
error counter catches up, .e.g. txer was > 128 and rxerr exceeded 128.
It's even not sure that all the controllers act the same way. Therefore
also keeping the current behaviour would be fine for me.
> But this is all based on the premise that txerr hasn't progressed since.
> In fact,
> because we cannot assume that txerr stays in place until rxerr catches
> up, this
> is what we should be doing:
> enum can_state errcount_to_state(unsigned int count)
> {
> if (unlikely(count > 127))
> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE;
>
> if (unlikely(count > 96))
> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING;
>
> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE;
> }
>
> enum can_err_dir can_get_err_dir(unsigned int txerr, unsigned int rxerr)
> {
> enum can_err_dir dir;
>
> enum can_state tx_state = errcount_to_state(txerr);
> enum can_state rx_state = errcount_to_state(rxerr);
>
> if (tx_state > rx_state)
> return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX;
>
> if (tx_state < rx_state)
> return CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
>
> return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX | CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
> }
>
> However, now that we've introduced errcount_to_state(), it seems to me
> that it would
> be simpler to dump the proposed CAN_ERR_DIR enum in favour of passing
> the two states
> directly to can_change_state().
D'accord.
>>> - }
>>> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING: /* fallthrough */
>>> - /*
>>> - * from: ERROR_ACTIVE, ERROR_WARNING
>>> - * to : ERROR_PASSIVE, BUS_OFF
>>> - * => : error passive int
>>> - */
>>> - if (new_state >= CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE &&
>>> - new_state <= CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF) {
>>> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Passive IRQ\n");
>>> - priv->can.can_stats.error_passive++;
>>> -
>>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_PASSIVE :
>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_PASSIVE;
>>> - }
>>> - break;
>>> - case CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF:
>>> - netdev_err(dev, "BUG! "
>>> - "hardware recovered automatically from BUS_OFF\n");
>>> - break;
>>> - default:
>>> - break;
>>> - }
>>> + can_change_state(dev, cf, new_state,
>>> + can_get_err_dir(bec.rxerr, bec.txerr));
>> Saves a lot of lines :).
> Indeed ;)
>>
>>> - /* process state changes depending on the new state */
>>> - switch (new_state) {
>>> - case CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING:
>>> - netdev_dbg(dev, "Error Warning\n");
>>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
>> To validate the correct behaviour could you please send messages while
>> the cable is disconnected. Then reconnect the cable and see how the
>> error state decreases. You can monitor the behaviour with ""candump -td
>> -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF" in another shell.
>>
> I'm using PCAN-USB Pro to generate errors on the bus. It works quite well.
> I can generate tx errors by sending from the device and then have the pcan
> ruin a few frames. rx errors can be generated by having an other device on
> the bus outputting random data and then let the pcan corrupt the frames.
Short-circuiting the CAN low and high lines is a simple method to
> Sadly the error generation mechanism only works on windows. :(
>
> I've tried the "disconnected cable" method too in the past. It usually
> puts mscan into bus-off quite fast.
Sending a message whithout cable should never trigger an bus-off. The tx
error counter never exceeds 128.
Here is an example output of "candump -candump -td -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF"
for a recovery from error passive state due to no ack/cable (reconnect
after 5s) for a SJA1000 on an on EMS PCI card:
(000.201913) can0 1C [0]
(000.212241) can0 20000204 [8] 00 08 00 00 00 00 60 00 ERRORFRAME
controller-problem{tx-error-warning}
state-change{tx-error-warning}
error-counter-tx-rx{{96}{0}}
(000.003544) can0 20000204 [8] 00 20 00 00 00 00 80 00 ERRORFRAME
controller-problem{tx-error-passive}
state-change{tx-error-passive}
error-counter-tx-rx{{128}{0}}
(004.901842) can0 1D [7] 1D F6 33 52 31 4B DE
(000.000116) can0 20000200 [8] 00 08 00 00 00 00 7F 00 ERRORFRAME
state-change{tx-error-warning}
error-counter-tx-rx{{127}{0}}
(000.000678) can0 1E [6] 42 05 14 82 23 B6
...
(000.201927) can0 49 [4] 2F 1A 97 25
(000.000096) can0 20000200 [8] 00 40 00 00 00 00 5F 00 ERRORFRAME
state-change{back-to-error-active}
error-counter-tx-rx{{95}{0}}
(000.202184) can0 4A [8] 7F 87 0E FE 03 BA 78 91
This is from my related patch-set.
Wolfgang.
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-21 15:30 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
@ 2014-09-21 17:27 ` Andri Yngvason
2014-09-23 20:33 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Andri Yngvason @ 2014-09-21 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfgang Grandegger, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On sun 21.sep 2014 15:30, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 09/21/2014 04:47 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>> On fös 19.sep 2014 21:10, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>> On 09/18/2014 06:25 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> ...
>>>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>>>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
>>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
>>> Hm, can_change_state() handles the equal case differently. In the
>>> SJA1000 manual I found:
>>>
>>> "Errors detected during reception or transmission will affect the error
>>> counters according to the CAN 2.0B protocol
>>> specification. The error status bit is set when at least one of the
>>> error counters has reached or exceeded the CPU
>>> warning limit of 96. An error interrupt is generated, if enabled."
>>>
>>> If both are equal we do not known if rx or tx has caused the state
>>> change and therefore setting "CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING |
>>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING" seems more logical, indeed. But maybe it simply
>>> does not happen. Any other opinions?
>> I think that not specifically handling the equal case would be wrong. Let's
>> consider the following sequence of events:
>> * txerr reaches warning level
>> * rxerr reaches warning level
>> If they are both equal at this point, you will only get a second
>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING in the current implementation, whereas in the
>> proposed
>> implementation, the user would get
>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING | CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING and because the user
>> can know
>> the prior error state message, he can find out which state actually
>> changed.
> The question is what error (rx or tx) error did triger the error state
> change interrupt. I doubt that such an interrupt is triggered when one
> error counter catches up, .e.g. txer was > 128 and rxerr exceeded 128.
> It's even not sure that all the controllers act the same way. Therefore
> also keeping the current behaviour would be fine for me.
Also, because of the state != priv->state assert, the equal case won't
happen
when the state increases, but it might happen when it goes down. Perhaps
that should be changed?
But in the case where the state goes down, there will definitely be an
interrupt generated. E.g. rx_state = warn, tx_state = passive and then when
tx_state -> warn, we will have the controller's state go to warn from
passive,
and then rx_state == tx_state. So, if we only want to send which state
changed, we actually have to keep copies of each counter's current (last)
state, as is done in priv->state, for the whole controller.
I think it would be easier, simpler and more useful to just send the
current,
state of each counter whenever the state changes. Consider this:
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
index 02492d2..6199571 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
@@ -273,6 +273,118 @@ static int can_get_bittiming(struct net_device
*dev, struct can_bittiming *bt,
return err;
}
+static void can_update_error_counters(enum can_state new_state)
+{
+ if (state < priv->state)
+ return;
+
+ switch (new_state) {
+ case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
+ netdev_warn(dev, "%s: oops, did we come from a state less than
error-active?",
+ __func__);
+ break;
...
+}
+
+static int can_txstate_to_frame(enum can_state state)
+{
+ switch(state)
+ {
+ case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
+ return CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_ACTIVE;
...
+}
+
+static int can_rxstate_to_frame(enum can_state state)
+{
+ switch(state)
+ {
+ case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
+ return CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_ACTIVE;
...
+}
+
+void can_change_state(struct net_device *dev, struct can_frame *cf,
+ enum can_state new_state, enum can_state tx_state,
+ enum can_state rx_state)
+{
+ struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+ if (unlikely(state == priv->state)) {
+ netdev_warn(dev, "%s: oops, state did not change", __func__);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ can_update_error_counters(new_state);
+
+ if (unlikely(state == CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF)) {
+ cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_BUSOFF;
+ } else {
+ cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
+ /* Absolute: */
+ cf->data[1] |= can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state)
+ | can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
+ /* Alternatively, the difference:
+ * if (tx_state > rx_state)
+ * cf->data[1] |= can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state);
+ * if (tx_state < rx_state)
+ * cf->data[1] |= can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
+ * else
+ * cf->data[1] |= can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state)
+ * | can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
+ * Or even, disregarding the equal case:
+ * cf->data[1] |= (tx_state > rx_state) ?
+ * can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state) :
+ * can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
+ */
+
+ }
+
+ priv->state = state;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(can_change_state);
+
/*
* Local echo of CAN messages
*
>> But this is all based on the premise that txerr hasn't progressed since.
>> In fact,
>> because we cannot assume that txerr stays in place until rxerr catches
>> up, this
>> is what we should be doing:
>> enum can_state errcount_to_state(unsigned int count)
>> {
>> if (unlikely(count > 127))
>> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE;
>>
>> if (unlikely(count > 96))
>> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING;
>>
>> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE;
>> }
>>
>> enum can_err_dir can_get_err_dir(unsigned int txerr, unsigned int rxerr)
>> {
>> enum can_err_dir dir;
>>
>> enum can_state tx_state = errcount_to_state(txerr);
>> enum can_state rx_state = errcount_to_state(rxerr);
>>
>> if (tx_state > rx_state)
>> return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX;
>>
>> if (tx_state < rx_state)
>> return CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
>>
>> return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX | CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
>> }
>>
>> However, now that we've introduced errcount_to_state(), it seems to me
>> that it would
>> be simpler to dump the proposed CAN_ERR_DIR enum in favour of passing
>> the two states
>> directly to can_change_state().
> D'accord.
>
>>
>>> To validate the correct behaviour could you please send messages while
>>> the cable is disconnected. Then reconnect the cable and see how the
>>> error state decreases. You can monitor the behaviour with ""candump -td
>>> -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF" in another shell.
>>>
>> I'm using PCAN-USB Pro to generate errors on the bus. It works quite well.
>> I can generate tx errors by sending from the device and then have the pcan
>> ruin a few frames. rx errors can be generated by having an other device on
>> the bus outputting random data and then let the pcan corrupt the frames.
> Short-circuiting the CAN low and high lines is a simple method to
Ahh, yes, I tried that too. That's what triggered bus-off. I got it
mixed up in
my head. :)
>> Sadly the error generation mechanism only works on windows. :(
>>
>> I've tried the "disconnected cable" method too in the past. It usually
>> puts mscan into bus-off quite fast.
> Sending a message whithout cable should never trigger an bus-off. The tx
> error counter never exceeds 128.
>
> Here is an example output of "candump -candump -td -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF"
> for a recovery from error passive state due to no ack/cable (reconnect
> after 5s) for a SJA1000 on an on EMS PCI card:
>
> (000.201913) can0 1C [0]
> (000.212241) can0 20000204 [8] 00 08 00 00 00 00 60 00 ERRORFRAME
> controller-problem{tx-error-warning}
> state-change{tx-error-warning}
> error-counter-tx-rx{{96}{0}}
> (000.003544) can0 20000204 [8] 00 20 00 00 00 00 80 00 ERRORFRAME
> controller-problem{tx-error-passive}
> state-change{tx-error-passive}
> error-counter-tx-rx{{128}{0}}
> (004.901842) can0 1D [7] 1D F6 33 52 31 4B DE
> (000.000116) can0 20000200 [8] 00 08 00 00 00 00 7F 00 ERRORFRAME
> state-change{tx-error-warning}
> error-counter-tx-rx{{127}{0}}
> (000.000678) can0 1E [6] 42 05 14 82 23 B6
> ...
> (000.201927) can0 49 [4] 2F 1A 97 25
> (000.000096) can0 20000200 [8] 00 40 00 00 00 00 5F 00 ERRORFRAME
> state-change{back-to-error-active}
> error-counter-tx-rx{{95}{0}}
> (000.202184) can0 4A [8] 7F 87 0E FE 03 BA 78 91
>
> This is from my related patch-set.
>
Okay, I'll try that but the -e flag won't help much because candump expects
the PROT abuse.
Andri
PS.: I must admit that I don't actually know why it's useful to know which
error counter changed; tx or rx. I think it would be much simpler to send
the max of both and be done with it. Can anyone point out a case where this
helps?
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-21 17:27 ` Andri Yngvason
@ 2014-09-23 20:33 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2014-09-23 22:31 ` Oliver Hartkopp
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Grandegger @ 2014-09-23 20:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andri Yngvason, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On 09/21/2014 07:27 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>
> On sun 21.sep 2014 15:30, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> On 09/21/2014 04:47 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>>> On fös 19.sep 2014 21:10, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>>>> On 09/18/2014 06:25 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Andri Yngvason <andri.yngvason@marel.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> ...
>>>>> - cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
>>>>> - cf->data[1] = (bec.txerr > bec.rxerr) ?
>>>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING :
>>>>> - CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING;
>>>> Hm, can_change_state() handles the equal case differently. In the
>>>> SJA1000 manual I found:
>>>>
>>>> "Errors detected during reception or transmission will affect the error
>>>> counters according to the CAN 2.0B protocol
>>>> specification. The error status bit is set when at least one of the
>>>> error counters has reached or exceeded the CPU
>>>> warning limit of 96. An error interrupt is generated, if enabled."
>>>>
>>>> If both are equal we do not known if rx or tx has caused the state
>>>> change and therefore setting "CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING |
>>>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING" seems more logical, indeed. But maybe it
>>>> simply
>>>> does not happen. Any other opinions?
>>> I think that not specifically handling the equal case would be wrong.
>>> Let's
>>> consider the following sequence of events:
>>> * txerr reaches warning level
>>> * rxerr reaches warning level
>>> If they are both equal at this point, you will only get a second
>>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING in the current implementation, whereas in the
>>> proposed
>>> implementation, the user would get
>>> CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING | CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING and because the user
>>> can know
>>> the prior error state message, he can find out which state actually
>>> changed.
>> The question is what error (rx or tx) error did triger the error state
>> change interrupt. I doubt that such an interrupt is triggered when one
>> error counter catches up, .e.g. txer was > 128 and rxerr exceeded 128.
>> It's even not sure that all the controllers act the same way. Therefore
>> also keeping the current behaviour would be fine for me.
> Also, because of the state != priv->state assert, the equal case won't
> happen
> when the state increases, but it might happen when it goes down. Perhaps
> that should be changed?
>
> But in the case where the state goes down, there will definitely be an
> interrupt generated. E.g. rx_state = warn, tx_state = passive and then when
> tx_state -> warn, we will have the controller's state go to warn from
> passive,
> and then rx_state == tx_state. So, if we only want to send which state
> changed, we actually have to keep copies of each counter's current (last)
> state, as is done in priv->state, for the whole controller.
Well, that's definitely to sophisticated
> I think it would be easier, simpler and more useful to just send the
> current,
> state of each counter whenever the state changes. Consider this:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> index 02492d2..6199571 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> @@ -273,6 +273,118 @@ static int can_get_bittiming(struct net_device
> *dev, struct can_bittiming *bt,
> return err;
> }
>
> +static void can_update_error_counters(enum can_state new_state)
> +{
> + if (state < priv->state)
> + return;
> +
> + switch (new_state) {
> + case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
> + netdev_warn(dev, "%s: oops, did we come from a state less than
> error-active?",
> + __func__);
> + break;
> ...
> +}
> +
> +static int can_txstate_to_frame(enum can_state state)
> +{
> + switch(state)
> + {
> + case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
> + return CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_ACTIVE;
> ...
> +}
> +
> +static int can_rxstate_to_frame(enum can_state state)
> +{
> + switch(state)
> + {
> + case CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE:
> + return CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_ACTIVE;
> ...
> +}
> +
> +void can_change_state(struct net_device *dev, struct can_frame *cf,
> + enum can_state new_state, enum can_state tx_state,
> + enum can_state rx_state)
> +{
> + struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> +
> + if (unlikely(state == priv->state)) {
> + netdev_warn(dev, "%s: oops, state did not change", __func__);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + can_update_error_counters(new_state);
> +
> + if (unlikely(state == CAN_STATE_BUS_OFF)) {
> + cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_BUSOFF;
> + } else {
> + cf->can_id |= CAN_ERR_CRTL;
> + /* Absolute: */
> + cf->data[1] |= can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state)
> + | can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
> + /* Alternatively, the difference:
> + * if (tx_state > rx_state)
> + * cf->data[1] |= can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state);
> + * if (tx_state < rx_state)
> + * cf->data[1] |= can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
> + * else
> + * cf->data[1] |= can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state)
> + * | can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
> + * Or even, disregarding the equal case:
> + * cf->data[1] |= (tx_state > rx_state) ?
> + * can_txstate_to_frame(tx_state) :
> + * can_rxstate_to_frame(rx_state);
> + */
> +
> + }
> +
> + priv->state = state;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(can_change_state);
> +
> /*
> * Local echo of CAN messages
> *
For simplicity, I vote for setting (CAN_ERR_CRTL_TX_WARNING |
CAN_ERR_CRTL_RX_WARNING) if the tx and rx error counters a equal.
>>> But this is all based on the premise that txerr hasn't progressed since.
>>> In fact,
>>> because we cannot assume that txerr stays in place until rxerr catches
>>> up, this
>>> is what we should be doing:
>>> enum can_state errcount_to_state(unsigned int count)
>>> {
>>> if (unlikely(count > 127))
>>> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_PASSIVE;
>>>
>>> if (unlikely(count > 96))
>>> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_WARNING;
>>>
>>> return CAN_STATE_ERROR_ACTIVE;
>>> }
>>>
>>> enum can_err_dir can_get_err_dir(unsigned int txerr, unsigned int rxerr)
>>> {
>>> enum can_err_dir dir;
>>>
>>> enum can_state tx_state = errcount_to_state(txerr);
>>> enum can_state rx_state = errcount_to_state(rxerr);
>>>
>>> if (tx_state > rx_state)
>>> return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX;
>>>
>>> if (tx_state < rx_state)
>>> return CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
>>>
>>> return CAN_ERR_DIR_TX | CAN_ERR_DIR_RX;
>>> }
>>>
>>> However, now that we've introduced errcount_to_state(), it seems to me
>>> that it would
>>> be simpler to dump the proposed CAN_ERR_DIR enum in favour of passing
>>> the two states
>>> directly to can_change_state().
>> D'accord.
>>
>>>
>>>> To validate the correct behaviour could you please send messages while
>>>> the cable is disconnected. Then reconnect the cable and see how the
>>>> error state decreases. You can monitor the behaviour with ""candump -td
>>>> -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF" in another shell.
>>>>
>>> I'm using PCAN-USB Pro to generate errors on the bus. It works quite
>>> well.
>>> I can generate tx errors by sending from the device and then have the
>>> pcan
>>> ruin a few frames. rx errors can be generated by having an other
>>> device on
>>> the bus outputting random data and then let the pcan corrupt the frames.
>> Short-circuiting the CAN low and high lines is a simple method to
> Ahh, yes, I tried that too. That's what triggered bus-off. I got it
> mixed up in
> my head. :)
>>> Sadly the error generation mechanism only works on windows. :(
>>>
>>> I've tried the "disconnected cable" method too in the past. It usually
>>> puts mscan into bus-off quite fast.
>> Sending a message whithout cable should never trigger an bus-off. The tx
>> error counter never exceeds 128.
>>
>> Here is an example output of "candump -candump -td -e any,0:0,#FFFFFFFF"
>> for a recovery from error passive state due to no ack/cable (reconnect
>> after 5s) for a SJA1000 on an on EMS PCI card:
>>
>> (000.201913) can0 1C [0]
>> (000.212241) can0 20000204 [8] 00 08 00 00 00 00 60 00 ERRORFRAME
>> controller-problem{tx-error-warning}
>> state-change{tx-error-warning}
>> error-counter-tx-rx{{96}{0}}
>> (000.003544) can0 20000204 [8] 00 20 00 00 00 00 80 00 ERRORFRAME
>> controller-problem{tx-error-passive}
>> state-change{tx-error-passive}
>> error-counter-tx-rx{{128}{0}}
>> (004.901842) can0 1D [7] 1D F6 33 52 31 4B DE
>> (000.000116) can0 20000200 [8] 00 08 00 00 00 00 7F 00 ERRORFRAME
>> state-change{tx-error-warning}
>> error-counter-tx-rx{{127}{0}}
>> (000.000678) can0 1E [6] 42 05 14 82 23 B6
>> ...
>> (000.201927) can0 49 [4] 2F 1A 97 25
>> (000.000096) can0 20000200 [8] 00 40 00 00 00 00 5F 00 ERRORFRAME
>> state-change{back-to-error-active}
>> error-counter-tx-rx{{95}{0}}
>> (000.202184) can0 4A [8] 7F 87 0E FE 03 BA 78 91
>>
>> This is from my related patch-set.
>>
> Okay, I'll try that but the -e flag won't help much because candump expects
> the PROT abuse.
>
> Andri
>
> PS.: I must admit that I don't actually know why it's useful to know which
> error counter changed; tx or rx. I think it would be much simpler to send
> the max of both and be done with it. Can anyone point out a case where this
> helps?
I agree that it would be much simpler not to distinguish between rx and
tx state changes. This is for historical reasons. Oliver, do you
remember why we adapted that solution?
Wolfgang.
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-23 20:33 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
@ 2014-09-23 22:31 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2014-09-24 6:28 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Oliver Hartkopp @ 2014-09-23 22:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfgang Grandegger, Andri Yngvason, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On 09/23/2014 10:33 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> On 09/21/2014 07:27 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>> PS.: I must admit that I don't actually know why it's useful to know which
>> error counter changed; tx or rx. I think it would be much simpler to send
>> the max of both and be done with it. Can anyone point out a case where this
>> helps?
>
> I agree that it would be much simpler not to distinguish between rx and
> tx state changes. This is for historical reasons. Oliver, do you
> remember why we adapted that solution?
>
No. Indeed I was not even aware of the fact that error counters should be set
into any kind of relation.
When the error counters change, the error message should be fired.
And when the thresholds e.g. for CAN_ERR_CRTL_*X_WARNING are triggered these
flags should be set accordingly.
So can_state errcount_to_state() makes perfectly sense.
But I don't know why to compare tx error counters to rx error counters either.
Regards,
Oliver
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* Re: [PATCH 2/4] Consolidate and unify state change handling
2014-09-23 22:31 ` Oliver Hartkopp
@ 2014-09-24 6:28 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Grandegger @ 2014-09-24 6:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Oliver Hartkopp; +Cc: Andri Yngvason, Marc Kleine-Budde, linux-can
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:31:49 +0200, Oliver Hartkopp
<socketcan@hartkopp.net> wrote:
> On 09/23/2014 10:33 PM, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> On 09/21/2014 07:27 PM, Andri Yngvason wrote:
>
>
>>> PS.: I must admit that I don't actually know why it's useful to know
>>> which
>>> error counter changed; tx or rx. I think it would be much simpler to
>>> send
>>> the max of both and be done with it. Can anyone point out a case where
>>> this
>>> helps?
>>
>> I agree that it would be much simpler not to distinguish between rx and
>> tx state changes. This is for historical reasons. Oliver, do you
>> remember why we adapted that solution?
>>
>
> No. Indeed I was not even aware of the fact that error counters should
be
> set
> into any kind of relation.
>
> When the error counters change, the error message should be fired.
> And when the thresholds e.g. for CAN_ERR_CRTL_*X_WARNING are triggered
> these
> flags should be set accordingly.
Well, unfortunately it's not that simple. Normally just the state change
is
triggered and the software has to find out the direction. On most
controllers
we therefore fiddle with the RX and TX error counters. Or do you suggest
to
monitor (cache) the error counters? They are not available on some CAN
controllers.
> So can_state errcount_to_state() makes perfectly sense.
>
> But I don't know why to compare tx error counters to rx error counters
> either.
See above.
Wolfgang.
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