Re: [PATCH v6 1/6] can: dev: Add support for limiting configured bitrate

From: Marc Kleine-Budde
Date: Tue Jan 02 2018 - 08:10:27 EST


On 12/22/2017 02:31 PM, Faiz Abbas wrote:
> From: Franklin S Cooper Jr <fcooper@xxxxxx>
>
> Various CAN or CAN-FD IP may be able to run at a faster rate than
> what the transceiver the CAN node is connected to. This can lead to
> unexpected errors. However, CAN transceivers typically have fixed
> limitations and provide no means to discover these limitations at
> runtime. Therefore, add support for a can-transceiver node that
> can be reused by other CAN peripheral drivers to determine for both
> CAN and CAN-FD what the max bitrate that can be used. If the user
> tries to configure CAN to pass these maximum bitrates it will throw
> an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Franklin S Cooper Jr <fcooper@xxxxxx>
> [nsekhar@xxxxxx: fix build error with !CONFIG_OF]
> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas@xxxxxx>
> ---
> v6 changes:
> fix build error with !CONFIG_OF
>
> drivers/net/can/dev.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/can/dev.h | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> index 365a8cc..007cfc0 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> #include <linux/can/skb.h>
> #include <linux/can/netlink.h>
> #include <linux/can/led.h>
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> #include <net/rtnetlink.h>
>
> #define MOD_DESC "CAN device driver interface"
> @@ -814,6 +815,30 @@ int open_candev(struct net_device *dev)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(open_candev);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> +/*
> + * Common function that can be used to understand the limitation of
> + * a transceiver when it provides no means to determine these limitations
> + * at runtime.
> + */
> +void of_can_transceiver(struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> + struct device_node *dn;
> + struct can_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> + struct device_node *np = dev->dev.parent->of_node;
> + int ret;
> +
> + dn = of_get_child_by_name(np, "can-transceiver");
> + if (!dn)
> + return;
> +
> + ret = of_property_read_u32(dn, "max-bitrate", &priv->max_bitrate);
> + if ((ret && ret != -EINVAL) || (!ret && !priv->max_bitrate))
> + netdev_warn(dev, "Invalid value for transceiver max bitrate. Ignoring bitrate limit.\n");
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_can_transceiver);
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * Common close function for cleanup before the device gets closed.
> *
> @@ -913,6 +938,13 @@ static int can_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
> priv->bitrate_const_cnt);
> if (err)
> return err;
> +
> + if (priv->max_bitrate && bt.bitrate > priv->max_bitrate) {
> + netdev_err(dev, "arbitration bitrate surpasses transceiver capabilities of %d bps\n",
> + priv->max_bitrate);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }

What about movong this check into can_get_bittiming()? Although we loose
the "arbitration" vs "canfd data".

> +
> memcpy(&priv->bittiming, &bt, sizeof(bt));
>
> if (priv->do_set_bittiming) {
> @@ -997,6 +1029,13 @@ static int can_changelink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlattr *tb[],
> priv->data_bitrate_const_cnt);
> if (err)
> return err;
> +
> + if (priv->max_bitrate && dbt.bitrate > priv->max_bitrate) {
> + netdev_err(dev, "canfd data bitrate surpasses transceiver capabilities of %d bps\n",
> + priv->max_bitrate);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> memcpy(&priv->data_bittiming, &dbt, sizeof(dbt));
>
> if (priv->do_set_data_bittiming) {
> diff --git a/include/linux/can/dev.h b/include/linux/can/dev.h
> index 61f1cf2..fbb7810 100644
> --- a/include/linux/can/dev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/can/dev.h
> @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ struct can_priv {
> unsigned int data_bitrate_const_cnt;
> struct can_clock clock;
>
> + unsigned int max_bitrate;

Please make it an u32, name it "bitrate_max" and ...

>> struct can_priv {
>> struct net_device *dev;
>> struct can_device_stats can_stats;
>>
>> struct can_bittiming bittiming, data_bittiming;
>> const struct can_bittiming_const *bittiming_const,
>> *data_bittiming_const;
>> const u16 *termination_const;
>> unsigned int termination_const_cnt;
>> u16 termination;
>> const u32 *bitrate_const;
>> unsigned int bitrate_const_cnt;
>> const u32 *data_bitrate_const;
>> unsigned int data_bitrate_const_cnt;

...move it here.

>> struct can_clock clock;
>

> +
> enum can_state state;
>
> /* CAN controller features - see include/uapi/linux/can/netlink.h */
> @@ -166,6 +168,12 @@ void can_put_echo_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
> unsigned int can_get_echo_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int idx);
> void can_free_echo_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int idx);
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
> +void of_can_transceiver(struct net_device *dev);
> +#else
> +static inline void of_can_transceiver(struct net_device *dev) { }
> +#endif
> +
> struct sk_buff *alloc_can_skb(struct net_device *dev, struct can_frame **cf);
> struct sk_buff *alloc_canfd_skb(struct net_device *dev,
> struct canfd_frame **cfd);
>

Marc

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