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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-06-19 00:05:38 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-06-20 15:28:36 +0300 |
commit | ecefae6db042283bf88ef3777f2381b18df8ed46 (patch) | |
tree | 5177129d720add73008eeadd6581fab7c27f5233 /Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt | |
parent | 743344a952fcebee9ca4d783807cf1f03f933baf (diff) | |
download | linux-ecefae6db042283bf88ef3777f2381b18df8ed46.tar.xz |
docs: usb: rename files to .rst and add them to drivers-api
While there are a mix of things here, most of the stuff
were written from Kernel developer's PoV. So, add them to
the driver-api book.
A follow up for this patch would be to move documents from
there that are specific to sysadmins, adding them to the
admin-guide.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt b/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b0bd51080799..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,375 +0,0 @@ -====== -usbmon -====== - -Introduction -============ - -The name "usbmon" in lowercase refers to a facility in kernel which is -used to collect traces of I/O on the USB bus. This function is analogous -to a packet socket used by network monitoring tools such as tcpdump(1) -or Ethereal. Similarly, it is expected that a tool such as usbdump or -USBMon (with uppercase letters) is used to examine raw traces produced -by usbmon. - -The usbmon reports requests made by peripheral-specific drivers to Host -Controller Drivers (HCD). So, if HCD is buggy, the traces reported by -usbmon may not correspond to bus transactions precisely. This is the same -situation as with tcpdump. - -Two APIs are currently implemented: "text" and "binary". The binary API -is available through a character device in /dev namespace and is an ABI. -The text API is deprecated since 2.6.35, but available for convenience. - -How to use usbmon to collect raw text traces -============================================ - -Unlike the packet socket, usbmon has an interface which provides traces -in a text format. This is used for two purposes. First, it serves as a -common trace exchange format for tools while more sophisticated formats -are finalized. Second, humans can read it in case tools are not available. - -To collect a raw text trace, execute following steps. - -1. Prepare ----------- - -Mount debugfs (it has to be enabled in your kernel configuration), and -load the usbmon module (if built as module). The second step is skipped -if usbmon is built into the kernel:: - - # mount -t debugfs none_debugs /sys/kernel/debug - # modprobe usbmon - # - -Verify that bus sockets are present: - - # ls /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon - 0s 0u 1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u - # - -Now you can choose to either use the socket '0u' (to capture packets on all -buses), and skip to step #3, or find the bus used by your device with step #2. -This allows to filter away annoying devices that talk continuously. - -2. Find which bus connects to the desired device ------------------------------------------------- - -Run "cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices", and find the T-line which corresponds -to the device. Usually you do it by looking for the vendor string. If you have -many similar devices, unplug one and compare the two -/sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices outputs. The T-line will have a bus number. - -Example:: - - T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 - D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 - P: Vendor=0557 ProdID=2004 Rev= 1.00 - S: Manufacturer=ATEN - S: Product=UC100KM V2.00 - -"Bus=03" means it's bus 3. Alternatively, you can look at the output from -"lsusb" and get the bus number from the appropriate line. Example: - -Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0557:2004 ATEN UC100KM V2.00 - -3. Start 'cat' --------------- - -:: - - # cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon/3u > /tmp/1.mon.out - -to listen on a single bus, otherwise, to listen on all buses, type:: - - # cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon/0u > /tmp/1.mon.out - -This process will read until it is killed. Naturally, the output can be -redirected to a desirable location. This is preferred, because it is going -to be quite long. - -4. Perform the desired operation on the USB bus ------------------------------------------------ - -This is where you do something that creates the traffic: plug in a flash key, -copy files, control a webcam, etc. - -5. Kill cat ------------ - -Usually it's done with a keyboard interrupt (Control-C). - -At this point the output file (/tmp/1.mon.out in this example) can be saved, -sent by e-mail, or inspected with a text editor. In the last case make sure -that the file size is not excessive for your favourite editor. - -Raw text data format -==================== - -Two formats are supported currently: the original, or '1t' format, and -the '1u' format. The '1t' format is deprecated in kernel 2.6.21. The '1u' -format adds a few fields, such as ISO frame descriptors, interval, etc. -It produces slightly longer lines, but otherwise is a perfect superset -of '1t' format. - -If it is desired to recognize one from the other in a program, look at the -"address" word (see below), where '1u' format adds a bus number. If 2 colons -are present, it's the '1t' format, otherwise '1u'. - -Any text format data consists of a stream of events, such as URB submission, -URB callback, submission error. Every event is a text line, which consists -of whitespace separated words. The number or position of words may depend -on the event type, but there is a set of words, common for all types. - -Here is the list of words, from left to right: - -- URB Tag. This is used to identify URBs, and is normally an in-kernel address - of the URB structure in hexadecimal, but can be a sequence number or any - other unique string, within reason. - -- Timestamp in microseconds, a decimal number. The timestamp's resolution - depends on available clock, and so it can be much worse than a microsecond - (if the implementation uses jiffies, for example). - -- Event Type. This type refers to the format of the event, not URB type. - Available types are: S - submission, C - callback, E - submission error. - -- "Address" word (formerly a "pipe"). It consists of four fields, separated by - colons: URB type and direction, Bus number, Device address, Endpoint number. - Type and direction are encoded with two bytes in the following manner: - - == == ============================= - Ci Co Control input and output - Zi Zo Isochronous input and output - Ii Io Interrupt input and output - Bi Bo Bulk input and output - == == ============================= - - Bus number, Device address, and Endpoint are decimal numbers, but they may - have leading zeros, for the sake of human readers. - -- URB Status word. This is either a letter, or several numbers separated - by colons: URB status, interval, start frame, and error count. Unlike the - "address" word, all fields save the status are optional. Interval is printed - only for interrupt and isochronous URBs. Start frame is printed only for - isochronous URBs. Error count is printed only for isochronous callback - events. - - The status field is a decimal number, sometimes negative, which represents - a "status" field of the URB. This field makes no sense for submissions, but - is present anyway to help scripts with parsing. When an error occurs, the - field contains the error code. - - In case of a submission of a Control packet, this field contains a Setup Tag - instead of an group of numbers. It is easy to tell whether the Setup Tag is - present because it is never a number. Thus if scripts find a set of numbers - in this word, they proceed to read Data Length (except for isochronous URBs). - If they find something else, like a letter, they read the setup packet before - reading the Data Length or isochronous descriptors. - -- Setup packet, if present, consists of 5 words: one of each for bmRequestType, - bRequest, wValue, wIndex, wLength, as specified by the USB Specification 2.0. - These words are safe to decode if Setup Tag was 's'. Otherwise, the setup - packet was present, but not captured, and the fields contain filler. - -- Number of isochronous frame descriptors and descriptors themselves. - If an Isochronous transfer event has a set of descriptors, a total number - of them in an URB is printed first, then a word per descriptor, up to a - total of 5. The word consists of 3 colon-separated decimal numbers for - status, offset, and length respectively. For submissions, initial length - is reported. For callbacks, actual length is reported. - -- Data Length. For submissions, this is the requested length. For callbacks, - this is the actual length. - -- Data tag. The usbmon may not always capture data, even if length is nonzero. - The data words are present only if this tag is '='. - -- Data words follow, in big endian hexadecimal format. Notice that they are - not machine words, but really just a byte stream split into words to make - it easier to read. Thus, the last word may contain from one to four bytes. - The length of collected data is limited and can be less than the data length - reported in the Data Length word. In the case of an Isochronous input (Zi) - completion where the received data is sparse in the buffer, the length of - the collected data can be greater than the Data Length value (because Data - Length counts only the bytes that were received whereas the Data words - contain the entire transfer buffer). - -Examples: - -An input control transfer to get a port status:: - - d5ea89a0 3575914555 S Ci:1:001:0 s a3 00 0000 0003 0004 4 < - d5ea89a0 3575914560 C Ci:1:001:0 0 4 = 01050000 - -An output bulk transfer to send a SCSI command 0x28 (READ_10) in a 31-byte -Bulk wrapper to a storage device at address 5:: - - dd65f0e8 4128379752 S Bo:1:005:2 -115 31 = 55534243 ad000000 00800000 80010a28 20000000 20000040 00000000 000000 - dd65f0e8 4128379808 C Bo:1:005:2 0 31 > - -Raw binary format and API -========================= - -The overall architecture of the API is about the same as the one above, -only the events are delivered in binary format. Each event is sent in -the following structure (its name is made up, so that we can refer to it):: - - struct usbmon_packet { - u64 id; /* 0: URB ID - from submission to callback */ - unsigned char type; /* 8: Same as text; extensible. */ - unsigned char xfer_type; /* ISO (0), Intr, Control, Bulk (3) */ - unsigned char epnum; /* Endpoint number and transfer direction */ - unsigned char devnum; /* Device address */ - u16 busnum; /* 12: Bus number */ - char flag_setup; /* 14: Same as text */ - char flag_data; /* 15: Same as text; Binary zero is OK. */ - s64 ts_sec; /* 16: gettimeofday */ - s32 ts_usec; /* 24: gettimeofday */ - int status; /* 28: */ - unsigned int length; /* 32: Length of data (submitted or actual) */ - unsigned int len_cap; /* 36: Delivered length */ - union { /* 40: */ - unsigned char setup[SETUP_LEN]; /* Only for Control S-type */ - struct iso_rec { /* Only for ISO */ - int error_count; - int numdesc; - } iso; - } s; - int interval; /* 48: Only for Interrupt and ISO */ - int start_frame; /* 52: For ISO */ - unsigned int xfer_flags; /* 56: copy of URB's transfer_flags */ - unsigned int ndesc; /* 60: Actual number of ISO descriptors */ - }; /* 64 total length */ - -These events can be received from a character device by reading with read(2), -with an ioctl(2), or by accessing the buffer with mmap. However, read(2) -only returns first 48 bytes for compatibility reasons. - -The character device is usually called /dev/usbmonN, where N is the USB bus -number. Number zero (/dev/usbmon0) is special and means "all buses". -Note that specific naming policy is set by your Linux distribution. - -If you create /dev/usbmon0 by hand, make sure that it is owned by root -and has mode 0600. Otherwise, unprivileged users will be able to snoop -keyboard traffic. - -The following ioctl calls are available, with MON_IOC_MAGIC 0x92: - - MON_IOCQ_URB_LEN, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 1) - -This call returns the length of data in the next event. Note that majority of -events contain no data, so if this call returns zero, it does not mean that -no events are available. - - MON_IOCG_STATS, defined as _IOR(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 3, struct mon_bin_stats) - -The argument is a pointer to the following structure:: - - struct mon_bin_stats { - u32 queued; - u32 dropped; - }; - -The member "queued" refers to the number of events currently queued in the -buffer (and not to the number of events processed since the last reset). - -The member "dropped" is the number of events lost since the last call -to MON_IOCG_STATS. - - MON_IOCT_RING_SIZE, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 4) - -This call sets the buffer size. The argument is the size in bytes. -The size may be rounded down to the next chunk (or page). If the requested -size is out of [unspecified] bounds for this kernel, the call fails with --EINVAL. - - MON_IOCQ_RING_SIZE, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 5) - -This call returns the current size of the buffer in bytes. - - MON_IOCX_GET, defined as _IOW(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 6, struct mon_get_arg) - MON_IOCX_GETX, defined as _IOW(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 10, struct mon_get_arg) - -These calls wait for events to arrive if none were in the kernel buffer, -then return the first event. The argument is a pointer to the following -structure:: - - struct mon_get_arg { - struct usbmon_packet *hdr; - void *data; - size_t alloc; /* Length of data (can be zero) */ - }; - -Before the call, hdr, data, and alloc should be filled. Upon return, the area -pointed by hdr contains the next event structure, and the data buffer contains -the data, if any. The event is removed from the kernel buffer. - -The MON_IOCX_GET copies 48 bytes to hdr area, MON_IOCX_GETX copies 64 bytes. - - MON_IOCX_MFETCH, defined as _IOWR(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 7, struct mon_mfetch_arg) - -This ioctl is primarily used when the application accesses the buffer -with mmap(2). Its argument is a pointer to the following structure:: - - struct mon_mfetch_arg { - uint32_t *offvec; /* Vector of events fetched */ - uint32_t nfetch; /* Number of events to fetch (out: fetched) */ - uint32_t nflush; /* Number of events to flush */ - }; - -The ioctl operates in 3 stages. - -First, it removes and discards up to nflush events from the kernel buffer. -The actual number of events discarded is returned in nflush. - -Second, it waits for an event to be present in the buffer, unless the pseudo- -device is open with O_NONBLOCK. - -Third, it extracts up to nfetch offsets into the mmap buffer, and stores -them into the offvec. The actual number of event offsets is stored into -the nfetch. - - MON_IOCH_MFLUSH, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 8) - -This call removes a number of events from the kernel buffer. Its argument -is the number of events to remove. If the buffer contains fewer events -than requested, all events present are removed, and no error is reported. -This works when no events are available too. - - FIONBIO - -The ioctl FIONBIO may be implemented in the future, if there's a need. - -In addition to ioctl(2) and read(2), the special file of binary API can -be polled with select(2) and poll(2). But lseek(2) does not work. - -* Memory-mapped access of the kernel buffer for the binary API - -The basic idea is simple: - -To prepare, map the buffer by getting the current size, then using mmap(2). -Then, execute a loop similar to the one written in pseudo-code below:: - - struct mon_mfetch_arg fetch; - struct usbmon_packet *hdr; - int nflush = 0; - for (;;) { - fetch.offvec = vec; // Has N 32-bit words - fetch.nfetch = N; // Or less than N - fetch.nflush = nflush; - ioctl(fd, MON_IOCX_MFETCH, &fetch); // Process errors, too - nflush = fetch.nfetch; // This many packets to flush when done - for (i = 0; i < nflush; i++) { - hdr = (struct ubsmon_packet *) &mmap_area[vec[i]]; - if (hdr->type == '@') // Filler packet - continue; - caddr_t data = &mmap_area[vec[i]] + 64; - process_packet(hdr, data); - } - } - -Thus, the main idea is to execute only one ioctl per N events. - -Although the buffer is circular, the returned headers and data do not cross -the end of the buffer, so the above pseudo-code does not need any gathering. |