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* Introduction
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The name "usbmon" in lowercase refers to a facility in kernel which is
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used to collect traces of I/O on the USB bus. This function is analogous
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to a packet socket used by network monitoring tools such as tcpdump(1)
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or Ethereal. Similarly, it is expected that a tool such as usbdump or
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USBMon (with uppercase letters) is used to examine raw traces produced
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by usbmon.
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The usbmon reports requests made by peripheral-specific drivers to Host
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Controller Drivers (HCD). So, if HCD is buggy, the traces reported by
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usbmon may not correspond to bus transactions precisely. This is the same
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situation as with tcpdump.
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* How to use usbmon to collect raw text traces
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Unlike the packet socket, usbmon has an interface which provides traces
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in a text format. This is used for two purposes. First, it serves as a
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common trace exchange format for tools while more sophisticated formats
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are finalized. Second, humans can read it in case tools are not available.
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To collect a raw text trace, execute following steps.
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1. Prepare
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Mount debugfs (it has to be enabled in your kernel configuration), and
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load the usbmon module (if built as module). The second step is skipped
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if usbmon is built into the kernel.
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# mount -t debugfs none_debugs /sys/kernel/debug
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# modprobe usbmon
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#
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Verify that bus sockets are present.
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# ls /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon
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0s 0t 0u 1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u
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#
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Now you can choose to either use the sockets numbered '0' (to capture packets on
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all buses), and skip to step #3, or find the bus used by your device with step #2.
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2. Find which bus connects to the desired device
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Run "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices", and find the T-line which corresponds to
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the device. Usually you do it by looking for the vendor string. If you have
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many similar devices, unplug one and compare two /proc/bus/usb/devices outputs.
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The T-line will have a bus number. Example:
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T: Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
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D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
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P: Vendor=0557 ProdID=2004 Rev= 1.00
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S: Manufacturer=ATEN
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S: Product=UC100KM V2.00
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Bus=03 means it's bus 3.
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3. Start 'cat'
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# cat /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon/3u > /tmp/1.mon.out
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to listen on a single bus, otherwise, to listen on all buses, type:
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# cat /sys/kernel/debug/usbmon/0u > /tmp/1.mon.out
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This process will be reading until killed. Naturally, the output can be
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redirected to a desirable location. This is preferred, because it is going
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to be quite long.
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4. Perform the desired operation on the USB bus
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This is where you do something that creates the traffic: plug in a flash key,
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copy files, control a webcam, etc.
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5. Kill cat
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Usually it's done with a keyboard interrupt (Control-C).
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At this point the output file (/tmp/1.mon.out in this example) can be saved,
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sent by e-mail, or inspected with a text editor. In the last case make sure
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that the file size is not excessive for your favourite editor.
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* Raw text data format
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Two formats are supported currently: the original, or '1t' format, and
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the '1u' format. The '1t' format is deprecated in kernel 2.6.21. The '1u'
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format adds a few fields, such as ISO frame descriptors, interval, etc.
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It produces slightly longer lines, but otherwise is a perfect superset
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of '1t' format.
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If it is desired to recognize one from the other in a program, look at the
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"address" word (see below), where '1u' format adds a bus number. If 2 colons
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are present, it's the '1t' format, otherwise '1u'.
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Any text format data consists of a stream of events, such as URB submission,
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URB callback, submission error. Every event is a text line, which consists
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of whitespace separated words. The number or position of words may depend
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on the event type, but there is a set of words, common for all types.
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Here is the list of words, from left to right:
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- URB Tag. This is used to identify URBs is normally a kernel mode address
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of the URB structure in hexadecimal.
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- Timestamp in microseconds, a decimal number. The timestamp's resolution
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depends on available clock, and so it can be much worse than a microsecond
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(if the implementation uses jiffies, for example).
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- Event Type. This type refers to the format of the event, not URB type.
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Available types are: S - submission, C - callback, E - submission error.
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- "Address" word (formerly a "pipe"). It consists of four fields, separated by
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colons: URB type and direction, Bus number, Device address, Endpoint number.
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Type and direction are encoded with two bytes in the following manner:
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Ci Co Control input and output
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Zi Zo Isochronous input and output
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Ii Io Interrupt input and output
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Bi Bo Bulk input and output
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Bus number, Device address, and Endpoint are decimal numbers, but they may
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have leading zeros, for the sake of human readers.
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- URB Status word. This is either a letter, or several numbers separated
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by colons: URB status, interval, start frame, and error count. Unlike the
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"address" word, all fields save the status are optional. Interval is printed
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only for interrupt and isochronous URBs. Start frame is printed only for
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isochronous URBs. Error count is printed only for isochronous callback
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events.
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The status field is a decimal number, sometimes negative, which represents
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a "status" field of the URB. This field makes no sense for submissions, but
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is present anyway to help scripts with parsing. When an error occurs, the
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field contains the error code.
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In case of a submission of a Control packet, this field contains a Setup Tag
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instead of an group of numbers. It is easy to tell whether the Setup Tag is
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present because it is never a number. Thus if scripts find a set of numbers
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in this word, they proceed to read Data Length (except for isochronous URBs).
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If they find something else, like a letter, they read the setup packet before
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reading the Data Length or isochronous descriptors.
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- Setup packet, if present, consists of 5 words: one of each for bmRequestType,
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bRequest, wValue, wIndex, wLength, as specified by the USB Specification 2.0.
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These words are safe to decode if Setup Tag was 's'. Otherwise, the setup
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packet was present, but not captured, and the fields contain filler.
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- Number of isochronous frame descriptors and descriptors themselves.
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If an Isochronous transfer event has a set of descriptors, a total number
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of them in an URB is printed first, then a word per descriptor, up to a
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total of 5. The word consists of 3 colon-separated decimal numbers for
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status, offset, and length respectively. For submissions, initial length
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is reported. For callbacks, actual length is reported.
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- Data Length. For submissions, this is the requested length. For callbacks,
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this is the actual length.
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- Data tag. The usbmon may not always capture data, even if length is nonzero.
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The data words are present only if this tag is '='.
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- Data words follow, in big endian hexadecimal format. Notice that they are
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not machine words, but really just a byte stream split into words to make
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it easier to read. Thus, the last word may contain from one to four bytes.
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The length of collected data is limited and can be less than the data length
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report in Data Length word.
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Here is an example of code to read the data stream in a well known programming
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language:
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class ParsedLine {
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int data_len; /* Available length of data */
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byte data[];
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void parseData(StringTokenizer st) {
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int availwords = st.countTokens();
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data = new byte[availwords * 4];
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data_len = 0;
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while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
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String data_str = st.nextToken();
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int len = data_str.length() / 2;
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int i;
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int b; // byte is signed, apparently?! XXX
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for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
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// data[data_len] = Byte.parseByte(
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// data_str.substring(i*2, i*2 + 2),
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// 16);
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b = Integer.parseInt(
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data_str.substring(i*2, i*2 + 2),
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16);
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if (b >= 128)
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b *= -1;
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data[data_len] = (byte) b;
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data_len++;
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}
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}
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}
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}
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Examples:
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An input control transfer to get a port status.
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d5ea89a0 3575914555 S Ci:1:001:0 s a3 00 0000 0003 0004 4 <
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d5ea89a0 3575914560 C Ci:1:001:0 0 4 = 01050000
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An output bulk transfer to send a SCSI command 0x5E in a 31-byte Bulk wrapper
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to a storage device at address 5:
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dd65f0e8 4128379752 S Bo:1:005:2 -115 31 = 55534243 5e000000 00000000 00000600 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000
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dd65f0e8 4128379808 C Bo:1:005:2 0 31 >
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* Raw binary format and API
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The overall architecture of the API is about the same as the one above,
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only the events are delivered in binary format. Each event is sent in
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the following structure (its name is made up, so that we can refer to it):
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struct usbmon_packet {
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u64 id; /* 0: URB ID - from submission to callback */
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unsigned char type; /* 8: Same as text; extensible. */
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unsigned char xfer_type; /* ISO (0), Intr, Control, Bulk (3) */
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unsigned char epnum; /* Endpoint number and transfer direction */
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unsigned char devnum; /* Device address */
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u16 busnum; /* 12: Bus number */
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char flag_setup; /* 14: Same as text */
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char flag_data; /* 15: Same as text; Binary zero is OK. */
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s64 ts_sec; /* 16: gettimeofday */
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s32 ts_usec; /* 24: gettimeofday */
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int status; /* 28: */
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unsigned int length; /* 32: Length of data (submitted or actual) */
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unsigned int len_cap; /* 36: Delivered length */
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unsigned char setup[8]; /* 40: Only for Control 'S' */
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}; /* 48 bytes total */
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These events can be received from a character device by reading with read(2),
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with an ioctl(2), or by accessing the buffer with mmap.
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The character device is usually called /dev/usbmonN, where N is the USB bus
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number. Number zero (/dev/usbmon0) is special and means "all buses".
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However, this feature is not implemented yet. Note that specific naming
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policy is set by your Linux distribution.
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If you create /dev/usbmon0 by hand, make sure that it is owned by root
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and has mode 0600. Otherwise, unpriviledged users will be able to snoop
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keyboard traffic.
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The following ioctl calls are available, with MON_IOC_MAGIC 0x92:
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MON_IOCQ_URB_LEN, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 1)
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This call returns the length of data in the next event. Note that majority of
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events contain no data, so if this call returns zero, it does not mean that
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no events are available.
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MON_IOCG_STATS, defined as _IOR(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 3, struct mon_bin_stats)
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The argument is a pointer to the following structure:
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struct mon_bin_stats {
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u32 queued;
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u32 dropped;
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};
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The member "queued" refers to the number of events currently queued in the
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buffer (and not to the number of events processed since the last reset).
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The member "dropped" is the number of events lost since the last call
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to MON_IOCG_STATS.
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MON_IOCT_RING_SIZE, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 4)
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This call sets the buffer size. The argument is the size in bytes.
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The size may be rounded down to the next chunk (or page). If the requested
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size is out of [unspecified] bounds for this kernel, the call fails with
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-EINVAL.
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MON_IOCQ_RING_SIZE, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 5)
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This call returns the current size of the buffer in bytes.
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MON_IOCX_GET, defined as _IOW(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 6, struct mon_get_arg)
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This call waits for events to arrive if none were in the kernel buffer,
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then returns the first event. Its argument is a pointer to the following
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structure:
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struct mon_get_arg {
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struct usbmon_packet *hdr;
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void *data;
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size_t alloc; /* Length of data (can be zero) */
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};
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Before the call, hdr, data, and alloc should be filled. Upon return, the area
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pointed by hdr contains the next event structure, and the data buffer contains
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the data, if any. The event is removed from the kernel buffer.
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MON_IOCX_MFETCH, defined as _IOWR(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 7, struct mon_mfetch_arg)
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This ioctl is primarily used when the application accesses the buffer
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with mmap(2). Its argument is a pointer to the following structure:
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struct mon_mfetch_arg {
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uint32_t *offvec; /* Vector of events fetched */
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uint32_t nfetch; /* Number of events to fetch (out: fetched) */
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uint32_t nflush; /* Number of events to flush */
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};
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The ioctl operates in 3 stages.
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First, it removes and discards up to nflush events from the kernel buffer.
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The actual number of events discarded is returned in nflush.
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Second, it waits for an event to be present in the buffer, unless the pseudo-
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device is open with O_NONBLOCK.
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Third, it extracts up to nfetch offsets into the mmap buffer, and stores
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them into the offvec. The actual number of event offsets is stored into
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the nfetch.
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MON_IOCH_MFLUSH, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 8)
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This call removes a number of events from the kernel buffer. Its argument
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is the number of events to remove. If the buffer contains fewer events
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than requested, all events present are removed, and no error is reported.
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This works when no events are available too.
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FIONBIO
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The ioctl FIONBIO may be implemented in the future, if there's a need.
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In addition to ioctl(2) and read(2), the special file of binary API can
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be polled with select(2) and poll(2). But lseek(2) does not work.
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* Memory-mapped access of the kernel buffer for the binary API
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The basic idea is simple:
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To prepare, map the buffer by getting the current size, then using mmap(2).
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Then, execute a loop similar to the one written in pseudo-code below:
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struct mon_mfetch_arg fetch;
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struct usbmon_packet *hdr;
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int nflush = 0;
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for (;;) {
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fetch.offvec = vec; // Has N 32-bit words
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fetch.nfetch = N; // Or less than N
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fetch.nflush = nflush;
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ioctl(fd, MON_IOCX_MFETCH, &fetch); // Process errors, too
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nflush = fetch.nfetch; // This many packets to flush when done
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for (i = 0; i < nflush; i++) {
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hdr = (struct ubsmon_packet *) &mmap_area[vec[i]];
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if (hdr->type == '@') // Filler packet
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continue;
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caddr_t data = &mmap_area[vec[i]] + 64;
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process_packet(hdr, data);
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}
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}
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Thus, the main idea is to execute only one ioctl per N events.
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Although the buffer is circular, the returned headers and data do not cross
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the end of the buffer, so the above pseudo-code does not need any gathering.
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