thunderbolt-power: Use bolt force power API if available #684

superm1 · 2018-08-23T22:16:18Z

This is new support for bolt supported by
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt/merge_requests/101

superm1 · 2018-08-23T22:16:41Z

@westeri for awareness

YehezkelShB · 2018-08-24T06:08:39Z

plugins/thunderbolt-power/fu-plugin-thunderbolt-power.c

+
+	if (g_unix_fd_list_get_length (fds) != 1) {
+		g_set_error (error, G_IO_ERROR, G_IO_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT,
+				"invalid number of file descriptors retunred: %d",


retunred - typo

Thanks, fixed.

YehezkelShB · 2018-08-24T06:11:36Z

plugins/thunderbolt-power/fu-plugin-thunderbolt-power.c

+		g_debug ("Setting force power to %d using bolt", enable);
+		if (enable)
+			return fu_plugin_thunderbolt_power_bolt_force_power (plugin, error);
+		if (data->bolt_fd > 0)


I assume we can be sure we'll never get 0 fd from dbus. But don't you need to zero it here so it'll be zero if enable fails next time?

Also zero is a valid file descriptor. Typically -1 is used to represent invalid one.

Thanks, adjusted the usage in the code.

hughsie · 2018-08-24T08:11:03Z

plugins/thunderbolt-power/fu-plugin-thunderbolt-power.c

+				g_unix_fd_list_get_length (fds));
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+	data->bolt_fd = g_unix_fd_list_get (fds, 0, NULL);


I'm confused why we need to use fd's like a handle -- why isn't bolt just using "NameOwnerChanged" to detect clients using ForcePower falling off the bus? The normal way clients do this kind of thing is with two methods, e.g. ForcePower() and UnForcePower() using a uint32_t "token" that allows a client to refcount. Falling off the bus is the same as UnForcePower()-ing for all tokens from that sender.

Now I am a bit confused :) I personally think that using an fd as "token" that can be easily released via close is more elegant than having an extra dbus method plus another uint token. On the bolt side the implementation also quite straight forward, create a named pipe with a GIOChannel as the even watch (and that is all for book-keeping). One cool thing about the named pipe is that we can recover from boltd crashes and restarts (--replace) because we just re-open all the named pipes that were not closed (and that works really well in my tests).
But maybe I am missing something, do you see any big disadvantage?

gicmo · 2018-08-24T08:51:26Z

plugins/thunderbolt-power/fu-plugin-thunderbolt-power.c

+					-1,
+					NULL,
+					NULL);
+	data->bolt_supported = (val != NULL);


Currently that call will return successfully with an empty array even if boltd did not detect support for force power, i.e. the wmi sysfs device is missing. I could change it to return an error (NOT_SUPPORTED or something) in that case, but I wonder if I should not change the "PowerState" enum property to include a unsupported value. Any opinions?

If the wmi sysfs is missing this plugin will fail to load at coldplug (it still looks for this file itself for fallback currently).

It's entirely possible however that the kernel unloads the module at runtime so I would prefer to keep the test as to whether the bolt daemon has this functionality. If the module comes and goes the calls will succeed or fail when tried.

I was wondering if it should be a different plugin entirely...

Hmm, keeping them together in the same fwupd plugin is actually ideal in my mind. The whole reason for this bolt feature is so that only one userspace is accessing the kernel method to avoid software stomping on each other. If bolt is there, it should be used. If not, use the kernel directly. Eventually when new enough bolt is everywhere that we care about, I would actually prefer to drop the direct kernel support from fwupd.

If bolt goes into it's own plugin (say bolt-thunderbolt-power and this plugin renames to kernel-thunderbolt-power) the model for when to use the kernel-thunderbolt-power plugin becomes more complicated. There isn't really a device registered signal to look for, so how will fwupd know which to prefer?

I was thinking about this some more this morning, and I think you're right - we need some assurance from bolt that it can actually force power. Returning an unsupported from PowerState property is sufficient as long as a fresh GDbusProxy is used every time it's checked.

@superm1 I will go and implement that now then. I also think that GDBusProxy should keep track of property updates, but in any case a manual call to the org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get method should always work, i.e. something like:

g_dbus_proxy_call (proxy, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get", g_variant_new ("(ss)", BOLT_DBUS_INTERFACE, "PowerState"), [...]

Rather than the client need to know to look for magic PowerState property enums (ie !=unsupported), maybe a third method ForcePowerSupported would be better? Then that can instantly check whether the kernel module is loaded and give a boolean answer.

Up to you, i'll adjust the PR for whichever you decide.

I thought about this some more and decided to extract the whole force power related properties/methods into its own interface: org.freedesktop.bolt1.Power. Both methods (ForcePower, ListGuards), the property (PowerState as State) and additionally a new boolean Supported property are exposed there (and the methods removed from the bolt1.Manager interface). I think for this PR changing BOLT_DBUS_INTERFACE to org.freedesktop.bolt1.Power should suffice; the new Supported boolean, that can be used to check if force-powering is supported or not, should come in handy.

I am also add support for monitoring changes to the intel-wmi-thunderbolt module so that the Supported property is updated accordingly. For this I am using the bind and unbind uevents (see here) — I hope that is a good way to do that.

One more thing: it seems to be totally possible to unload the module, even with force_power is set to 1 and boltd will not yet do the right thing in that case. This needs a few more changes.

superm1 · 2018-08-24T15:40:53Z

@gicmo Once you add an unsupported enum, I think we also need a way to be notified if force power changes to/from supported (eg kernel module unload/load) that we can subscribe to.

gicmo · 2018-08-24T15:50:31Z

@superm1 I was thinking that subscribing to GDBusProxy's g-properties-changed should work. Maybe I am missing something?

superm1 · 2018-08-24T15:51:35Z

Yeah that should work.

westeri · 2018-08-24T21:49:24Z

plugins/thunderbolt-power/fu-plugin-thunderbolt-power.c

@@ -199,9 +318,11 @@ fu_plugin_init (FuPlugin *plugin)
 			  G_CALLBACK (udev_uevent_cb), plugin);
 	/* initially set to true, will wait for a device_register to reset */
 	data->needs_forcepower = TRUE;
+	/* will reset when neeeded */


Typo 'neeeded' -> 'needed'

thanks, fixed.

This is new support for bolt supported by https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt/merge_requests/101

superm1 · 2018-08-27T14:08:00Z

@gicmo thanks. I've adjusted for your changes and use the Supported property now. I've done some testing with/without that bolt PR in place to make sure the old kernel way works and also that loading intel-wmi-thunderbolt after fwupd started up works (which did prefer to and use bolt still).

hughsie · 2018-08-28T14:42:46Z

LGTM now, if that matters.

superm1 · 2018-08-28T14:47:48Z

OK thanks. @gicmo merged it in bolt, so I'll merge it here too then.

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superm1 force-pushed the wip/superm1/bolt-force-power branch from 1638839 to d4ed8e3 Compare August 27, 2018 14:05

superm1 merged commit c07ce5b into master Aug 28, 2018

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