Server Power On mystery

[Mike Jones]

Hi,

I am trying to understand how the Server power button in the webui works.

As before, using raspberry pi, and I’ll leave project links at the end for anyone that wants to use them. Things work up to monitoring voltages. Note the conf project has a phosphor branch for the full monty.

To reverse engineer, I setup: dbus-monitor —system > someFile.log

There is a message for systemd1.Manager; member=StartUnit and best I can tell, somehow this gets routed to systemd to start some service or run some exe. I see this mentioned in the dbus transactions:

"obmc-host-start at 0.target <mailto:obmc-host-start at 0.target>”

And that is in /lib/systemd/system and depends on obmc-host-startmin at 0.target, but that does not depend on any service. So that is a dead end. It also depends on a reboot attempts, but I think that is not responsible for power on/off.

Then there are chassis services, but I cannot find a link from obmc-host-start at 0.target to objc-chassis-poweron at 0.target.

In this doc: https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/architecture/openbmc-systemd.md <https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/architecture/openbmc-systemd.md>

It shows:


ls -1 /lib/systemd/system/obmc-chassis-poweron\@0.target.requires/
op-power-start at 0.service
op-wait-power-on at 0.service

But when I “ls” that path, the above dependencies are not there. There is only a dependency on phosphor-fan-presence-tach at 0.service <mailto:phosphor-fan-presence-tach at 0.service>

There is some state service that lead to things with xzy paths, and I eventually found /run/systemd/units. These have file names starting with “invocation” in the names and link to GUID like nodes that don’t “cat” like a normal file. So I am not sure how those work. Is there some kernel driver that works like sysfs so that these nodes are not traditional files?

What I am trying to understand is two things:

- Interaction with the power regulator
- Interaction with the host cpu

So my hope is someone can connect the dots of the path from the dbus to systemd through the targets to a service executable doing the work so I can try to replace them with:

- Something that turns the regulators on/off, with pmbus in this case.
- Something that can behave like a host to keep the system happy like a real system.

Mike

My repos
——————

https://github.com/Proclivis/meta-pmbus-raspberrypi.git <https://github.com/Proclivis/meta-pmbus-raspberrypi.git>
https://github.com/Proclivis/meta-pmbus-phosphor.git <https://github.com/Proclivis/meta-pmbus-phosphor.git>
https://github.com/Proclivis/conf-openbmc-adi.git <https://github.com/Proclivis/conf-openbmc-adi.git>

The monitor messages for StartUnit
———

method call time=1598039669.247458 sender=:1.48 -> destination=org.freedesktop.systemd1 serial=33 path=/org/freedesktop/systemd1; interface=org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager; member=StartUnit
   string "obmc-host-start at 0.target <mailto:obmc-host-start at 0.target>"
   string "replace"
method call time=1598039669.276170 sender=:1.3 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=775 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=GetConnectionUnixUser
   string ":1.48"
method return time=1598039669.276234 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.3 serial=4294967295 reply_serial=775
   uint32 0
method call time=1598039669.280376 sender=:1.3 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=776 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=AddMatch
   string "type='signal',sender='org.freedesktop.DBus',path='/org/freedesktop/DBus',interface='org.freedesktop.DBus',member='NameOwnerChanged',arg0=':1.48'"
method return time=1598039669.280661 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.3 serial=4294967295 reply_serial=776
method call time=1598039669.280701 sender=:1.3 -> destination=org.freedesktop.DBus serial=777 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=GetNameOwner
   string ":1.48"
method return time=1598039669.280738 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.3 serial=4294967295 reply_serial=777
   string ":1.48"
signal time=1598039669.280774 sender=:1.3 -> destination=(null destination) serial=778 path=/org/freedesktop/systemd1; interface=org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager; member=UnitNew
   string "obmc-host-start at 0.target <mailto:obmc-host-start at 0.target>"
   object path "/org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/obmc_2dhost_2dstart_400_2etarget"
signal time=1598039669.280823 sender=:1.3 -> destination=(null destination) serial=779 path=/org/freedesktop/systemd1; interface=org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager; member=JobNew
   uint32 1105
   object path "/org/freedesktop/systemd1/job/1105"
   string "obmc-host-start at 0.target <mailto:obmc-host-start at 0.target>"
method return time=1598039669.280883 sender=:1.3 -> destination=:1.48 serial=780 reply_serial=33
   object path "/org/freedesktop/systemd1/job/1105"
signal time=1598039669.281305 sender=:1.48 -> destination=(null destination) serial=34 path=/xyz/openbmc_project/state/host0; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=PropertiesChanged
   string "xyz.openbmc_project.State.Host"
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "RequestedHostTransition"
         variant             string "xyz.openbmc_project.State.Host.Transition.On"
      )
   ]
   array [
   ]
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