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UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:59:30 +0200

As discussed on IRC with Tobias, UPower appears to ignore our
‘critical-power-action’ setting.  On my machine, I left the default
(‘HybridSleep’) but upowerd dismisses it and chooses ‘PowerOff’:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix system describe
Generation 198  Aug 29 2022 00:47:53    (current)
  file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-198-link
  canonical file name: /gnu/store/85441w3nzqv8lg04gm7601wi9np4qlw7-system
  label: GNU with Linux-Libre 5.18.19
  bootloader: grub-efi
  root device: label: "root"
  kernel: /gnu/store/a43ai5qi4vbgm2zywg4b60y71d7whccn-linux-libre-5.18.19/bzImage
  channels:
    guix:
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      branch: master
      commit: 3294fa2ba451c7d5ef42a5d9fac780877f364bc7
  configuration file: /gnu/store/lmqb5d0il8zydd0p0vz4kviaq1qg4n9m-configuration.scm
$ upower -d | tail -6
Daemon:
  daemon-version:  0.99.15
  on-battery:      no
  lid-is-closed:   no
  lid-is-present:  yes
  critical-action: PowerOff
$ sudo herd status upower-daemon 
Status of upower-daemon:
  It is started.
  Running value is 338.
  It is enabled.
  Provides (upower-daemon).
  Requires (dbus-system udev).
  Conflicts with ().
  Will be respawned.
$ sudo cat /proc/338/environ |xargs -0
PWD=/ UPOWER_CONF_FILE_NAME=/gnu/store/yq6zf8q2l2axy03d99pami3sxrk4784y-UPower.conf SHLVL=0 XDG_DATA_DIRS=/gnu/store/bnsf9il448hl5xjavbhq3rcx355svz2v-glib-2.70.2/share
$ cat /gnu/store/yq6zf8q2l2axy03d99pami3sxrk4784y-UPower.conf |grep Critical
PercentageCritical=3
TimeCritical=300
CriticalPowerAction=HybridSleep
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Looking at the code, it could be because the ‘CanHybridSleep’ method
returns false, but why that would happen is unknown to me.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Message #10 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 18:22:17 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> As discussed on IRC with Tobias, UPower appears to ignore our
> ‘critical-power-action’ setting.  On my machine, I left the default
> (‘HybridSleep’) but upowerd dismisses it and chooses ‘PowerOff’:

Furthermore, powering off is actually ungraceful: ‘halt’ wasn’t invoked;
the machine just stopped abruptly, fsck was needed on reboot, etc.

The “PowerOff” DBus method is implemented by elogind, so there could be
another bug there.

Ludo’.

Message #13 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:56:58 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Looking at the code, it could be because the ‘CanHybridSleep’ method
> returns false, but why that would happen is unknown to me.

Indeed, if we run ‘dbus-monitor --system’ and
‘herd restart upower-daemon’ (in QEMU), we see this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
method call time=1661890192.586471 sender=:1.40 -> destination=:1.39 serial=16 path=/org/freedesktop/UPower; interface=org.freedesktop.UPower; member=GetCriticalAction
method call time=1661890192.586862 sender=:1.39 -> destination=:1.1 serial=17 path=/org/freedesktop/login1; interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Manager; member=CanHybridSleep
method return time=1661890192.588676 sender=:1.1 -> destination=:1.39 serial=104 reply_serial=17
   string "na"
method call time=1661890192.589034 sender=:1.39 -> destination=:1.1 serial=18 path=/org/freedesktop/login1; interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Manager; member=CanHibernate
method return time=1661890192.591082 sender=:1.1 -> destination=:1.39 serial=105 reply_serial=18
   string "na"
method return time=1661890192.591405 sender=:1.39 -> destination=:1.40 serial=19 reply_serial=16
   string "PowerOff"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

That is, elogind returns “na” to the Can* methods.

Same story on my actual laptop:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanHybridSleep
method return time=1661890748.184775 sender=:1.1 -> destination=:1.130 serial=253 reply_serial=2
   string "na"
$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanHibernate
method return time=1661890756.999248 sender=:1.1 -> destination=:1.131 serial=254 reply_serial=2
   string "na"
$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanPowerOff
method return time=1661890761.375007 sender=:1.1 -> destination=:1.132 serial=258 reply_serial=2
   string "yes"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This is not surprising since our ‘logind.conf’ reads:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
HybridSleepState=disk
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

… meaning that “hybrid sleep” attempts to suspend-to-disk¹, something
that’s not implemented yet in Guix System².

Setting ‘hybrid-sleep-state’ to '("mem") doesn’t help though:
“CanHybridSleep” still returns “na”.  I’m looking at ‘can_sleep_state’
in elogind without seeing why it doesn’t return true.

To be continued…

Ludo’.

¹ Per <https://man.voidlinux.org/logind.conf.5>.
² But it’s almost there! https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49475

Message #16 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:46:04 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Setting ‘hybrid-sleep-state’ to '("mem") doesn’t help though:
> “CanHybridSleep” still returns “na”.  I’m looking at ‘can_sleep_state’
> in elogind without seeing why it doesn’t return true.

Having changed elogind’s “LogLevel” to “debug” with a 1km-long
‘dbus-send’ command I’ll spare you, I got this in /var/log/debug for my
“CanHybridSleep” method call (in QEMU):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Aug 31 16:01:07 localhost elogind[183]: Got message type=method_call sender=:1.78 destination=org.freedesktop.login1 path=/org/freedesktop/login1 interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Manager member=CanHybridSleep cookie=2 reply_cookie=0 signature=n/a error-name=n/a error-message=n/a
Aug 31 16:01:07 localhost elogind[183]: Sleep mode "mem" is supported by the kernel.
Aug 31 16:01:07 localhost elogind[183]: No possible swap partitions or files suitable for hibernation were found in /proc/swaps.
Aug 31 16:01:07 localhost elogind[183]: Sent message type=method_return sender=n/a destination=:1.78 path=n/a interface=n/a member=n/a cookie=190 reply_cookie=2 signature=s error-name=n/a error-message=n/a
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Closer inspection of the code confirms what we can guess from the above:
if swap space is missing, ‘can_sleep’ returns false, even if the chosen
sleep state is “mem”:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
static int can_sleep_internal(const char *verb, bool check_allowed, const SleepConfig *sleep_config) {
        bool allow;
        char **modes = NULL, **states = NULL;
        int r;

        assert(STR_IN_SET(verb, "suspend", "hibernate", "hybrid-sleep", "suspend-then-hibernate"));

[...]

#if 0 /// elogind supports setting a suspend mode
        if (!can_sleep_state(states) || !can_sleep_disk(modes))
                return false;
#else // 0
        if (!can_sleep_state(states) ||
            !((strcmp("suspend", verb) && can_sleep_disk(modes)) ||
              (streq("suspend", verb) && can_sleep_mem(modes))))
                return false;
#endif // 0

        if (streq(verb, "suspend"))
                return true;

        if (!enough_swap_for_hibernation())
                return -ENOSPC;

        return true;
}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

(Specifically, ‘enough_swap_for_hibernation’ returns false when there’s
no space space.)

The caller:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
static int method_can_shutdown_or_sleep(
                Manager *m,
                sd_bus_message *message,
                InhibitWhat w,
                const char *action,
                const char *action_multiple_sessions,
                const char *action_ignore_inhibit,
                const char *sleep_verb,
                sd_bus_error *error) {

[...]

        if (sleep_verb) {
#if 0 /// elogind needs to have the manager being passed
                r = can_sleep(sleep_verb);
#else // 0
                r = can_sleep(m, sleep_verb);
#endif // 0
                if (IN_SET(r,  0, -ENOSPC))
                        return sd_bus_reply_method_return(message, "s", "na");
                if (r < 0)
                        return r;
        }
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I find it a bit ridiculous: if we’re choosing “mem”, then we shouldn’t
need to check for swap space.

However, given how ‘hybrid-sleep’ is documented¹, it’s not meant to be
implemented by suspend-to-RAM:

  A low-power state where execution of the OS is paused, which might be
  slow to enter, and on complete power loss does not result in lost data
  but might be slower to exit in that case. This mode is called
  suspend-to-both by the kernel.

So, as a conclusion, it would seem that everything here is working as
advertised: no swap, no hybrid-sleep.  (We should probably document that
in the manual.)


One issue remains: UPower should have called elogind’s “PowerOff” method
for ordered shutdown before total power outage, but either that didn’t
happen or elogind didn’t do it right (which is weird, because ‘loginctl
poweroff’ DTRT.)

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

¹ https://man.voidlinux.org/logind.conf.5

Message #19 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:56:04 +0200

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> One issue remains: UPower should have called elogind’s “PowerOff” method
> for ordered shutdown before total power outage, but either that didn’t
> happen or elogind didn’t do it right (which is weird, because ‘loginctl
> poweroff’ DTRT.)

I pushed these patches:

  eedf71f948 * services: upower: Default to a percentage-based policy.
  4765242540 * services: upower: Update default percentage values.

I’m not sure whether they help, but they might: using a
time-estimate-based policy is documented as less reliable, and I suppose
even less so when a battery gets old, as is the case on this laptop.

I’d like to test whether UPower invokes the intended critical action,
but I’m not sure how to simulate a low battery level.  Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #22 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 22:01:01 +0200

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On 05-09-2022 14:56, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I’d like to test whether UPower invokes the intended critical action,
> but I’m not sure how to simulate a low battery level.  Thoughts?

I've found a 'Virtual Battery Driver': https://lwn.net/Articles/440097/

The gmane links are dead, but the linux source tree as a 
drivers/power/supply/test_power.c that seems to be about the same thing.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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Message #25 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:05:06 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> I pushed these patches:
>
>   eedf71f948 * services: upower: Default to a percentage-based policy.
>   4765242540 * services: upower: Update default percentage values.
>
> I’m not sure whether they help, but they might: using a
> time-estimate-based policy is documented as less reliable, and I suppose
> even less so when a battery gets old, as is the case on this laptop.

As those at the Ten Years of Guix event noticed, this didn’t help at all.

Ludo’.

Message #28 received at 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 57490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57490: UPower ignores ‘critical-power-action’
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2022 17:27:25 +0200

Hi!

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:

> On 05-09-2022 14:56, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> I’d like to test whether UPower invokes the intended critical action,
>> but I’m not sure how to simulate a low battery level.  Thoughts?
>
> I've found a 'Virtual Battery Driver': https://lwn.net/Articles/440097/
>
> The gmane links are dead, but the linux source tree as a
> drivers/power/supply/test_power.c that seems to be about the same
> thing.

I was able to give that a try.  Since the default ‘percentage-action’ in
<upower-configuration> is 2, I did this (I configured syslogd to log to
/dev/console):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
root <at> antelope ~# modprobe test-power ac_online=off usb_online=off battery_capacity=2 battery_status=discharging
modprobe test-power ac_online=off usb_online=off battery_capacity=2 battery_status=discharging
Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost vmunix: [   44.294530] __power_supply_register: Expected proper parent device for 'test_ac'
Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost vmunix: [   44.295049] __power_supply_register: Expected proper parent device for 'test_battery'
Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost vmunix: [   44.295147] __power_supply_register: Expected proper parent device for 'test_usb'
root <at> antelope ~# Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost shepherd[1]: [upowerd]  
Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost shepherd[1]: [upowerd] (upowerd:186): UPower-Linux-WARNING **: 17:00:20.457: no valid voltage value found for device /sys/devices/virtual/power_supply/test_battery, assuming 10V 
Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost shepherd[1]: [upowerd]  
Oct  2 17:00:20 localhost shepherd[1]: [upowerd] (upowerd:186): UPower-Linux-WARNING **: 17:00:20.473: USB power supply /sys/devices/virtual/power_supply/test_usb without usb_type property, please report 


root <at> antelope ~# Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost elogind[185]: System is powering down..
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost elogind[185]: System is powering down..
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Exiting shepherd... 
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Service ntpd has been stopped. 
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost ntpd[184]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 (Terminated)
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost avahi-daemon[191]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost avahi-daemon[191]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface ens3.IPv6 with address fec0::e35c:509d:d937:2087.
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost avahi-daemon[191]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface ens3.IPv4 with address 10.0.2.15.
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Service avahi-daemon has been stopped. 
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost NetworkManager[183]: <info>  [1664722841.2220] caught SIGTERM, shutting down normally.
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Service networking has been stopped. 
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty6 has been stopped. 
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty6 has been stopped. 
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost NetworkManager[183]: <info>  [1664722841.2318] dhcp4 (ens3): canceled DHCP transaction
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost NetworkManager[183]: <info>  [1664722841.2318] dhcp4 (ens3): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost NetworkManager[183]: <info>  [1664722841.2318] dhcp4 (ens3): state changed no lease
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost NetworkManager[183]: <info>  [1664722841.2326] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost NetworkManager[183]: <info>  [1664722841.2335] exiting (success)
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost avahi-daemon[191]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface lo.IPv6 with address ::1.
Oct  2 17:00:41 localhost syslogd: exiting on signal 15
[   70.670560] reboot: Power down
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So 20s after a battery at 2% got plugged in, UPower told elogind to
turn off the VM, which told shepherd to do that—exactly as expected.

It’s kinda disappointing to debug something just to find out it’s
working as advertised.  I think the conclusion is that 2% is too low a
threshold, at least for my laptop, or maybe the charge estimate is
slightly off on my laptop.  I’ll raise that threshold and see if it
works correctly next time I run out of battery…

If someone has better ideas, I’d love to hear them!

Ludo’.

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