Currently portabled is completely silent (when not using debug level). But
when the system state is changed (ie: a portable is attached or detached)
there are no traces left in the journal. Log at info level when either of
those operations succeed, as they are effectively changing the state of
the system.
Create new MESSAGE_IDs for these logs, and also append PORTABLE_ROOT=
(and PORTABLE_EXTENSION= if any), like the units themselves are
configured to do via LogExtraFields=, so that the same metadata can
be found in the attach/detach messages and in logs from the units
themselves.
We went back-and-forth a bit on this. Very old meson would print a message
about detecting the program if a quoted argument was used, leading to a lot of
noise. So we started to convert various places to use the variable, but then it
turned out that meson < 0.56.2 doesn't handle this correctly and we reverted to
using strings everywhere in 7c22f07cbd. Then at
some point we stopped supporting old meson and over time we started using the
variable in various places again, somewhat inconsistently. Then most calls to
'sh' were removed in 9289e093ae when
install_emptydir() builtin started being used.
Now meson allows either the string or variable to be used, and doesn't print a
message if the string is used. Let's use the variable everywhere. For 'sh', we
could do either, but for other variables, we _do_ want the detection to happen,
for example for git, find, awk, which might not be installed and we want to
detect that early, before we start the build. It would be ugly to use quotes
for some programs, but not for others. Also, a string is still refused for
test(), so we couldn't use the string version even if we didn't care about
detection.
Let's add a catalog entry, make the log record structured, and most
importantly, let's add warning emojis.
Just to underline that this stuff should really go away.
Doesn't really matter since the two unicode symbols are supposedly
equivalent, but let's better follow the unicode recommendations to
prefer greek small letter mu, as per:
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25
Typically, in reasonably complex programs we want to realease various
caches (such as glibc allocation caches) in case of memory pressure.
Let's add explicit infrastructure for that to sd-event, that can hook
Linux' Pressure Stall Information (PSI) logic with our event loop.
This adds sd_event_add_memory_pressure() as easy, one-step API to
install an even source that is called under memory pressure.
The parameters which file to watch (the per-cgroup PSI file, or the
system-wide file /proc/pressure/memory) can be configured via env vars.
The idea is that the service manager sooner or later gains controls for
setting this up correctly.
Alternatively to the PSI a similar logic is supported but instead of
waiting for POLLPRI on a procfs/cgroupfs fd we'll wait for POLLIN on
FIFO or AF_UNIX sockets. This is useful for testing, and possibly in
other environments, for example to hook up this protocol directly with
GNOME's low memory monitor.
By default this watches on the cgroup-local PSI so that we aren't
affected by pressure on cgroups we are not related to.
It's useful being able to easily detect if a disk-based clock bump was
done, let's make it a structure message, the same way as acquiring an
NTP fix already is.
Also, set the clock to 1 µs further than the timestamp from the disk,
after all we know that that timestamp was current when it was written,
hence it can't be the right one right now anymore.
Originally, people used "extend a PCR with a measurement" or
"measure some blob into the PCR". In our docs those uses got merged
into "extend a string into a PCR". The meaning is clear to developers, but
it's a very jargony syntax that wouldn't make any sense to somebody who encounters
it the first time. Let's return to the more natural original phrasing.
Also, change various "this is supposed to act as" to "this acts as". If it
doesn't work, we have a bug to fix. This indirection is not useful.
Also, "boot path" → "phase path" and other smaller cleanups.