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Thomas Haller | ce0e898fb4 |
libnm: refactor caching of D-Bus objects in NMClient
No longer use GDBusObjectMangaerClient and gdbus-codegen generated classes for the NMClient cache. Instead, use GDBusConnection directly and a custom implementation (NMLDBusObject) for caching D-Bus' ObjectManager data. CHANGES ------- - This is a complete rework. I think the previous implementation was difficult to understand. There were unfixed bugs and nobody understood the code well enough to fix them. Maybe somebody out there understood the code, but I certainly did not. At least nobody provided patches to fix those issues. I do believe that this implementation is more straightforward and easier to understand. It removes a lot of layers of code. Whether this claim of simplicity is true, each reader must decide for himself/herself. Note that it is still fairly complex. - There was a lingering performance issue with large number of D-Bus objects. The patch tries hard that the implementation scales well. Of course, when we cache N objects that have N-to-M references to other, we still are fundamentally O(N*M) for runtime and memory consumption (with M being the number of references between objects). But each part should behave efficiently and well. - Play well with GMainContext. libnm code (NMClient) is generally not thread safe. However, it should work to use multiple instances in parallel, as long as each access to a NMClient is through the caller's GMainContext. This follows glib's style and effectively allows to use NMClient in a multi threaded scenario. This implies to stick to a main context upon construction and ensure that callbacks are only invoked when iterating that context. Also, NMClient itself shall never iterate the caller's context. This also means, libnm must never use g_idle_add() or g_timeout_add(), as those enqueue sources in the g_main_context_default() context. - Get ordering of messages right. All events are consistently enqueued in a GMainContext and processed strictly in order. For example, previously "nm-object.c" tried to combine signals and emit them on an idle handler. That is wrong, signals must be emitted in the right order and when they happen. Note that when using GInitable's synchronous initialization to initialize the NMClient instance, NMClient internally still operates fully asynchronously. In that case NMClient has an internal main context. - NMClient takes over most of the functionality. When using D-Bus' ObjectManager interface, one needs to handle basically the entire state of the D-Bus interface. That cannot be separated well into distinct parts, and even if you try, you just end up having closely related code in different source files. Spreading related code does not make it easier to understand, on the contrary. That means, NMClient is inherently complex as it contains most of the logic. I think that is not avoidable, but it's not as bad as it sounds. - NMClient processes D-Bus messages and state changes in separate steps. First NMClient unpacks the message (e.g. _dbus_handle_properties_changed()) and keeps track of the changed data. Then we update the GObject instances (_dbus_handle_obj_changed_dbus()) without emitting any signals yet. Finally, we emit all signals and notifications that were collected (_dbus_handle_changes_commit()). Note that for example during the initial GetManagedObjects() reply, NMClient receive a large amount of state at once. But we first apply all the changes to our GObject instances before emitting any signals. The result is that signals are always emitted in a moment when the cache is consistent. The unavoidable downside is that when you receive a property changed signal, possibly many other properties changed already and more signals are about to be emitted. - NMDeviceWifi no longer modifies the content of the cache from client side during poke_wireless_devices_with_rf_status(). The content of the cache should be determined by D-Bus alone and follow what NetworkManager service exposes. Local modifications should be avoided. - This aims to bring no API/ABI change, though it does of course bring various subtle changes in behavior. Those should be all for the better, but the goal is not to break any existing clients. This does change internal (albeit externally visible) API, like dropping NM_OBJECT_DBUS_OBJECT_MANAGER property and NMObject no longer implementing GInitableIface and GAsyncInitableIface. - Some uses of gdbus-codegen classes remain in NMVpnPluginOld, NMVpnServicePlugin and NMSecretAgentOld. These are independent of NMClient/NMObject and should be reworked separately. - While we no longer use generated classes from gdbus-codegen, we don't need more glue code than before. Also before we constructed NMPropertiesInfo and a had large amount of code to propagate properties from NMDBus* to NMObject. That got completely reworked, but did not fundamentally change. You still need about the same effort to create the NMLDBusMetaIface. Not using generated bindings did not make anything worse (which tells about the usefulness of generated code, at least in the way it was used). - NMLDBusMetaIface and other meta data is static and immutable. This avoids copying them around. Also, macros like NML_DBUS_META_PROPERTY_INIT_U() have compile time checks to ensure the property types matches. It's pretty hard to misuse them because it won't compile. - The meta data now explicitly encodes the expected D-Bus types and makes sure never to accept wrong data. That would only matter when the server (accidentally or intentionally) exposes unexpected types on D-Bus. I don't think that was previously ensured in all cases. For example, demarshal_generic() only cared about the GObject property type, it didn't know the expected D-Bus type. - Previously GDBusObjectManager would sometimes emit warnings (g_log()). Those probably indicated real bugs. In any case, it prevented us from running CI with G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings, because there would be just too many unrelated crashes. Now we log debug messages that can be enabled with "LIBNM_CLIENT_DEBUG=trace". Some of these messages can also be turned into g_warning()/g_critical() by setting LIBNM_CLIENT_DEBUG=warning,error. Together with G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings, this turns them into assertions. Note that such "assertion failures" might also happen because of a server bug (or change). Thus these are not common assertions that indicate a bug in libnm and are thus not armed unless explicitly requested. In our CI we should now always run with LIBNM_CLIENT_DEBUG=warning,error and G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings and to catch bugs. Note that currently NetworkManager has bugs in this regard, so enabling this will result in assertion failures. That should be fixed first. - Note that this changes the order in which we emit "notify:devices" and "device-added" signals. I think it makes the most sense to emit first "device-removed", then "notify:devices", and finally "device-added" signals. This changes behavior for commit |
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Thomas Haller | 57aa5e2a9d |
libnm: hide GObject structs from public API and embed private data
These types are all subclasses of NMObject. These instances are commonly created by NMClient itself. It makes no sense that a user would instantiate the type. Much less does it make sense to subclass them. Hide the object and class structures from public API. This is an API and ABI break, but of something that is very likely unused. This is mainly done to embed the private structure in the object itself. This has benefits for performance and debugability. But most importantly, we can obtain a static offset where to access the private data. That means, we can use the information to access the data pointer generically, as we will need later. This is not done for the internal types NMManager, NMRemoteSettings, and NMDnsManager. These types will be dropped later. |
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Thomas Haller | 3b69f02164 |
all: unify format of our Copyright source code comments
```bash readarray -d '' FILES < <( git ls-files -z \ ':(exclude)po' \ ':(exclude)shared/c-rbtree' \ ':(exclude)shared/c-list' \ ':(exclude)shared/c-siphash' \ ':(exclude)shared/c-stdaux' \ ':(exclude)shared/n-acd' \ ':(exclude)shared/n-dhcp4' \ ':(exclude)src/systemd/src' \ ':(exclude)shared/systemd/src' \ ':(exclude)m4' \ ':(exclude)COPYING*' ) sed \ -e 's/^\(--\|#\| \*\) *\(([cC]) *\)\?Copyright \+\(\(([cC])\) \+\)\?\(\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9]\) *[-–] *\(\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9]\) \+\([^ ].*\)$/\1 C1pyright#\5 - \7#\9/' \ -e 's/^\(--\|#\| \*\) *\(([cC]) *\)\?Copyright \+\(\(([cC])\) \+\)\?\(\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9]\) *[,] *\(\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9]\) \+\([^ ].*\)$/\1 C2pyright#\5, \7#\9/' \ -e 's/^\(--\|#\| \*\) *\(([cC]) *\)\?Copyright \+\(\(([cC])\) \+\)\?\(\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9]\) \+\([^ ].*\)$/\1 C3pyright#\5#\7/' \ -e 's/^Copyright \(\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9]\) \+\([^ ].*\)$/C4pyright#\1#\3/' \ -i \ "${FILES[@]}" echo ">>> untouched Copyright lines" git grep Copyright "${FILES[@]}" echo ">>> Copyright lines with unusual extra" git grep '\<C[0-9]pyright#' "${FILES[@]}" | grep -i reserved sed \ -e 's/\<C[0-9]pyright#\([^#]*\)#\(.*\)$/Copyright (C) \1 \2/' \ -i \ "${FILES[@]}" ``` https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_requests/298 |
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Lubomir Rintel | 24028a2246 |
all: SPDX header conversion
$ find * -type f |xargs perl contrib/scripts/spdx.pl $ git rm contrib/scripts/spdx.pl |
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Thomas Haller | c0e075c902 |
all: drop emacs file variables from source files
We no longer add these. If you use Emacs, configure it yourself. Also, due to our "smart-tab" usage the editor anyway does a subpar job handling our tabs. However, on the upside every user can choose whatever tab-width he/she prefers. If "smart-tabs" are used properly (like we do), every tab-width will work. No manual changes, just ran commands: F=($(git grep -l -e '-\*-')) sed '1 { /\/\* *-\*- *[mM]ode.*\*\/$/d }' -i "${F[@]}" sed '1,4 { /^\(#\|--\|dnl\) *-\*- [mM]ode/d }' -i "${F[@]}" Check remaining lines with: git grep -e '-\*-' The ultimate purpose of this is to cleanup our files and eventually use SPDX license identifiers. For that, first get rid of the boilerplate lines. |
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Beniamino Galvani | df72cad107 |
device: add NMDevicePPP
The new device type represents a PPP interface, and will implement the activation of new-style PPPoE connections, i.e. the ones that don't claim the parent device. |