SYSTEMD-SOFT-REBOOT.SERVICE(8) | systemd-soft-reboot.service | SYSTEMD-SOFT-REBOOT.SERVICE(8) |
NAME
systemd-soft-reboot.service - Userspace reboot operation
SYNOPSIS
systemd-soft-reboot.service
DESCRIPTION
systemd-soft-reboot.service is a system service that is pulled in by soft-reboot.target and is responsible for performing a userspace-only reboot operation. When invoked, it will send the SIGTERM signal to any processes left running (but does not wait for the processes to exit), and follow up with SIGKILL. If the /run/nextroot/ directory exists (which may be a regular directory, a directory mount point or a symlink to either) then it will switch the file system root to it. It then reexecutes the service manager off the (possibly now new) root file system, which will enqueue a new boot transaction as in a normal reboot.
Such a userspace-only reboot operation permits updating or resetting the entirety of userspace with minimal downtime, as the reboot operation does not transition through:
However this form of reboot comes with drawbacks as well:
These limitations may be addressed by various means, which are outside of the scope of this documentation, such as kernel live-patching and sufficiently comprehensive /etc/sysctl.d/ files.
RESOURCE PASS-THROUGH
Various runtime OS resources can passed from a system runtime to the next, through the userspace reboot operation. Specifically:
[Unit] Description=My Surviving Service SurviveFinalKillSignal=yes IgnoreOnIsolate=yes DefaultDependencies=no After=basic.target Conflicts=reboot.target kexec.target poweroff.target halt.target rescue.target emergency.target Before=shutdown.target rescue.target emergency.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=sleep infinity
[Unit] SurviveFinalKillSignal=yes IgnoreOnIsolate=yes DefaultDependencies=no
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 */ /* A D-Bus service that automatically reconnects when the system bus is * restarted. * * Compile with 'cc sd_bus_service_reconnect.c $(pkg-config --libs --cflags libsystemd)' * * To allow the program to take ownership of the name 'org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample', * add the following as /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample.conf * and then reload the broker with 'systemctl reload dbus': <?xml version="1.0"?> <!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd"> <busconfig> <policy user="root"> <allow own="org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample"/> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample"/> <allow receive_sender="org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample"/> </policy> <policy context="default"> <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample"/> <allow receive_sender="org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample"/> </policy> </busconfig> * * To get the property via busctl: * * $ busctl --user get-property org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample \ * /org/freedesktop/ReconnectExample \ * org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample \ * Example * s "example" */ #include <errno.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <systemd/sd-bus.h> #define _cleanup_(f) __attribute__((cleanup(f))) static int log_error(int r, const char *str) { fprintf(stderr, "%s failed: %s\n", str, strerror(-r)); return r; } typedef struct object { const char *example; sd_bus **bus; sd_event **event; } object; static int property_get( sd_bus *bus, const char *path, const char *interface, const char *property, sd_bus_message *reply, void *userdata, sd_bus_error *error) { object *o = userdata; if (strcmp(property, "Example") == 0) return sd_bus_message_append(reply, "s", o->example); return sd_bus_error_setf(error, SD_BUS_ERROR_UNKNOWN_PROPERTY, "Unknown property '%s'", property); } /* https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_add_object.html */ static const sd_bus_vtable vtable[] = { SD_BUS_VTABLE_START(0), SD_BUS_PROPERTY( "Example", "s", property_get, 0, SD_BUS_VTABLE_PROPERTY_CONST), SD_BUS_VTABLE_END }; static int setup(object *o); static int on_disconnect(sd_bus_message *message, void *userdata, sd_bus_error *ret_error) { int r; r = setup((object *)userdata); if (r < 0) { object *o = userdata; r = sd_event_exit(*o->event, r); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_event_exit()"); } return 1; } /* Ensure the event loop exits with a clear error if acquiring the well-known * service name fails */ static int request_name_callback(sd_bus_message *m, void *userdata, sd_bus_error *ret_error) { int r; if (!sd_bus_message_is_method_error(m, NULL)) return 1; const sd_bus_error *error = sd_bus_message_get_error(m); if (sd_bus_error_has_names(error, SD_BUS_ERROR_TIMEOUT, SD_BUS_ERROR_NO_REPLY)) return 1; /* The bus is not available, try again later */ fprintf(stderr, "Failed to request name: %s\n", error->message); object *o = userdata; r = sd_event_exit(*o->event, -sd_bus_error_get_errno(error)); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_event_exit()"); return 1; } static int setup(object *o) { int r; /* If we are reconnecting, then the bus object needs to be closed, detached * from the event loop and recreated. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_detach_event.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_close_unref.html */ if (*o->bus) { r = sd_bus_detach_event(*o->bus); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_detach_event()"); *o->bus = sd_bus_close_unref(*o->bus); } /* Set up a new bus object for the system bus, configure it to wait for D-Bus * to be available instead of failing if it is not, and start it. All the * following operations are asynchronous and will not block waiting for D-Bus * to be available. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_new.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_set_address.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_set_bus_client.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_negotiate_creds.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_set_watch_bind.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_set_connected_signal.html * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_start.html */ r = sd_bus_new(o->bus); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_new()"); r = sd_bus_set_address(*o->bus, "unix:path=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket"); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_set_address()"); r = sd_bus_set_bus_client(*o->bus, 1); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_set_bus_client()"); r = sd_bus_negotiate_creds(*o->bus, 1, SD_BUS_CREDS_UID|SD_BUS_CREDS_EUID|SD_BUS_CREDS_EFFECTIVE_CAPS); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_negotiate_creds()"); r = sd_bus_set_watch_bind(*o->bus, 1); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_set_watch_bind()"); r = sd_bus_start(*o->bus); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_start()"); /* Publish an interface on the bus, specifying our well-known object access * path and public interface name. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_add_object.html * https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-tutorial.html */ r = sd_bus_add_object_vtable(*o->bus, NULL, "/org/freedesktop/ReconnectExample", "org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample", vtable, o); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_add_object_vtable()"); /* By default the service is only assigned an ephemeral name. Also add a * well-known one, so that clients know whom to call. This needs to be * asynchronous, as D-Bus might not be yet available. The callback will check * whether the error is expected or not, in case it fails. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_request_name.html */ r = sd_bus_request_name_async(*o->bus, NULL, "org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample", 0, request_name_callback, o); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_request_name_async()"); /* When D-Bus is disconnected this callback will be invoked, which will set up * the connection again. This needs to be asynchronous, as D-Bus might not yet * be available. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_match_signal_async.html */ r = sd_bus_match_signal_async(*o->bus, NULL, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Local", NULL, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Local", "Disconnected", on_disconnect, NULL, o); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_match_signal_async()"); /* Attach the bus object to the event loop so that calls and signals are * processed. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_attach_event.html */ r = sd_bus_attach_event(*o->bus, *o->event, 0); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_attach_event()"); return 0; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { /* The bus should be relinquished before the program terminates. The cleanup * attribute allows us to do it nicely and cleanly whenever we exit the block. */ _cleanup_(sd_bus_flush_close_unrefp) sd_bus *bus = NULL; _cleanup_(sd_event_unrefp) sd_event *event = NULL; object o = { .example = "example", .bus = &bus, .event = &event, }; int r; /* Create an event loop data structure, with default parameters. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_event_default.html */ r = sd_event_default(&event); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_event_default()"); /* By default the event loop will terminate when all sources have disappeared, * so we have to keep it 'occupied'. Register signal handling to do so. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_event_add_signal.html */ r = sd_event_add_signal(event, NULL, SIGINT|SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK, NULL, NULL); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_event_add_signal(SIGINT)"); r = sd_event_add_signal(event, NULL, SIGTERM|SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK, NULL, NULL); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_event_add_signal(SIGTERM)"); r = setup(&o); if (r < 0) return EXIT_FAILURE; /* Enter the main loop, it will exit only on sigint/sigterm. * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_event_loop.html */ r = sd_event_loop(event); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_event_loop()"); /* https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_bus_release_name.html */ r = sd_bus_release_name(bus, "org.freedesktop.ReconnectExample"); if (r < 0) return log_error(r, "sd_bus_release_name()"); return 0; }
Even though passing resources from one soft reboot cycle to the next is possible this way, we strongly suggest to use this functionality sparingly only, as it creates a more fragile system as resources from different versions of the OS and applications might be mixed with unforeseen consequences. In particular it's recommended to avoid allowing processes to survive the soft reboot operation, as this means code updates will necessarily be incomplete, and processes typically pin various other resources (such as the file system they are backed by), thus increasing memory usage (as two versions of the OS/application/file system might be kept in memory). Leaving processes running during a soft-reboot operation requires disconnecting the service comprehensively from the rest of the OS, i.e. minimizing IPC and reducing sharing of resources with the rest of the OS. A possible mechanism to achieve this is the concept of Portable Services[1], but make sure no resource from the host's OS filesystems is pinned via BindPaths= or similar unit settings, otherwise the old, originating filesystem will remain mounted as long as the unit is running.
NOTES
Note that because systemd-shutdown(8) is not executed, the executables in /usr/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/ are not executed either.
Note that systemd-soft-reboot.service (and related units) should never be executed directly. Instead, trigger system shutdown with a command such as "systemctl soft-reboot".
Note that if a new root file system has been set up on "/run/nextroot/", a soft-reboot will be performed when the reboot command is invoked.
SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemctl(1), systemd.special(7), systemd-poweroff.service(8), systemd-suspend.service(8), bootup(7)
NOTES
- 1.
- Portable Services
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