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s390-tools/systemd/cpuplugd.service.in
Michael Holzheu 82c8148983 cpuplugd: Improve systemctl start error handling
Currently "systemctl start cpuplugd" does not report any errors in
case the startup fails.

Example:

 # mv /etc/cpuplugd.conf /etc/cpuplugd.conf.xxx
 # systemctl start cpuplugd

The reason is that for type=simple systemd forks/execs cpuplugd and if
that is successful immediately returns. There is no way to find out
if the initial startup fails.

Fix this by using type=fork and running cpuplugd in the background. In
this case systemd waits until the initial process returns.

In addition use PIDFile and ensure that the pid file is already available
when the initial cpuplugd process returns. To achieve this, replace the
daemon() function by our own implementation that introduces startup
synchronization via pipe. Without that systemd would print the following
warning:

systemd[1]: cpuplugd.service: PID file /var/run/cpuplugd.pid not readable
                              (yet?) after start: No such file or directory

With this patch, an early startup error like in the example above, is now
reported correctly in "systemctl start":

 # systemctl start cpuplugd
   Job for cpuplugd.service failed because the control process exited...
   See "systemctl status cpuplugd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for ...
 # journalctl -ex | grep cpuplugd
   Nov 16 15:52:27 ... cpuplugd[5096]: Opening configuration file failed:
                                       No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
2017-11-20 20:29:20 +01:00

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SYSTEMD

#
# Systemd unit for the CPU and memory hotplug daemon for Linux on z Systems
#
# Copyright IBM Corp. 2016, 2017
#
# s390-tools is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
#
[Unit]
Description=CPU hotplug daemon for Linux on System z
Documentation=man:cpuplugd(8) man:cpuplugd.conf(5)
After=remote-fs.target
[Service]
ExecStart=@usrsbin_path@/cpuplugd -c @sysconf_path@/cpuplugd.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
KillMode=process
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/cpuplugd.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target