Sensor optimization

SensorsAsyncResp has existed for a long time, and has slowly morphed
from its intended usage (as an RAII response object) into a
conglomeration of all possible things that a sensor request could want.
This leads to a ton of inefficient queries, and lots of data being held
for much longer than we'd like.

This commit tries to start breaking things apart, and follow the
patterns we use elsewhere, passing AsyncResp where a response object is
needed, and passing specialized data structures only into the scopes
where they're needed.  This significantly increases the performance of
the /redfish/v1/Chassis/<>/Sensors/<sensor> URI.

The optimization changes the URI such that in includes both the sensor
type as well as the sensor name in the URI, meaning that from a given
tree, we can directly look up the sensor path, instead of having to look
up all sensor paths, and do a filename() compare on them.

Implementation-wise, there is one main difference in user-facing
behavior, in that instead of using a mechanized version of the sensor
name for the URI (aka /redfish/v1/Chassis/my_chassis/Sensors/my_sensor)
the URI now contains the sensor type (ex
/redfish/v1/Chassis/my_chassis/Sensors/temperature_my_sensor).  One
implementation note: because fan_pwm and fan_tach namespaces have an
underscore in them, we normalize these in the URI to fanpwm and fantach
respectively such that we can differentiate between the two without
looping, and special case them on the other side.  This seems like a
reasonable compromise.

The above means that when a request comes in to query the sensor, we no
longer have to pull all sensors to identify the one that matches the
name, and we can go directly to the mapper to determine which sensor we
need, with a GetObject query.  This significantly reduces the amount of
time to grab the information from a single sensor.

To accomplish this, the per-sensor methods needed broken down into
pieces that allowed loading a single sensor at a time, rather than a
complete GetManagedObjects call.  In practice, this just means breaking
out one helper function, such that the new code can directly call
GetAll.

In a few places, const std::string& had to be replaced with
std::string_view, because the new sensor API can directly inline its
const char* parameters for types, which allows it to avoid constructing
a string copy to do it.

Tested:
Redfish service validator passes on a S7106 system, and shows a timing
of ~40-50ms per sensor request, which is in line with what we'd expect
for a keepalive function using Session auth.

'''
curl --insecure -w "@curl-format.txt" -H "X-Auth-Token: nOIarWLRFkFN14qVONs0" https://192.168.10.140/redfish/v1/Chassis/Tyan_S7106_Baseboard/Sensors/temperature_sys_air_inlet
'''

returns timing that is on the order of 125ms.  On this setup,
ServiceRoot (which should do no dbus calls) returns in 90ms, so the
sensor implementation itself is on the order of 40% of the timing.

TelemetryService functions as expected
'''
curl -k --user "root:0penBmc" -X POST https://$bmc/redfish/v1/TelemetryService/MetricReportDefinitions/ -d '{"Id": "lxw1", "Metrics": [{"MetricId": "123", "MetricProperties": ["/redfish/v1/Chassis/Tyan_S7106_Baseboard/Power#/Voltages/0"]}], "MetricReportDefinitionType": "OnRequest", "ReportActions": ["LogToMetricReportsCollection"], "Schedule": {"RecurrenceInterval": "100"}}'
'''

Succeeds.

Also succeeds with MetricProperties set to:
/redfish/v1/Chassis/Tyan_S7106_Baseboard/Sensors/voltage_vcc5

Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <edtanous@google.com>
Change-Id: If42f531b385c3b611b100c1c485a1e4e877c5512
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README.md

OpenBMC webserver

This component attempts to be a "do everything" embedded webserver for OpenBMC.

Features

The webserver implements a few distinct interfaces:

  • DBus event websocket. Allows registering on changes to specific dbus paths, properties, and will send an event from the websocket if those filters match.
  • OpenBMC DBus REST api. Allows direct, low interference, high fidelity access to dbus and the objects it represents.
  • Serial: A serial websocket for interacting with the host serial console through websockets.
  • Redfish: A protocol compliant, (Redfish.md)[DBus to Redfish translator].
  • KVM: A websocket based implementation of the RFB (VNC) frame buffer protocol intended to mate to webui-vue to provide a complete KVM implementation.

Protocols

bmcweb at a protocol level supports http and https. TLS is supported through OpenSSL.

AuthX

Authentication

Bmcweb supports multiple authentication protocols:

  • Basic authentication per RFC7617
  • Cookie based authentication for authenticating against webui-vue
  • Mutual TLS authentication based on OpenSSL
  • Session authentication through webui-vue
  • XToken based authentication conformant to Redfish DSP0266

Each of these types of authentication is able to be enabled or disabled both via runtime policy changes (through the relevant Redfish APIs) or via configure time options. All authentication mechanisms supporting username/password are routed to libpam, to allow for customization in authentication implementations.

Authorization

All authorization in bmcweb is determined at routing time, and per route, and conform to the Redfish PrivilegeRegistry.

*Note: Non-Redfish functions are mapped to the closest equivalent Redfish privilege level.

Configuration

bmcweb is configured per the meson build files. Available options are documented in meson_options.txt

Compile bmcweb with default options:

meson builddir
ninja -C builddir

If any of the dependencies are not found on the host system during configuration, meson will automatically download them via its wrap dependencies mentioned in bmcweb/subprojects.

Debug logging

bmcweb by default is compiled with runtime logging disabled, as a performance consideration. To enable it in a standalone build, add the

-Dlogging='enabled'

option to your configure flags. If building within Yocto, add the following to your local.conf.

EXTRA_OEMESON:pn-bmcweb:append = "-Dbmcweb-logging='enabled'"

Use of persistent data

bmcweb relies on some on-system data for storage of persistent data that is internal to the process. Details on the exact data stored and when it is read/written can seen from the persistent_data namespace.

TLS certificate generation

When SSL support is enabled and a usable certificate is not found, bmcweb will generate a self-signed a certificate before launching the server. Please see the bmcweb source code for details on the parameters this certificate is built with.