Mellanox Hardware Management package

This package supports thermal control and hardware management for Mellanox switches by using a virtual file system provided by the Linux Kernel called sysfs.

The major advantage of working with sysfs is that it makes HW hierarchy easy to understand and control without having to learn about HW component location and the buses through which they are connected. For detailed information, see the documentation here.

Table of Contents

• Supported systems
• Supported Kernel versions
• Sysfs attributes
• Kernel configuration
• Packaging
• Installation from local file and de-installation
• Activation, de-activation and reading status

Supported systems:

• MSN2740
• MSN2100
• MSN2410
• MSN2700
• MSN2010
• MQMB7800
• MSN3700
• MSN3800
• MSN4700
• MSN4600C

Supported Kernel versions:

• 4.9.xx
• 4.19.xx

Sysfs attributes:

The thermal control operates over sysfs attributes. These attributes are exposed as symbolic links to /var/run/hw-management folder at system boot time. This folder contains the next structure:

Node Path	Purpose
/config	Configuration related files. It includes the information about FAN minimum, maximum allowed speed, some default settings, configured delays for different purposes
/eeprom	EEPROM related symbolic links to System, PSU, FAN, CPU
/environment	Environment (voltage, current, A2D) related symbolic links
/led	LED related symbolic links
/power	Power related symbolic links
/system	System related (health, reset, CPLD version. etc.) related symbolic links
/thermal	Thermal related links, including thermal zones related subfolders. /mlxsw - ASIC ambient temperature thermal zone related symbolic links. /mlxsw-moduleX - QSFP module X temperature thermal zone related symbolic links
/watchdog	Standard watchdog sysfs attributes

Symbolic links examples:

To get current cooling state, exposed by cooling level (1..10), run:

$ cat /var/run/hw-management/thermal/cooling_cur_state
2

To get power supply unit X power status, where 1 - good and 0 - unplugged/unfunctional, run:

$ cat /var/run/hw-management/thermal/psu1_pwr_status
0
$ cat /var/run/hw-management/thermal/psu2_pwr_status
1

To get the switch module ASIC temperature, in millidegrees Celsius, run:

$ cat /var/run/hw-management/thermal/asic
39000

Detailed information about all available nodes can be found in the documentation here.

Kernel configuration

At a minimum, the following configuration options should be set:

CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MELLANOX=y
CONFIG_MELLANOX_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_NET_DEVLINK=y
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_BOARDINFO=y
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=m
CONFIG_I2C_MUX=m
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_REG=m
CONFIG_I2C_MUX_MLXCPLD=m
CONFIG_REGMAP=y
CONFIG_REGMAP_I2C=m
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_DMI_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_IIO_SYSFS_TRIGGER=m
CONFIG_NVMEM_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_MLXSW_CORE=m
CONFIG_MLXSW_CORE_HWMON=m
CONFIG_MLXSW_CORE_THERMAL=m
CONFIG_MLXSW_PCI or/and CONFIG_MLXSW_I2C *=m
CONFIG_MLXSW_SPECTRUM or/and CONFIG_MLXSW_MINIMAL *=m
CONFIG_I2C_MLXCPLD=m
CONFIG_LEDS_MLXREG=m
CONFIG_MLX_PLATFORM=m
CONFIG_MLXREG_HOTPLUG=m
CONFIG_MLXREG_IO=m
CONFIG_MLX_WDT=m
CONFIG_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_WRITABLE_TRIPS=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_DEFAULT_GOV_STEP_WISE=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_GOV_STEP_WISE=y
CONFIG_PMBUS=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_PMBUS=m
CONFIG_HWMON=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_JC42=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_LM75=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_TMP102=m
CONFIG_LEDS_MLXREG=m
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_TIMER=m
CONFIG_NEW_LEDS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS=y
CONFIG_EEPROM_AT24=m
CONFIG_GPIOLIB=y
CONFIG_GPIO_GENERIC=m
CONFIG_MAX1363=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_TPS53679=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_XDPE122=m
CONFIG_GPIO_ICH=m
CONFIG_LPC_ICH=m
CONFIG_CPU_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_X86_PKG_TEMP_THERMAL=m
CONFIG_SENSORS_CORETEMP=m
CONFIG_INTEL_PCH_THERMAL=m
CONFIG_IGB=y
CONFIG_IGB_HWMON=y
CONFIG_MFD_CORE=m
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y

Note:

• Kernel version should be v4.19 or later.
• In case the Kernel is configured with CONFIG_MLXSW_PCI and CONFIG_MLXSW_SPECTRUM, mlxsw kernel hwmon and thermal modules will work over PCI bus.
• In case the Kernel is configured with CONFIG_MLXSW_I2C and CONFIG_MLXSW_MINIMAL, mlxsw kernel hwmon and thermal modules will work over I2C bus.
• If both Kernel configuration options options have been specified, work over the PCI bus will be selected by default.
  mlxsw_i2c and mlxsw_minimal drivers will not be activated.
  
  If the user wants to enforce work over I2C (for example, to be able to switch between workloads running Mellanox legacy SDK code and running Mellanox switch-dev driver), the next steps should be performed:
  1. Create a blacklist file with next two lines. For example:

     $ vi /etc/modprobe.d/hw-management.conf
     blacklist mlxsw_spectrum
     blacklist mlxsw_pci
     

  2. And then run: update-initramfs -u (in case initramfs is used)
  3. In order to returning back to PCI option, remove /etc/modprobe.d/mellanox-sdk-blacklist.conf file and re-run update-initramfs -u (in case initramfs is used).

Packaging:

The package depends on the next packages:

• init-system-helpers: helper tools for all init systems
• bsdutils/util-linux-ng: system logger in debian or Fedora and RHEL.
• udev: /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
• i2c-tools: heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux
  i2c-tools_4.1-1 & libi2c0_4.1-1 or higher

Package contains the folder Debian, with the rules for Debian package build. Location: https://github.com/Mellanox/hw-mgmt To get package sources: git clone https://[email protected]/Mellanox/hw-mgmt

For Debian package build: On a debian-based system, install the following programs: sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential lintian

• Go into the thermal-control base folder and build the Debian package.
• Run: debuild -us -uc
• Find in upper folder the builded .deb package (for example hw-management_1.mlnx.18.12.2018_amd64.deb).

For converting .deb package to .rpm package:

• On a Debian-based system, install the alien program: sudo apt-get install alien
• alien --to-rpm hw-management_1.mlnx.18.12.2018_amd64.deb
• Find hw-management-1.mlnx.18.12.2018-2.x86_64.rpm

Installation from local file and de-installation

1. Copy deb or rpm package to the system, for example to /tmp.
2. For deb package:
   • install with: dpkg -i /tmp/ hw-management_1.mlnx.18.12.2018_amd64.deb
   • remove with: dpkg --purge hw-management
3. For rpm package:
   • install with: yum localinstall /tmp/hw-management-1.mlnx.18.12.2018-2.x86_64.rpm
     or rpm -ivh --force /tmp/hw-management-1.mlnx.18.12.2018-2.x86_64.rpm
   • remove with: yum remove hw-management or rpm -e hw-management

Activation, de-activation and reading status

hw-management package from release 7.0010.1300 contains 2 separate services: one-shot hw-management and hw-management-tc thermal control service. hw-management-tc is new service starting from 7.0010.1300. In older version TC was part of hw-management service.

If you had TC disabled in previouse release (by commeting out TC activation in hw-management.sh) Please reffer to the below in order to disable TC using systemctl command

hw-management services can be initialized and de-initialized by systemd commands.
The next command could be used in order to configure persistent initialization and de-initialization of hw-management service:

• systemctl enable hw-management
• systemctl disable hw-management

The next command could be used in order to configure persistent initialization and de-initialization of thermal control hw-management-tc service:

• systemctl enable hw-management-tc
• systemctl disable hw-management-tc

The running status of hw-management units can be obtained by the following command:

• systemctl status hw-management
• systemctl status hw-management-tc

Logging records of the thermal control written by systemd-journald.service can be queried by the following commands:

• journalctl --unit=hw-management
• journalctl -f -u hw-management

Once systemctl enable hw-management is invoked, the thermal control will be automatically activated after the next and the following system reboots, until systemctl disable hw-management is not invoked.

The application could be stopped by the systemctl stop hw-management command.

License

This project is Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2.

Acknowledgments

• Mellanox Low-Level Team.