[efi] Hold off watchdog timer while running

UEFI platforms may provide a watchdog timer, which will reboot the
machine if an operating system takes more than five minutes to load.
This can cause long-lived iPXE downloads (or interactive shell
sessions) to unexpectedly reboot.

Fix by resetting the watchdog timer every ten seconds while the iPXE
main processing loop continues to run.

Reported-by: Bradley B Williams <bradleybwilliams@swbell.net>
Reported-by: John Clark <john.r.clark.3@gmail.com>
Reported-by: wdriever@gmail.com
Reported-by: Charlie Beima <cbeima@indiana.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Brown
2015-08-03 12:39:05 +01:00
parent b1caa48e4b
commit c6b299df20
5 changed files with 126 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );
#include <ipxe/efi/efi_driver.h>
#include <ipxe/efi/efi_snp.h>
#include <ipxe/efi/efi_autoboot.h>
#include <ipxe/efi/efi_watchdog.h>
/**
* EFI entry point
@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ EFI_STATUS EFIAPI _efi_start ( EFI_HANDLE image_handle,
/* Claim SNP devices for use by iPXE */
efi_snp_claim();
/* Start watchdog holdoff timer */
efi_watchdog_start();
/* Call to main() */
if ( ( rc = main() ) != 0 ) {
efirc = EFIRC ( rc );
@@ -56,6 +60,7 @@ EFI_STATUS EFIAPI _efi_start ( EFI_HANDLE image_handle,
}
err_main:
efi_watchdog_stop();
efi_snp_release();
efi_loaded_image->Unload ( image_handle );
efi_driver_reconnect_all();