[RFC PATCH 10/14] FWU: Reboot soon after successfully install the new firmware

AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Fri Jan 21 02:46:07 CET 2022


On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:31:00AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Reboot to the trial state soon after successfully installing
> the new firmware to the next bank and updating the active_index.
> This is enabled by CONFIG_FWU_REBOOT_AFTER_UPDATE and is a
> recommended option.

EFI_CAPSULE_HEADER.Flags may have a flag, CAPSULE_FLAGS_INITIATE_RESET.
See Section "8.5.3 Update Capsule" in the UEFI specification.

I think that we'd better implement the feature rather than adding
CONFIG_FWU_REBOOT_AFTER_UPDATE.

-Takahiro Akashi

> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu at linaro.org>
> ---
>  lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c |   10 ++++++++--
>  lib/fwu_updates/Kconfig      |    9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c
> index 83c89a0cbb..0928425b5f 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c
> @@ -1355,10 +1355,16 @@ efi_status_t efi_launch_capsules(void)
>  			} else {
>  				log_debug("Successfully updated the active_index\n");
>  				status = fwu_trial_state_ctr_start();
> -				if (status < 0)
> +				if (status < 0) {
>  					ret = EFI_DEVICE_ERROR;
> -				else
> +				} else {
>  					ret = EFI_SUCCESS;
> +					if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FWU_REBOOT_AFTER_UPDATE)) {
> +						log_info("New firmware is installed in bank#%d. Reboot from that bank.\n",
> +							 update_index);
> +						do_reset(NULL, 0, 0, NULL);
> +					}
> +				}
>  			}
>  		} else if (capsule_update == true && update_status == false) {
>  			log_err("All capsules were not updated. Not updating FWU metadata\n");
> diff --git a/lib/fwu_updates/Kconfig b/lib/fwu_updates/Kconfig
> index 6de28e0c9c..0940a90747 100644
> --- a/lib/fwu_updates/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/fwu_updates/Kconfig
> @@ -29,3 +29,12 @@ config FWU_TRIAL_STATE_CNT
>  	  With FWU Multi Bank Update feature enabled, number of times
>  	  the platform is allowed to boot in Trial State after an
>  	  update.
> +
> +config FWU_REBOOT_AFTER_UPDATE
> +	bool "Reboot soon after installing new firmware"
> +	depends on FWU_MULTI_BANK_UPDATE
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Reboot the machine soon after installing a new firmware
> +	  and start trial boot. You can disable this option for
> +	  debugging or FWU development, but recommended to enable it.
> 


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