[ipxe-devel] UEFI's TPL is not restored caused EXSi 6.5U3 boot failed with iPXE

[JamesWang [王家明]]

Hi,

We encountered a CPU exception problem while booting EXSi 6.5U3 with iPXE.  It is caused by system is running on TPL_CALLBACK level.

In Efi_timer.c: efi_currticks()
    if ( efi_shutdown_in_progress ) {
        efi_jiffies++;
    } else {
        bs->RestoreTPL ( TPL_APPLICATION );
        bs->RaiseTPL ( TPL_CALLBACK );
    }


It raised TPL to TPL_CALLBACK and never restored it.  NotifyFunction of EVT_SIGNAL_EXIT_BOOT_SERVICES will not be called because of that while booting.

The change of efi_currticks() causing this problem was from [efi] Run at TPL_CALLBACK to protect against UEFI timers<https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/c89a446cf09f30a121ae21d91f4a1aa071044084#diff-8abaf825db412e28b0c57b0f8947ed23>.

Can you find another way to work around the problem or restore TPL before ExitBootService?
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