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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 2021 22:45:38 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Xin Li <delphij@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Xin LI <d@delphij.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>, "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>,  Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>, byuu@tutanota.com, interloper255@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: ThinkPad: reboots after successful shutdown -p
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfphOpRvpaTwHGquyAqyFituoUGg3yNFQ=A=gxP2CCm=WQ@mail.gmail.com>
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References:  <b22bad03-238f-ad74-e8ce-9c02287d4cd4@delphij.net> <cde330ac-d254-fd2d-760a-cfb63c5cd058@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:18 PM Xin Li <delphij@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/17/19 23:14, Xin Li wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently noticed that if I do a 'shutdown -p' from -CURRENT, the
> > system would shut down and seemingly powered off, then it would restart
> > after about 5-10 seconds.
> >
> > Is this a known issue?  Arguably this is not necessarily a FreeBSD
> > issue, but it seems that the Windows 10 installation doesn't have the
> > problem, so I guess there might be some difference between our and
> > Windows's shutdown sequence.
>
> I've found a workaround for this, for the record, setting
> hw.efi.poweroff=0 would make the laptop to correctly shutdown.
>
> However I don't see anything wrong with sys/dev/efidev/efirt.c's
> implementation of EFI shutdown; it appears to be essentially the same as
> implemented in command_poweroff() in stand/efi/loader/main.c, but
> 'poweroff' would work just fine in loader.efi.
>
> Can someone familiar with the code shed me some light here? :-)
>
> It looks like what Linux did was to prefer ACPI S5, unless it's not
> available or the system have HW_REDUCED flag in FADT, so if we do
> something similar it would fix the issue for me, but according to
> bugs.freebsd.org/233998 that's not the case for at least Conor's system
> (_S5 appears to be in the ACPI dump), so I think it's something else...
>

For me, interrupt storm on shutdown has been the causes of issues like
this...

Any chance you can eliminate that as a possibility?

Warner



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