Processor Might Deadlock Or Lose Data

Versal AI Core Series Production Errata (EN313)

Document ID
EN313
Release Date
2024-01-31
Revision
1.6 English

AMD Answer 73140

The Arm Cortex-R5F processor contains a 4-entry store buffer that buffers, merges, and forwards data before it is written to the cache or the L2 memory system using the AXI-master interface. Because of this errata, it is possible for the store buffer to enter a state in which no existing writes will proceed. The effect of this state is either:

  • The pipeline backs-up preventing any instruction execution, or
  • If a specific sequence of accesses is performed, execution resumes but write data is lost.

This is a third-party errata (Arm, Inc. 780125); this issue will not be fixed.