Visible to Intel only — GUID: suc1423164242417
Ixiasoft
Visible to Intel only — GUID: suc1423164242417
Ixiasoft
4.1.14. 752519: An Imprecise Abort Might Be Reported Twice on Non-Cacheable Reads
Description
In the case where two outstanding read memory requests to device or non-cacheable normal memory regions are issued by the Cortex* -A9, and the first one receives an imprecise external abort, then the second access might falsely report an imprecise external abort.
This erratum can only happen in systems that can generate imprecise external aborts on device or non-cacheable normal memory regions accesses.
Impact
When this erratum occurs, a second, spurious imprecise abort might be reported to the core when it should not. In practice, the failure is unlikely to cause any significant issues to the system because imprecise aborts are usually unrecoverable failures. Because the spurious abort can only happen following a first imprecise abort, either the first abort is ignored – and the spurious abort is then ignored too, or it is acknowledged and probably generates a critical failure in the system, such as a processor reset or whole system reboot.
Workaround
There is no practical software workaround for this erratum.
Category
Category 3