Arria® V SX and ST SoC Errata

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1. Arria® V SX and ST SoC Errata
1. Arria® V SX and ST SoC Errata x
1.1. Altera-Specific SoC Errata for Arria® V SX and ST Devices 1.2. Arm* Cortex* -A9 MPCore* and L2 Cache Errata 1.3. Revision History for Arria® V SX and ST SoC Errata
1.1. Altera-Specific SoC Errata for Arria® V SX and ST Devices x
1.1.1. Hard Processor System (HPS) 1.1.2. FPGA
1.1.1. Hard Processor System (HPS) x
1.1.1.1. EMAC RMII PHY Interface is Only Supported Through the FPGA Fabric 1.1.1.2. Hard Processor System Level 2 Cache Error Correction Code 1.1.1.3. Hard Processor System PLL Lock Issue After Power-on Reset or Cold Reset 1.1.1.4. HPS TAP Controller Is Reset By Cold Reset 1.1.1.5. SPI Slave Output Signals Cannot Be Isolated When Routed to the HPS Pins
1.1.2. FPGA x
1.1.2.1. False Configuration Failure in Active Serial Multi-Device Configurations
1.2. Arm* Cortex* -A9 MPCore* and L2 Cache Errata x
1.2.1. Arm* Cortex* -A9 MPU 1.2.2. Arm* L2 Cache Controller 1.2.3. Arm* CoreSight PTM
1.2.1. Arm* Cortex* -A9 MPU x
1.2.1.1. 761319: Ordering of Read Accesses to the Same Memory Location Might Be Uncertain Description Impact Workaround Category 1.2.1.2. 775420: Particular Data Cache Maintenance Operation Which Aborts Might Lead to Deadlock 1.2.1.3. 782772: Speculative Execution of LDREX or STREX Instruction After a Write to Strongly Ordered Memory Might Lead to Deadlock 1.2.1.4. 761320: Full Cache Line Writes to the Same Memory Region From Both Processors Might Cause Deadlock 1.2.1.5. 845369: Under Very Rare Timing Circumstances Transition into Streaming Mode Might Create Data Corruption 1.2.1.6. 740657: Global Timer Can Send Two Interrupts for the Same Event 1.2.1.7. 751476: Missed Watchpoint on the Second Part of an Unaligned Access Crossing a Page Boundary 1.2.1.8. 754322: Faulty MMU Translations Following ASID Switch 1.2.1.9. 764369: Data or Unified Cache Line Maintenance by MVA Fails on Inner-Shareable Memory 1.2.1.10. 782773: Updating a Translation Entry to Move a Page Mapping Might Erroneously Cause an Unexpected Translation Fault 1.2.1.11. 794072: A Short Loop Including DMB Instruction Might Cause a Denial of Service When the Other Processor Executes a CP15 Broadcast Operation 1.2.1.12. 794073: Speculative Instruction Fetches with MMU Disabled Might Not Comply with Architectural Requirements 1.2.1.13. 794074: A Write Request to an Uncacheable, Shareable Normal Memory Region Might be Executed Twice, Possibly Causing a Software Synchronization Issue 1.2.1.14. 725631: ISB is Counted in Performance Monitor Events 0x0C and 0x0D 1.2.1.15. 729817: MainID Register Alias Addresses Are Not Mapped on Debug APB Interface 1.2.1.16. 729818: In Debug State, the Next Instruction is Stalled When the SDABORT Flag is Set Instead of Being Discarded 1.2.1.17. 751471: DBGPCSR Format Is Incorrect 1.2.1.18. 752519: An Imprecise Abort Might Be Reported Twice on Non-Cacheable Reads 1.2.1.19. 754323: Repeated Store in the Same Cache Line Might Delay the Visibility of the Store 1.2.1.20. 756421: Sticky Pipeline Advance Bit Cannot be Cleared from Debug APB Accesses 1.2.1.21. 757119: Some Unallocated Memory Hint Instructions Generate an UNDEFINED Exception Instead of Being Treated as a NOP 1.2.1.22. 761321: MRC and MCR Are Not Counted in Event 0x68 1.2.1.23. 764319: Read Accesses to DBGPRSR and DBGPRCR May Generate an Unexpected UNDEF 1.2.1.24. 771221: PLD Instructions Might Allocate Data in the Data Cache Regardless of the Cache Enable Bit Value 1.2.1.25. 771224: Visibility of Debug Enable Access Rights to Enable/Disable Tracking is Not Ensured by an ISB 1.2.1.26. 771225: Speculative Cacheable Reads to Aborting Memory Regions Clear the Internal Exclusive Monitor and May Lead to Livelock 1.2.1.27. 775419: PMU Event 0x0A Might Count Twice the LDM PC ^ Instruction with Base Address Register Write-Back 1.2.1.28. 782774: A Spurious Event 0x63 Can be Reported on an LDREX That is preceded by a Write to Strongly Ordered Memory Region
1.2.2. Arm* L2 Cache Controller x
1.2.2.1. 754670: A Continuous Write Flow Can Stall a Read Targeting the Same Memory Area 1.2.2.2. 765569: Prefetcher Can Cross 4 KB Boundary if Offset is Programmed with Value 23 1.2.2.3. 729815: The High Priority for SO and Dev Reads Feature Can Cause Quality of Service Issues to Cacheable Read Transactions
1.2.3. Arm* CoreSight PTM x
1.2.3.1. 720107: Periodic Synchronization Can Be Delayed and Cause Overflow 1.2.3.2. 711668: Configuration Extension Register Has Wrong Value Status
1. Arria® V SX and ST SoC Errata

1.2.1.1. 761319: Ordering of Read Accesses to the Same Memory Location Might Be Uncertain

Description

The Arm* architecture and the general rules of coherency require reads to the same memory location to be observed in sequential order. Because of some internal replay path mechanisms, the Cortex* -A9 can see one read access bypassed by a following read access to the same memory location, thus not observing the values in program order.

Impact

This erratum:
  • Applies only to devices with a dual Cortex* -A9 MPCore* configuration.
  • Can occur only on a process working in SMP mode on memory regions marked as normal memory write-back shared.
  • Can cause data coherency failure.

Workaround

The majority of multi-processing code examples follow styles that do not expose this erratum. Therefore, this erratum occurs rarely and is likely to affect only very specific areas of code that rely on a read-ordering behavior. There are two possible workarounds for this erratum:
  • Use LDREX instead of standard LDR in volatile memory places that require a strict read-ordering.
  • The alternative workaround is the recommended workaround for tool chain integration. This method requires insertion of a DMB between the affected LDR that requires this strict ordering rule.

For more information about integrating the workaround inside tool chains, please refer to the Programmer Advance Notice related to this erratum, ARM UAN 0004A.

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