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3.2.3. 2356586: Continuous failing STREX because of another PE executing prefetch for store behind consistently mispredicted branch
Description
A PE executing a PLDW or PRFM PST instruction that lies on a mispredicted branch path might cause a second PE executing a store exclusive to the same cache line address to fail continuously.
Conditions
- One PE is executing store exclusive.
- A second PE has branches that are consistently mispredicted.
- The second PE instruction stream contains a PLDW or PRFM PST instruction on the mispredicted path that accesses the same cache line address as the store exclusive executed by the first PE.
- PLDW/PRFM PST causes an invalidation of the first PE's caches and a loss of the exclusive monitor.
Impact
If the above conditions are met, the store exclusive instruction might continuously fail.
Workaround
Set CPUACTLR2_EL1[0] to 1 to force PLDW/PFRM ST to behave like PLD/PRFM LD and not cause invalidations to other PE caches. There might be a small performance degradation to this workaround for certain workloads that share data.
Category
Category B