[PATCH] ARM: errata: Faulty logic in the Store Buffer may lead to data corruption

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Dec 20 05:26:21 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:38:09AM +0000, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> This is an update for the existing software workaround for the 743622
> Cortex-A9 erratum (475d92fc6e ARM: 6416/1: errata: faulty hazard checking
> in the Store Buffer may lead to data corruption).
> 
> According to the later errata notice updates, this erratum turned out
> to be present not only in (r2p0..r2p2), but in all r2p* revisions.
> Also the errata title is corrected to indicate that the errata leads to
> data corruption, and not to a processor deadlock as sometimes mentioned
> in previous revisions of the document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi.px at renesas.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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