Intel E5310 Specification Update - Page 10

Errata Sheet 1 of 6 - performance

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Errata (Sheet 1 of 6) Number AJ1 Steppings B-3 G-0 AJ2 X X AJ3 X X AJ4 X X Status No Fix No Fix No Fix AJ5 X X No Fix AJ6 X AJ7 X AJ8 X AJ9 X AJ10 X AJ11 X AJ12 X AJ13 X AJ14 X AJ15 X Plan Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix X No Fix AJ16 X X No Fix AJ17 X X No Fix AJ18 X AJ19 X AJ20 X AJ21 X X No Fix X No Fix Plan Fix Plan Fix AJ22 X Plan Fix ERRATA Deleted LOCK# Asserted During a Special Cycle Shutdown Transaction May Unexpectedly De-assert Address Reported by Machine-Check Architecture (MCA) on Singlebit L2 ECC Errors May be Incorrect VERW/VERR/LSL/LAR Instructions May Unexpectedly Update the Last Exception Record (LER) MSR DR3 Address Match on MOVD/MOVQ/MOVNTQ Memory Store Instruction May Incorrectly Increment Performance Monitoring Count for Saturating SIMD Instructions Retired (Event CFH) SYSRET May Incorrectly Clear RF (Resume Flag) in the RFLAGS Register General Protection Fault (#GP) for Instructions Greater than 15 Bytes May be Preempted Pending x87 FPU Exceptions (#MF) Following STI May Be Serviced Before Higher Priority Interrupts The Processor May Report a #TS Instead of a #GP Fault Code Segment Limit/Canonical Faults on RSM May be Serviced before Higher Priority Interrupts/Exceptions A Write to an APIC Register Sometimes May Appear to Have Not Occurred Programming the Digital Thermal Sensor (DTS) Threshold May Cause Unexpected Thermal Interrupts Count Value for Performance-Monitoring Counter PMH_PAGE_WALK May be Incorrect LER MSRs May be Incorrectly Updated Performance Monitoring Events for Retired Instructions (C0H) May Not Be Accurate Performance Monitoring Event For Number Of Reference Cycles When The Processor Is Not Halted (3CH) Does Not Count According To The Specification Using 2M/4M Pages When A20M# Is Asserted May Result in Incorrect Address Translations Writing Shared Unaligned Data that Crosses a Cache Line without Proper Semaphores or Barriers May Expose a Memory Ordering Issue Code Segment limit violation may occur on 4-Gbyte limit check FP Inexact-Result Exception Flag May Not Be Set Global Pages in the Data Translation Look-Aside Buffer (DTLB) May Not Be Flushed by RSM instruction before Restoring the Architectural State from SMRAM Sequential Code Fetch to Non-canonical Address May have Nondeterministic Results 10 Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series Specification Update, December 2010

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10
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series
Specification Update, December 2010
Errata (Sheet 1 of 6)
Number
Steppings
Status
ERRATA
B-3
G-0
AJ1
Deleted
AJ2
X
X
No Fix
LOCK# Asserted During a Special Cycle Shutdown Transaction May
Unexpectedly De-assert
AJ3
X
X
No Fix
Address Reported by Machine-Check Architecture (MCA) on Single-
bit L2 ECC Errors May be Incorrect
AJ4
X
X
No Fix
VERW/VERR/LSL/LAR Instructions May Unexpectedly Update the
Last Exception Record (LER) MSR
AJ5
X
X
No Fix
DR3 Address Match on MOVD/MOVQ/MOVNTQ Memory Store
Instruction May Incorrectly Increment Performance Monitoring Count
for Saturating SIMD Instructions Retired (Event CFH)
AJ6
X
Plan Fix
SYSRET May Incorrectly Clear RF (Resume Flag) in the RFLAGS
Register
AJ7
X
X
No Fix
General Protection Fault (#GP) for Instructions Greater than 15 Bytes
May be Preempted
AJ8
X
X
No Fix
Pending x87 FPU Exceptions (#MF) Following STI May Be Serviced
Before Higher Priority Interrupts
AJ9
X
X
No Fix
The Processor May Report a #TS Instead of a #GP Fault
AJ10
X
X
No Fix
Code Segment Limit/Canonical Faults on RSM May be Serviced
before Higher Priority Interrupts/Exceptions
AJ11
X
X
No Fix
A Write to an APIC Register Sometimes May Appear to Have Not
Occurred
AJ12
X
X
No Fix
Programming the Digital Thermal Sensor (DTS) Threshold May Cause
Unexpected Thermal Interrupts
AJ13
X
X
No Fix
Count Value for Performance-Monitoring Counter PMH_PAGE_WALK
May be Incorrect
AJ14
X
X
No Fix
LER MSRs May be Incorrectly Updated
AJ15
X
X
No Fix
Performance Monitoring Events for Retired Instructions (C0H) May
Not Be Accurate
AJ16
X
X
No Fix
Performance Monitoring Event For Number Of Reference Cycles
When The Processor Is Not Halted (3CH) Does Not Count According
To The Specification
AJ17
X
X
No Fix
Using 2M/4M Pages When A20M# Is Asserted May Result in Incorrect
Address Translations
AJ18
X
X
No Fix
Writing Shared Unaligned Data that Crosses a Cache Line without
Proper Semaphores or Barriers May Expose a Memory Ordering
Issue
AJ19
X
X
No Fix
Code Segment limit violation may occur on 4-Gbyte limit check
AJ20
X
Plan Fix
FP Inexact-Result Exception Flag May Not Be Set
AJ21
X
Plan Fix
Global Pages in the Data Translation Look-Aside Buffer (DTLB) May
Not Be Flushed by RSM instruction before Restoring the Architectural
State from SMRAM
AJ22
X
Plan Fix
Sequential Code Fetch to Non-canonical Address May have Non-
deterministic Results