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23614K—October 2003 AMD Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide
Preliminary Information
13 Instruction Execution Deadlock
Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7
Normal Specified Operation. Legitimate instruction sequences should execute as specified.
Non-conformance. Under rare and unlikely conditions, the load-store unit, instruction scheduler and
effective address generation unit interact in such a way that deadlock a occurs, preventing further
instruction execution.
Potential Effect on System. The system hangs. No instructions complete and the processor will not respond
to interrupts.
Suggested Workaround. None.
Resolution Status. Fix planned for a future revision.