Intel Xeon Processor LV and ULV Specification Update
Summary Tables of Changes 
Specification Update     13 
Number 
Stepping 
Plans 
ERRATA 
C0 
D0 
AF23 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Disabling of Single-step On Branch Operation May be Delayed 
following a POPFD Instruction 
AF24 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Performance Monitoring Counters that Count External Bus Events May 
Report Incorrect Values after Processor Power State Transitions 
AF25 
X 
X 
No Fix 
VERW/VERR/LSL/LAR Instructions May Unexpectedly Update the Last 
Exception Record (LER) MSR 
AF26 
X 
X 
No Fix 
General Protection (#GP) Fault May Not Be Signaled On Data Segment 
Limit Violation Above 4G Limit 
AF27 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Performance Monitoring Events for Retired Floating Point Operations 
(C1h) May Not be Accurate 
AF28 
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) 
AF29 
X 
X 
No 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 
AF30 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Data Breakpoint/Single Step on MOV SS/POP SS May be Lost after 
Entry into SMM 
AF31 
X 
X 
No Fix 
CS Limit Violation on RSM May be Serviced before Higher Priority 
Interrupts/Exceptions 
AF32 
X 
No Fix 
Hardware Prefetch Performance Monitoring Events May be Counted 
Inaccurately 
AF33 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Pending x87 FPU Exceptions (#MF) Following STI May Be Serviced 
Before Higher Priority Interrupts 
AF34 
X 
Plan Fix 
CPU_CLK_UNHALTED Performance Monitoring Event (3CH) Counts 
Clocks when the Processor is in the C1/C2 Processor Power States 
AF35 
X 
X 
No Fix 
The Processor May Report a #TS Instead of a #GP Fault 
AF36 
X 
X 
No Fix 
BTS Message May be Lost When the STPCLK# Signal is Active 
AF37 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Certain Performance Monitoring Counters Related to Bus, L2 Cache 
and Power Management are Inaccurate 
AF38 
X 
X 
No Fix 
A Write to an APIC Register Sometimes May Appear to Have Not 
Occurred 
AF39 
X 
X 
No Fix 
IO_SMI Indication in SMRAM State Save Area May be Set Incorrectly 
AF40 
X 
X 
Plan Fix 
IO_SMI Indication in SMRAM State Save Area May be Lost 
AF41 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Logical Processors May Not Detect Write-Back (WB) Memory Writes 
AF42 
X 
X 
No Fix 
Last Exception Record (LER) MSRs May be Incorrectly Updated 
AF43 
X 
X 
No Fix 
At a 7:1 Core Frequency to Bus Clock Ratio, the Processor May 
Livelock when Sending an EOI to MSI Interrupt 
AF44 
X 
X 
No Fix 
SYSENTER/SYSEXIT Instructions Can Implicitly Load ―Null Segment 
Selector‖ to SS and CS Registers 










