Article ID: 000077339 Content Type: Troubleshooting Last Reviewed: 04/09/2018

Why does my OPAE driver stop working after an invalid IOMMU read?

Environment

  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
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    Critical Issue

    Description

    Due to a problem in the 1.0 release of the Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon® CPU with FPGAs, if the AFU reads host memory at an invalid address, then the FPGA stops responding. 

    Resolution

    Verify your AFU is reading a valid host region.  See Shared Memory APIs for a description of how to allocate and share system memory with an AFU.  See the hello_fpga code example which shows use of these APIs. 

    If this condition occurs, then a power cycle of the system is required to recover. 

    A future release of the Intel® Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon® CPU with FPGAs will allow the FPGA to continue to respond when the AFU reads an invalid host memory location.

    Related Products

    This article applies to 1 products

    Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA

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