Subject: gdb breakpoint setting with UVM
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/15/1999 23:53:12
Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > looking at PR 6152 by Michael Hitch, I expect that it is a problem for _any_
 > machine using in-memory breakpoint instructions with seperate I/D-cache...
 > 
 > - did anybody else notice the problem?
 > - how does gdb insert breakpoints on our different architectures?

It just uses ptrace(2).  The kernel is responsible for
dealing with any I-cache/D-cache issues...

Gordon