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