Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 2/6] target-arm: kvm - implement software breakpoints

On 12 November 2015 at 16:20, Alex Bennée wrote: > These don't involve messing around with debug registers, just setting > the breakpoint instruction in memory. GDB will not use this mechanism if > it can't access the memory to write the breakpoint. > > All the kernel has

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 2/6] target-arm: kvm - implement software breakpoints

These don't involve messing around with debug registers, just setting the breakpoint instruction in memory. GDB will not use this mechanism if it can't access the memory to write the breakpoint. All the kernel has to do is ensure the hypervisor traps the breakpoint exceptions and returns to