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Re: No code to flush instruction cache in gdbserver?

From: Jie Zhang <jzhang918 at gmail dot com>
To: Jie Zhang <jzhang918 at gmail dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 21:25:36 +0800
Subject: Re: No code to flush instruction cache in gdbserver?
References: <6f48278f0508010232b6c5149@mail.gmail.com> <20050801131256.GB4405@nevyn.them.org>
Reply-to: Jie Zhang <jzhang918 at gmail dot com>

Thank you so much. :-)

Jie

On 8/1/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:32:21PM +0800, Jie Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have  a question about gdbserver. For some architectures it's needed
> > to flush instruction cache to maintain the cache coherency after
> > inserting or removing breakpoint.
> 
> It's not gdbserver's responsibility.  If your kernel fails to flush the
> cache after PTRACE_POKETEXT, then report that as a kernel bug.
> 
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery, LLC
>

References:
- No code to flush instruction cache in gdbserver?
  - From: Jie Zhang
- Re: No code to flush instruction cache in gdbserver?
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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