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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2002
Michael Richard Betker, Allentown, PA (US);
Bryan Schlieder, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Shaun Patrick Whalen, Wescosville, PA (US);
Jay Patrick Wilshire, Pennsburg, PA (US);
Michael Richard Betker, Allentown, PA (US);
Bryan Schlieder, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Shaun Patrick Whalen, Wescosville, PA (US);
Jay Patrick Wilshire, Pennsburg, PA (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for implementing software breakpoints in a processor system having at least one processor coupled to a main memory and associated with an instruction cache. A breakpoint code is inserted at a particular location in the instruction cache of at least a given one of the processors, and a control indicator associated with the particular location is set to a first state which allows the breakpoint code to be returned to the given processor from the instruction cache in response to a first fetch request directed to a corresponding address. Subsequently, the control indicator associated with the particular location is set to a second state which directs that a second fetch request to the corresponding address be serviced from the main memory. The control indicator state is then changed again after a determination has been made, from the control indicator having been set to the second state, that the second fetch request to the corresponding address will be serviced from the main memory.