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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mayank Kaushik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alban Douillet, Cupertino, CA (US);
Geoffrey Gerfin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vyas Venkataraman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark Hairgrove, San Jose, CA (US);
Riley Andrews, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for debugging an executing program. The method includes executing a general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) program. The GPGPU program comprises a first portion operable to execute on a central processing unit (CPU) and a second portion operable to execute on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The method further includes attaching a debugging program to the first portion of the GPGPU program and modifying the first portion of the GPGPU program. The attaching of the debugging program to the first portion of the GPGPU program pauses execution of the first portion of the GPGPU program. The method further includes resuming execution of the first portion of the GPGPU program and accessing a first state information corresponding to the first portion of the GPGPU program. Execution of the first portion of the GPGPU program may then be paused. The first state information may then be used to access a second state information corresponding to the second portion of the GPGPU program.