Patent ID: 8473921
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment, a method of debugging a software application, wherein the software application is configured to use one or more processor caches coupled to a processor in an architecturally significant fashion, the method comprising: beginning execution of the software application at a physical processor; running a debugger while executing the software application at the physical processor; detecting that a portion of the software application causes at least one of reads or writes to be made to a processor cache in an architecturally significant fashion; and based on detecting that the portion of the software application causes at least one of reads or writes to be made to the processor cache in an architecturally significant fashion, preserving any reads or writes made to the cache in an architecturally significant fashion, while performing debugging operations with the debugger that would ordinarily disturb the reads or writes made to the processor cache in an architecturally significant fashion, including: