From: Anton Blanchard <antonb@tenstorrent.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Anton Blanchard <antonb@tenstorrent.com>
Subject: [PATCH] RISC-V: Use hardware single step when available
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:28:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260916002831.1775922-1-antonb@tenstorrent.com> (raw)
If the target supports hardware single-stepping use it instead of
inserting software breakpoints. We continue to use software breakpoints
for stepping over LR/SC atomic sequences.
---
gdb/riscv-tdep.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/riscv-tdep.c b/gdb/riscv-tdep.c
index 100a44cddf3..0413d7b1a35 100644
--- a/gdb/riscv-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/riscv-tdep.c
@@ -4707,6 +4707,11 @@ riscv_software_single_step (struct regcache *regcache)
if (!next_pcs.empty ())
return next_pcs;
+ /* If the target supports hardware single-stepping, software
+ single-stepping is unnecessary. */
+ if (target_can_do_single_step ())
+ return {};
+
next_pc = riscv_next_pc (regcache, cur_pc);
return {next_pc};
--
2.34.1
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