Hi, I noticed that I can only do displaced stepping in first `si`, and in the following `si', displaced stepping is not used at all, as shown below, (gdb) set displaced-stepping on (gdb) set debug displaced 1 (gdb) si During symbol reading, incomplete CFI data; unspecified registers (e.g., rax) at 0x400565. displaced: stepping process 32472 now displaced: saved 0x400482: 49 89 d1 5e 48 89 e2 48 83 e4 f0 50 54 49 c7 c0 displaced: copy 0x400564->0x400482: 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 10 e8 ff fe ff ff 89 45 fc displaced: displaced pc to 0x400482 displaced: run 0x400482: 55 48 89 e5 displaced: restored 0x400482 displaced: fixup (0x400564, 0x400482), insn = 0x55 0x48 ... displaced: relocated %rip from 0x400483 to 0x400565 0x0000000000400565 24 { (gdb) si 0x0000000000400568 24 { (gdb) si 27 pid = fork (); I don't think that is the expected behavior of gdb, so there may be something wrong in gdb. The displaced stepping is controlled by this condition check, if (use_displaced_stepping (gdbarch) && (tp->control.trap_expected || (step && gdbarch_software_single_step_p (gdbarch))) && sig == TARGET_SIGNAL_0 && !current_inferior ()->waiting_for_vfork_done) This line of checking software_single_step_p was introduced in this patch http://cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2009-07/msg00395.html (resume): If this is a software single-stepping arch, and displaced-stepping is enabled, use it for all single-step requests. I don't figure out the reason we need to check software_single_step_p here. We could do displaced stepping for targets support software single step, and we could do displaced stepping for HW single step as well. Regression tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu with displaced stepping "auto" and "on" respectively. No extra failures, but there are two PASSes changed to KFAILs, -PASS: gdb.cp/annota2.exp: watch triggered on a.x +KFAIL: gdb.cp/annota2.exp: watch triggered on a.x (PRMS: gdb/38) -PASS: gdb.cp/annota3.exp: watch triggered on a.x +KFAIL: gdb.cp/annota3.exp: watch triggered on a.x (PRMS: gdb/38) I am not familiar with this case, so can't tell this is caused by my patch. -- Yao (齐尧)