From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12051 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2010 06:51:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 12043 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2010 06:51:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.214.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:51:53 +0000 Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so420643bwz.0 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:51:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.77.136 with SMTP id g8mr7506364bkk.108.1289371910746; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.86.139 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:51:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:51:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction" on putting breakpoint while using gdb-gdbserver for remote debugging From: "karthikeyan.s" To: himanshu sardana Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-11/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 Try using only hardware breakpoint. What version of linux kernel are you using? Such issues are observed in new processor cores which do not have proper cache framework implemented in the kernel, arm cortex-a9 is a good example for that. -Karthik