Totalview® for HPC User Guide : PART V Using the CUDA Debugger : Chapter 27 CUDA Debugging Model and Unified Display : Pending and Sliding Breakpoints
Pending and Sliding Breakpoints
Because CUDA threads and the host process are all in the same share group, you can create pending or sliding breakpoints on source lines and functions in the GPU code before the code is loaded onto the GPU. If TotalView can’t locate code associated with a particular line in the source view, you can still plant a breakpoint there, if you know that there will be code there once the CUDA kernel loads.
Pending and sliding breakpoints are not specific to CUDA and are discussed in more detail in "Setting Action Points".
 
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Sliding breakpoints
Pending breakpoints
Pending eval points
How the unified Source Pane displays breakpoints in dynamically-loaded code
Using dactions to display pending and mixed breakpoint detail before and after CUDA code has loaded.
Examples of Actions Points in Both Host and Dynamically Loaded Code” in the dactions entry in the TotalView Reference Guide