1. A graphics system, comprising: a graphics processing unit (GPU) with: a processor to monitor selected criteria, circuitry to invoke a GPU page fault to initiate the storage of execution state information when the selected criteria reaches a specified state a initiate a page fault having a page fault address selected to indicate a debug request; a memory to store execution state information; a central processing unit (CPU) to execute a debugging program to analyze the execution state information with the CPU recognizing a page fault address of the page fault initiated by the GPU as a request for a debug operation.