diff --git a/gdbstub/gdbstub.c b/gdbstub/gdbstub.c
index 5f28d5cf57..e7d48fa0d4 100644
--- a/gdbstub/gdbstub.c
+++ b/gdbstub/gdbstub.c
@@ -597,6 +597,15 @@ static int gdb_handle_vcont(const char *p)
      *  or incorrect parameters passed.
      */
     res = 0;
+
+    /*
+     * target_count and last_target keep track of how many CPUs we are going to
+     * step or resume, and a pointer to the state structure of one of them,
+     * respectivelly
+     */
+    int target_count = 0;
+    CPUState *last_target = NULL;
+
     while (*p) {
         if (*p++ != ';') {
             return -ENOTSUP;
@@ -637,6 +646,9 @@ static int gdb_handle_vcont(const char *p)
             while (cpu) {
                 if (newstates[cpu->cpu_index] == 1) {
                     newstates[cpu->cpu_index] = cur_action;
+
+                    target_count++;
+                    last_target = cpu;
                 }
 
                 cpu = gdb_next_attached_cpu(cpu);
@@ -654,6 +666,9 @@ static int gdb_handle_vcont(const char *p)
             while (cpu) {
                 if (newstates[cpu->cpu_index] == 1) {
                     newstates[cpu->cpu_index] = cur_action;
+
+                    target_count++;
+                    last_target = cpu;
                 }
 
                 cpu = gdb_next_cpu_in_process(cpu);
@@ -671,11 +686,25 @@ static int gdb_handle_vcont(const char *p)
             /* only use if no previous match occourred */
             if (newstates[cpu->cpu_index] == 1) {
                 newstates[cpu->cpu_index] = cur_action;
+
+                target_count++;
+                last_target = cpu;
             }
             break;
         }
     }
 
+    /*
+     * if we're about to resume a specific set of CPUs/threads, make it so that
+     * in case execution gets interrupted, we can send GDB a stop reply with a
+     * correct value. it doesn't really matter which CPU we tell GDB the signal
+     * happened in (VM pauses stop all of them anyway), so long as it is one of
+     * the ones we resumed/single stepped here.
+     */
+    if (target_count > 0) {
+        gdbserver_state.c_cpu = last_target;
+    }
+
     gdbserver_state.signal = signal;
     gdb_continue_partial(newstates);
     return res;
diff --git a/tests/tcg/multiarch/gdbstub/interrupt.py b/tests/tcg/multiarch/gdbstub/interrupt.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e222ac94c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tcg/multiarch/gdbstub/interrupt.py
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+from __future__ import print_function
+#
+# Test some of the softmmu debug features with the multiarch memory
+# test. It is a port of the original vmlinux focused test case but
+# using the "memory" test instead.
+#
+# This is launched via tests/guest-debug/run-test.py
+#
+
+import gdb
+import sys
+
+failcount = 0
+
+
+def report(cond, msg):
+    "Report success/fail of test"
+    if cond:
+        print("PASS: %s" % (msg))
+    else:
+        print("FAIL: %s" % (msg))
+        global failcount
+        failcount += 1
+
+
+def check_interrupt(thread):
+    """
+    Check that, if thread is resumed, we go back to the same thread when the
+    program gets interrupted.
+    """
+
+    # Switch to the thread we're going to be running the test in.
+    print("thread ", thread.num)
+    gdb.execute("thr %d" % thread.num)
+
+    # Enter the loop() function on this thread.
+    #
+    # While there are cleaner ways to do this, we want to minimize the number of
+    # side effects on the gdbstub's internal state, since those may mask bugs.
+    # Ideally, there should be no difference between what we're doing here and
+    # the program reaching the loop() function on its own.
+    #
+    # For this to be safe, we only need the prologue of loop() to not have
+    # instructions that may have problems with what we're doing here. We don't
+    # have to worry about anything else, as this function never returns.
+    gdb.execute("set $pc = loop")
+
+    # Continue and then interrupt the task.
+    gdb.post_event(lambda: gdb.execute("interrupt"))
+    gdb.execute("c")
+
+    # Check whether the thread we're in after the interruption is the same we
+    # ran continue from.
+    return (thread.num == gdb.selected_thread().num)
+
+
+def run_test():
+    """
+    Test if interrupting the code always lands us on the same thread when
+    running with scheduler-lock enabled.
+    """
+
+    gdb.execute("set scheduler-locking on")
+    for thread in gdb.selected_inferior().threads():
+        report(check_interrupt(thread),
+               "thread %d resumes correctly on interrupt" % thread.num)
+
+
+#
+# This runs as the script it sourced (via -x, via run-test.py)
+#
+try:
+    inferior = gdb.selected_inferior()
+    arch = inferior.architecture()
+    print("ATTACHED: %s" % arch.name())
+except (gdb.error, AttributeError):
+    print("SKIPPING (not connected)", file=sys.stderr)
+    exit(0)
+
+if gdb.parse_and_eval('$pc') == 0:
+    print("SKIP: PC not set")
+    exit(0)
+if len(gdb.selected_inferior().threads()) == 1:
+    print("SKIP: set to run on a single thread")
+    exit(0)
+
+try:
+    # Run the actual tests
+    run_test()
+except (gdb.error):
+    print("GDB Exception: %s" % (sys.exc_info()[0]))
+    failcount += 1
+    pass
+
+# Finally kill the inferior and exit gdb with a count of failures
+gdb.execute("kill")
+exit(failcount)
diff --git a/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/Makefile.softmmu-target b/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/Makefile.softmmu-target
index a051d689d7..90810a32b2 100644
--- a/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/Makefile.softmmu-target
+++ b/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/Makefile.softmmu-target
@@ -27,7 +27,15 @@ run-gdbstub-memory: memory
 		"-monitor none -display none -chardev file$(COMMA)path=$<.out$(COMMA)id=output $(QEMU_OPTS)" \
 		--bin $< --test $(MULTIARCH_SRC)/gdbstub/memory.py, \
 	softmmu gdbstub support)
-
+run-gdbstub-interrupt: interrupt
+	$(call run-test, $@, $(GDB_SCRIPT) \
+		--gdb $(HAVE_GDB_BIN) \
+		--qemu $(QEMU) \
+		--output $<.gdb.out \
+		--qargs \
+		"-smp 2 -monitor none -display none -chardev file$(COMMA)path=$<.out$(COMMA)id=output $(QEMU_OPTS)" \
+		--bin $< --test $(MULTIARCH_SRC)/gdbstub/interrupt.py, \
+	softmmu gdbstub support)
 run-gdbstub-untimely-packet: hello
 	$(call run-test, $@, $(GDB_SCRIPT) \
 		--gdb $(HAVE_GDB_BIN) \
@@ -50,4 +58,4 @@ run-gdbstub-%:
 	$(call skip-test, "gdbstub test $*", "need working gdb")
 endif
 
-MULTIARCH_RUNS += run-gdbstub-memory run-gdbstub-untimely-packet
+MULTIARCH_RUNS += run-gdbstub-memory run-gdbstub-interrupt run-gdbstub-untimely-packet
diff --git a/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/interrupt.c b/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/interrupt.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98d4f2eff9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tcg/multiarch/system/interrupt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+ * External interruption test. This test is structured in such a way that it
+ * passes the cases that require it to exit, but we can make it enter an
+ * infinite loop from GDB.
+ *
+ * We don't have the benefit of libc, just builtin C primitives and
+ * whatever is in minilib.
+ */
+
+#include <minilib.h>
+
+void loop(void)
+{
+    do {
+        /*
+         * Loop forever. Just make sure the condition is always a constant
+         * expression, so that this loop is not UB, as per the C
+         * standard.
+         */
+    } while (1);
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+
+