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[Bug translator/9930] produce more information about probe reentrancy


------- Additional Comments From jistone at redhat dot com  2009-03-08 00:24 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> Reentrance can occur in other ways too - from probed code reached
> from an NMI or from the runtime.  So we still have to protect against
> it.

Agreed, we will always have those cases.  We can make it better for probing
maskable interrupts though.

> We could make it more configurable -- to let a sysadmin/script writer
> state a preference between the status quo vs. blocked interrupts and
> associated greater latency, in order to have fewer skipped probes.

I like this suggestion.

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