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* [Bug translator/4146] New: relax begin/end probe atomicity
@ 2007-03-06 21:09 fche at redhat dot com
  2007-03-07 15:44 ` [Bug translator/4146] " fche at redhat dot com
  2007-03-19 14:57 ` dsmith at redhat dot com
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: fche at redhat dot com @ 2007-03-06 21:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: systemtap

This would have several parts:

- ensuring that begin/end probes get sorted before/after all other probe groups
for registration/unregistration purposes.  This is to preclude reentrancy.
- removing the interrupt-disabling boilerplate from begin/end probes.  This is
to permit interrupts during long-running report-generation routines.
- enlarging (but not to infinity!!) the MAXACTIVE quantity for begin/end probes.
 This is to permit large reports.
- turning the MAXACTIVE enforcement logic around, to store within the context
not an upward-counting actioncount, but a downward-counting
action-remaining-count.  This would be initialized to MAXACTIVE for normal
probes, but to some larger quantity for begin/end probes.  (Moots bug #1884.) 
Make sure that counter is *signed*, just incase we underflow it by one or two.

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           Summary: relax begin/end probe atomicity
           Product: systemtap
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: translator
        AssignedTo: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: fche at redhat dot com


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* [Bug translator/4146] relax begin/end probe atomicity
  2007-03-06 21:09 [Bug translator/4146] New: relax begin/end probe atomicity fche at redhat dot com
@ 2007-03-07 15:44 ` fche at redhat dot com
  2007-03-19 14:57 ` dsmith at redhat dot com
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: fche at redhat dot com @ 2007-03-07 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: systemtap


------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2007-03-07 15:44 -------
- preempt_disable() will almost certainly have to be kept around begin/end
probes, even if interrupts are enabled.

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* [Bug translator/4146] relax begin/end probe atomicity
  2007-03-06 21:09 [Bug translator/4146] New: relax begin/end probe atomicity fche at redhat dot com
  2007-03-07 15:44 ` [Bug translator/4146] " fche at redhat dot com
@ 2007-03-19 14:57 ` dsmith at redhat dot com
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: dsmith at redhat dot com @ 2007-03-19 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: systemtap



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