MAXACTION exceeded error while using systemtap

[Stone, Joshua I]

Martin Hunt wrote:
> Because timer probes can run in process context which means they
> sleep, can be scheduled, take as long as they want? Whereas a kprobe
> might be in the middle of a task switch.

I just want to point out that this is not true of the timer.profile
variety, which runs (by necessity) in a true interrupt context.

Josh