[Bug runtime/6487] kernel.function("internal_add_timer") freezes system.

[fche at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2008-05-07 19:24 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> The whole relay and timer subsystem may need to be put into the probing
> blacklist.  Argh.

And indeed this reminds me of another reason for my reticence to push more
parts of the systemtap runtime into the kernel proper.  By keeping the code
"inlined" in our module instead of the kernel, it is not subject to probing
and thus reentrance/deadlock.


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