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Re: Tracking vm activity

Hi -

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:38:04PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> Ah, the thread-id idea is clear to me. But may you explain a little
> bit about the "nesting level"??

Certainly.  The nesting level is a per-thread counter.  It is
incremented on a probed function entry and decremented upon its
return.  It is used as an additional index to saved function
parameters by.  This way, if a recursive function is encountered, we
can find the innermost parameters without losing the outer ones.

- FChE
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