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A system and method for instrumentation of software, the software comprising a set of instructions (program or code) which are executable on a processor of a system, for example a computer system. A location in the instruction to insert a probe is first identified. The instruction is replaced with the probe by copying the instruction to a predefined location. The instruction is executed in the kernel space. A first exception is generated upon encountering the probe and calling a first exception handler, and the first exception handler is configured to call an instrumentation routine. A second exception is generated when the instrumentation routine encounters an error and calling a second exception handler, recovering from the exceptions and returning to a sane state to continue normal execution of the instruction.
