Modern hardware counters are used to find program instructions that cause most cache misses for example, and the way is to measure how many times a counter overflow happens on a particular instruction. However, when an overflow happens as an interrupt, the exact instruction causing the interrupt may be incorrect, a problem that Intel calls a “skid”.

The solution is to consider surrounding instructions as the set of probabilities. Then the overlap of these probabilities will show the most likely instruction.

The problem and solution are hardware dependent.