messages printed lots of times

[mohit verma]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com>wrote:

> > i am putting a printk() on link_path_walk() kernel function ( the
> pathname
> > resolution function). i access that printk() only at some special
> condition
> > (like if pathname passed to link_path_walk() matches with some name) .
> but
> > when it gets hit  like when i pass pathname via unlink(2) , lots of
> messages
> > are written to dmesg ( or /var/log/messages) . i could not understand why
> > these lots of messages are being written  ? (i was hoping for only one
> > message)
>
> Try to printout the name of the process on behalf of which the kernel
> runs link_path_walk
> using current->comm.
>
> Then filter out the printks done by your application.
>

i have checked with timestamps .  and all  the repeated lines show the same
timestemps.  and yes, daniel, the program name is also same each time.
but why are these lines repeated in  /var/log/messages file ? :)

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