Re: messages printed lots of times

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. thanks, Daniel.