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

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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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