On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Baluta [off-list ref]wrote:

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i am putting a printk() on link_path_walk() kernel function ( the

pathname

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resolution function). i access that printk() only at some special

condition

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(like if pathname passed to link_path_walk() matches with some name) .

but

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when it gets hit  like when i pass pathname via unlink(2) , lots of

messages

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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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