On Tue, 17 May 2005, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> This is the first in a series of seven patches to the BSD Secure
> Levels LSM. It overhauls the printk mechanism in order to reduce the
> unnecessary usage of the .text area. Thanks to Brad Spengler for the
> suggestion.
it also changes the rate limiting from per message to global... so
one noisy message could shut off other non-noisy messages. was that
intentional?
-dean
> -#define seclvl_printk(verb, type, fmt, arg...) \
> - do { \
> - if (verbosity >= verb) { \
> - static unsigned long _prior; \
> - unsigned long _now = jiffies; \
> - if ((_now - _prior) > HZ) { \
> - printk(type "%s: %s: " fmt, \
> - MY_NAME, __FUNCTION__ , \
> - ## arg); \
> - _prior = _now; \
> - } \
> - } \
> - } while (0)
> +static void seclvl_printk(int verb, const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> + va_list args;
> + va_start(args, fmt);
> + if (verbosity >= verb) {
> + static unsigned long _prior;
> + unsigned long _now = jiffies;
> + if ((_now - _prior) > HZ) {
> + vprintk(fmt, args);
> + }
> + _prior = _now;
> + }
> + va_end(args);
> +}
-
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