The patchset from Marvell included a debugging printk that should be removed prior to release. THis printk spams syslog with "[151184.452453] rt_may_expire:" messages.
This is the patch that created it:
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index 94cdbc5..59c8467 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
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@@ -687,10 +700,18 @@ static int rt_may_expire(struct rtable *rth, unsigned long tmo1, unsigned long t
{
unsigned long age;
int ret = 0;
-
+ printk("%s:\n", __func__);
if (atomic_read(&rth->dst.__refcnt))
goto out;
+#if defined(CONFIG_MV_ETH_NFP_FIB_LEARN)
+ if (rth->nfp) {
+ if (nfp_hook_fib_rule_age(AF_INET,(u8 *)(&rth->rt_src), (u8 *)(&rth->rt_dst),
+ rth->rt_iif, rth->dst.dev->ifindex))
+ rth->dst.lastuse = jiffies;
+ }
+#endif /* CONFIG_MV_ETH_NFP_FIB_LEARN */
+
age = jiffies - rth->dst.lastuse;
if ((age <= tmo1 && !rt_fast_clean(rth)) ||
(age <= tmo2 && rt_valuable(rth)))
.
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(there is more to the patch, but the printk line above should be removed).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: linux-armadaxp 3.2.0.1600.1
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-1600.3-armadaxp 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-1600-armadaxp armv7l
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: armhf
Date: Tue Mar 20 08:56:55 2012
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen-bce
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:
SourcePackage: linux-meta-armadaxp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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