Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hua Zhong <hzhong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch renames the "swapper" process (pid 0) to a more appropriate name "idle". The name "swapper" is not obviously meaningful and confuses a lot of people (e.g., when seen in oops report).
> Patch not tested, but I guess it works. :-)

on win the system idle process shows up in taskmanager so you can see its
cpu usage and ctx switches scheduled from it. We could avoid the skipping in
/proc, also?

Gruss
Bernd
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