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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:21:08 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6 v2] sched: Init idle->on_rq in init_idle()
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:17:58AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The init task is state TASK_RUNNING and on_irq should be set to 1. It won't

					^^^ irq? :-)

> be set by scheduler because the idle task is never woken up, it is always the
> task we fall back to if there is no other task pending.

But why? Who cares? I mean, its true.. but what problem does it solve.
Why did Thomas write this patch.