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From: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
To: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:15:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4448161D.9010109@gmail.com> (raw)

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. :-)

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 41ecbb8..5e3ca4f 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ #define INIT_TASK(tsk)      \
        .cap_permitted  = CAP_FULL_SET,                                 \
        .keep_capabilities = 0,                                         \
        .user           = INIT_USER,                                    \
-       .comm           = "swapper",                                    \
+       .comm           = "idle",                                       \
        .thread         = INIT_THREAD,                                  \
        .fs             = &init_fs,                                     \
        .files          = &init_files,                                  \

             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 23:15 Hua Zhong [this message]
2006-04-21  0:17 ` [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle" Steven Rostedt
2006-04-21  0:35 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-04-21  4:18   ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-21  5:19     ` Hua Zhong
2006-04-21 14:40       ` Mikado
2006-04-21 14:56         ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-21 15:08           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-21 17:05             ` Steven Rostedt

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