The patch titled
Rename "swapper" to "idle"
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is
rename-swapper-to-idle.patch
This patch was dropped because it was nacked by the maintainer
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Subject: Rename "swapper" to "idle"
From: Hua Zhong <hzhong@xxxxxxxxx>
Rename 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).
Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/init_task.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/init_task.h~rename-swapper-to-idle include/linux/init_task.h
--- devel/include/linux/init_task.h~rename-swapper-to-idle 2006-04-20 16:40:46.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/include/linux/init_task.h 2006-04-20 16:40:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups;
.cap_permitted = CAP_FULL_SET, \
.keep_capabilities = 0, \
.user = INIT_USER, \
- .comm = "swapper", \
+ .comm = "idle", \
.thread = INIT_THREAD, \
.fs = &init_fs, \
.files = &init_files, \
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hzhong@xxxxxxxxx are
likely-cleanup-remove-unlikely-in-sys_mprotect.patch
rename-swapper-to-idle.patch
remove-unlikely-in-might_sleep_if.patch
ide-error-handling-fixes.patch
profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch
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