hi Fawad Latef,
>I want to distinguish between a kernel thread and a normal user process
>in
my KLM.
I got it, If the mm field in the of the process is null then it's a
kernel
thread.
Yes, but keep in mind you can't say that mm of the kernel thread is
always NULL as if the kernel thread won't call daemonize then the mm
will be there (some one CMIIW) .
A kernel thread does not have a process address space,
it runs in the address space of the process which was running just before
the kernel thread was started. That's whay in the task structure the mm
field is NULL. This mm field defines the process address space of a process.
Thanks,
Saumendra
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