On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:24:29 +0200, Kevin Wilson said:
> #if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> sprintf(idle->comm, "%s/%d", INIT_TASK_COMM, cpu);
> #endif
> ...
> #define INIT_TASK_COMM "swapper" in include/linux/init_task.h
>
> Two questions:
> 1) why does this #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) here ? shouldn't we name
> it swapper also in non SMP mode ?
That code is entered once per CPU as the CPU is started up. And that %d
doesn't make much sense in single-processor mode.
> 2) Is there a reason that we do not see it with ps aux (and also not
> under proc; there is no /proc/0).
/bin/ps just pretty-prints stuff out of /proc - so you don't see it with
ps because you don't have a /proc/0. And that's because in fs/proc/base.c
we see this code in proc_pid_lookup:
tgid = name_to_int(dentry);
if (tgid == ~0U)
goto out;
In other words, if you ask for pid 0, it bails and doesn't return anything.
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