Do you mean process with PID 0 is the one, which runs in the background and serves the request from userland and goes to cpu_idle() if nothing to run.
-kapil
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Sengottuvelan S <sengottuvelan.s@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
KapilIt runs as Background process in the kernel memory (init-process). When system calls is coming from User space/Land, there will be context switch from user to kernel space happens. I think kernel main thread serving those system calls.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:20 PM, kapil agrawal <kapil.agrawal81@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
_______________________________________________Hi,How the linux kernel runs in the system after spawning the init and mounting the root FS.Does it run as some background process ?How it serves the system calls etc. ?RegardsKapil
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