Linux Kernel

[kapil agrawal]

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 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Kapil
>
> It 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 at gmail.com>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. ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Kapil
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