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From: "Matthew Fleming" <matthew.fleming@isilon.com>
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Subject: idle threads
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I'm looking at kern_idle.c in stable/7 and I don't quite follow how idle
threads work.  The kthread_create(9) call does not pass in a function
pointer, so what code does a processor run when there is no other
runnable thread?

Thanks,
matthew