What does idle thread do

Yuxin Ren <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.devel
Message-ID <CAAKbDrfvHWewfmYaxZ8rxwSrO-W=+2=miFMfuWySSDambWAfCA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi All,

I want to know what kernel idle thread does.
Does it just execute "halt" instruction or anything else?
Where is code for the idle thread?

Thank you so much.

Best,
Yuxin

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