假如该被android:persistent修饰的应用此时并未运行的话，那么AM将调用startProcessLocked启动该app，关于startProcessLocked不再描述，另外一篇文章《How to start a new process for Android?》中做了详细的介绍。
app的启动过程就是启动app所在的package对应的进程。
final ProcessRecord addAppLocked(ApplicationInfo info) { ProcessRecord app = getProcessRecordLocked(info.processName, info.uid); if (app == null) { app = newProcessRecordLocked(null, info, null); mProcessNames.put(info.processName, info.uid, app); updateLruProcessLocked(app, true, true); } if ((info.flags&(ApplicationInfo.FLAG_SYSTEM|ApplicationInfo.FLAG_PERSISTENT)) == (ApplicationInfo.FLAG_SYSTEM|ApplicationInfo.FLAG_PERSISTENT)) { app.persistent = true; app.maxAdj = CORE_SERVER_ADJ; } if (app.thread == null && mPersistentStartingProcesses.indexOf(app) < 0) { mPersistentStartingProcesses.add(app); startProcessLocked(app, "added application", app.processName); } return app; }