Re: [stable] 2.6.23 regression: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > -	return clock_t_to_cputime(utime);
> > +	p->prev_utime = max(p->prev_utime, clock_t_to_cputime(utime));
> > +	return p->prev_utime;
> >  }
> [...]
> 
> I dont think it will work. It will make utime monotic, but stime can 
> still decrease. For example let sum_exec_runtime increase by a tiny 
> little bit while utime will get a full additional tick. stime is 
> sum-utime. So stime can still go backwards. So I think that we need 
> this kind of logic for stime as well, no?

yeah, probably. Peter?

	Ingo
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