Re: [PATCH 1/1] cputime: Make the reported utime+stime correspond to the actual runtime.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 10:55 +0200, Fredrik Markstrom wrote:
> The scaling mechanism might sometimes cause top to report >100%
> (sometimes > 1000%) cpu usage for a single thread. This patch makes
> sure that stime+utime corresponds to the actual runtime of the thread.

This Changelog is inadequate, it does not explain the actual problem.

> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(prev_time_lock);

global (spin)locks are bad.
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