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

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:22:41 +0100
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.23 regression: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

On Monday 29 October 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> 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?

Yes, definitely :-)

With this patch stime is still all over the place.

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utime looks OK now, though I'd like to test it a bit more (when stime is 
fixed too) before giving a final verdict on that.
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