sched: keep utime/stime monotonic
sched: keep utime/stime monotonic
cpustats use utime/stime as a ratio against sum_exec_runtime, as a
consequence it can happen - when the ratio changes faster than time
accumulates - that either can be appear to go backwards.
Combined backport for 2.6.23 of the following patches from mainline:
commit
73a2bcb0edb9ffb0b007b3546b430e2c6e415eee
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
sched: keep utime/stime monotonic
commit
9301899be75b464ef097f0b5af7af6d9bd8f68a7
Author: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
sched: fix /proc/<PID>/stat stime/utime monotonicity, part 2
Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>