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+From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Tue Nov 13 16:18:51 2007
+Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:18:19 +0100
+From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
+To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
+Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, stable@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
+Subject: sched: keep utime/stime monotonic
+Message-Id: <200711140118.19871.elendil@planet.nl>
+
+From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
+
+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>
+
+---
+ fs/proc/array.c | 6 ++++--
+ include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
+ kernel/fork.c | 2 ++
+ 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/fs/proc/array.c
++++ b/fs/proc/array.c
+@@ -351,7 +351,8 @@ static cputime_t task_utime(struct task_
+ }
+ utime = (clock_t)temp;
+
+- return clock_t_to_cputime(utime);
++ p->prev_utime = max(p->prev_utime, clock_t_to_cputime(utime));
++ return p->prev_utime;
+ }
+
+ static cputime_t task_stime(struct task_struct *p)
+@@ -366,7 +367,8 @@ static cputime_t task_stime(struct task_
+ stime = nsec_to_clock_t(p->se.sum_exec_runtime) -
+ cputime_to_clock_t(task_utime(p));
+
+- return clock_t_to_cputime(stime);
++ p->prev_stime = max(p->prev_stime, clock_t_to_cputime(stime));
++ return p->prev_stime;
+ }
+ #endif
+
+--- a/include/linux/sched.h
++++ b/include/linux/sched.h
+@@ -1022,6 +1022,7 @@ struct task_struct {
+
+ unsigned int rt_priority;
+ cputime_t utime, stime;
++ cputime_t prev_utime, prev_stime;
+ unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw; /* context switch counts */
+ struct timespec start_time; /* monotonic time */
+ struct timespec real_start_time; /* boot based time */
+--- a/kernel/fork.c
++++ b/kernel/fork.c
+@@ -1045,6 +1045,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
+
+ p->utime = cputime_zero;
+ p->stime = cputime_zero;
++ p->prev_utime = cputime_zero;
++ p->prev_stime = cputime_zero;
+
+ #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_XACCT
+ p->rchar = 0; /* I/O counter: bytes read */