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Commit 49048622 authored by Balbir Singh's avatar Balbir Singh Committed by Ingo Molnar
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sched: fix process time monotonicity

Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4

. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem

TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.

Reported-by: default avatar <spencer@bluehost.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 56c7426b
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