Hi Andrew, This patch addresses the feedbacks from you and Balbir. This patch is generated against 2.6.18-rc3 plus your patch + csa-basic-accounting-over-taskstats-fix.patch This patch is to be applied after your patch which you already added to -mm tree. Signed-off-by: Jay Lan I test built on ia64, i386 and x86_64 build servers. ChangeLog: Feedbacks from Andrew Morton: - define TS_COMM_LEN to 32 - change acct_stimexpd field of task_struct to be of cputime_t, which is to be used to save the tsk->stime of last timer interrupt update. - a new Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt to describe fields of taskstats struct. Feedback from Balbir Singh: - keep the stime of a task to be zero when both stime and utime are zero as recoreded in task_struct. Misc: - convert accumulated RSS/VM from platform dependent pages-ticks to MBytes-usecs in the kernel