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

Frans Pop
2007-10-13T07:53:34Z

On Friday 12 October 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 10:31:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Please consider this patch for 2.6.23.2
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/389
> >
> > tested by me in
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/5/150
> >
> > to fix the regression first reported in
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/3/123
> >
> > Cause of the wrong display in top is the value of stime in
> > /proc/<pid>/stat decreasing occasionally.
> >
> > The issue is also registered as:
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9135
>
> Is it already in Linus's tree? If so, do you have a git commit id? If
> not, please let us (stable@) know when it is, and what the id is, and
> then we can add it to our tree.

Not AFAICT.
CCing Christian (as patch author) and Ingo (as author of the change that
caused the regression) so they can push it through the correct channels.