Hi Andrew,
The new "move-accounting-function-calls-out-of-critical-vm-code-paths" patch in 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 was different from the code i tested.
In particular, it mistakenly dropped the accounting routine calls in fs/exec.c. The calls in do_execve() are needed to properly initialize accounting fields. Specifically, the tsk->acct_stimexpd needs to be initialized to tsk->stime.
I have discussed this with Christoph Lameter and he gave me full blessings to bring the calls back.
This initialize_acct_integrals patch was generated against 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 to fix the problem. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux/fs/exec.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/exec.c 2005-02-17 19:24:45.785343748 -0800 +++ linux/fs/exec.c 2005-02-18 05:45:19.868493728 -0800 @@ -1193,6 +1193,8 @@ int do_execve(char * filename, /* execve success */ security_bprm_free(bprm); + acct_update_integrals(current); + update_mem_hiwater(current); kfree(bprm); return retval; }