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[PATCH] fix scaled time accounting possible divide by zero

From: Michael Neuling <hidden>
Date: 2007-11-20 03:25:41

This fixes a problem noticed by Balbir Singh

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <redacted>
---
Paulus: can we send this up for 2.6.24?

 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-ozlabs.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ linux-2.6-ozlabs/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -244,8 +244,9 @@ void account_system_vtime(struct task_st
 		/* deltascaled includes both user and system time.
 		 * Hence scale it based on the purr ratio to estimate
 		 * the system time */
-		deltascaled = deltascaled * get_paca()->system_time /
-		(get_paca()->system_time + get_paca()->user_time);
+		if (get_paca()->user_time)
+			deltascaled = deltascaled * get_paca()->system_time /
+			(get_paca()->system_time + get_paca()->user_time);
 		delta += get_paca()->system_time;
 		get_paca()->system_time = 0;
 	}
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