From 81c29a857d3c8d6ea9c4f20d196c36bf0a07c615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:55:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value

Idle threads should have a sane ->timestamp value, to avoid init kernel
thread(s) from inheriting it and causing miscalculations in
try_to_wake_up().

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/sched.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 3454bb869fd06..e82c99f1db643 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4335,6 +4335,7 @@ void __devinit init_idle(task_t *idle, int cpu)
 	runqueue_t *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	idle->timestamp = sched_clock();
 	idle->sleep_avg = 0;
 	idle->array = NULL;
 	idle->prio = MAX_PRIO;
-- 
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