> 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