There was an amusing bogosity in ac_rw calculation - it tried to
do encode_comp_t(encode_comp_t(0) / 1024). Seeing that comp_t is
a 3-bit exponent + 13-bit mantissa... it's a good thing that 0 is
represented by all-bits-clear.
The history of that one is interesting - it was introduced in
2.1.68pre1, when acct.c had been reworked and moved to separate
file. Two months later (2.1.86) somebody has noticed that the
sucker won't compile - there was no task_struct::io_usage.
At which point the ac_io calculation had changed from
encode_comp_t(current->io_usage) to encode_comp_t(0) and the
bug in the next line (absolutely real back then, had it ever
managed to compile) become a harmless bogosity. Looks like
nobody has ever noticed until now.
Anyway, let's bury that idiocy now that it got noticed. 17 years
is long enough...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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