diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 63c95afb561f8e8742118197b0731317ea871463..d80baaabf835e1c98911004035518bf5df7dc51d 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ static cputime_t task_utime(struct task_struct *p)
 	}
 	utime = (clock_t)temp;
 
-	return clock_t_to_cputime(utime);
+	p->prev_utime = max(p->prev_utime, clock_t_to_cputime(utime));
+	return p->prev_utime;
 }
 
 static cputime_t task_stime(struct task_struct *p)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 3c07d595979fc71b4db19a65ce8e6cef7f143769..b0b1fe6e0b17a5c41eb139c66137b4b2a51634c4 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 	unsigned int rt_priority;
 	cputime_t utime, stime, utimescaled, stimescaled;
 	cputime_t gtime;
+	cputime_t prev_utime;
 	unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw; /* context switch counts */
 	struct timespec start_time; 		/* monotonic time */
 	struct timespec real_start_time;	/* boot based time */
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ddafdfac9456e151b2d8731b52475a5af4ca68e1..a65bfc47177ce7e6c3f6bc68fa7a3b3e1a70dbf2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 	p->gtime = cputime_zero;
 	p->utimescaled = cputime_zero;
 	p->stimescaled = cputime_zero;
+	p->prev_utime = cputime_zero;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_XACCT
 	p->rchar = 0;		/* I/O counter: bytes read */