Recompiled kernel PRERELEASE: top command gives rubbish output !?!

[Rob Lahaye]

I have compiled and installed the STABLE cvsup'ed kernel sources,
rebooted and discovered that the 'top' command now outputs
rubbish:

$ top -b
last pid: 10630;  load averages:  1.91,  1.31,  0.59  up 0+00:33:03    10:04:48
21 processes:  1 starting, 1 running, 1 sleeping, 1 stopped

Mem: 57M Active, 32M Inact, 23M Wired, 6564K Cache, 22M Buf, 4560K Free
Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free


   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
-943970496 root     170 -52  3068M    24K ?  121    ???  0.00% 806.54% ?
-857718912 /0*/,))/ -22 -52     0K  2512M ?   64    ???  0.15%  0.15% <>
   201 root     -22 1484     0K     0K ?  -70    ???  0.05%  0.05%
     0 root     -22 -52     0K     0K ?  -88    ???  0.00%  0.00% <>
-853673688 root     -22 -52     0K   835G ?   64    ???  0.00%  0.00% <>
     0 root     -22 -52  2048M     0K ?   -1    ???  0.00%  0.00% <>
10630 /0+)*00.  29   0     0K     0K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
1611504 root     -22 49218     0K     0K ?   48   0:00  0.00%  0.00%
-1059416064 root     -22  21     0K   384K ?  -48   0:00  0.00%  0.00% <>
     0 root     134  36     0K     0K SLEEP    0:00  0.00%  0.00% <???>
1634230636 /0)0'')/ -22 -52  3279M     0K START   57:18 1203985911.20% 
167893707.81% <>
   101 18861510 -22  21     0K 65536M ?  112   0:00 167890575.39% 167890575.39% <?>
-856577888 root     -22 -52     0K   832G ?   64   0:00 167890537.30% 
167890537.30% <>
-856572064 root     -22 -52     0K   834G ?   16   0:00 167890392.19% 
167890392.19% <>
-1057673792 root     -22 -52     0K 26783M ?  -24    ???  0.00% 167890213.28% <>
-1059956992 (+*+)-). -22 29461 16384K 26113M ?   32  70.1H  0.00% 167890107.81% <>
   168 root     -22 52482   392M     0K STOP   1623.4  0.00% 167834393.75% <>
-1059255232 root     -22 -52  3075M 19420M ?   48   0:00  0.00% 163623396.88% <>


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Is there a quicker fix than recompiling the whole base system (base system
now is 4.8-RELEASE)?

Thanks,
Rob.