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    vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle · 0eb77e98
    Christoph Lameter authored
    Currently the vmstat updater is not deferrable as a result of commit
    ba4877b9 ("vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for
    vmstat_update").  This in turn can cause multiple interruptions of the
    applications because the vmstat updater may run at
    
    Make vmstate_update deferrable again and provide a function that folds
    the differentials when the processor is going to idle mode thus
    addressing the issue of the above commit in a clean way.
    
    Note that the shepherd thread will continue scanning the differentials
    from another processor and will reenable the vmstat workers if it
    detects any changes.
    
    Fixes: ba4877b9
    
     ("vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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