Currently the vmstat updater is not deferrable as a result of commit
ba4877b9ca ("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.
Change-Id: Idf256cfacb40b4dc8dbb6795cf06b34e8fec7a06
Fixes: ba4877b9ca ("vmstat: do not use deferrable delayed work for vmstat_update")
Signed-off-by: Christoph 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: 0eb77e9880
[shashim@codeaurora.org: resolve minor merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org>
[jstultz: fwdport to 4.4]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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