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Christoph Lameter committed e86992e170b
vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle Currently the vmstat updater is not deferrable as a result of commit ba4877b9ca51 ("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: ba4877b9ca51 ("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: 0eb77e9880321915322d42913c3b53241739c8aa [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>