From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> 0eb77e988032 ("vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle") made vmstat_shepherd deferrable. vmstat_update itself is still useing standard timer which might interrupt idle task. This is possible because "mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter" removed cancel_delayed_work from the quiet_vmstat. Change vmstat_work to use DEFERRABLE_WORK to prevent from pointless wakeups from the idle context.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> --- mm/vmstat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index eb30bf45bd55..69537d2be6f6 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void) int cpu; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(per_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work, cpu), + INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(per_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work, cpu), vmstat_update); if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpu_stat_off, GFP_KERNEL)) -- 2.7.0.rc3
