Re: vmstat: On demand vmstat workers V8

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:

> > mm/vmstat.c already has cpu down hooks. See vmstat_cpuup_callback().
>
> Hmmm, well, then it's something else.  Either a bug in workqueue or in
> the caller.  Given the track record, the latter is more likely.
> e.g. it looks kinda suspicious that the work func is cleared after
> cancel_delayed_work_sync() is called.  What happens if somebody tries

Ok we can clear it before then.

Just looked at the current upstream code. It also does a __this_cpu_read()
in refresh_cpu_stats() without triggering the preemption check. What
changed in -next that made the test trigger now?

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