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    vmstat: Remove BUG_ON from vmstat_update · 587198ba
    Christoph Lameter authored
    If we detect that there is nothing to do just set the flag and do not
    check if it was already set before.  Races really do not matter.  If the
    flag is set by any code then the shepherd will start dealing with the
    situation and reenable the vmstat workers when necessary again.
    
    Since commit 0eb77e98
    
     ("vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again
    and shut down on idle") quiet_vmstat might update cpu_stat_off and mark
    a particular cpu to be handled by vmstat_shepherd.  This might trigger a
    VM_BUG_ON in vmstat_update because the work item might have been
    sleeping during the idle period and see the cpu_stat_off updated after
    the wake up.  The VM_BUG_ON is therefore misleading and no more
    appropriate.  Moreover it doesn't really suite any protection from real
    bugs because vmstat_shepherd will simply reschedule the vmstat_work
    anytime it sees a particular cpu set or vmstat_update would do the same
    from the worker context directly.  Even when the two would race the
    result wouldn't be incorrect as the counters update is fully idempotent.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    587198ba