diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 9832d9a41d8c721129a29f6b235b248b22de05dd..8faf27e5aa98b8fdaee347963e220febef2f45e9 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ static void __devinit start_cpu_timer(int cpu)
 {
 	struct delayed_work *vmstat_work = &per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu);
 
-	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(vmstat_work, vmstat_update);
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(vmstat_work, vmstat_update);
 	schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, vmstat_work, HZ + cpu);
 }