From c91fbd289fd8c82588aec36419ac5a34db5ccfa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jeff Washington (jwash)" <wash678@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 10:36:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] set active state to shrink_ancient when doing intersting work
 (#25677)

---
 runtime/src/accounts_db.rs | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs b/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs
index 019154769a..2648ff96bf 100644
--- a/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs
+++ b/runtime/src/accounts_db.rs
@@ -3555,7 +3555,7 @@ impl AccountsDb {
         if sorted_slots.is_empty() {
             return;
         }
-        let _guard = self.active_stats.activate(ActiveStatItem::SquashAncient);
+        let mut guard = None;
 
         // the ancient append vec currently being written to
         let mut current_ancient = None;
@@ -3579,6 +3579,11 @@ impl AccountsDb {
                     }
                 };
 
+            if guard.is_none() {
+                // we are now doing interesting work in squashing ancient
+                guard = Some(self.active_stats.activate(ActiveStatItem::SquashAncient))
+            }
+
             // this code is copied from shrink. I would like to combine it into a helper function, but the borrow checker has defeated my efforts so far.
             let (stored_accounts, _num_stores, original_bytes) =
                 self.get_unique_accounts_from_storages(old_storages.iter());