fixlet: Remove fs_excl from struct task.

fs_excl is a poor man's priority inheritance for filesystems to hint to
the block layer that an operation is important. It was never clearly
specified, not widely adopted, and will not prevent starvation in many
cases (like across cgroups).

fs_excl was introduced with the time sliced CFQ IO scheduler, to
indicate when a process held FS exclusive resources and thus needed
a boost.

It doesn't cover all file systems, and it was never fully complete.
Lets kill it.

Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 580f70c02391..d14e058aaeed 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ extern struct cred init_cred;
         .alloc_lock     = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.alloc_lock),         \
         .journal_info   = NULL,                                         \
         .cpu_timers     = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(tsk.cpu_timers),              \
-        .fs_excl        = ATOMIC_INIT(0),                               \
         .pi_lock        = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.pi_lock),        \
         .timer_slack_ns = 50000, /* 50 usec default slack */            \
         .pids = {                                                       \