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/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index a837b20ba190..22f54249cde1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1503,7 +1503,6 @@ struct task_struct {
         short il_next;
         short pref_node_fork;
 #endif
-        atomic_t fs_excl;       /* holding fs exclusive resources */
         struct rcu_head rcu;
 
         /*