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authorVineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>2013-11-12 15:08:47 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-13 12:09:13 +0900
commit27f69e68a5e534412faebc53a4e04acc9ce7fd7e (patch)
treecbf3e5e7815ff57aca851e927628717a97ad0fec
parentc375f15a434db1867cb004bafba92aba739e4e39 (diff)
sched: remove ARCH specific fpu_counter from task_struct
fpu_counter in task_struct was used only by sh/x86. Both of these now carry it in ARCH specific thread_struct, hence this can now be removed from generic task_struct, shrinking it slightly for other arches. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <paul.mundt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 045b0d22784..5e226fe3e51 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1062,15 +1062,6 @@ struct task_struct {
struct hlist_head preempt_notifiers;
#endif
- /*
- * fpu_counter contains the number of consecutive context switches
- * that the FPU is used. If this is over a threshold, the lazy fpu
- * saving becomes unlazy to save the trap. This is an unsigned char
- * so that after 256 times the counter wraps and the behavior turns
- * lazy again; this to deal with bursty apps that only use FPU for
- * a short time
- */
- unsigned char fpu_counter;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
unsigned int btrace_seq;
#endif