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>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index c5e82ec..a159ba5 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -678,23 +678,19 @@ struct buffer_chunk {
 static void write_chunk(struct buffer_chunk *chunk)
 {
 	int i;
-	get_fs_excl();
 	for (i = 0; i < chunk->nr; i++) {
 		submit_logged_buffer(chunk->bh[i]);
 	}
 	chunk->nr = 0;
-	put_fs_excl();
 }
 
 static void write_ordered_chunk(struct buffer_chunk *chunk)
 {
 	int i;
-	get_fs_excl();
 	for (i = 0; i < chunk->nr; i++) {
 		submit_ordered_buffer(chunk->bh[i]);
 	}
 	chunk->nr = 0;
-	put_fs_excl();
 }
 
 static int add_to_chunk(struct buffer_chunk *chunk, struct buffer_head *bh,
@@ -986,8 +982,6 @@ static int flush_commit_list(struct super_block *s,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	get_fs_excl();
-
 	/* before we can put our commit blocks on disk, we have to make sure everyone older than
 	 ** us is on disk too
 	 */
@@ -1145,7 +1139,6 @@ static int flush_commit_list(struct super_block *s,
 	if (retval)
 		reiserfs_abort(s, retval, "Journal write error in %s",
 			       __func__);
-	put_fs_excl();
 	return retval;
 }
 
@@ -1374,8 +1367,6 @@ static int flush_journal_list(struct super_block *s,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	get_fs_excl();
-
 	/* if all the work is already done, get out of here */
 	if (atomic_read(&(jl->j_nonzerolen)) <= 0 &&
 	    atomic_read(&(jl->j_commit_left)) <= 0) {
@@ -1597,7 +1588,6 @@ static int flush_journal_list(struct super_block *s,
 	put_journal_list(s, jl);
 	if (flushall)
 		mutex_unlock(&journal->j_flush_mutex);
-	put_fs_excl();
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -3108,7 +3098,6 @@ static int do_journal_begin_r(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
 	th->t_trans_id = journal->j_trans_id;
 	unlock_journal(sb);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&th->t_list);
-	get_fs_excl();
 	return 0;
 
       out_fail:
@@ -3964,7 +3953,6 @@ static int do_journal_end(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
 	flush = flags & FLUSH_ALL;
 	wait_on_commit = flags & WAIT;
 
-	put_fs_excl();
 	current->journal_info = th->t_handle_save;
 	reiserfs_check_lock_depth(sb, "journal end");
 	if (journal->j_len == 0) {
@@ -4316,4 +4304,3 @@ void reiserfs_abort_journal(struct super_block *sb, int errno)
 	dump_stack();
 #endif
 }
-
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index a448af5..c5a7bfb 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -245,13 +245,11 @@ static int grab_super(struct super_block *s) __releases(sb_lock)
  */
 void lock_super(struct super_block * sb)
 {
-	get_fs_excl();
 	mutex_lock(&sb->s_lock);
 }
 
 void unlock_super(struct super_block * sb)
 {
-	put_fs_excl();
 	mutex_unlock(&sb->s_lock);
 }
 
@@ -280,7 +278,6 @@ void generic_shutdown_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	if (sb->s_root) {
 		shrink_dcache_for_umount(sb);
 		sync_filesystem(sb);
-		get_fs_excl();
 		sb->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE;
 
 		fsnotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes);
@@ -295,7 +292,6 @@ void generic_shutdown_super(struct super_block *sb)
 			   "Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...\n",
 			   sb->s_id);
 		}
-		put_fs_excl();
 	}
 	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
 	/* should be initialized for __put_super_and_need_restart() */