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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>
Vineet Gupta 11 years ago
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      include/linux/sched.h

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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