Revert "locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts"
This ended up causing some noise in places such as rxrpc running in softirq. The warning is misleading in this case as the mutex trylock and unlock operations are done within the same context; and therefore we need not worry about the PI-boosting issues that comes along with no single-owner lock guarantees. While we don't want to support this in mutexes, there is no way out of this yet; so lets get rid of the WARNs for now, as it is only fair to code that has historically relied on non-preemptible softirq guarantees. In addition, changing the lock type is also unviable: exclusive rwsems have the same issue (just not the WARN_ON) and counting semaphores would introduce a performance hit as mutexes are a lot more optimized. This reverts: a0855d24: ("locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts") Fixes: a0855d24: ("locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts") Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: will@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191210220523.28540-1-dave@stgolabs.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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