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    locking: Remove spin_lock_flags() etc · f98a3dcc
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    parisc, ia64 and powerpc32 are the only remaining architectures that
    provide custom arch_{spin,read,write}_lock_flags() functions, which are
    meant to re-enable interrupts while waiting for a spinlock.
    
    However, none of these can actually run into this codepath, because
    it is only called on architectures without CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK,
    or when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is set without CONFIG_LOCKDEP, and none
    of those combinations are possible on the three architectures.
    
    Going back in the git history, it appears that arch/mn10300 may have
    been able to run into this code path, but there is a good chance that
    it never worked. On the architectures that still exist, it was
    already impossible to hit back in 2008 after the introduction of
    CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and possibly earlier.
    
    As this is all dead code, just remove it and the helper functions built
    around it. For arch/ia64, the inline asm could be cleaned up, but
    it seems safer to leave it untouched.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>  # parisc
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022120058.1031690-1-arnd@kernel.org
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