pstore: Don't use semaphores in always-atomic-context code
pstore_dump() is *always* invoked in atomic context (nowadays in an RCU read-side critical section, before that under a spinlock). It doesn't make sense to try to use semaphores here. This is mostly a revert of commit ea84b580 ("pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore"), except that two parts aren't restored back exactly as they were: - keep the lock initialization in pstore_register - in efi_pstore_write(), always set the "block" flag to false - omit "is_locked", that was unnecessary since commit 959217c8 ("pstore: Actually give up during locking failure") - fix the bailout message The actual problem that the buggy commit was trying to address may have been that the use of preemptible() in efi_pstore_write() was wrong - it only looks at preempt_count() and the state of IRQs, but __rcu_read_lock() doesn't touch either of those under CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. (Sidenote: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU means that the scheduler can preempt tasks in RCU ...
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