arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking
The PMU is disabled and enabled, and the counters are programmed from contexts where interrupts or preemption is disabled. The functions to toggle the PMU and to program the PMU counters access the registers directly and don't access data modified by the interrupt handler. That, and the fact that they're always called from non-preemptible contexts, means that we don't need to disable interrupts or use a spinlock. [Alexandru E.: Explained why locking is not needed, removed WARN_ONs] Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com> Tested-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> (Developerbox) Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200924110706.254996-4-alexandru.elisei@arm.comSigned-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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