list: Permit context-unguarded access with list_empty_careful()

With Context Analysis (viz. Clang's Thread Safety Analysis), list_heads
that are __guarded_by(..) require holding the appropriate context lock
when accessing and manipulating them via the list API. Because Clang's
warning diagnostics do not perform inter-procedural analysis, this is
enforced by Clang with -Wthread-safety-pointer in the caller at the call
boundary; a warning is produced when passing a pointer to a guarded
variable without holding the appropriate context locks:

  warning: passing pointer to variable 'list' requires holding [...] [-Wthread-safety-pointer]
           if (list_empty(&ctrl->list))

An exception is list_empty_careful(), which is like list_empty(), except
that it is permitted to use without holding any context lock (carefully).

Mark list_empty_careful() __context_unsafe, which disables context
analysis within list_empty_careful(), but also suppresses warnings
generated in callers related to its pointer arguments.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

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