0bd882b7405414b5355e69a9fdcd7a533e504b6b refactor: remove RecursiveMutex cs_nBlockSequenceId (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
The RecursiveMutex `cs_nBlockSequenceId` is only used at one place in `CChainState::ReceivedBlockTransactions()` to atomically read-and-increment the nBlockSequenceId member:
83daf47898/src/validation.cpp (L2973-L2976)
~~For this simple use-case, we can make the member `std::atomic` instead to achieve the same result (see https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/atomic/operator_arith).~~
~~This is related to #19303. As suggested in the issue, I first planned to change the `RecursiveMutex` to `Mutex` (still possible if the change doesn't get Concept ACKs), but using a Mutex for this simple operation seems to be overkill. Note that at the time when this mutex was introduced (PR #3370, commit 75f51f2a63e0ebe34ab290c2b7141dd240b98c3b) `std::atomic` were not used in the codebase yet -- according to `git log -S std::atomic` they have first appeared in 2016 (commit 7e908c7b826cedbf29560ce7a668af809ee71524), probably also because the compilers didn't support them properly earlier.~~
At this point, the cs_main lock is set, hence we can use a plain int for the member and mark it as guarded by cs_main.
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