The Go standard library retrofitted context support onto existing APIs
using context.Background and later offered variants that directly
supported user-defined context value specification. This commit makes
that behavior clear in documentation and suggests context-aware
alternatives if the user is looking for one.
An example motivation is supporting code for use in systems that expect
APIs to be cancelable for lifecycle correctness or load
shedding/management reasons, as alluded to in
https://blog.golang.org/context-and-structs.
Updates #44143
Change-Id: I2d7f954ddf9b48264d5ebc8d0007058ff9bddf14
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