Lockless memory allocator and list

This patchset adds a lockless memory allocator and a lock-less
list.

v8:

- Rebased on mmotm 2010-12-02

v7:

- Revise ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG definition for some architectures
  according to architecture maitainers' comments.
- Remove spin_trylock_irqsave based fallback for lockless memory allocator,
  because it does not work for !CONFIG_SMP and is not likely to be used.
- Make lockless memory allocator and list does not depend on
  ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.  Instead, require the user to depend on it
  when needed. And BUG_ON(in_nmi()) is added in necessary place to prevent
  silent race.

v6:

- Revise ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG definition for some architectures
  according to architecture maitainers' comments.

v5:

- Add ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
- Add spin_trylock_irqsave based fallback in lockless memory allocator
  if ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG=n
- Make lockless list depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG

v4:

- Split from APEI patchset
- Update patch description and comments according to ML comments

v3:

- Rework lockless memory allocator and list according to ML comments


[PATCH -mm -v8 1/3] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
[PATCH -mm -v8 2/3] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
[PATCH -mm -v8 3/3] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
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