Lock-less list

v10:

- Rebased on latest Linus' tree.
- Revise ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG definition for SPARC32 per arch
  maintainer's comments.

v9:

- Split out lock-less allocator, will repost allocator with its user
  in another patchset.
- Use lock-less list in irq_work and replace net/rds/xlist.h

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 -v10 1/4] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
[PATCH -v10 2/4] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
[PATCH -v10 3/4] irq_work, Use llist in irq_work
[PATCH -v10 4/4] net, rds, Replace xlist in net/rds/xlist.h with llist
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