Trivial patch which adds some small locking functions and makes use of them to
factorize some part of the code and to make it cleaner.
Signed-off-by: NPierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>