* Occurs in several places in the IPC code.
* Chris Evans, <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
* Nov 1999 - ipc helper functions, unified SMP locking
* Occurs in several places in the IPC code.
* Chris Evans, <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
* Nov 1999 - ipc helper functions, unified SMP locking