/*
* linux/ipc/sem.c
* Copyright (C) 1992 Krishna Balasubramanian
* Copyright (C) 1995 Eric Schenk, Bruno Haible
*
* IMPLEMENTATION NOTES ON CODE REWRITE (Eric Schenk, January 1995):
* This code underwent a massive rewrite in order to solve some problems
* with the original code. In particular the original code failed to
* wake up processes that were waiting for semval to go to 0 if the
* value went to 0 and was then incremented rapidly enough. In solving
* this problem I have also modified the implementation so that it
* processes pending operations in a FIFO manner, thus give a guarantee
* that processes waiting for a lock on the semaphore won't starve
* unless another locking process fails to unlock.
* In addition the following two changes in behavior have been introduced:
* - The original implementation of semop returned the value
* last semaphore element examined on success. This
