ok things are clear now. so the spin_lock_irq friends are actually for 2
purposes - preventing racing from interrupts and from SMP. so if SMP is not
chosen only the local_irq_disable() part works right??
do { local_irq_disable(); spin_lock(lock); } while (0)
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