Split out from my big nonblocking atomic commit helper code as prep
work. While add it, also add some neat asciiart to document how it's
supposed to be used.

v2: Resurrect misplaced hunk in the kerneldoc.

v3: Wording improvements from Liviu.
Tested-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Tested-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1465388359-8070-8-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch