[PATCH] Infrastructure for correct hugepage refcounting

We currently have a problem when things like ptrace, futexes and direct-io
try to pin user pages.  If the user's address is in a huge page we're
elevting the refcount of a constituent 4k page, not the head page of the
high-order allocation unit.

To solve this, a generic way of handling higher-order pages has been
implemented:

- A higher-order page is called a "compound page".  Chose this because
  "huge page", "large page", "super page", etc all seem to mean different
  things to different people.

- The first (controlling) 4k page of a compound page is referred to as the
  "head" page.

- The remaining pages are tail pages.

All pages have PG_compound set.  All pages have their lru.next pointing at
the head page (even the head page has this).

The head page's lru.prev, if non-zero, holds the address of the compound
page's put_page() function.

The order of the allocation is stored in the first tail page's lru.prev.
This is only for debug at present.  This usage means that zero-order pages
may not be compound.

The above relationships are established for _all_ higher-order pages in the
page allocator.  Which has some cost, but not much - another atomic op during
fork(), mainly.

This functionality is only enabled if CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE, although it could
be turned on permanently.  There's a little extra cost in get_page/put_page.

These changes do not preclude adding compound pages to the LRU in the future
- we can add a new page flag to the head page and then move all the
additional data to the first tail page's lru.next, lru.prev, list.next,
list.prev, index, private, etc.

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