list: add primitives for private list manipulations

Patch series "list private v2 & luo flb", v9.

This series introduces two connected infrastructure improvements: a new
API for handling private linked lists, and the "File-Lifecycle-Bound"
(FLB) mechanism for the Live Update Orchestrator.

1. Private List Primitives (patches 1-3)

   Recently, Linux introduced the ability to mark structure members as
   __private and access them via ACCESS_PRIVATE().  This enforces better
   encapsulation by ensuring internal details are only accessible by the
   owning subsystem.

   However, struct list_head is frequently used as an internal linkage
   mechanism within these private sections.  The standard macros in
   <linux/list.h> do not support ACCESS_PRIVATE() natively.  Consequently,
   subsystems using private lists are forced to implement ad-hoc
   workarounds or local iterator macros.

   This series adds <linux/list_private.h>, providing a set of
   primitives identical to those in <linux/list.h> but designed for
   private list heads.  It also includes a KUnit test suite to verify that
   the macros correctly handle pointer offsets and qualifiers.

2. This series adds FLB (patches 4-5) support to Live Update that also
   internally uses private lists.

   FLB allows global kernel state (such as IOMMU domains or HugeTLB
   state) to be preserved once, shared across multiple file descriptors,
   and restored when needed.  This is necessary for subsystems where
   multiple preserved file descriptors depend on a single, shared
   underlying resource.  Preserving this state for each individual file
   would be redundant and incorrect.

   FLB uses reference counting tied to the lifecycle of preserved
   files.  The state is preserved when the first file depending on it is
   preserved, and restored or cleaned up only when the last file is
   handled.


This patch (of 5):

Linux recently added an ability to add private members to structs (i.e. 
__private) and access them via ACCESS_PRIVATE().  This ensures that those
members are only accessible by the subsystem which owns the struct type,
and not to the object owner.

However, struct list_head often needs to be placed into the private
section to be manipulated privately by the subsystem.

Add macros to support private list manipulations in
<linux/list_private.h>.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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