asm-generic: introduce io_stop_wc() and add implementation for ARM64

For memory accesses with write-combining attributes (e.g. those returned
by ioremap_wc()), the CPU may wait for prior accesses to be merged with
subsequent ones. But in some situation, such wait is bad for the
performance.

We introduce io_stop_wc() to prevent the merging of write-combining
memory accesses before this macro with those after it.

We add implementation for ARM64 using DGH instruction and provide NOP
implementation for other architectures.

Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

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