virtio-mem: Big Block Mode (BBM) memory hotplug

Currently, we do not support device block sizes that exceed the Linux
memory block size. For example, having a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g.,
gigantic pages in the hypervisor) won't work with 128 MiB Linux memory
blocks.

Let's implement Big Block Mode (BBM), whereby we add/remove at least
one Linux memory block at a time. With a 1 GiB device block size, a Big
Block (BB) will cover 8 Linux memory blocks.

We'll keep registering the online_page_callback machinery, it will be used
for safe memory hotunplug in BBM next.

Note: BBM is properly prepared for variable-sized Linux memory
blocks that we might see in the future. So we won't care how many Linux
memory blocks a big block actually spans, and how the memory notifier is
called.

Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>

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