nohz: New APIs to re-evaluate the tick on full dynticks CPUs

Provide two new helpers in order to notify the full dynticks CPUs about
some internal system changes against which they may reconsider the state
of their tick. Some practical examples include: posix cpu timers, perf tick
and sched clock tick.

For now the notifying handler, implemented through IPIs, is a stub
that will be implemented when we get the tick stop/restart infrastructure
in.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Geoff Levand <[email protected]>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <[email protected]>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]>
Cc: Li Zhong <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

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