powerpc/perf: Implement a global lock to avoid races between trace, core and thread imc events.

IMC(In-memory Collection Counters) does performance monitoring in
two different modes, i.e accumulation mode(core-imc and thread-imc events),
and trace mode(trace-imc events). A cpu thread can either be in
accumulation-mode or trace-mode at a time and this is done via the LDBAR
register in POWER architecture. The current design does not address the
races between thread-imc and trace-imc events.

Patch implements a global id and lock to avoid the races between
core, trace and thread imc events. With this global id-lock
implementation, the system can either run core, thread or trace imc
events at a time. i.e. to run any core-imc events, thread/trace imc events
should not be enabled/monitored.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200313055238.8656-1-anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com

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