mm: introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) to synchronize setting PageOffline()

A driver might set a page logically offline -- PageOffline() -- and turn
the page inaccessible in the hypervisor; after that, access to page
content can be fatal.  One example is virtio-mem; while unplugged memory
-- marked as PageOffline() can currently be read in the hypervisor, this
will no longer be the case in the future; for example, when having a
virtio-mem device backed by huge pages in the hypervisor.

Some special PFN walkers -- i.e., /proc/kcore -- read content of random
pages after checking PageOffline(); however, these PFN walkers can race
with drivers that set PageOffline().

Let's introduce page_offline_(begin|end|freeze|thaw) for synchronizing.

page_offline_freeze()/page_offline_thaw() allows for a subsystem to
synchronize with such drivers, achieving that a page cannot be set
PageOffline() while frozen.

page_offline_begin()/page_offline_end() is used by drivers that care about
such races when setting a page PageOffline().

For simplicity, use a rwsem for now; neither drivers nor users are
performance sensitive.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Aili Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Shi <[email protected]>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <[email protected]>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Price <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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