mm/vmalloc: use rb_tree instead of list for vread() lookups

vread() has been linearly searching vmap_area_list for looking up vmalloc
areas to read from.  These same areas are also tracked by a rb_tree
(vmap_area_root) which offers logarithmic lookup.

This patch modifies vread() to use the rb_tree structure instead of the
list and the speedup for heavy /proc/kcore readers can be pretty
significant.  Below are the wall clock measurements of a Python
application that leverages the drgn debugging library to read and
interpret data read from /proc/kcore.

Before the patch:
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  $ time sudo sdb -e 'dbuf | head 3000 | wc'
  (unsigned long)3000

  real	0m22.446s
  user	0m2.321s
  sys	0m20.690s
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With the patch:
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  $ time sudo sdb -e 'dbuf | head 3000 | wc'
  (unsigned long)3000

  real	0m2.104s
  user	0m2.043s
  sys	0m0.921s
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Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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