dmaengine: omap-dma: Support for LinkedList transfer of slave_sg

sDMA in OMAP3630 or newer SoC have support for LinkedList transfer. When
LinkedList or Descriptor load feature is present we can create the
descriptors for each and program sDMA to walk through the list of
descriptors instead of the current way of sDMA stop, sDMA reconfiguration
and sDMA start after each SG transfer.
By using LinkedList transfer in sDMA the number of DMA interrupts will
decrease dramatically.
Booting up the board with filesystem on SD card for example:
W/o LinkedList support:
 27:       4436          0     WUGEN  13 Level     omap-dma-engine

Same board/filesystem with this patch:
 27:       1027          0     WUGEN  13 Level     omap-dma-engine

Or copying files from SD card to eMCC:
2.1G    /usr/
232001

W/o LinkedList we see ~761069 DMA interrupts.
With LinkedList support it is down to ~269314 DMA interrupts.

With the decreased DMA interrupt number the CPU load is dropping
significantly as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>

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