device-dax: add dis-contiguous resource support

Break the requirement that device-dax instances are physically contiguous.
With this constraint removed it allows fragmented available capacity to
be fully allocated.

This capability is useful to mitigate the "noisy neighbor" problem with
memory-side-cache management for virtual machines, or any other scenario
where a platform address boundary also designates a performance boundary.
For example a direct mapped memory side cache might rotate cache colors at
1GB boundaries.  With dis-contiguous allocations a device-dax instance
could be configured to contain only 1 cache color.

It also satisfies Joao's use case (see link) for partitioning memory for
exclusive guest access.  It allows for a future potential mode where the
host kernel need not allocate 'struct page' capacity up-front.

Reported-by: Joao Martins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Hulk Robot <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ira Weiny <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jia He <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/159643104304.4062302.16561669534797528660.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160106116875.30709.11456649969327399771.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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