kvm: Add VFIO device

So far we've succeeded at making KVM and VFIO mostly unaware of each
other, but areas are cropping up where a connection beyond eventfds
and irqfds needs to be made.  This patch introduces a KVM-VFIO device
that is meant to be a gateway for such interaction.  The user creates
the device and can add and remove VFIO groups to it via file
descriptors.  When a group is added, KVM verifies the group is valid
and gets a reference to it via the VFIO external user interface.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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+VFIO virtual device
+===================
+
+Device types supported:
+  KVM_DEV_TYPE_VFIO
+
+Only one VFIO instance may be created per VM.  The created device
+tracks VFIO groups in use by the VM and features of those groups
+important to the correctness and acceleration of the VM.  As groups
+are enabled and disabled for use by the VM, KVM should be updated
+about their presence.  When registered with KVM, a reference to the
+VFIO-group is held by KVM.
+
+Groups:
+  KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP
+
+KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP attributes:
+  KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_ADD: Add a VFIO group to VFIO-KVM device tracking
+  KVM_DEV_VFIO_GROUP_DEL: Remove a VFIO group from VFIO-KVM device tracking
+
+For each, kvm_device_attr.addr points to an int32_t file descriptor
+for the VFIO group.