x86/vector: Use matrix allocator for vector assignment

Replace the magic vector allocation code by a simple bitmap matrix
allocator. This avoids loops and hoops over CPUs and vector arrays, so in
case of densly used vector spaces it's way faster.

This also gets rid of the magic 'spread the vectors accross priority
levels' heuristics in the current allocator:

The comment in __asign_irq_vector says:

   * NOTE! The local APIC isn't very good at handling
   * multiple interrupts at the same interrupt level.
   * As the interrupt level is determined by taking the
   * vector number and shifting that right by 4, we
   * want to spread these out a bit so that they don't
   * all fall in the same interrupt level.                         

After doing some palaeontological research the following was found the
following in the PPro Developer Manual Volume 3:

     "7.4.2. Valid Interrupts

     The local and I/O APICs support 240 distinct vectors in the range of 16
     to 255. Interrupt priority is implied by its vector, according to the
     following relationship: priority = vector / 16

     One is the lowest priority and 15 is the highest. Vectors 16 through
     31 are reserved for exclusive use by the processor. The remaining
     vectors are for general use. The processor's local APIC includes an
     in-service entry and a holding entry for each priority level. To avoid
     losing inter- rupts, software should allocate no more than 2 interrupt
     vectors per priority."

The current SDM tells nothing about that, instead it states:

     "If more than one interrupt is generated with the same vector number,
      the local APIC can set the bit for the vector both in the IRR and the
      ISR. This means that for the Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon processors, the
      IRR and ISR can queue two interrupts for each interrupt vector: one
      in the IRR and one in the ISR. Any additional interrupts issued for
      the same interrupt vector are collapsed into the single bit in the
      IRR.

      For the P6 family and Pentium processors, the IRR and ISR registers
      can queue no more than two interrupts per interrupt vector and will
      reject other interrupts that are received within the same vector."

   Which means, that on P6/Pentium the APIC will reject a new message and
   tell the sender to retry, which increases the load on the APIC bus and
   nothing more.

There is no affirmative answer from Intel on that, but it's a sane approach
to remove that for the following reasons:

    1) No other (relevant Open Source) operating systems bothers to
       implement this or mentiones this at all.

    2) The current allocator has no enforcement for this and especially the
       legacy interrupts, which are the main source of interrupts on these
       P6 and older systmes, are allocated linearly in the same priority
       level and just work.

    3) The current machines have no problem with that at all as verified
       with some experiments.

    4) AMD at least confirmed that such an issue is unknown.

    5) P6 and older are dinosaurs almost 20 years EOL, so there is really
       no reason to worry about that too much.


Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Yu Chen <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170913213155.443678104@linutronix.de

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