sched_ext: Require an arena for cid-form schedulers

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Upcoming patches will let the kernel place arena-resident scratch shared
with the BPF program (e.g. per-CPU set_cmask cmask) so the BPF side can
dereference it directly via __arena pointers, replacing the current
cmask_copy_from_kernel() probe-read loop. That requires each cid-form
scheduler to expose its arena to the kernel. Kernel- side accesses are
recovered by the per-arena scratch-page mechanism.

bpf_scx_reg_cid() walks the struct_ops member progs via
bpf_struct_ops_for_each_prog() and reads each prog's arena via
bpf_prog_arena(). The verifier enforces one arena per program, so each
member prog contributes at most one arena. All non-NULL contributions must
match and at least one member prog must use an arena. The map ref is held on
scx_sched and dropped on sched destroy. cpu-form schedulers (bpf_scx_reg)
are unchanged - no arena requirement.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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