KVM: Add kvm_release_page_unused() API to put pages that KVM never consumes

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Add an API to release an unused page, i.e. to put a page without marking
it accessed or dirty.  The API will be used when KVM faults-in a page but
bails before installing the guest mapping (and other similar flows).

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-4-seanjc@google.com>

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