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KVM: x86: Move bulk of emergency virtualizaton logic to virt subsystem

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Move the majority of the code related to disabling hardware virtualization
in emergency from KVM into the virt subsystem so that virt can take full
ownership of the state of SVM/VMX.  This will allow refcounting usage of
SVM/VMX so that KVM and the TDX subsystem can enable VMX without stomping
on each other.

To route the emergency callback to the "right" vendor code, add to avoid
mixing vendor and generic code, implement a x86_virt_ops structure to
track the emergency callback, along with the SVM vs. VMX (vs. "none")
feature that is active.

To avoid having to choose between SVM and VMX, simply refuse to enable
either if both are somehow supported.  No known CPU supports both SVM and
VMX, and it's comically unlikely such a CPU will ever exist.

Leave KVM's clearing of loaded VMCSes and MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA in KVM, via a
callback explicitly scoped to KVM.  Loading VMCSes and saving/restoring
host state are firmly tied to running VMs, and thus are (a) KVM's
responsibility and (b) operations that are still exclusively reserved for
KVM (as far as in-tree code is concerned).  I.e. the contract being
established is that non-KVM subsystems can utilize virtualization, but for
all intents and purposes cannot act as full-blown hypervisors.

Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260214012702.2368778-9-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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