vfio: Introduce VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE ioctl and first user

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The VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE ioctl is meant to be a general purpose, device
agnostic ioctl for setting, retrieving, and probing device features.
This implementation provides a 16-bit field for specifying a feature
index, where the data porition of the ioctl is determined by the
semantics for the given feature.  Additional flag bits indicate the
direction and nature of the operation; SET indicates user data is
provided into the device feature, GET indicates the device feature is
written out into user data.  The PROBE flag augments determining
whether the given feature is supported, and if provided, whether the
given operation on the feature is supported.

The first user of this ioctl is for setting the vfio-pci VF token,
where the user provides a shared secret key (UUID) on a SR-IOV PF
device, which users must provide when opening associated VF devices.

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

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