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mm/powerpc: add missing pud helpers

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Some new helpers will be needed for pud entry updates soon.  Introduce
these helpers by referencing the pmd ones.  Namely:

  - pudp_invalidate(): this helper invalidates a huge pud before a split
  happens, so that the invalidated pud entry will make sure no race will
  happen (either with software, like a concurrent zap, or hardware, like
  a/d bit lost).

  - pud_modify(): this helper applies a new pgprot to an existing huge pud
  mapping.

For more information on why we need these two helpers, please refer to the
corresponding pmd helpers in the mprotect() code path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240812181225.1360970-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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