lib/crc: arm64: add NEON accelerated CRC64-NVMe implementation

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Implement an optimized CRC64 (NVMe) algorithm for ARM64 using NEON
Polynomial Multiply Long (PMULL) instructions. The generic shift-and-XOR
software implementation is slow, which creates a bottleneck in NVMe and
other storage subsystems.

The acceleration is implemented using C intrinsics (<arm_neon.h>) rather
than raw assembly for better readability and maintainability.

Key highlights of this implementation:
- Uses 4KB chunking inside scoped_ksimd() to avoid preemption latency
  spikes on large buffers.
- Pre-calculates and loads fold constants via vld1q_u64() to minimize
  register spilling.
- Benchmarks show the break-even point against the generic implementation
  is around 128 bytes. The PMULL path is enabled only for len >= 128.

Performance results (kunit crc_benchmark on Cortex-A72):
- Generic (len=4096): ~268 MB/s
- PMULL (len=4096): ~1556 MB/s (nearly 6x improvement)

Signed-off-by: Demian Shulhan <demyansh@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260329074338.1053550-1-demyansh@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>

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