dissolve external_name.u into separate members

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... and document the constraints on the layout.  Kept separate from
the previous commit to keep the noise separate from actual changes.
The reason for explicit __aligned() on ->name[] rather than relying
upon the alignment of the previous field is that the previous iteration
of that commit tried to save 4 bytes on 64bit by eliminating a hole
in there, which broke the assumptions in dentry_string_cmp().
Better spell it out and avoid the temptation for the future...

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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