PCI: hv: Probe vPCI buses asynchronously

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On Hyper-V guests each virtual PCI bus is enumerated by its own
hv_pci_probe() call. The probe performs several synchronous host
request/response exchanges while negotiating the protocol, querying bus
relations, entering D0, and reporting allocated resources. These waits
are latency-bound rather than CPU-bound.

hv_pci registers as an ordinary VMBus driver, so driver_register() walks
matching vPCI buses and probes them sequentially while the driver's
initcall runs. On guests that expose several devices, each through its
own vPCI bus, this serialization adds the host round-trip latencies to
device initialization.

Each bus is described by its own struct hv_pcibus_device, so
independent buses can be probed concurrently. Request asynchronous
probing via PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS, causing the driver core to
schedule matching buses for asynchronous probe work.

On an Azure Standard_L32s_v3 guest with five vPCI targets (four NVMe
controllers and one Mellanox VF), Linux 7.2.3 was tested with one warm-up
and three measured boots per variant. The median interval from the first
hv_pci_probe() entry to the last return decreased from 2847.968 ms to
2786.709 ms, a 61.259 ms (2.15%) improvement.

Co-developed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Naman Jain <namjain@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Sahil Chandna <sahilchandna@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>

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