sched/cache: Fix stale preferred_llc for a new task

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On fork without CLONE_VM, the child gets a new mm,
the parent's preferred_llc value is stale for the
child.

Fix this by resetting the task's preferred_llc to -1.

This bug was reported by sashiko.

Fixes: 47d8696b95 ("sched/cache: Assign preferred LLC ID to processes")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0ec7309d0e24ede97656754d1505b7490403d966.1778703694.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com

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