x86/mce/inject: Check if a bank is populated before injecting

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The MCA_IPID register uniquely identifies a bank's type on Scalable MCA
(SMCA) systems. When an MCA bank is not populated, the MCA_IPID register
will read as zero and writes to it will be ignored.

On a hw-type error injection (injection which writes the actual MCA
registers in an attempt to cause a real MCE) check the value of this
register before trying to inject the error.

Do not impose any limitations on a sw injection and allow the user to
test out all the decoding paths without relying on the available hardware,
as its purpose is to just test the code.

 [ bp: Heavily massage. ]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019233641.140275-2-Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli <Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211104215846.254012-2-Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com

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