KVM: x86/mmu: Zap defunct roots via asynchronous worker

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Zap defunct roots, a.k.a. roots that have been invalidated after their
last reference was initially dropped, asynchronously via the existing work
queue instead of forcing the work upon the unfortunate task that happened
to drop the last reference.

If a vCPU task drops the last reference, the vCPU is effectively blocked
by the host for the entire duration of the zap.  If the root being zapped
happens be fully populated with 4kb leaf SPTEs, e.g. due to dirty logging
being active, the zap can take several hundred seconds.  Unsurprisingly,
most guests are unhappy if a vCPU disappears for hundreds of seconds.

E.g. running a synthetic selftest that triggers a vCPU root zap with
~64tb of guest memory and 4kb SPTEs blocks the vCPU for 900+ seconds.
Offloading the zap to a worker drops the block time to <100ms.

There is an important nuance to this change.  If the same work item
was queued twice before the work function has run, it would only
execute once and one reference would be leaked.  Therefore, now that
queueing and flushing items is not anymore protected by kvm->slots_lock,
kvm_tdp_mmu_invalidate_all_roots() has to check root->role.invalid and
skip already invalid roots.  On the other hand, kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast()
must return only after those skipped roots have been zapped as well.
These two requirements can be satisfied only if _all_ places that
change invalid to true now schedule the worker before releasing the
mmu_lock.  There are just two, kvm_tdp_mmu_put_root() and
kvm_tdp_mmu_invalidate_all_roots().

Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220226001546.360188-23-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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