gpu: nvgpu: Revamp semaphore support

Revamp the support the nvgpu driver has for semaphores.

The original problem with nvgpu's semaphore support is that it
required a SW based wait for every semaphore release. This was
because for every fence that gk20a_channel_semaphore_wait_fd()
waited on a new semaphore was created. This semaphore would then
get released by SW when the fence signaled. This meant that for
every release there was necessarily a sync_fence_wait_async() call
which could block. The latency of this SW wait was enough to cause
massive degredation in performance.

To fix this a fast path was implemented. When a fence is passed to
gk20a_channel_semaphore_wait_fd() that is backed by a GPU semaphore
a semaphore acquire is directly used to block the GPU. No longer is
a sync_fence_wait_async() performed nor is there an extra semaphore
created.

To implement this fast path the semaphore memory had to be shared
between channels. Previously since a new semaphore was created
every time through gk20a_channel_semaphore_wait_fd() what address
space a semaphore was mapped into was irrelevant. However, when
using the fast path a sempahore may be released on one address
space but acquired in another.

Sharing the semaphore memory was done by making a fixed GPU mapping
in all channels. This mapping points to the semaphore memory (the
so called semaphore sea). This global fixed mapping is read-only to
make sure no semaphores can be incremented (i.e released) by a
malicious channel. Each channel then gets a RW mapping of it's own
semaphore. This way a channel may only acquire other channel's
semaphores but may both acquire and release its own semaphore.

The gk20a fence code was updated to allow introspection of the GPU
backed fences. This allows detection of when the fast path can be
taken. If the fast path cannot be used (for example when a fence is
sync-pt backed) the original slow path is still present. This gets
used when the GPU needs to wait on an event from something which
only understands how to use sync-pts.

Bug 1732449
JIRA DNVGPU-12

Change-Id: Ic0fea74994da5819a771deac726bb0d47a33c2de
Signed-off-by: Alex Waterman <alexw@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/1133792
Reviewed-by: Terje Bergstrom <tbergstrom@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Terje Bergstrom <tbergstrom@nvidia.com>

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