mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success

DAMON's virtual address space operation set implementation (vaddr) calls
pte_offset_map_lock() inside the page table walk callback function.  This
is for reading and writing page table accessed bits.  If
pte_offset_map_lock() fails, it retries by returning the page table walk
callback function with ACTION_AGAIN.

pte_offset_map_lock() can continuously fail if the target is a pmd
migration entry, though.  Hence it could cause an infinite page table walk
if the migration cannot be done until the page table walk is finished. 
This indeed caused a soft lockup when CPU hotplugging and DAMON were
running in parallel.

Avoid the infinite loop by simply not retrying the page table walk.  DAMON
is promising only a best-effort accuracy, so missing access to such pages
is no problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250930004410.55228-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 7780d04046a2 ("mm/pagewalkers: ACTION_AGAIN if pte_offset_map_lock() fails")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Xinyu Zheng <zhengxinyu6@huawei.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20250918030029.2652607-1-zhengxinyu6@huawei.com
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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