fs/proc/vmcore: introduce PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM to detect device RAM ranges in 2nd kernel

s390 allocates+prepares the elfcore hdr in the dump (2nd) kernel, not in
the crashed kernel.

RAM provided by memory devices such as virtio-mem can only be detected
using the device driver; when vmcore_init() is called, these device
drivers are usually not loaded yet, or the devices did not get probed
yet. Consequently, on s390 these RAM ranges will not be included in
the crash dump, which makes the dump partially corrupt and is
unfortunate.

Instead of deferring the vmcore_init() call, to an (unclear?) later point,
let's reuse the vmcore_cb infrastructure to obtain device RAM ranges as
the device drivers probe the device and get access to this information.

Then, we'll add these ranges to the vmcore, adding more PT_LOAD
entries and updating the offsets+vmcore size.

Use a separate Kconfig option to be set by an architecture to include this
code only if the arch really needs it. Further, we'll make the config
depend on the relevant drivers (i.e., virtio_mem) once they implement
support (next). The alternative of having a PROVIDE_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_RAM
config option was dropped for now for simplicity.

The current target use case is s390, which only creates an elf64
elfcore, so focusing on elf64 is sufficient.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20241204125444.1734652-9-david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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