fuse: add more control over cache invalidation behaviour

Currently userspace is able to notify the kernel to invalidate the cache
for an inode.  This means that, if all the inodes in a filesystem need to
be invalidated, then userspace needs to iterate through all of them and do
this kernel notification separately.

This patch adds the concept of 'epoch': each fuse connection will have the
current epoch initialized and every new dentry will have it's d_time set to
the current epoch value.  A new operation will then allow userspace to
increment the epoch value.  Every time a dentry is d_revalidate()'ed, it's
epoch is compared with the current connection epoch and invalidated if it's
value is different.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
Tested-by: Laura Promberger <laura.promberger@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

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