selftests/damon: add drgn script for extracting damon status

Patch series "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs
functionality tests".

DAMON sysfs interface is the bridge between the user space and the kernel
space for DAMON parameters.  There is no good and simple test to see if
the parameters are set as expected.  Existing DAMON selftests therefore
test end-to-end features.  For example, damos_quota_goal.py runs a DAMOS
scheme with quota goal set against a test program running an artificial
access pattern, and see if the result is as expected.  Such tests cover
only a few part of DAMON.  Adding more tests is also complicated. 
Finally, the reliability of the test itself on different systems is bad.

'drgn' is a tool that can extract kernel internal data structures like
DAMON parameters.  Add a test that passes specific DAMON parameters via
DAMON sysfs reusing _damon_sysfs.py, extract resulting DAMON parameters
via 'drgn', and compare those.  Note that this test is not adding
exhaustive tests of all DAMON parameters and input combinations but very
basic things.  Advancing the test infrastructure and adding more tests are
future works.


This patch (of 6):

'drgn' is a useful tool for extracting kernel internal data structures
such as DAMON's parameter and running status.  Add a 'drgn' script that
extracts such DAMON internal data at runtime, for using it as a tool for
seeing if a test input has made expected results in the kernel.

The script saves or prints out the DAMON internal data as a json file or
string.  This is for making use of it not very depends on 'drgn'.  If
'drgn' is not available on a test setup and we find alternative tools for
doing that, the json-based tests can be updated to use an alternative tool
in future.

Note that the script is tested with 'drgn v0.0.22'.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250628160428.53115-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250628160428.53115-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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