FROMLIST: [PATCH v5 10/12] arm64: vdso: replace gettimeofday.S with global vgettimeofday.C

(cherry picked from url https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10044501/)

Take an effort from the previous 9 patches to recode the arm64 vdso
code from assembler to C previously submitted by
Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>, rework it for use in both arm and
arm64, overlapping any optimizations for each architecture. But
instead of landing it in arm64, land the result into lib/vdso and
unify both implementations to simplify future maintenance.

apinski@cavium.com makes the following claims in the original patch:

This allows the compiler to optimize the divide by 1000 and remove
the other divides.

On ThunderX, gettimeofday improves by 32%.  On ThunderX 2,
gettimeofday improves by 18%.

Note I noticed a bug in the old (arm64) implementation of
__kernel_clock_getres; it was checking only the lower 32bits of the
pointer; this would work for most cases but could fail in a few.

<end of claim>

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Bug: 63737556
Bug: 20045882
Change-Id: I71ff27ff5bfa323354fda6867b01ec908d8d6cbd

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