arm64: kernel: Add support for User Access Override

'User Access Override' is a new ARMv8.2 feature which allows the
unprivileged load and store instructions to be overridden to behave in
the normal way.

This patch converts {get,put}_user() and friends to use ldtr*/sttr*
instructions - so that they can only access EL0 memory, then enables
UAO when fs==KERNEL_DS so that these functions can access kernel memory.

This allows user space's read/write permissions to be checked against the
page tables, instead of testing addr<USER_DS, then using the kernel's
read/write permissions.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: move uao_thread_switch() above dsb()]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

(cherry picked from commit 57f4959bad0a154aeca125b7d38d1d9471a12422)
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>

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