virtiofsd: Support remote posix locks

Doing posix locks with-in guest kernel are not sufficient if a file/dir
is being shared by multiple guests. So we need the notion of daemon doing
the locks which are visible to rest of the guests.

Given posix locks are per process, one can not call posix lock API on host,
otherwise bunch of basic posix locks properties are broken. For example,
If two processes (A and B) in guest open the file and take locks on different
sections of file, if one of the processes closes the fd, it will close
fd on virtiofsd and all posix locks on file will go away. This means if
process A closes the fd, then locks of process B will go away too.

Similar other problems exist too.

This patch set tries to emulate posix locks while using open file
description locks provided on Linux.

Daemon provides two options (-o posix_lock, -o no_posix_lock) to enable
or disable posix locking in daemon. By default it is enabled.

There are few issues though.

- GETLK() returns pid of process holding lock. As we are emulating locks
  using OFD, and these locks are not per process and don't return pid
  of process, so GETLK() in guest does not reuturn process pid.

- As of now only F_SETLK is supported and not F_SETLKW. We can't block
  the thread in virtiofsd for arbitrary long duration as there is only
  one thread serving the queue. That means unlock request will not make
  it to daemon and F_SETLKW will block infinitely and bring virtio-fs
  to a halt. This is a solvable problem though and will require significant
  changes in virtiofsd and kernel. Left as a TODO item for now.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

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