gpio: userspace ABI for reading GPIO line events

This adds an ABI for listening to events on GPIO lines.
The mechanism returns an anonymous file handle to a request
to listen to a specific offset on a specific gpiochip.
To fetch the stream of events from the file handle, userspace
simply reads an event.

- Events can be requested with the same flags as ordinary
  handles, i.e. open drain or open source. An ioctl() call
  GPIO_GET_LINEEVENT_IOCTL is issued indicating the desired
  line.

- Events can be requested for falling edge events, rising
  edge events, or both.

- All events are timestamped using the kernel real time
  nanosecond timestamp (the same as is used by IIO).

- The supplied consumer label will appear in "lsgpio"
  listings of the lines, and in /proc/interrupts as the
  mechanism will request an interrupt from the gpio chip.

- Events are not supported on gpiochips that do not serve
  interrupts (no legal .to_irq() call). The event interrupt
  is threaded to avoid any realtime problems.

- It is possible to also directly read the current value
  of the registered GPIO line by issuing the same
  GPIOHANDLE_GET_LINE_VALUES_IOCTL as used by the
  line handles. Setting the value is not supported: we
  do not listen to events on output lines.

This ABI is strongly influenced by Industrial I/O and surpasses
the old sysfs ABI by providing proper precision timestamps,
making it possible to set flags like open drain, and put
consumer names on the GPIO lines.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

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