crypto: engine - Introduce the block request crypto engine framework

Now block cipher engines need to implement and maintain their own queue/thread
for processing requests, moreover currently helpers provided for only the queue
itself (in crypto_enqueue_request() and crypto_dequeue_request()) but they
don't help with the mechanics of driving the hardware (things like running the
request immediately, DMA map it or providing a thread to process the queue in)
even though a lot of that code really shouldn't vary that much from device to
device.

Thus this patch provides a mechanism for pushing requests to the hardware
as it becomes free that drivers could use. And this framework is patterned
on the SPI code and has worked out well there.
(https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/
 drivers/spi/spi.c?id=ffbbdd21329f3e15eeca6df2d4bc11c04d9d91c0)

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

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