arm64/sve: Eliminate data races on sve_default_vl

sve_default_vl can be modified via the /proc/sys/abi/sve_default_vl
sysctl concurrently with use, and modified concurrently by multiple
threads.

Adding a lock for this seems overkill, and I don't want to think any
more than necessary, so just define wrappers using READ_ONCE()/
WRITE_ONCE().

This will avoid the possibility of torn accesses and repeated loads
and stores.

There's no evidence yet that this is going wrong in practice: this
is just hygiene.  For generic sysctl users, it would be better to
build this kind of thing into the sysctl common code somehow.

Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591808590-20210-3-git-send-email-Dave.Martin@arm.com
[will: move set_sve_default_vl() inside #ifdef to squash allnoconfig warning]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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