ice: use <linux/packing.h> for Tx and Rx queue context data

The ice driver needs to write the Tx and Rx queue context when programming
Tx and Rx queues. This is currently done using some bespoke custom logic
via the ice_set_ctx() and its helper functions, along with bit position
definitions in the ice_tlan_ctx_info and ice_rlan_ctx_info structures.

This logic does work, but is problematic for several reasons:

1) ice_set_ctx requires a helper function for each byte size being packed,
   as it uses a separate function to pack u8, u16, u32, and u64 fields.
   This requires 4 functions which contain near-duplicate logic with the
   types changed out.

2) The logic in the ice_pack_ctx_word, ice_pack_ctx_dword, and
   ice_pack_ctx_qword does not handle values which straddle alignment
   boundaries very well. This requires that several fields in the
   ice_tlan_ctx_info and ice_rlan_ctx_info be a size larger than their bit
   size should require.

3) Future support for live migration will require adding unpacking
   functions to take the packed hardware context and unpack it into the
   ice_rlan_ctx and ice_tlan_ctx structures. Implementing this would
   require implementing ice_get_ctx, and its associated helper functions,
   which essentially doubles the amount of code required.

The Linux kernel has had a packing library that can handle this logic since
commit 554aae35007e ("lib: Add support for generic packing operations").
The library was recently extended with support for packing or unpacking an
array of fields, with a similar structure as the ice_ctx_ele structure.

Replace the ice-specific ice_set_ctx() logic with the recently added
pack_fields and packed_field_s infrastructure from <linux/packing.h>

For API simplicity, the Tx and Rx queue context are programmed using
separate ice_pack_txq_ctx() and ice_pack_rxq_ctx(). This avoids needing to
export the packed_field_s arrays. The functions can pointers to the
appropriate ice_txq_ctx_buf_t and ice_rxq_ctx_buf_t types, ensuring that
only buffers of the appropriate size are passed.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241210-packing-pack-fields-and-ice-implementation-v10-7-ee56a47479ac@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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