9p: Use kvmalloc for message buffers on supported transports

While developing a 9P server (https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS) and
testing it under high-load, I was running into allocation failures.
The failures occur even with plenty of free memory available because
kmalloc requires contiguous physical memory.

This results in errors like:
ls: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0x40c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_COMP)

This patch introduces a transport capability flag (supports_vmalloc)
that indicates whether a transport can work with vmalloc'd buffers
(non-physically contiguous memory). Transports requiring DMA should
leave this flag as false.

The fd-based transports (tcp, unix, fd) set this flag to true, and
p9_fcall_init will use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc for these
transports. This allows the allocator to fall back to vmalloc when
contiguous physical memory is not available.

Additionally, if kmem_cache_alloc fails, the code falls back to
kvmalloc for transports that support it.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Barre <pierre@barre.sh>
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
Message-ID: <d2017c29-11fb-44a5-bd0f-4204329bbefb@app.fastmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>

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