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We want to get rid of follow_page(), and have a more reasonable way to
just lookup a folio mapped at a certain address, perform some checks while
still under PTL, and then only conditionally grab a folio reference if
really required.

Further, we might want to get rid of some walk_page_range*() users that
really only want to temporarily lookup a single folio at a single address.

So let's add a new page table walker that does exactly that, similarly to
GUP also being able to walk hugetlb VMAs.

Add folio_walk_end() as a macro for now: the compiler is not easy to
please with the pte_unmap()->kunmap_local().

Note that one difference between follow_page() and get_user_pages(1) is
that follow_page() will not trigger faults to get something mapped.  So
folio_walk is at least currently not a replacement for get_user_pages(1),
but could likely be extended/reused to achieve something similar in the
future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2024080215552...