lib: Add xxhash module

Adds xxhash kernel module with xxh32 and xxh64 hashes. xxhash is an
extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm for checksumming.
The zstd compression and decompression modules added in the next patch
require xxhash. I extracted it out from zstd since it is useful on its
own. I copied the code from the upstream XXHash source repository and
translated it into kernel style. I ran benchmarks and tests in the kernel
and tests in userland.

I benchmarked xxhash as a special character device. I ran in four modes,
no-op, xxh32, xxh64, and crc32. The no-op mode simply copies the data to
kernel space and ignores it. The xxh32, xxh64, and crc32 modes compute
hashes on the copied data. I also ran it with four different buffer sizes.
The benchmark file is located in the upstream zstd source repository under
`contrib/linux-kernel/xxhash_test.c` [1].

I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD. I benchmarked using the file `filesystem.squashfs`
from `ubuntu-16.10-desktop-amd64.iso`, which is 1,536,217,088 B large.
Run the following commands for the benchmark:

    modprobe xxhash_test
    mknod xxhash_test c 245 0
    time cp filesystem.squashfs xxhash_test

The time is reported by the time of the userland `cp`.
The GB/s is computed with

    1,536,217,008 B / time(buffer size, hash)

which includes the time to copy from userland.
The Normalized GB/s is computed with

    1,536,217,088 B / (time(buffer size, hash) - time(buffer size, none)).

| Buffer Size (B) | Hash  | Time (s) | GB/s | Adjusted GB/s |
|-----------------|-------|----------|------|---------------|
|            1024 | none  |    0.408 | 3.77 |             - |
|            1024 | xxh32 |    0.649 | 2.37 |          6.37 |
|            1024 | xxh64 |    0.542 | 2.83 |         11.46 |
|            1024 | crc32 |    1.290 | 1.19 |          1.74 |
|            4096 | none  |    0.380 | 4.04 |             - |
|            4096 | xxh32 |    0.645 | 2.38 |          5.79 |
|            4096 | xxh64 |    0.500 | 3.07 |         12.80 |
|            4096 | crc32 |    1.168 | 1.32 |          1.95 |
|            8192 | none  |    0.351 | 4.38 |             - |
|            8192 | xxh32 |    0.614 | 2.50 |          5.84 |
|            8192 | xxh64 |    0.464 | 3.31 |         13.60 |
|            8192 | crc32 |    1.163 | 1.32 |          1.89 |
|           16384 | none  |    0.346 | 4.43 |             - |
|           16384 | xxh32 |    0.590 | 2.60 |          6.30 |
|           16384 | xxh64 |    0.466 | 3.30 |         12.80 |
|           16384 | crc32 |    1.183 | 1.30 |          1.84 |

Tested in userland using the test-suite in the zstd repo under
`contrib/linux-kernel/test/XXHashUserlandTest.cpp` [2] by mocking the
kernel functions. A line in each branch of every function in `xxhash.c`
was commented out to ensure that the test-suite fails. Additionally
tested while testing zstd and with SMHasher [3].

[1] https://phabricator.intern.facebook.com/P57526246
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/test/XXHashUserlandTest.cpp
[3] https://github.com/aappleby/smhasher

zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
XXHash source repository: https://github.com/cyan4973/xxhash

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>

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