mtd: spi-nor: Enhance locking to support reads while writes

On devices featuring several banks, the Read While Write (RWW) feature
is here to improve the overall performance when performing parallel
reads and writes at different locations (different banks). The following
constraints have to be taken into account:
1#: A single operation can be performed in a given bank.
2#: Only a single program or erase operation can happen on the entire
    chip (common hardware limitation to limit costs)
3#: Reads must remain serialized even though reads crossing bank
    boundaries are allowed.
4#: The I/O bus is unique and thus is the most constrained resource, all
    spi-nor operations requiring access to the spi bus (through the spi
    controller) must be serialized until the bus exchanges are over. So
    we must ensure a single operation can be "sent" at a time.
5#: Any other operation that would not be either a read or a write or an
    erase is considered requiring access to the full chip and cannot be
    parallelized, we then need to ensure the full chip is in the idle
    state when this occurs.

All these constraints can easily be managed with a proper locking model:
1#: Is enforced by a bitfield of the in-use banks, so that only a single
    operation can happen in a specific bank at any time.
2#: Is handled by the ongoing_pe boolean which is set before any write
    or erase, and is released only at the very end of the
    operation. This way, no other destructive operation on the chip can
    start during this time frame.
3#: An ongoing_rd boolean allows to track the ongoing reads, so that
    only one can be performed at a time.
4#: An ongoing_io boolean is introduced in order to capture and serialize
    bus accessed. This is the one being released "sooner" than before,
    because we only need to protect the chip against other SPI accesses
    during the I/O phase, which for the destructive operations is the
    beginning of the operation (when we send the command cycles and
    possibly the data), while the second part of the operation (the
    erase delay or the programmation delay) is when we can do something
    else in another bank.
5#: Is handled by the three booleans presented above, if any of them is
    set, the chip is not yet ready for the operation and must wait.

All these internal variables are protected by the existing lock, so that
changes in this structure are atomic. The serialization is handled with
a wait queue.

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230328154105.448540-8-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>

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