vhost-net: wake queue of tun/tap after ptr_ring consume

Add tun_wake_queue() to tun.c and export it for use by vhost-net. The
function validates that the file belongs to a device implemented by
drivers/net/tun.c, in IFF_TUN as well as in IFF_TAP mode, and that the
tfile exists, dereferences the tun_struct under RCU, and delegates to
__tun_wake_queue().

vhost_net_buf_produce() now calls tun_wake_queue() after a successful
batched consume of the ring to allow the netdev subqueue to be woken up.
The point is to allow the queue to be stopped when it gets full, which is
required for traffic shaping, implemented by the following
"stop tail-drop when IFF_BACKPRESSURE is set".
As __tun_wake_queue() returns early unless IFF_BACKPRESSURE is set, a
tun/tap device that does not opt in only pays for the added check.

macvtap and ipvtap rings, which get_tap_ptr_ring() accepts too, are
unaffected: their producer is the tap_handle_frame() rx_handler and not
ndo_start_xmit, so stopping a netdev TX queue would not hold it back.
drivers/net/tap.c has no netdev_ops of its own either. No
tap_wake_queue() is needed.

cons_cnt and the wake decision are best-effort and are not reverted by
ptr_ring_unconsume(), so vhost_net_buf_unproduce() can leave the subqueue
woken over a full ring. The producer re-stops it on the next packet, and
that path only runs from vhost_net_stop_vq() and vhost_net_set_backend(),
when the consumer is going away, so a stopped queue is the correct end
state rather than a stall.

Co-developed-by: Tim Gebauer <tim.gebauer@tu-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gebauer <tim.gebauer@tu-dortmund.de>
Signed-off-by: Simon Schippers <simon.schippers@tu-dortmund.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803183641.96882-4-simon.schippers@tu-dortmund.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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