perf: Fix task context scheduling

There is a very nasty problem wrt disabling the perf task scheduling
hooks.

Currently we {set,clear} ctx->is_active on every
__perf_event_task_sched_{in,out}, _however_ this means that if we
disable these calls we'll have task contexts with ->is_active set that
are not active and 'active' task contexts without ->is_active set.

This can result in event_function_call() looping on the ctx->is_active
condition basically indefinitely.

Resolve this by changing things such that contexts without events do
not set ->is_active like we used to. From this invariant it trivially
follows that if there are no (task) events, every task ctx is inactive
and disabling the context switch hooks is harmless.

This leaves two places that need attention (and already had
accumulated weird and wonderful hacks to work around, without
recognising this actual problem).

Namely:

 - perf_install_in_context() will need to deal with installing events
   in an inactive context, meaning it cannot rely on ctx-is_active for
   its IPIs.

 - perf_remove_from_context() will have to mark a context as inactive
   when it removes the last event.

For specific detail, see the patch/comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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