LAM: Enable tagged pointer support for watchpoints.HEADmaster

The Intel (R) linear address masking (LAM) feature modifies the checking
applied to 64-bit linear addresses.  With this so-called "modified
canonicality check" the processor masks the metadata bits in a pointer
before using it as a linear address.  LAM supports two different modes that
differ regarding which pointer bits are masked and can be used for
metadata: LAM 48 resulting in a LAM width of 15 and LAM 57 resulting in a
LAM width of 6.

This patch adjusts watchpoint addresses based on the currently enabled
LAM mode using the untag mask provided in the /proc/<pid>/status file.
As LAM can be enabled at runtime or as the configuration may change
when entering an enclave, GDB checks enablement state each time a watchpoint
is updated.

In contrast to the patch implemented for ARM's Top Byte Ignore "Clear
non-significant bits of address on memory access", it is not necessary to
adjust addresses before they are passed to the target layer cache, as
for LAM tagged pointers are supported by the system call to read memory.
Additionally, LAM applies only to addresses used for data accesses.
Thus, it is sufficient to mask addresses used for watchpoints.

The following examples are based on a LAM57 enabled program.
Before this patch tagged pointers were not supported for watchpoints:
~~~
(gdb) print pi_tagged
$2 = (int *) 0x10007ffffffffe004
(gdb) watch *pi_tagged
Hardware watchpoint 2: *pi_tagged
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Couldn't write debug register: Invalid argument.
~~~~

Once LAM 48 or LAM 57 is enabled for the current program, GDB can now
specify watchpoints for tagged addresses with LAM width 15 or 6,
respectively.

Approved-By: Felix Willgerodt <felix.willgerodt@intel.com>

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