vl: Allow ThreadContext objects to be created before the sandbox option

Currently, there is no way to configure a CPU affinity inside QEMU when
the sandbox option disables it for QEMU as a whole, for example, via:
    -sandbox enable=on,resourcecontrol=deny

While ThreadContext objects can be created on the QEMU commandline and
the CPU affinity can be configured externally via the thread-id, this is
insufficient if a ThreadContext with a certain CPU affinity is already
required during QEMU startup, before we can intercept QEMU and
configure the CPU affinity.

Blocking sched_setaffinity() was introduced in 24f8cdc57224 ("seccomp:
add resourcecontrol argument to command line"), "to avoid any bigger of the
process". However, we only care about once QEMU is running, not when
the instance starting QEMU explicitly requests a certain CPU affinity
on the QEMU comandline.

Right now, for NUMA-aware preallocation of memory backends used for initial
machine RAM, one has to:

1) Start QEMU with the memory-backend with "prealloc=off"
2) Pause QEMU before it starts the guest (-S)
3) Create ThreadContext, configure the CPU affinity using the thread-id
4) Configure the ThreadContext as "prealloc-context" of the memory
   backend
5) Trigger preallocation by setting "prealloc=on"

To simplify this handling especially for initial machine RAM,
allow creation of ThreadContext objects before parsing sandbox options,
such that the CPU affinity requested on the QEMU commandline alongside the
sandbox option can be set. As ThreadContext objects essentially only create
a persistent context thread and set the CPU affinity, this is easily
possible.

With this change, we can create a ThreadContext with a CPU affinity on
the QEMU commandline and use it for preallocation of memory backends
glued to the machine (simplified example):

To make "-name debug-threads=on" keep working as expected for the
context threads, perform earlier parsing of "-name".

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G \
 -object thread-context,id=tc1,cpu-affinity=3-4 \
 -object memory-backend-ram,id=pc.ram,size=1G,prealloc=on,prealloc-threads=2,prealloc-context=tc1 \
 -machine memory-backend=pc.ram \
 -S -monitor stdio -sandbox enable=on,resourcecontrol=deny

And while we can query the current CPU affinity:
  (qemu) qom-get tc1 cpu-affinity
  [
      3,
      4
  ]

We can no longer change it from QEMU directly:
  (qemu) qom-set tc1 cpu-affinity 1-2
  Error: Setting CPU affinity failed: Operation not permitted

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221014134720.168738-8-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

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