kho: drop notifiers

The KHO framework uses a notifier chain as the mechanism for clients to
participate in the finalization process.  While this works for a single,
central state machine, it is too restrictive for kernel-internal
components like pstore/reserve_mem or IMA.  These components need a
simpler, direct way to register their state for preservation (e.g., during
their initcall) without being part of a complex, shutdown-time notifier
sequence.  The notifier model forces all participants into a single
finalization flow and makes direct preservation from an arbitrary context
difficult.  This patch refactors the client participation model by
removing the notifier chain and introducing a direct API for managing FDT
subtrees.

The core kho_finalize() and kho_abort() state machine remains, but clients
now register their data with KHO beforehand.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251101142325.1326536-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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