smp: add an abstraction handling detected CPUs' metadata #266
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Instead of orienting detected CPUs based on allocated percpu pages for them, use a generic and unified mechanisms to allocate and store detected CPUs metadata (including the percpu pages).
This enables better handling of the per-CPU resources and allows to easier assign tasks to specific CPUs (future commits).
This also makes the BSP identification more sane and allows to have a common API interface for finding available CPUs (and their number).