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ppc patch queue for 2017-03-01

I was hoping to get this pull request squeezed in before the soft
freeze, but I ran into some difficulties during testing.  Everything
here was at least posted before the soft freeze, so I'm hoping we can
still merge it for 2.9.

The biggest things here are:
    * Cleanups to handling of hashed page tables, that will make
      adding support for the POWER9 MMU easier
    * Cleanups to the XICS interrupt controller that will make
      implementing the powernv machine easier
    * TCG implementation of extended overflow and carry handling for
      POWER9

It also includes:
    * Increasing the CPU limit for pseries to 1024 vCPUs
    * Generating proper OF node names in qemu (making hotplug and
      coldplug logic closer together)