x86-64: mm: clarify the 'positive addresses' user address rules

Dave Hansen found the "(long) addr >= 0" code in the x86-64 access_ok
checks somewhat confusing, and suggested using a helper to clarify what
the code is doing.

So this does exactly that: clarifying what the sign bit check is all
about, by adding a helper macro that makes it clear what it is testing.

This also adds some explicit comments talking about how even with LAM
enabled, any addresses with the sign bit will still GP-fault in the
non-canonical region just above the sign bit.

This is all what allows us to do the user address checks with just the
sign bit, and furthermore be a bit cavalier about accesses that might be
done with an additional offset even past that point.

(And yes, this talks about 'positive' even though zero is also a valid
user address and so technically we should call them 'non-negative'.  But
I don't think using 'non-negative' ends up being more understandable).

Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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