PCI: Allow additional bus numbers for hotplug bridges

A user may hot add a switch requiring more than one bus to enumerate.  This
previously required a system reboot if BIOS did not sufficiently pad the
bus resource, which they frequently don't do.

Add a kernel parameter so a user can specify the minimum number of bus
numbers to reserve for a hotplug bridge's subordinate buses so rebooting
won't be necessary.

The default is 1, which is equivalent to previous behavior.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
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hpmemsize=nn[KMG] The fixed amount of bus space which is
reserved for hotplug bridge's memory window.
Default size is 2 megabytes.
hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
Default is 1.
realloc= Enable/disable reallocating PCI bridge resources
if allocations done by BIOS are too small to
accommodate resources required by all child