vppinfra: refactor clib_spinlock_t to use compare and swap

Tested performance of a CAS implementation (using __atomic_compare_exchange)
against a TAS implementation (using __atomic_exchange) using test_spinlock.c
and found some performance improvement.

Generated assembly for CAS and TAS implementations show that TAS always
executes with a load-store dependency, but CAS moves a branch condition
between the load and store so that only a load occurs when the lock is free.

Benchmarking:
The results below are the cycle counts from test_spinlock.c, configured so
that for 10000 iterations, 12 threads on separate cores are spawned, each of
which increments a global counter 10000 times in each iteration. For
A72, 8 threads are spawned in each test.

x86 Xeon TAS: 7.333e8, 7.605e8, 7.535e8, 7.485e8, 7.321e8
x86 Xeon CAS: 5.842e8, 5.433e8, 5.389e8, 5.983e8, 5.552e8
Aarch64 ThX2* TAS: 9.852e7, 10.209e7, 9.190e7, 9.600e7, 9.224e7
Aarch64 ThX2* CAS: 7.640e7, 7.486e7, 7.425e7, 7.269e7, 7.534e7
A72 TAS: 7.289e6, 6.963e6, 7.208e6, 6.976e6, 7.200e6
A72 CAS: 1.695e6, 1.608e6, 1.600e6, 1.634e6, 1.746e6

*ThunderX2 used additional gcc options "-march=armv8.1-a+crc+crypto+lse"

Type: refactor

Change-Id: Ic5cd97991804f6b012707fad1a5d1a6edb96cd3d
Signed-off-by: Jason Zhang <jason.zhang2@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lijian Zhang <Lijian.Zhang@arm.com>

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