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Auto merge of #151065 - nagisa:add-preserve-none-abi, r=petrochenkov

abi: add a rust-preserve-none calling convention

This is the conceptual opposite of the rust-cold calling convention and is particularly useful in combination with the new `explicit_tail_calls` feature.

For relatively tight loops implemented with tail calling (`become`) each of the function with the regular calling convention is still responsible for restoring the initial value of the preserved registers. So it is not unusual to end up with a situation where each step in the tail call loop is spilling and reloading registers, along the lines of:

    foo:
        push r12
        ; do things
        pop r12
        jmp next_step

This adds up quickly, especially when most of the clobberable registers are already used to pass arguments or other uses.

I was thinking of making the name of this ABI a little less LLVM-derived and more like a conceptual inverse of `rust-cold`, but could not come with a great name (`rust-cold` is itself not a great name: cold in what context? from which perspective? is it supposed to mean that the function is rarely called?)
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