Refactor linalg lowering to LLVM
The linalg.view type used to be lowered to a struct containing a data pointer, offset, sizes/strides information. This was problematic when passing to external functions due to ABI, struct padding and alignment issues. The linalg.view type is now lowered to LLVMIR as a *pointer* to a struct containing the data pointer, offset and sizes/strides. This simplifies the interfacing with external library functions and makes it trivial to add new functions without creating a shim that would go from a value type struct to a pointer type. The consequences are that: 1. lowering explicitly uses llvm.alloca in lieu of llvm.undef and performs the proper llvm.load/llvm.store where relevant. 2. the shim creation function `getLLVMLibraryCallDefinition` disappears. 3. views are passed by pointer, scalars are passed by value. In the future, other structs will be passed by pointer (on a per-need basis). PiperOrigin-RevId: 264183671
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