arm64: ptrace: Add a comment describing our syscall entry/exit trap ABI

Our tracehook logic for syscall entry/exit raises a SIGTRAP back to the
tracer following a ptrace request such as PTRACE_SYSCALL. As part of this
procedure, we clobber the reported value of one of the tracee's general
purpose registers (x7 for native tasks, r12 for compat) to indicate
whether the stop occurred on syscall entry or exit. This is a slightly
unfortunate ABI, as it prevents the tracer from accessing the real
register value and is at odds with other similar stops such as seccomp
traps.

Since we're stuck with this ABI, expand the comment in our tracehook
logic to acknowledge the issue and describe the behaviour in more detail.

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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