usb: gadget: storage: make FSG_NUM_BUFFERS variable size

FSG_NUM_BUFFERS is set to 2 as default.
Usually 2 buffers are enough to establish a good buffering pipeline.
The number may be increased in order to compensate a for bursty VFS
behaviour.

Here follows a description of system that may require more than
2 buffers.
 * CPU ondemand governor active
 * latency cost for wake up and/or frequency change
 * DMA for IO

Use case description.
 * Data transfer from MMC via VFS to USB.
 * DMA shuffles data from MMC and to USB.
 * The CPU wakes up every now and then to pass data in and out from VFS,
   which cause the bursty VFS behaviour.

Test set up
 * Running dd on the host reading from the mass storage device
 * cmdline: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=4k count=$((256*100))
 * Caches are dropped on the host and on the device before each run

Measurements on a Snowball board with ondemand_governor active.

FSG_NUM_BUFFERS 2
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.62173 s, 18.7 MB/s
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.61811 s, 18.7 MB/s
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.57817 s, 18.8 MB/s

FSG_NUM_BUFFERS 4
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.26839 s, 19.9 MB/s
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.2691 s, 19.9 MB/s
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 5.2711 s, 19.9 MB/s

There may not be one optimal number for all boards. This is why
the number is added to Kconfig. If selecting USB_GADGET_DEBUG_FILES
this value may be set by a module parameter as well.

Signed-off-by: Per Forlin <per.forlin@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>

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