ratelimit: protect with a mutex

Right now, rate limiting is protected by the AioContext mutex, which is
taken for example both by the block jobs and by qmp_block_job_set_speed
(via find_block_job).

We would like to remove the dependency of block layer code on the
AioContext mutex, since most drivers and the core I/O code are already
not relying on it.  However, there is no existing lock that can easily
be taken by both ratelimit_set_speed and ratelimit_calculate_delay,
especially because the latter might run in coroutine context (and
therefore under a CoMutex) but the former will not.

Since concurrent calls to ratelimit_calculate_delay are not possible,
one idea could be to use a seqlock to get a snapshot of slice_ns and
slice_quota.  But for now keep it simple, and just add a mutex to the
RateLimit struct; block jobs are generally not performance critical to
the point of optimizing the clock cycles spent in synchronization.

This also requires the introduction of init/destroy functions, so
add them to the two users of ratelimit.h.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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