[Offload] Add support for measuring elapsed time between events (#186856)

This patch adds `olGetEventElapsedTime` to the new LLVM Offload API, as
requested in
[#185728](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/185728), and adds
the corresponding support in `plugins-nextgen`.

A main motivation for this change is to make it possible to measure the
elapsed time of work submitted to a queue, especially kernel launches.
This is relevant to the intended use of the new Offload API for
microbenchmarking GPU libc math functions.

### Summary

The new API returns the elapsed time, in milliseconds, between two
events on the same device.

To support the common pattern `create start event → enqueue kernel →
create end event → sync end event → get elapsed time`, `olCreateEvent`
now always creates and records a backend event through the device
interface. For backends that materialize real event state, this gives
the event concrete backend state that can be used for elapsed-time
measurement. For backends that do not materialize backend event state,
`EventInfo` may still remain null and existing event operations continue
to treat such events as trivially complete.

Previously, an event created on an empty queue could be represented only
as a logical event. That representation was sufficient for sync and
completion queries, but it was not suitable for elapsed-time measurement
because there was no backend event state to timestamp. The new behavior
preserves the meaning of completion of prior work while also allowing
backends with timing support to attach real event state.

### Changes in `plugins-nextgen`

#### Common interface

Add elapsed-time support to the common device and plugin interfaces:

* `GenericPluginTy::get_event_elapsed_time`
* `GenericDeviceTy::getEventElapsedTime`
* `GenericDeviceTy::getEventElapsedTimeImpl`

#### AMDGPU

* Add the required ROCr declarations and wrappers.
* Enable queue profiling at queue creation time.
* Record events by enqueuing a real barrier marker packet on the stream.
* Retain the timing signal needed to query the recorded marker later.
* Implement `getEventElapsedTimeImpl` using
`hsa_amd_profiling_get_dispatch_time`, converting the result to
milliseconds with `HSA_SYSTEM_INFO_TIMESTAMP_FREQUENCY`.

This follows the ROCm/HIP approach of enabling queue profiling at HSA
queue creation time, while keeping the AMDGPU queue path simpler than
the lazy-enable alternative discussed during review.

#### CUDA

* Add the required CUDA driver declarations and wrappers.
* Implement `getEventElapsedTimeImpl` with `cuEventElapsedTime`.

#### Host

* Add `getEventElapsedTimeImpl` that stores `0.0f` in the output
pointer, when present, and returns success.

Reason: the host plugin does not materialize backend event state and
already treats event operations as trivially successful. Returning
`0.0f` preserves that model without introducing a new failure mode.

#### Level Zero

* Add `getEventElapsedTimeImpl`, but leave it unimplemented.

Reason: the Level Zero plugin currently does not provide standalone
backend event support for this event model. For example, `waitEventImpl`
/ `syncEventImpl` are still unimplemented there.

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Signed-off-by: Leandro Augusto Lacerda Campos <leandrolcampos@yahoo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Leandro A. Lacerda Campos <leandrolcampos@yahoo.com.br>
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