ext4: improve smp scalability for inode generation

->s_next_generation is protected by s_next_gen_lock but its usage
pattern is very primitive.  We don't actually need sequentially
increasing new generation numbers, so let's use prandom_u32() instead.

Reported-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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