Make checksum handling in the virtual network drivers more robust.

Largely this involves making the logic symmetrical: for example,
not only should netfront be able to tell netback that a packet has
an empty protocol checksum field, but the reverse must also be true.

Another change is that the drivers only advertise IP checksum
offload functionality. There is currently no information
propagated across the device channel about the offset of the
protocol-specific checksum field. Therefore it is not safe to
defer checksum calculation for protocols the remote end may not
understand -- it will end up dropping having to drop the packet.

Yet another change is to allow netback to disable tx checksum
offload, just as we already could for netfront. Currently there is
no support for disabling rx checksum offload -- that would seem
to require some way of propagating the checksum-offload advertisement
(or lack of it) across the device channel, as it really ought to be
the transmitter that acts on it.

Thanks to Ian Jackson for pointing out some of the problems with
our checksum-offload handling. Several of the changes here are
due to his comments.

Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>

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