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opencl: use a better matmul path on two Adreno GPU generations (#27640)

opencl: default the Adreno xmem F16xF32 GEMM on for X2E

kernel_mul_mm_f16_f32_l4_lm is the slowest matmul this backend has on Adreno: on
the X2-90 it runs the gpt-oss-20b attention projections at roughly a quarter of
what the tuned dense q4_0 GEMM reaches on the same device. That matters for any
model whose non-expert weights stay f16 -- the stock gpt-oss-20b release is
exactly that, and its prefill spends 40.8% of GPU time in that one kernel. The
xmem route already existed but was left opt-in, so nobody hit it.

Worth about 25% prefill on gpt-oss-20b on an Adreno X2-90. Gated to X2E: the
Adreno 840 measures neutral. Decode is untouched -- the dispatch gate needs
N >= 16. It is worth nothing on the q8attn variant, whose attention weights
already take the dp4a dense GEMM.

The env var was presence-tested before, so =0 previously enabled it; it is now
atoi()'d. MUL_MAT 963 OK / 0 FAIL on both arms.

opencl: bypass the tiled f32 GEMM on the Adreno A7X

The A7X (E031.41) compiler executes kernel_mul_mm_f32_f32_l4_lm at roughly a
tenth of what the same silicon reaches in its own f16 and q4_K kernels. It
allocates 488 B/WI of private memory against 304 for the same source on the
following generation, i.e. the older register allocator spills in the K-loop.
Models with per-layer F32 projection pairs kept F32 by quantization policy land
on this kernel twice per layer, and it dominates their prefill on that part.

Route batched f32xf32 (ne11 > 8) around the tiled path on the A7X and let it
fall through to the per-row f32 kernel, which that compiler handles fine; small
batches keep the tiled path. Weights stay GPU-resident, so decode placement is
untouched -- declining the op in supports_op instead was measured first and
rejected, because the per-layer CPU round-trips cost more decode than the
prefill it gained.

Worth about 9% prefill on gemma-3n-E4B on an Adreno 740, with MUL_MAT counts
identical on and off. No other generation is affected. Override with
GGML_OPENCL_A7X_F32_LM_BYPASS=0.