proc: optimize single-symbol delimiters to spead up seq_put_decimal_ull

A delimiter is a string which is printed before a number.  A
syngle-symbol delimiters can be printed by set_putc() and this works
faster than printing by set_puts().

== test_proc.c

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int n, i, fd;
	char buf[16384];

	n = atoi(argv[1]);
	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
		fd = open(argv[2], O_RDONLY);
		if (fd < 0)
			return 1;
		if (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) <= 0)
			return 1;
		close(fd);
	}

	return 0;
}
==

$ time ./test_proc  1000000 /proc/1/stat

== Before patch ==
  real	0m3.820s
  user	0m0.337s
  sys	0m3.394s

== After patch ==
  real	0m3.110s
  user	0m0.324s
  sys	0m2.700s

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212074931.7227-3-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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