Rollup merge of #154263 - RalfJung:interpret-arg-passing-spans, r=oli-obk

interpret: when passing an argument fails, point at that argument

For a long time now, we did some contortions so that when something goes wrong while initializing the arguments for a function, we point at the call site rather than the callee. Historically, this had to be done because the "current location" in the callee pointed at the first instruction, which would obviously be nonsense. A while ago we gained the ability in the interpreter for the "current location" to be just a span that we point at for errors, but we never reevaluated the decision for how spans are handled during function calls. (We did use this "just a span" location for [errors during the initial stack frame setup](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/d21e0118d0eefc8b0073fa47fa16699d37047abf), but not for argument initialization.)

There's no always-great choice for pointing at the caller vs the callee: when they disagree about the type of an argument, either side could be wrong. If We do *two* typed copies in that case, one at the caller type and one at the callee type. Arguably we should point at the one that goes wrong, but we don't have a good way to expose that.

What ultimately pushed me over the edge towards pointing at the callee are two points:
- This provides strictly more information. if we point at the callee, the caller is available in the stacktrace. But if we point at the caller, then it might be impossible to figure out the actual callee if a function pointer or dyn call is involved.
- As part of resolving some long-standing questions around retags I am moving retagging to become part of validation, which means the retag and protector initialization of function arguments will happen during argument initialization. These currently point at the argument inside the callee, which I think is strictly preferable for these errors.

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