[FEA]: Improve and cleanup `ThreadLoad`
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### Area
CUB
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
`ThreadLoad` is a fundamental utility in CUB. On the other hand, it misses some key features, especially on recent GPU architectures.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Feature list:
- Cache eviction policies on recent GPU architectures (SM70+) are missing
- Cache prefetch, e.g. `.L2::256B`, is not handled
- Non-trivially copyable data types are handled incorrectly
- We don't support 32-bit platforms anymore. The following macros are not more needed `_CUB_ASM_PTR_`, `__CUB_LP64__`, `_CUB_ASM_PTR_SIZE_`
- Some template specializations of `ThreadLoad` may not be used, e.g. `ushort4`, adding overhead to the compilation
- Add assertions for `nullptr` accesses and validate the correct memory space, i.e. `global`
- Expose in the `cub::` namespace
- Add them to public documentation
### Describe alternatives you've considered
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