GPU TPC: Dynamically increase the protection / decrease the removal tube at inner pad rows, edge pads, high local occupancy

[davidrohr]

And sets the default option between scenarios 4 and 5

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[alibuild]

Error while checking build/O2/fullCI_slc9 for 18e8645 at 2025-11-14 16:58:

## sw/BUILD/O2-latest/log
/sw/SOURCES/O2/14814-slc9_x86-64/0/GPU/GPUTracking/Interface/GPUO2InterfaceUtils.cxx:135:33: error: 'GPUTPCClusterOccupancyMapBin' has not been declared
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

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[ehellbar]

in the stable-sync branch, I pushed 788bdca to add the missing header and tagged it for the SW build for P2

[alibuild]

Error while checking build/O2/fullCI_slc9 for ade1ab3 at 2025-11-17 04:11:

## sw/BUILD/o2checkcode-latest/log
--
========== List of errors found ==========
++ GRERR=0
++ grep -v clang-diagnostic-error error-log.txt
++ grep ' error:'
/sw/SOURCES/O2/14814-slc9_x86-64/0/GPU/GPUTracking/Base/GPUParam.cxx:38:18: error: use nullptr [modernize-use-nullptr]
++ [[ 0 == 0 ]]
++ exit 1
--

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