gendwarfksyms: Add support for kABI rules

Distributions that want to maintain a stable kABI need the ability
to make ABI compatible changes to kernel without affecting symbol
versions, either because of LTS updates or backports.

With genksyms, developers would typically hide these changes from
version calculation with #ifndef __GENKSYMS__, which would result
in the symbol version not changing even though the actual type has
changed.  When we process precompiled object files, this isn't an
option.

To support this use case, add a --stable command line flag that
gates kABI stability features that are not needed in mainline
kernels, but can be useful for distributions, and add support for
kABI rules, which can be used to restrict gendwarfksyms output.

The rules are specified as a set of null-terminated strings stored
in the .discard.gendwarfksyms.kabi_rules section. Each rule consists
of four strings as follows:

  "version\0type\0target\0value"

The version string ensures the structure can be changed in a
backwards compatible way. The type string indicates the type of the
rule, and target and value strings contain rule-specific data.

Initially support two simple rules:

  1. Declaration-only types

     A type declaration can change into a full definition when
     additional includes are pulled in to the TU, which changes the
     versions of any symbol that references the type. Add support
     for defining declaration-only types whose definition is not
     expanded during versioning.

  2. Ignored enumerators

     It's possible to add new enum fields without changing the ABI,
     but as the fields are included in symbol versioning, this would
     change the versions. Add support for ignoring specific fields.

  3. Overridden enumerator values

     Add support for overriding enumerator values when calculating
     versions. This may be needed when the last field of the enum
     is used as a sentinel and new fields must be added before it.

Add examples for using the rules under the examples/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

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