bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)

This patch introduces BPF type Format (BTF).

BTF (BPF Type Format) is the meta data format which describes
the data types of BPF program/map.  Hence, it basically focus
on the C programming language which the modern BPF is primary
using.  The first use case is to provide a generic pretty print
capability for a BPF map.

BTF has its root from CTF (Compact C-Type format).  To simplify
the handling of BTF data, BTF removes the differences between
small and big type/struct-member.  Hence, BTF consistently uses u32
instead of supporting both "one u16" and "two u32 (+padding)" in
describing type and struct-member.

It also raises the number of types (and functions) limit
from 0x7fff to 0x7fffffff.

Due to the above changes,  the format is not compatible to CTF.
Hence, BTF starts with a new BTF_MAGIC and version number.

This patch does the first verification pass to the BTF.  The first
pass checks:
1. meta-data size (e.g. It does not go beyond the total btf's size)
2. name_offset is valid
3. Each BTF_KIND (e.g. int, enum, struct....) does its
   own check of its meta-data.

Some other checks, like checking a struct's member is referring
to a valid type, can only be done in the second pass.  The second
verification pass will be implemented in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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