Merge branch 'bpf-libbpf-btf-defined-maps'

Andrii Nakryiko says:

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This patch set implements initial version (as discussed at LSF/MM2019
conference) of a new way to specify BPF maps, relying on BTF type information,
which allows for easy extensibility, preserving forward and backward
compatibility. See details and examples in description for patch #6.

[0] contains an outline of follow up extensions to be added after this basic
set of features lands. They are useful by itself, but also allows to bring
libbpf to feature-parity with iproute2 BPF loader. That should open a path
forward for BPF loaders unification.

Patch #1 centralizes commonly used min/max macro in libbpf_internal.h.
Patch #2 extracts .BTF and .BTF.ext loading loging from elf_collect().
Patch #3 simplifies elf_collect() error-handling logic.
Patch #4 refactors map initialization logic into user-provided maps and global
data maps, in preparation to adding another way (BTF-defined maps).
Patch #5 adds support for map definitions in multiple ELF sections and
deprecates bpf_object__find_map_by_offset() API which doesn't appear to be
used anymore and makes assumption that all map definitions reside in single
ELF section.
Patch #6 splits BTF intialization from sanitization/loading into kernel to
preserve original BTF at the time of map initialization.
Patch #7 adds support for BTF-defined maps.
Patch #8 adds new test for BTF-defined map definition.
Patches #9-11 convert test BPF map definitions to use BTF way.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzbfdG2ub7gCi0OYqBrUoChVHWsmOntWAkJt47=FE+km+A@mail.gmail.com/

v1->v2:
- more BTF-sanity checks in parsing map definitions (Song);
- removed confusing usage of "attribute", switched to "field;
- split off elf_collect() refactor from btf loading refactor (Song);
- split selftests conversion into 3 patches (Stanislav):
  1. test already relying on BTF;
  2. tests w/ custom types as key/value (so benefiting from BTF);
  3. all the rest tests (integers as key/value, special maps w/o BTF support).
- smaller code improvements (Song);

rfc->v1:
- error out on unknown field by default (Stanislav, Jakub, Lorenz);
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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