ARM: module: implement support for PC-relative group relocations

Add support for the R_ARM_ALU_PC_Gn_NC and R_ARM_LDR_PC_G2 group
relocations [0] so we can use them in modules. These will be used to
load the current task pointer from a global variable without having to
rely on a literal pool entry to carry the address of this variable,
which may have a significant negative impact on cache utilization for
variables that are used often and in many different places, as each
occurrence will result in a literal pool entry and therefore a line in
the D-cache.

[0] 'ELF for the ARM architecture'
    https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/releases

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <[email protected]> # ARMv7M

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