Kbuild updates for v4.18 (2nd)

 - fix some bugs introduced by the recent Kconfig syntax extension

 - add some symbols about compiler information in Kconfig, such as
   CC_IS_GCC, CC_IS_CLANG, GCC_VERSION, etc.

 - test compiler capability for the stack protector in Kconfig, and
   clean-up Makefile

 - test compiler capability for GCC-plugins in Kconfig, and clean-up
   Makefile

 - allow to enable GCC-plugins for COMPILE_TEST

 - test compiler capability for KCOV in Kconfig and correct dependency

 - remove auto-detect mode of the GCOV format, which is now more nicely
   handled in Kconfig

 - test compiler capability for mprofile-kernel on PowerPC, and
   clean-up Makefile

 - misc cleanups
linux/linkage.h: replace VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() with __stringify()

With the special case handling for Blackfin and Metag was removed by
commit 94e58e0ac312 ("export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with
underscore"), VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() is now equivalent to __stringify().

Replace the remaining usages in <linux/linkage.h> to prepare for the
entire removal of VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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