BaseTools/GenFw AARCH64: disregard ADRP instructions that are patched already

In order to permit the use of compilers that only implement the small
code model [which involves the use of ADRP instructions that require
4 KB segment alignment] for generating PE/COFF binaries with a small
footprint, we patch ADRP instructions into ADR instructions while doing
the ELF to PE/COFF conversion.

As it turns out, the linker may be doing the same, but for different
reasons: there is a silicon erratum #843419 for ARM Cortex-A53 which
affects ADRP instructions appearing at a certain offset in memory, and
one of the mitigations for this erratum is to patch them into ADR
instructions at link time if the symbol reference is within -/+ 1 MB.
However, the LD linker fails to update the static relocation tables, and
so we end up with an ADR instruction in the fully linked binary, but
with a relocation entry in the RELA section identifying it as an ADRP
instruction.

Since the linker has already updated the symbol reference, there is no
handling needed in GenFw for such instructions, and we can simply treat
it as an ordinary ADR. However, since it is guaranteed to be accompanied
by an add or load instruction with a LO12 relocation referencing the same
symbol, the section offset check we apply to ADR instructions is going to
take place anyway, so we can just disregard the ADR instruction entirely.

Reported-by: Eugene Cohen <eugene@hp.com>
Suggested-by: Eugene Cohen <eugene@hp.com>
Tested-by: Eugene Cohen <eugene@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

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