[Clang] Use metadata to make identifying embedded objects easier
Currently we use the `embedBufferInModule` function to store binary strings containing device offloading data inside the host object to create a fatbinary. In the case of LTO, we need to extract this object from the LLVM-IR. This patch adds a metadata node for the embedded objects containing the embedded pointers and the sections they were stored at. This should create a cleaner interface for identifying these values. In the future it may be worthwhile to also encode an `ID` in the metadata corresponding to the object's special section type if relevant. This would allow us to extract the data from an object file and LLVM-IR using the same ID. Reviewed By: jdoerfert Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129033
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