tracing: Add parsing of flags to the sys_enter_openat trace event

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Add some logic to give the openat system call trace event a bit more human
readable information:

   syscalls:sys_enter_openat: dfd: 0xffffff9c, filename: 0x7f0053dc121c "/etc/ld.so.cache", flags: O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC, mode: 0000

The above is output from "perf script" and now shows the flags used by the
openat system call.

Since the output from tracing is in the kernel, it can also remove the
mode field when not used (when flags does not contain O_CREATE|O_TMPFILE)

   touch-1185    [002] ...1.  1291.690154: sys_openat(dfd: 4294967196, filename: 139785545139344 "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", flags: O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)
   touch-1185    [002] ...1.  1291.690504: sys_openat(dfd: 18446744073709551516, filename: 140733603151330 "/tmp/x", flags: O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, mode: 0666)

As system calls have a fixed ABI, their trace events can be extended. This
currently only updates the openat system call, but others may be extended
in the future.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.763161484@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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