Merge branch 'bpf-trampoline'

Alexei Starovoitov says:

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Introduce BPF trampoline that works as a bridge between kernel functions, BPF
programs and other BPF programs.

The first use case is fentry/fexit BPF programs that are roughly equivalent to
kprobe/kretprobe. Unlike k[ret]probe there is practically zero overhead to call
a set of BPF programs before or after kernel function.

The second use case is heavily influenced by pain points in XDP development.
BPF trampoline allows attaching similar fentry/fexit BPF program to any
networking BPF program. It's now possible to see packets on input and output of
any XDP, TC, lwt, cgroup programs without disturbing them. This greatly helps
BPF-based network troubleshooting.

The third use case of BPF trampoline will be explored in the follow up patches.
The BPF trampoline will be used to dynamicly link BPF programs. It's more
generic mechanism than array and link list of programs used in tracing,
networking, cgroups. In many cases it can be used as a replacement for
bpf_tail_call-based program chaining. See [1] for long term design discussion.

v3 -> v4:
- Included Peter's
  "86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate instructions" as a first patch.
  If it changes between now and merge window, I'll rebease to newer version.
  The patch is necessary to do s/text_poke/text_poke_bp/ in patch 3 to fix the race.
- In patch 4 fixed bpf_trampoline creation race spotted by Andrii.
- Added patch 15 that annotates prog->kern bpf context types. It made patches 16
  and 17 cleaner and more generic.
- Addressed Andrii's feedback in other patches.

v2 -> v3:
- Addressed Song's and Andrii's comments
- Fixed few minor bugs discovered while testing
- Added one more libbpf patch

v1 -> v2:
- Addressed Andrii's comments
- Added more test for fentry/fexit to kernel functions. Including stress test
  for maximum number of progs per trampoline.
- Fixed a race btf_resolve_helper_id()
- Added a patch to compare BTF types of functions arguments with actual types.
- Added support for attaching BPF program to another BPF program via trampoline
- Converted to use text_poke() API. That's the only viable mechanism to
  implement BPF-to-BPF attach. BPF-to-kernel attach can be refactored to use
  register_ftrace_direct() whenever it's available.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191112025112.bhzmrrh2pr76ssnh@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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