Merge branch 'bpf-introduce-bpf-arena'

Alexei Starovoitov says:

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bpf: Introduce BPF arena.

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

v2->v3:
- contains bpf bits only, but cc-ing past audience for continuity
- since prerequisite patches landed, this series focus on the main
  functionality of bpf_arena.
- adopted Andrii's approach to support arena in libbpf.
- simplified LLVM support. Instead of two instructions it's now only one.
- switched to cond_break (instead of open coded iters) in selftests
- implemented several follow-ups that will be sent after this set
  . remember first IP and bpf insn that faulted in arena.
    report to user space via bpftool
  . copy paste and tweak glob_match() aka mini-regex as a selftests/bpf
- see patch 1 for detailed description of bpf_arena

v1->v2:
- Improved commit log with reasons for using vmap_pages_range() in arena.
  Thanks to Johannes
- Added support for __arena global variables in bpf programs
- Fixed race conditions spotted by Barret
- Fixed wrap32 issue spotted by Barret
- Fixed bpf_map_mmap_sz() the way Andrii suggested

The work on bpf_arena was inspired by Barret's work:
https://github.com/google/ghost-userspace/blob/main/lib/queue.bpf.h
that implements queues, lists and AVL trees completely as bpf programs
using giant bpf array map and integer indices instead of pointers.
bpf_arena is a sparse array that allows to use normal C pointers to
build such data structures. Last few patches implement page_frag
allocator, link list and hash table as bpf programs.

v1:
bpf programs have multiple options to communicate with user space:
- Various ring buffers (perf, ftrace, bpf): The data is streamed
  unidirectionally from bpf to user space.
- Hash map: The bpf program populates elements, and user space consumes
  them via bpf syscall.
- mmap()-ed array map: Libbpf creates an array map that is directly
  accessed by the bpf program and mmap-ed to user space. It's the fastest
  way. Its disadvantage is that memory for the whole array is reserved at
  the start.
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308010812.89848-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

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