Merge branch 'bpf-inline-bpf_kptr_xchg'

Hou Tao says:

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The motivation of inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() comes from the performance
profiling of bpf memory allocator benchmark [1]. The benchmark uses
bpf_kptr_xchg() to stash the allocated objects and to pop the stashed
objects for free. After inling bpf_kptr_xchg(), the performance for
object free on 8-CPUs VM increases about 2%~10%. However the performance
gain comes with costs: both the kasan and kcsan checks on the pointer
will be unavailable. Initially the inline is implemented in do_jit() for
x86-64 directly, but I think it will more portable to implement the
inline in verifier.

Patch #1 supports inlining bpf_kptr_xchg() helper and enables it on
x86-4. Patch #2 factors out a helper for newly-added test in patch #3.
Patch #3 tests whether the inlining of bpf_kptr_xchg() is expected.
Please see individual patches for more details. And comments are always
welcome.

Change Log:
v3:
  * rebased on bpf-next tree
  * patch 1 & 2: Add Rvb-by and Ack-by tags from Eduard
  * patch 3: use inline assembly and naked function instead of c code
             (suggested by Eduard)

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/
  * rebased on bpf-next tree
  * drop patch #1 in v1 due to discussion in [2]
  * patch #1: add the motivation in the commit message, merge patch #1
              and #3 into the new patch in v2. (Daniel)
  * patch #2/#3: newly-added patch to test the inlining of
                 bpf_kptr_xchg() (Eduard)

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

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