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    bpf: Enable task local storage for tracing programs · a10787e6
    Song Liu authored
    To access per-task data, BPF programs usually creates a hash table with
    pid as the key. This is not ideal because:
     1. The user need to estimate the proper size of the hash table, which may
        be inaccurate;
     2. Big hash tables are slow;
     3. To clean up the data properly during task terminations, the user need
        to write extra logic.
    
    Task local storage overcomes these issues and offers a better option for
    these per-task data. Task local storage is only available to BPF_LSM. Now
    enable it for tracing programs.
    
    Unlike LSM programs, tracing programs can be called in IRQ contexts.
    Helpers that access task local storage are updated to use
    raw_spin_lock_irqsave() instead of raw_spin_lock_bh().
    
    Tracing programs can attach to functions on the task free path, e.g.
    exit_creds(). To avoid allocating task local storage after
    bpf_task_storage_free(). bpf_task_storage_get() is updated to not allocate
    new storage when the task is not refcounted (task->usage == 0).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarKP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210225234319.336131-2-songliubraving@fb.com
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