Merge branch 'xdp-grow-tail'

Jesper Dangaard Brouer says:

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V4:
- Fixup checkpatch.pl issues
- Collected more ACKs

V3:
- Fix issue on virtio_net patch spotted by Jason Wang
- Adjust name for variable in mlx5 patch
- Collected more ACKs

V2:
- Fix bug in mlx5 for XDP_PASS case
- Collected nitpicks and ACKs from mailing list

V1:
- Fix bug in dpaa2

XDP have evolved to support several frame sizes, but xdp_buff was not
updated with this information. This have caused the side-effect that
XDP frame data hard end is unknown. This have limited the BPF-helper
bpf_xdp_adjust_tail to only shrink the packet. This patchset address
this and add packet tail extend/grow.

The purpose of the patchset is ALSO to reserve a memory area that can be
used for storing extra information, specifically for extending XDP with
multi-buffer support. One proposal is to use same layout as
skb_shared_info, which is why this area is currently 320 bytes.

When converting xdp_frame to SKB (veth and cpumap), the full tailroom
area can now be used and SKB truesize is now correct. For most
drivers this result in a much larger tailroom in SKB "head" data
area. The network stack can now take advantage of this when doing SKB
coalescing. Thus, a good driver test is to use xdp_redirect_cpu from
samples/bpf/ and do some TCP stream testing.

Use-cases for tail grow/extend:
(1) IPsec / XFRM needs a tail extend[1][2].
(2) DNS-cache responses in XDP.
(3) HAProxy ALOHA would need it to convert to XDP.
(4) Add tail info e.g. timestamp and collect via tcpdump

[1] http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2019_files/xfrm_xdp.pdf
[2] http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2019.html

Examples on howto access the tail area of an XDP packet is shown in the
XDP-tutorial example[3].

[3] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial/blob/master/experiment01-tailgrow/
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Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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