bpf: new option -bpf-expand-memcpy-in-order to expand memcpy in order

Some BPF JIT backends would want to optimize memcpy in their own
architecture specific way.

However, at the moment, there is no way for JIT backends to see memcpy
semantics in a reliable way. This is due to LLVM BPF backend is expanding
memcpy into load/store sequences and could possibly schedule them apart from
each other further. So, BPF JIT backends inside kernel can't reliably
recognize memcpy semantics by peephole BPF sequence.

This patch introduce new intrinsic expand infrastructure to memcpy.

To get stable in-order load/store sequence from memcpy, we first lower
memcpy into BPF::MEMCPY node which then expanded into in-order load/store
sequences in expandPostRAPseudo pass which will happen after instruction
scheduling. By this way, kernel JIT backends could reliably recognize
memcpy through scanning BPF sequence.

This new memcpy expand infrastructure is gated by a new option:

  -bpf-expand-memcpy-in-order

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
llvm-svn: 337977

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