/proc/<pid>/maps file is extremely useful in practice for various tasks
involving figuring out process memory layout, what files are backing any
given memory range, etc.  One important class of applications that
absolutely rely on this are profilers/stack symbolizers (perf tool being
one of them).  Patterns of use differ, but they generally would fall into
two categories.

In on-demand pattern, a profiler/symbolizer would normally capture stack
trace containing absolute memory addresses of some functions, and would
then use /proc/<pid>/maps file to find corresponding backing ELF files
(normally, only executable VMAs are of interest), file offsets within
them, and then continue from there to get yet more information (ELF
symbols, DWARF information) to get human-readable symbolic information. 
This pattern is used by Meta's fleet-wide profiler, as one example.

In preprocessing pattern, application doesn't know the set of addresses of
interest, so it has to fetch all relevant VMAs (again, probably only
executable ones), store or cache them, then proceed with profiling and
stack trace capture.  Once done, it would do symbolization based on stored
VMA information.  This can happen at much later point in time.  This
patterns is used by perf tool, as an example.

In either case, there are both performance and correctness requirement
involved.  This address to VMA information translation has to be done as
efficiently as possible, but also not miss any VMA (especially in the case
of loading/unloading shared libraries).  In practice, correctness can't be
guaranteed (due to process dying before VMA data can be captured, or
shared library being unloaded, etc), but any effort to maximize the chance
of finding the VMA is appreciated.

Unfortunately, for all the /proc/<pid>/maps file universality and
usefulness, it doesn't fit the above use cases 100%.

First, it's main purpose is to emit all VMAs sequentially, but in practice
captured addresses would fall only into a smaller subset of all process'
VMAs, mainly containing executable text.  Yet, library would need to parse
most or all of the contents to find needed VMAs, as there is no way to
skip VMAs that are of no use.  Efficient library can do the linear pass
and it is still relatively efficient, but it's definitely an overhead that
can be avoided, if there was a way to do more targeted querying of the
relevant VMA information.

Second, it's a text based interface, which makes its programmatic use from
applications and libraries more cumbersome and inefficient due to the need
to handle text parsing to get necessary pieces of information.  The
overhead is actually payed both by kernel, formatting originally binary
VMA data into text, and then by user space application, parsing it back
into binary data for further use.

For the on-demand pattern of usage, described above, another problem when
writing generic stack trace symbolization library is an unfortunate
performance-vs-correctness tradeoff that needs to be made.  Library has to
make a decision to either cache parsed contents of /proc/<pid>/maps (after
initial processing) to service future requests (if application requests to
symbolize another set of addresses (for the same process), captured at
some later time, which is typical for periodic/continuous profiling cases)
to avoid higher costs of re-parsing this file.  Or it has to choose to
cache the contents in memory to speed up future requests.  In the former
case, more memory is used for the cache and there is a risk of getting
stale data if application loads or unloads shared libraries, or otherwise
changed its set of VMAs somehow, e.g., through additional mmap() calls. 
In the latter case, it's the performance hit that comes from re-opening
the file and re-parsing its contents all over again.

This patch aims to solve this problem by providing a new API built on top
of /proc/<pid>/maps.  It's meant to address both non-selectiveness and
text nature of /proc/<pid>/maps, by giving user more control of what sort
of VMA(s) needs to be queried, and being binary-based interface eliminates
the overhead of text formatting (on kernel side) and parsing (on user
space side).

It's also designed to be extensible and forward/backward compatible by
including required struct size field, which user has to provide.  We use
established copy_struct_from_user() approach to handle extensibility.

User has a choice to pick either getting VMA that covers provided address
or -ENOENT if none is found (exact, least surprising, case).  Or, with an
extra query flag (PROCMAP_QUERY_COVERING_OR_NEXT_VMA), they can get either
VMA that covers the address (if there is one), or the closest next VMA
(i.e., VMA with the smallest vm_start > addr).  The latter allows more
efficient use, but, given it could be a surprising behavior, requires an
explicit opt-in.

There is another query flag that is useful for some use cases. 
PROCMAP_QUERY_FILE_BACKED_VMA instructs this API to only return
file-backed VMAs.  Combining this with PROCMAP_QUERY_COVERING_OR_NEXT_VMA
makes it possible to efficiently iterate only file-backed VMAs of the
process, which is what profilers/symbolizers are normally interested in.

All the above querying flags can be combined with (also optional) set of
desired VMA permissions flags.  This allows to, for example, iterate only
an executable subset of VMAs, which is what preprocessing pattern, used by
perf tool, would benefit from, as the assumption is that captured stack
traces would have addresses of executable code.  This saves time by
skipping non-executable VMAs altogether efficienty.

All these querying flags (modifiers) are orthogonal and can be combined in
a semantically meaningful and natural way.

Basing this ioctl()-based API on top of /proc/<pid>/maps's FD makes sense
given it's querying the same set of VMA data.  It's also benefitial
because permission checks for /proc/<pid>/maps is performed at open time
once, and the actual data read of text contents of /proc/<pid>/maps is
done without further permission checks.  We piggyback on this pattern with
ioctl()-based API as well, as that's a desired property.  Both for
performance reasons, but also for security and flexibility reasons.

Allowing application to open an FD for /proc/self/maps without any extra
capabilities, and then passing it to some sort of profiling agent through
Unix-domain socket, would allow such profiling agent to not require some
of the capabilities that are otherwise expected when opening
/proc/<pid>/maps file for *another* process.  This is a desirable property
for some more restricted setups.

This new ioctl-based implementation doesn't interfere with seq_file-based
implementation of /proc/<pid>/maps textual interface, and so could be used
together or independently without paying any price for that.

Note also, that fetching VMA name (e.g., backing file path, or special
hard-coded or user-provided names) is optional just like build ID.  If
user sets vma_name_size to zero, kernel code won't attempt to retrieve it,
saving resources.

Earlier versions of this patch set were adding per-VMA locking, which is
why we have a code structure that is ready for abstracting mmap_lock vs
vm_lock differences (query_vma_setup(), query_vma_teardown(), and
query_vma_find_by_addr()), but given anon_vma_name() is not yet compatible
with per-VMA locking, initial implementation sticks to using only
mmap_lock for now.  It will be easy to add back per-VMA locking once all
the pieces are ready later on.  Which is why we keep existing code
structure with setup/teardown/query helper functions.

[andrii@kernel.org: improve PROCMAP_QUERY's compat mode handling]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240701174805.1897344-2-andrii@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240627170900.1672542-3-andrii@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>