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Fix propagate_precision() logic to perform propagation of all necessary
registers and stack slots across all active frames *in one batch step*.

Doing this for each register/slot in each individual frame is wasteful,
but the main problem is that backtracking of instruction in any frame
except the deepest one just doesn't work. This is due to backtracking
logic relying on jump history, and available jump history always starts
(or ends, depending how you view it) in current frame. So, if
prog A (frame #0) called subprog B (frame #1) and we need to propagate
precision of, say, register R6 (callee-saved) within frame #0, we
actually don't even know where jump history that corresponds to prog
A even starts. We'd need to skip subprog part of jump history first to
be able to do this.

Luckily, with struct backtrack_state and __mark_chain_precision()
handling bitmasks tracking/propagation across all active frames at the
same time (added in previous patch), propagate_precision() can be both
fixed and sped up by setting all the necessary bits across all frames
and then performing one __mark_chain_precision() pass. This makes it
unnecessary to skip subprog parts of jump history.

We also improve logging along the way, to clearly specify which
registers' and slots' precision markings are propagated within which
frame. Each frame will have dedicated line and all registers and stack
slots from that frame will be reported in format similar to precision
backtrack regs/stack logging. E.g.:

frame 1: propagating r1,r2,r3,fp-8,fp-16
frame 0: propagating r3,r9,fp-120

Fixes: 529409ea

 ("bpf: propagate precision across all frames, not just the last one")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230505043317.3629845-7-andrii@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>