When using relay mechanism, we often encounter the case where new data are
lost or old unconsumed data are overwritten because of slow reader.
Add 'full' field in per-cpu buffer structure to detect if the above case
is happening. Relay has two modes: 1) non-overwrite mode, 2) overwrite
mode. So buffer being full here respectively means: 1) relayfs doesn't
intend to accept new data and then simply drop them, or 2) relayfs is
going to start over again and overwrite old unread data with new data.
Note: this counter doesn't need any explicit lock to protect from being
modified by different threads for the better performance consideration.
Writers calling __relay_write/relay_write should consider how to use the
lock and ensure it performs under the lock protection, thus it's not
necessary to add a new small lock here.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250612061201.34272-3-kerneljasonxing@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Yushan Zhou <katrinzhou@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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