Fix: ring buffer: handle concurrent update in nested buffer wrap around check
With stress-test loads that trigger sub-buffer switch very frequently
(small 4kB sub-buffers, frequent flush) in lttng-modules, we currently
observe this kind of warnings once every few minutes:
[65335.896208] ring buffer relay-overwrite-mmap, cpu 5: records were lost. Caused by:
[65335.896208] [ 0 buffer full, 1 nest buffer wrap-around, 0 event too big ]
It appears that the check for nested buffer wrap-around does not take
into account that a concurrent execution contexts (either nested for
per-cpu buffers, or from another CPU or nested for global buffers) can
update the commit_count value concurrently.
What we really want to do with this check is to ensure that if we enter
a sub-buffer that had an unbalanced reserve/commit count, assuming there
is no hope that this gets rebalanced promptly, we detect this and drop
the current event. However, in the case where the commit counter has
been concurrently updated by another reserve or a switch, we want to
retry the entire reserve operation.
One way to detect this is to sample the reserve offset twice, around the
commit counter read, along with the appropriate memory barriers.
Therefore, we can detect if the mismatch between reserve and commit
counter is actually caused by a concurrent update, which necessarily has
updated the reserve counter.
lib_ring_buffer_write() could be passed a length of 0. This typically
has no side-effect as far as writing into the buffers is concerned,
except for one detail: in overwrite mode, there is a check to make sure
the sub-buffer can be written into. This check is performed even if
length is 0. In the case where this would fall exactly at the end of a
sub-buffer, the check would fail, because the offset would fall exactly
at the beginning of the next sub-buffer.
