The ring to applet communication was only made to deal with CLI functions
but it's generic. Let's have generic appctx functions and have the CLI
rely on these instead. This patch introduces ring_attach_appctx() and
ring_detach_appctx().
A few fields, including a generic list entry, were added to the CLI context
by commit 300decc8d9 ("MINOR: cli: extend the CLI context with a list and
two offsets"). It turns out that the list entry (l0) is solely used to
consult rings and that the generic ring_write() code is restricted to a
consumer on the CLI due to this, which was not the initial intent. Let's
make it a general purpose wait_entry field that is properly initialized
during appctx_init(). This will allow any applet to wait on a ring, not
just the CLI.
The LIST_ADDQ() and LIST_DEL_INIT() calls made to attach/detach a waiter
to the ring were made under a read lock which was sufficient in front of
the writer's write lock. But it's not sufficient against other readers!
Thus theorically multiple "show events" on the same ring buffer on the
CLI could result in a crash, even though for now I couldn't manage to
reproduce it.
This fixes commit 1d181e489c ("MEDIUM: ring: implement a wait mode for
watchers") so it must be backported to 2.1, possibly further if the ring
code gets backported.
ring_attach_cli() is called by the keyword parsing function to dump a
ring to the CLI. It can only work with a specific handler and release
function. Let's make it set them appropriately instead of having the
caller know these functions. This way adding a command to dump a ring
is as simple as declaring a parsing function calling ring_attach_cli().
Now it is possible for a reader to subscribe and wait for new events
sent to a ring buffer. When new events are written to a ring buffer,
the applets that are subscribed are woken up to display new events.
For now we only support this with the CLI applet called by "show events"
since the I/O handler is indeed a CLI I/O handler. But it's not
complicated to add other mechanisms to consume events and forward them
to external log servers for example. The wait mode is enabled by adding
"-w" after "show events <sink>". An extra "-n" was added to directly
seek to new events only.
There are two problems with the way we count watchers on a ring:
- the test for >=255 was accidently kept to 1 used during QA
- if the producer deletes all data up to the reader's position
and the reader is called, cannot write, and is called again,
it will have a zero offset, causing it to initialize itself
multiple times and each time adding a new refcount.
Let's change this and instead use ~0 as the initial offset as it's
not possible to have it as a valid one. We now store it into the
CLI context's size_t o0 instead of casting it to a void*.
No backport needed.
The three functions (attach, IO handler, and release) are meant to be
called by any CLI command which requires to dump the contents of a ring
buffer. We do not implement anything generic to dump any ring buffer on
the CLI since it's meant to be used by other functionalities above.
However these functions deal with locking and everything so it's trivial
to embed them in other code.
This function tries to write to the ring buffer, possibly removing enough
old messages to make room for the new one. It takes two arrays of fragments
on input to ease the insertion of prefixes by the caller. It atomically
writes the message, possibly truncating it if desired, and returns the
operation's status.
Our circular buffers are well suited for being used as ring buffers for
not-so-structured data. The machanism here consists in making room in a
buffer before inserting a new record which is prefixed by its size, and
looking up next record based on the previous one's offset and size. We
can have up to 255 consumers watching for data (dump in progress, tail)
which guarantee that entrees are not recycled while they're being dumped.
The complete representation is described in the header file. For now only
ring_new(), ring_resize() and ring_free() are created.
