fs/pipe: add simpler helpers for common casesHEADmaster

The fix to atomically read the pipe head and tail state when not holding
the pipe mutex has caused a number of headaches due to the size change
of the involved types.

It turns out that we don't have _that_ many places that access these
fields directly and were affected, but we have more than we strictly
should have, because our low-level helper functions have been designed
to have intimate knowledge of how the pipes work.

And as a result, that random noise of direct 'pipe->head' and
'pipe->tail' accesses makes it harder to pinpoint any actual potential
problem spots remaining.

For example, we didn't have a "is the pipe full" helper function, but
instead had a "given these pipe buffer indexes and this pipe size, is
the pipe full".  That's because some low-level pipe code does actually
want that much more complicated interface.

But most other places literally just want a "is the pipe full" helper,
and not having it meant that those places ended up being unnecessarily
much too aware of this all.

It would have been much better if only the very core pipe code that
cared had been the one aware of this all.

So let's fix it - better late than never.  This just introduces the
trivial wrappers for "is this pipe full or empty" and to get how many
pipe buffers are used, so that instead of writing

        if (pipe_full(pipe->head, pipe->tail, pipe->max_usage))

the places that literally just want to know if a pipe is full can just
say

        if (pipe_is_full(pipe))

instead.  The existing trivial cases were converted with a 'sed' script.

This cuts down on the places that access pipe->head and pipe->tail
directly outside of the pipe code (and core splice code) quite a lot.

The splice code in particular still revels in doing the direct low-level
accesses, and the fuse fuse_dev_splice_write() code also seems a bit
unnecessarily eager to go very low-level, but it's at least a bit better
than it used to be.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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