BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1616677

Introduce separate functions for estimating how much can be read from
and written to the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit a6341f00)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>