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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 03:10:08 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-19 03:10:08 +0000 |
commit | 5262a872f308b3b584c97d621992fb3877e392b8 (patch) | |
tree | b956c322376141abeafe639bd72cfecdf16954b5 /src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h | |
parent | Initial commit. (diff) | |
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Adding upstream version 5.6.1+really5.4.5.upstream/5.6.1+really5.4.5
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f34897d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +/** + * \file lzma/hardware.h + * \brief Hardware information + * \note Never include this file directly. Use <lzma.h> instead. + * + * Since liblzma can consume a lot of system resources, it also provides + * ways to limit the resource usage. Applications linking against liblzma + * need to do the actual decisions how much resources to let liblzma to use. + * To ease making these decisions, liblzma provides functions to find out + * the relevant capabilities of the underlying hardware. Currently there + * is only a function to find out the amount of RAM, but in the future there + * will be also a function to detect how many concurrent threads the system + * can run. + * + * \note On some operating systems, these function may temporarily + * load a shared library or open file descriptor(s) to find out + * the requested hardware information. Unless the application + * assumes that specific file descriptors are not touched by + * other threads, this should have no effect on thread safety. + * Possible operations involving file descriptors will restart + * the syscalls if they return EINTR. + */ + +/* + * Author: Lasse Collin + * + * This file has been put into the public domain. + * You can do whatever you want with this file. + */ + +#ifndef LZMA_H_INTERNAL +# error Never include this file directly. Use <lzma.h> instead. +#endif + + +/** + * \brief Get the total amount of physical memory (RAM) in bytes + * + * This function may be useful when determining a reasonable memory + * usage limit for decompressing or how much memory it is OK to use + * for compressing. + * + * \return On success, the total amount of physical memory in bytes + * is returned. If the amount of RAM cannot be determined, + * zero is returned. This can happen if an error occurs + * or if there is no code in liblzma to detect the amount + * of RAM on the specific operating system. + */ +extern LZMA_API(uint64_t) lzma_physmem(void) lzma_nothrow; + + +/** + * \brief Get the number of processor cores or threads + * + * This function may be useful when determining how many threads to use. + * If the hardware supports more than one thread per CPU core, the number + * of hardware threads is returned if that information is available. + * + * \return On success, the number of available CPU threads or cores is + * returned. If this information isn't available or an error + * occurs, zero is returned. + */ +extern LZMA_API(uint32_t) lzma_cputhreads(void) lzma_nothrow; |