Summary:
For now I have only added support for x86_64 Linux, but other systems
can be added incrementally.
This is to be used for setting the default parallelism for ThinLTO
backends (instead of thread::hardware_concurrency which includes
hyperthreading and is too aggressive). I'll send this as a follow-on
patch, and it will fall back to hardware_concurrency when the new
getHostNumPhysicalCores returns -1 (when not supported for a given
host system).
I also added an interface to MemoryBuffer to force reading a file
as a stream - this is required for /proc/cpuinfo which is a special
file that looks like a normal file but appears to have 0 size.
The existing readers of this file in Host.cpp are reading the first
1024 or so bytes from it, because the necessary info is near the top.
But for the new functionality we need to be able to read the entire
file. I can go back and change the other readers to use the new
getFileAsStream as a follow-on patch since it seems much more robust.
Added a unittest.
Reviewers: mehdi_amini
Subscribers: beanz, mgorny, llvm-commits, modocache
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D25564
llvm-svn: 284138
Mehdi Amini