1 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 * (c) The GHC Team, 2001
7 * The notion of a capability is used when operating in multi-threaded
8 * environments (which the SMP and Threads builds of the RTS do), to
9 * hold all the state an OS thread/task needs to run Haskell code:
10 * its STG registers, a pointer to its TSO, a nursery etc. During
11 * STG execution, a pointer to the capabilitity is kept in a
14 * Only in an SMP build will there be multiple capabilities, the threaded
15 * RTS and other non-threaded builds, there is one global capability,
16 * namely MainRegTable.
18 * This header file contains the functions for working with capabilities.
19 * (the main, and only, consumer of this interface is the scheduler).
21 * --------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
22 #ifndef __CAPABILITY_H__
23 #define __CAPABILITY_H__
25 /* ToDo: assume that RtsFlags.h has been included at usage sites of Capability.h? */
27 extern void initCapability(Capability* cap);
29 extern nat rts_n_free_capabilities; /* total number of available capabilities */
31 static inline nat getFreeCapabilities()
33 return rts_n_free_capabilities;
36 static inline rtsBool noFreeCapabilities()
38 return (rts_n_free_capabilities == 0);
41 static inline rtsBool allFreeCapabilities()
43 return (rts_n_free_capabilities == RtsFlags.ParFlags.nNodes);
46 extern void initCapabilities(nat n);
47 extern void grabCapability(Capability** cap);
48 extern void releaseCapability(Capability** cap);
51 #endif /* __CAPABILITY_H__ */