jack-headers/thread.h

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/*
Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Davis
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
#ifndef __jack_thread_h__
#define __jack_thread_h__
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif
#include <jack/systemdeps.h>
#include <jack/weakmacros.h>
/* use 512KB stack per thread - the default is way too high to be feasible
* with mlockall() on many systems */
#define THREAD_STACK 524288
/** @file thread.h
*
* Library functions to standardize thread creation for JACK and its
* clients. These interfaces hide some system variations in the
* handling of realtime scheduling and associated privileges.
*/
/**
* @defgroup ClientThreads Creating and managing client threads
* @{
*/
/**
* @returns if JACK is running with realtime scheduling, this returns
* the priority that any JACK-created client threads will run at.
* Otherwise returns -1.
*/
int jack_client_real_time_priority (jack_client_t*) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
/**
* @returns if JACK is running with realtime scheduling, this returns
* the maximum priority that a JACK client thread should use if the thread
* is subject to realtime scheduling. Otherwise returns -1.
*/
int jack_client_max_real_time_priority (jack_client_t*) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
/**
* Attempt to enable realtime scheduling for a thread. On some
* systems that may require special privileges.
*
* @param thread POSIX thread ID.
* @param priority requested thread priority.
*
* @returns 0, if successful; EPERM, if the calling process lacks
* required realtime privileges; otherwise some other error number.
*/
int jack_acquire_real_time_scheduling (jack_native_thread_t thread, int priority) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
/**
* Create a thread for JACK or one of its clients. The thread is
* created executing @a start_routine with @a arg as its sole
* argument.
*
* @param client the JACK client for whom the thread is being created. May be
* NULL if the client is being created within the JACK server.
* @param thread place to return POSIX thread ID.
* @param priority thread priority, if realtime.
* @param realtime true for the thread to use realtime scheduling. On
* some systems that may require special privileges.
* @param start_routine function the thread calls when it starts.
* @param arg parameter passed to the @a start_routine.
*
* @returns 0, if successful; otherwise some error number.
*/
int jack_client_create_thread (jack_client_t* client,
jack_native_thread_t *thread,
int priority,
int realtime, /* boolean */
void *(*start_routine)(void*),
void *arg) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
/**
* Drop realtime scheduling for a thread.
*
* @param thread POSIX thread ID.
*
* @returns 0, if successful; otherwise an error number.
*/
int jack_drop_real_time_scheduling (jack_native_thread_t thread) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
/**
* Stop the thread, waiting for the thread handler to terminate.
*
* @param thread POSIX thread ID.
*
* @returns 0, if successful; otherwise an error number.
*/
int jack_client_stop_thread(jack_client_t* client, jack_native_thread_t thread) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
/**
* Kill the thread.
*
* @param thread POSIX thread ID.
*
* @returns 0, if successful; otherwise an error number.
*/
int jack_client_kill_thread(jack_client_t* client, jack_native_thread_t thread) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
#ifndef _WIN32
typedef int (*jack_thread_creator_t)(pthread_t*,
const pthread_attr_t*,
void* (*function)(void*),
void* arg);
/**
* This function can be used in very very specialized cases
* where it is necessary that client threads created by JACK
* are created by something other than pthread_create(). After
* it is used, any threads that JACK needs for the client will
* will be created by calling the function passed to this
* function.
*
* No normal application/client should consider calling this.
* The specific case for which it was created involves running
* win32/x86 plugins under Wine on Linux, where it is necessary
* that all threads that might call win32 functions are known
* to Wine.
*
* Set it to NULL to restore thread creation function.
*
* @param creator a function that creates a new thread
*
*/
void jack_set_thread_creator (jack_thread_creator_t creator) JACK_OPTIONAL_WEAK_EXPORT;
#endif
/**@}*/
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* __jack_thread_h__ */