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+// Copyright 2024 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+package metrics
+
+// The hostinfo* files contain code to extract host information from
+// /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/meminfo relevant to machine performance
+
+import (
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// CpuInfo holds information regarding the host's CPU cores.
+type CpuInfo struct {
+	// The vendor id
+	VendorId string
+
+	// The model name
+	ModelName string
+
+	// The number of CPU cores
+	CpuCores int32
+
+	// The CPU flags
+	Flags string
+}
+
+// MemInfo holds information regarding the host's memory.
+// The memory size in each of the field is in bytes.
+type MemInfo struct {
+	// The total memory.
+	MemTotal uint64
+
+	// The amount of free memory.
+	MemFree uint64
+
+	// The amount of available memory.
+	MemAvailable uint64
+}
+
+// fillCpuInfo takes the key and value, converts the value
+// to the proper size unit and is stores it in CpuInfo.
+func (c *CpuInfo) fillInfo(key, value string) {
+	switch key {
+	case "vendor_id":
+		c.VendorId = value
+	case "model name":
+		c.ModelName = value
+	case "cpu cores":
+		v, err := strconv.ParseInt(value, 10, 32)
+		if err == nil {
+			c.CpuCores = int32(v)
+		}
+	case "flags":
+		c.Flags = value
+	default:
+		// Ignore unknown keys
+	}
+}
+
+// fillCpuInfo takes the key and value, converts the value
+// to the proper size unit and is stores it in CpuInfo.
+func (m *MemInfo) fillInfo(key, value string) {
+	v := strToUint64(value)
+	switch key {
+	case "MemTotal":
+		m.MemTotal = v
+	case "MemFree":
+		m.MemFree = v
+	case "MemAvailable":
+		m.MemAvailable = v
+	default:
+		// Ignore unknown keys
+	}
+}
+
+// strToUint64 takes the string and converts to unsigned 64-bit integer.
+// If the string contains a memory unit such as kB and is converted to
+// bytes.
+func strToUint64(v string) uint64 {
+	// v could be "1024 kB" so scan for the empty space and
+	// split between the value and the unit.
+	var separatorIndex int
+	if separatorIndex = strings.IndexAny(v, " "); separatorIndex < 0 {
+		separatorIndex = len(v)
+	}
+	value, err := strconv.ParseUint(v[:separatorIndex], 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+
+	var scale uint64 = 1
+	switch strings.TrimSpace(v[separatorIndex:]) {
+	case "kB", "KB":
+		scale = 1024
+	case "mB", "MB":
+		scale = 1024 * 1024
+	}
+	return value * scale
+}