diff --git a/src/liblzma/Makefile.am b/src/liblzma/Makefile.am
index 6d5753b1..a4d2c1e6 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/liblzma/Makefile.am
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CLEANFILES =
 doc_DATA =
 
 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liblzma.la
-liblzma_la_SOURCES =
+liblzma_la_SOURCES = $(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_physmem.c
 liblzma_la_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/liblzma/api \
 	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/liblzma/common \
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ liblzma_la_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/liblzma/subblock \
 	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/liblzma/delta \
 	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/liblzma/simple \
-	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/common
+	-I$(top_srcdir)/src/common \
+	-DTUKLIB_SYMBOL_PREFIX=lzma_
 liblzma_la_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info 0:0:0
 
 include $(srcdir)/common/Makefile.inc
diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/Makefile.am b/src/liblzma/api/Makefile.am
index 0992d221..4536b0ac 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/api/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/liblzma/api/Makefile.am
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ nobase_include_HEADERS = \
 	lzma/container.h \
 	lzma/delta.h \
 	lzma/filter.h \
+	lzma/hardware.h \
 	lzma/index.h \
 	lzma/index_hash.h \
 	lzma/lzma.h \
diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h
index dab29636..f5ab30d1 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h
+++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ extern "C" {
 #include "lzma/index.h"
 #include "lzma/index_hash.h"
 
+/* Hardware information */
+#include "lzma/hardware.h"
+
 /*
  * All subheaders included. Undefine LZMA_H_INTERNAL to prevent applications
  * re-including the subheaders.
diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f44cb602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma/hardware.h
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/**
+ * \file        lzma/hardware.h
+ * \brief       Hardware information
+ *
+ * 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 underlaying 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.
+ *
+ * See ../lzma.h for information about liblzma as a whole.
+ */
+
+#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. For example, the default limit used by the xz
+ * command line tool is 40 % of RAM.
+ *
+ * \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;
diff --git a/src/liblzma/common/Makefile.inc b/src/liblzma/common/Makefile.inc
index aaaeee93..29f43ff1 100644
--- a/src/liblzma/common/Makefile.inc
+++ b/src/liblzma/common/Makefile.inc
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ liblzma_la_SOURCES += \
 	common/easy_preset.h \
 	common/filter_common.c \
 	common/filter_common.h \
+	common/hardware_physmem.c \
 	common/index.c \
 	common/index.h \
 	common/stream_flags_common.c \
diff --git a/src/liblzma/common/hardware_physmem.c b/src/liblzma/common/hardware_physmem.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7405b658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/liblzma/common/hardware_physmem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//
+/// \file       hardware_physmem.c
+/// \brief      Get the total amount of physical memory (RAM)
+//
+//  Author:     Jonathan Nieder
+//
+//  This file has been put into the public domain.
+//  You can do whatever you want with this file.
+//
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+#include "common.h"
+
+#include "tuklib_physmem.h"
+
+
+extern LZMA_API(uint64_t)
+lzma_physmem(void)
+{
+	// It is simpler to make lzma_physmem() a wrapper for
+	// tuklib_physmem() than to hack appropriate symbol visiblity
+	// support for the tuklib modules.
+	return tuklib_physmem();
+}
diff --git a/src/xz/Makefile.am b/src/xz/Makefile.am
index cc617053..08ac236f 100644
--- a/src/xz/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/xz/Makefile.am
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ xz_SOURCES = \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_open_stdxxx.c \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_progname.c \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_exit.c \
-	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_physmem.c \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_cpucores.c
 
 if COND_W32
diff --git a/src/xz/hardware.c b/src/xz/hardware.c
index d5f4b9b4..d91b4cee 100644
--- a/src/xz/hardware.c
+++ b/src/xz/hardware.c
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 #include "private.h"
-#include "tuklib_physmem.h"
 #include "tuklib_cpucores.h"
 
 
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ hardware_memlimit_set_percentage(uint32_t percentage)
 	assert(percentage > 0);
 	assert(percentage <= 100);
 
-	uint64_t mem = tuklib_physmem();
+	uint64_t mem = lzma_physmem();
 
 	// If we cannot determine the amount of RAM, use the assumption
 	// defined by the configure script.
diff --git a/src/xzdec/Makefile.am b/src/xzdec/Makefile.am
index 9a1b4342..ad487721 100644
--- a/src/xzdec/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/xzdec/Makefile.am
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ bin_PROGRAMS = xzdec lzmadec
 xzdec_SOURCES = \
 	xzdec.c \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_progname.c \
-	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_exit.c \
-	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_physmem.c
+	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_exit.c
 
 if COND_W32
 xzdec_SOURCES += xzdec_w32res.rc
@@ -43,8 +42,7 @@ xzdec_LDADD += $(LTLIBINTL)
 lzmadec_SOURCES = \
 	xzdec.c \
 	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_progname.c \
-	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_exit.c \
-	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_physmem.c
+	$(top_srcdir)/src/common/tuklib_exit.c
 
 if COND_W32
 lzmadec_SOURCES += lzmadec_w32res.rc
diff --git a/src/xzdec/xzdec.c b/src/xzdec/xzdec.c
index 4f40f1d6..0abccebb 100644
--- a/src/xzdec/xzdec.c
+++ b/src/xzdec/xzdec.c
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 #include "getopt.h"
 #include "tuklib_progname.h"
 #include "tuklib_exit.h"
-#include "tuklib_physmem.h"
 
 #ifdef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
 #	include <fcntl.h>
@@ -104,7 +103,7 @@ version(void)
 static void
 memlimit_set_percentage(uint32_t percentage)
 {
-	uint64_t mem = tuklib_physmem();
+	uint64_t mem = lzma_physmem();
 
 	// If we cannot determine the amount of RAM, use the assumption
 	// set by the configure script.