Relevant to Wasmtime, this fixes undefined references to `utimensat` and
`futimens` on macOS 10.12 and earlier. See bytecodealliance/rustix#157
for details.
It also contains a fix for s390x which isn't currently needed by Wasmtime
itself, but which is needed to make rustix's own testsuite pass on s390x,
which helps people packaging rustix for use in Wasmtime. See
bytecodealliance/rustix#277 for details.
* Upgrade all crates to the Rust 2021 edition
I've personally started using the new format strings for things like
`panic!("some message {foo}")` or similar and have been upgrading crates
on a case-by-case basis, but I think it probably makes more sense to go
ahead and blanket upgrade everything so 2021 features are always
available.
* Fix compile of the C API
* Fix a warning
* Fix another warning
* Bump to 0.36.0
* Add a two-week delay to Wasmtime's release process
This commit is a proposal to update Wasmtime's release process with a
two-week delay from branching a release until it's actually officially
released. We've had two issues lately that came up which led to this proposal:
* In #3915 it was realized that changes just before the 0.35.0 release
weren't enough for an embedding use case, but the PR didn't meet the
expectations for a full patch release.
* At Fastly we were about to start rolling out a new version of Wasmtime
when over the weekend the fuzz bug #3951 was found. This led to the
desire internally to have a "must have been fuzzed for this long"
period of time for Wasmtime changes which we felt were better
reflected in the release process itself rather than something about
Fastly's own integration with Wasmtime.
This commit updates the automation for releases to unconditionally
create a `release-X.Y.Z` branch on the 5th of every month. The actual
release from this branch is then performed on the 20th of every month,
roughly two weeks later. This should provide a period of time to ensure
that all changes in a release are fuzzed for at least two weeks and
avoid any further surprises. This should also help with any last-minute
changes made just before a release if they need tweaking since
backporting to a not-yet-released branch is much easier.
Overall there are some new properties about Wasmtime with this proposal
as well:
* The `main` branch will always have a section in `RELEASES.md` which is
listed as "Unreleased" for us to fill out.
* The `main` branch will always be a version ahead of the latest
release. For example it will be bump pre-emptively as part of the
release process on the 5th where if `release-2.0.0` was created then
the `main` branch will have 3.0.0 Wasmtime.
* Dates for major versions are automatically updated in the
`RELEASES.md` notes.
The associated documentation for our release process is updated and the
various scripts should all be updated now as well with this commit.
* Add notes on a security patch
* Clarify security fixes shouldn't be previewed early on CI
* Remove duplicate `TypeTables` type
This was once needed historically but it is no longer needed.
* Make the internals of `TypeTables` private
Instead of reaching internally for the `wasm_signatures` map an `Index`
implementation now exists to indirect accesses through the type of the
index being accessed. For the component model this table of types will
grow a number of other tables and this'll assist in consuming sites not
having to worry so much about which map they're reaching into.
* Update to rustix 0.33.5, to fix a link error on Android
This updates to rustix 0.33.5, which includes bytecodealliance/rustix#258,
which fixes bytecodealliance/rustix#256, a link error on Android.
Fixes#3965.
* Bump the rustix versions in the Cargo.toml files too.
* Remove the module linking implementation in Wasmtime
This commit removes the experimental implementation of the module
linking WebAssembly proposal from Wasmtime. The module linking is no
longer intended for core WebAssembly but is instead incorporated into
the component model now at this point. This means that very large parts
of Wasmtime's implementation of module linking are no longer applicable
and would change greatly with an implementation of the component model.
The main purpose of this is to remove Wasmtime's reliance on the support
for module-linking in `wasmparser` and tooling crates. With this
reliance removed we can move over to the `component-model` branch of
`wasmparser` and use the updated support for the component model.
Additionally given the trajectory of the component model proposal the
embedding API of Wasmtime will not look like what it looks like today
for WebAssembly. For example the core wasm `Instance` will not change
and instead a `Component` is likely to be added instead.
Some more rationale for this is in #3941, but the basic idea is that I
feel that it's not going to be viable to develop support for the
component model on a non-`main` branch of Wasmtime. Additionaly I don't
think it's viable, for the same reasons as `wasm-tools`, to support the
old module linking proposal and the new component model at the same
time.
This commit takes a moment to not only delete the existing module
linking implementation but some abstractions are also simplified. For
example module serialization is a bit simpler that there's only one
module. Additionally instantiation is much simpler since the only
initializer we have to deal with are imports and nothing else.
Closes#3941
* Fix doc link
* Update comments
This commit exposes some various details and config options for having
finer-grain control over mlock-ing the memory of modules. This amounts
to three different changes being present in this commit:
* A new `Module::image_range` API is added to expose the range in host
memory of where the compiled image resides. This enables embedders to
make mlock-ing decisions independently of Wasmtime. Otherwise though
there's not too much useful that can be done with this range
information at this time.
* A new `Config::force_memory_init_memfd` option has been added. This
option is used to force the usage of `memfd_create` on Linux even when
the original module comes from a file on disk. With mlock-ing the main
purpose for Wasmtime is likely to be avoiding major page faults that
go back to disk, so this is another major source of avoiding page
faults by ensuring that the initialization contents of memory are
always in RAM.
* The `memory_images` field of a `Module` has gone back to being lazily
created on the first instantiation, effectively reverting #3914. This
enables embedders to defer the creation of the image to as late as
possible to allow modules to be created from precompiled images
without actually loading all the contents of the data segments from
disk immediately.
These changes are all somewhat low-level controls which aren't intended
to be generally used by embedders. If fine-grained control is desired
though it's hoped that these knobs provide what's necessary to be
achieved.
* fuzz: Fuzz padding between compiled functions
This commit hooks up the custom
`wasmtime_linkopt_padding_between_functions` configuration option to the
cranelift compiler into the fuzz configuration, enabling us to ensure
that randomly inserting a moderate amount of padding between functions
shouldn't tamper with any results.
* fuzz: Fuzz the `Config::generate_address_map` option
This commit adds fuzz configuration where `generate_address_map` is
either enabled or disabled, unlike how it's always enabled for fuzzing
today.
* Remove unnecessary handling of relocations
This commit removes a number of bits and pieces all related to handling
relocations in JIT code generated by Wasmtime. None of this is necessary
nowadays that the "old backend" has been removed (quite some time ago)
and relocations are no longer expected to be in the JIT code at all.
Additionally with the minimum x86_64 features required to run wasm code
it should be expected that no libcalls are required either for
Wasmtime-based JIT code.
* x64: enable VTune support by default
After significant work in the `ittapi-rs` crate, this dependency should
build without issue on Wasmtime's supported operating systems: Windows,
Linux, and macOS. The difference in the release binary is <20KB, so this
change makes `vtune` a default build feature. This change upgrades
`ittapi-rs` to v0.2.0 and updates the documentation.
* review: add configuration for defaults in more places
* review: remove OS conditional compilation, add architecture
* review: do not default vtune feature in wasmtime-jit
* Skip memfd creation with precompiled modules
This commit updates the memfd support internally to not actually use a
memfd if a compiled module originally came from disk via the
`wasmtime::Module::deserialize_file` API. In this situation we already
have a file descriptor open and there's no need to copy a module's heap
image to a new file descriptor.
To facilitate a new source of `mmap` the currently-memfd-specific-logic
of creating a heap image is generalized to a new form of
`MemoryInitialization` which is attempted for all modules at
module-compile-time. This means that the serialized artifact to disk
will have the memory image in its entirety waiting for us. Furthermore
the memory image is ensured to be padded and aligned carefully to the
target system's page size, notably meaning that the data section in the
final object file is page-aligned and the size of the data section is
also page aligned.
This means that when a precompiled module is mapped from disk we can
reuse the underlying `File` to mmap all initial memory images. This
means that the offset-within-the-memory-mapped-file can differ for
memfd-vs-not, but that's just another piece of state to track in the
memfd implementation.
In the limit this waters down the term "memfd" for this technique of
quickly initializing memory because we no longer use memfd
unconditionally (only when the backing file isn't available).
This does however open up an avenue in the future to porting this
support to other OSes because while `memfd_create` is Linux-specific
both macOS and Windows support mapping a file with copy-on-write. This
porting isn't done in this PR and is left for a future refactoring.
Closes#3758
* Enable "memfd" support on all unix systems
Cordon off the Linux-specific bits and enable the memfd support to
compile and run on platforms like macOS which have a Linux-like `mmap`.
This only works if a module is mapped from a precompiled module file on
disk, but that's better than not supporting it at all!
* Fix linux compile
* Use `Arc<File>` instead of `MmapVecFileBacking`
* Use a named struct instead of mysterious tuples
* Comment about unsafety in `Module::deserialize_file`
* Fix tests
* Fix uffd compile
* Always align data segments
No need to have conditional alignment since their sizes are all aligned
anyway
* Update comment in build.rs
* Use rustix, not `region`
* Fix some confusing logic/names around memory indexes
These functions all work with memory indexes, not specifically defined
memory indexes.
* Move function names out of `Module`
This commit moves function names in a module out of the
`wasmtime_environ::Module` type and into separate sections stored in the
final compiled artifact. Spurred on by #3787 to look at module load
times I noticed that a huge amount of time was spent in deserializing
this map. The `spidermonkey.wasm` file, for example, has a 3MB name
section which is a lot of unnecessary data to deserialize at module load
time.
The names of functions are now split out into their own dedicated
section of the compiled artifact and metadata about them is stored in a
more compact format at runtime by avoiding a `BTreeMap` and instead
using a sorted array. Overall this improves deserialize times by up to
80% for modules with large name sections since the name section is no
longer deserialized at load time and it's lazily paged in as names are
actually referenced.
* Fix a typo
* Fix compiled module determinism
Need to not only sort afterwards but also first to ensure the data of
the name section is consistent.
Following up on #3696, use the new is-terminal crate to test for a tty
rather than having platform-specific logic in Wasmtime. The is-terminal
crate has a platform-independent API which takes a handle.
This also updates the tree to cap-std 0.24 etc., to avoid depending on
multiple versions of io-lifetimes at once, as enforced by the cargo deny
check.
As first suggested by Jan on the Zulip here [1], a cheap and effective
way to obtain copy-on-write semantics of a "backing image" for a Wasm
memory is to mmap a file with `MAP_PRIVATE`. The `memfd` mechanism
provided by the Linux kernel allows us to create anonymous,
in-memory-only files that we can use for this mapping, so we can
construct the image contents on-the-fly then effectively create a CoW
overlay. Furthermore, and importantly, `madvise(MADV_DONTNEED, ...)`
will discard the CoW overlay, returning the mapping to its original
state.
By itself this is almost enough for a very fast
instantiation-termination loop of the same image over and over,
without changing the address space mapping at all (which is
expensive). The only missing bit is how to implement
heap *growth*. But here memfds can help us again: if we create another
anonymous file and map it where the extended parts of the heap would
go, we can take advantage of the fact that a `mmap()` mapping can
be *larger than the file itself*, with accesses beyond the end
generating a `SIGBUS`, and the fact that we can cheaply resize the
file with `ftruncate`, even after a mapping exists. So we can map the
"heap extension" file once with the maximum memory-slot size and grow
the memfd itself as `memory.grow` operations occur.
The above CoW technique and heap-growth technique together allow us a
fastpath of `madvise()` and `ftruncate()` only when we re-instantiate
the same module over and over, as long as we can reuse the same
slot. This fastpath avoids all whole-process address-space locks in
the Linux kernel, which should mean it is highly scalable. It also
avoids the cost of copying data on read, as the `uffd` heap backend
does when servicing pagefaults; the kernel's own optimized CoW
logic (same as used by all file mmaps) is used instead.
[1] https://bytecodealliance.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/206238-general/topic/Copy.20on.20write.20based.20instance.20reuse/near/266657772
`ptr::cast` has the advantage of being unable to silently cast
`*const T` to `*mut T`. This turned up several places that were
performing such casts, which this PR also fixes.
* Provide helpers for demangling function names
* Profile trampolines in vtune too
* get rid of mapping
* avoid code duplication with jitdump_linux
* maintain previous default display name for wasm functions
* no dash, grrr
* Remove unused profiling error type
Before this PR, each profiler (perf/vtune, at the moment) had to have a
demangler for each of the programming languages that could have been
compiled to wasm and fed into wasmtime. With this, wasmtime now
demangles names before even forwarding them to the underlying profiler,
which makes for a unified representation in profilers, and avoids
incorrect demangling in profilers.
This is unconditionally used on aarch64 and otherwise trying to manage
the precise clause for making it conditional vs unconditional probably
isn't worth it.
Closes#3672
This update is no real change in functionality but brings in several of
the latest changes to the `ittapi-rs` library: minor fixes to the C
library, a new license expression for the Cargo crate, better
documentation, updated Rust bindings, and the removal of `cmake` as a
dependency (uses `cc` directly instead).
While using VTune, it seemed a good idea to check that the VTune
documentation for Wasmtime was still correct. It is and VTune support
still works (improvements: click-through to x86 assembly is not
available). These changes simply re-organize the documentation and add a
section for running VTune from a GUI.
* Update to cap-std 0.22.0.
The main change relevant to Wasmtime here is that this includes the
rustix fix for compilation errors on Rust nightly with the `asm!` macro.
* Add itoa to deny.toml.
* Update the doc and fuzz builds to the latest Rust nightly.
* Update to libc 0.2.112 to pick up the `POLLRDHUP` fix.
* Update to cargo-fuzz 0.11, for compatibility with Rust nightly.
This appears to be the fix for rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz#277.
* Add a compilation section to disable address maps
This commit adds a new `Config::generate_address_map` compilation
setting which is used to disable emission of the `.wasmtime.addrmap`
section of compiled artifacts. This section is currently around the size
of the entire `.text` section itself unfortunately and for size reasons
may wish to be omitted. Functionality-wise all that is lost is knowing
the precise wasm module offset address of a faulting instruction or in a
backtrace of instructions. This also means that if the module has DWARF
debugging information available with it Wasmtime isn't able to produce a
filename and line number in the backtrace.
This option remains enabled by default. This option may not be needed in
the future with #3547 perhaps, but in the meantime it seems reasonable
enough to support a configuration mode where the section is entirely
omitted if the smallest module possible is desired.
* Fix some CI issues
* Update tests/all/traps.rs
Co-authored-by: Nick Fitzgerald <fitzgen@gmail.com>
* Do less work in compilation for address maps
But only when disabled
Co-authored-by: Nick Fitzgerald <fitzgen@gmail.com>
This pulls in a fix for Android, where Android's seccomp policy on older
versions is to make `openat2` irrecoverably crash the process, so we have
to do a version check up front rather than relying on `ENOSYS` to
determine if `openat2` is supported.
And it pulls in the fix for the link errors when multiple versions of
rsix/rustix are linked in.
And it has updates for two crate renamings: rsix has been renamed to
rustix, and unsafe-io has been renamed to io-extras.
* Adjust dependency directives between crates
This commit is a preparation for the release process for Wasmtime. The
specific changes here are to delineate which crates are "public", and
all version requirements on non-public crates will now be done with
`=A.B.C` version requirements instead of today's `A.B.C` version
requirements.
The purpose for doing this is to assist with patch releases that might
happen in the future. Patch releases of wasmtime are already required to
not break the APIs of "public" crates, but no such guarantee is given
about "internal" crates. This means that a patch release runs the risk,
for example, of breaking an internal API. In doing so though we would
also need to release a new major version of the internal crate, but we
wouldn't have a great hole in the number scheme of major versions to do
so. By using `=A.B.C` requirements for internal crates it means we can
safely ignore strict semver-compatibility between releases of internal
crates for patch releases, since the only consumers of the crate will be
the corresponding patch release of the `wasmtime` crate itself (or other
public crates).
The `publish.rs` script has been updated with a check to verify that
dependencies on internal crates are all specified with an `=`
dependency, and dependnecies on all public crates are without a `=`
dependency. This will hopefully make it so we don't have to worry about
what to use where, we just let CI tell us what to do. Using this
modification all version dependency declarations have been updated.
Note that some crates were adjusted to simply remove their `version`
requirement in cases such as the crate wasn't published anyway (`publish
= false` was specified) or it's in the `dev-dependencies` section which
doesn't need version specifiers for path dependencies.
* Switch to normal sever deps for cranelift dependencies
These crates will now all be considered "public" where in patch releases
they will be guaranteed to not have breaking changes.
* Update the spec reference testsuite submodule
This commit brings in recent updates to the spec test suite. Most of the
changes here were already fixed in `wasmparser` with some tweaks to
esoteric modules, but Wasmtime also gets a bug fix where where import
matching for the size of tables/memories is based on the current runtime
size of the table/memory rather than the original type of the
table/memory. This means that during type matching the actual value is
consulted for its size rather than using the minimum size listed in its
type.
* Fix now-missing directories in build script
Some platforms such as AArch64 Linux support different memory page
sizes, so we need to be conservative when choosing the code section
alignment (which is equal to the page size) by using the maximum.
Copyright (c) 2021, Arm Limited.
* Load generated trampolines into jitdump when profiling
This commit updates the jitdump profiler to generate JIT profiling
records for generated trampolines in a wasm module in addition to the
functions already in a module. It's also updated to learn about
trampolines generated via `Func::new` and friends. These trampolines
were all not previously registered meaning that stack traces with these
pc values would be confusing to see in the profile output. While the
names aren't the best it should at least be more clear than before if a
function is hot!
* Fix more builds
* Use rsix to make system calls in Wasmtime.
`rsix` is a system call wrapper crate that we use in `wasi-common`,
which can provide the following advantages in the rest of Wasmtime:
- It eliminates some `unsafe` blocks in Wasmtime's code. There's
still an `unsafe` block in the library, but this way, the `unsafe`
is factored out and clearly scoped.
- And, it makes error handling more consistent, factoring out code for
checking return values and `io::Error::last_os_error()`, and code that
does `errno::set_errno(0)`.
This doesn't cover *all* system calls; `rsix` doesn't implement
signal-handling APIs, and this doesn't cover calls made through `std` or
crates like `userfaultfd`, `rand`, and `region`.
When debug info was enabled, we would put the debug info sections in between the
text section and the unwind info section. But the unwind info is encoded in a
position-independent manner (so that we don't need relocs for it) that relies on
it directly following the text section. The result of the misplacement was some
crashes inside the unwinder.
We were previously using `_wasmtime_eh_frame` but there is no good reason to
add the prefix Wasmtime-specific prefix. Using the standard name allows for
better inspection with standard tools like `dwarfdump`.
* Use relative `call` instructions between wasm functions
This commit is a relatively major change to the way that Wasmtime
generates code for Wasm modules and how functions call each other.
Prior to this commit all function calls between functions, even if they
were defined in the same module, were done indirectly through a
register. To implement this the backend would emit an absolute 8-byte
relocation near all function calls, load that address into a register,
and then call it. While this technique is simple to implement and easy
to get right, it has two primary downsides associated with it:
* Function calls are always indirect which means they are more difficult
to predict, resulting in worse performance.
* Generating a relocation-per-function call requires expensive
relocation resolution at module-load time, which can be a large
contributing factor to how long it takes to load a precompiled module.
To fix these issues, while also somewhat compromising on the previously
simple implementation technique, this commit switches wasm calls within
a module to using the `colocated` flag enabled in Cranelift-speak, which
basically means that a relative call instruction is used with a
relocation that's resolved relative to the pc of the call instruction
itself.
When switching the `colocated` flag to `true` this commit is also then
able to move much of the relocation resolution from `wasmtime_jit::link`
into `wasmtime_cranelift::obj` during object-construction time. This
frontloads all relocation work which means that there's actually no
relocations related to function calls in the final image, solving both
of our points above.
The main gotcha in implementing this technique is that there are
hardware limitations to relative function calls which mean we can't
simply blindly use them. AArch64, for example, can only go +/- 64 MB
from the `bl` instruction to the target, which means that if the
function we're calling is a greater distance away then we would fail to
resolve that relocation. On x86_64 the limits are +/- 2GB which are much
larger, but theoretically still feasible to hit. Consequently the main
increase in implementation complexity is fixing this issue.
This issue is actually already present in Cranelift itself, and is
internally one of the invariants handled by the `MachBuffer` type. When
generating a function relative jumps between basic blocks have similar
restrictions. This commit adds new methods for the `MachBackend` trait
and updates the implementation of `MachBuffer` to account for all these
new branches. Specifically the changes to `MachBuffer` are:
* For AAarch64 the `LabelUse::Branch26` value now supports veneers, and
AArch64 calls use this to resolve relocations.
* The `emit_island` function has been rewritten internally to handle
some cases which previously didn't come up before, such as:
* When emitting an island the deadline is now recalculated, where
previously it was always set to infinitely in the future. This was ok
prior since only a `Branch19` supported veneers and once it was
promoted no veneers were supported, so without multiple layers of
promotion the lack of a new deadline was ok.
* When emitting an island all pending fixups had veneers forced if
their branch target wasn't known yet. This was generally ok for
19-bit fixups since the only kind getting a veneer was a 19-bit
fixup, but with mixed kinds it's a bit odd to force veneers for a
26-bit fixup just because a nearby 19-bit fixup needed a veneer.
Instead fixups are now re-enqueued unless they're known to be
out-of-bounds. This may run the risk of generating more islands for
19-bit branches but it should also reduce the number of islands for
between-function calls.
* Otherwise the internal logic was tweaked to ideally be a bit more
simple, but that's a pretty subjective criteria in compilers...
I've added some simple testing of this for now. A synthetic compiler
option was create to simply add padded 0s between functions and test
cases implement various forms of calls that at least need veneers. A
test is also included for x86_64, but it is unfortunately pretty slow
because it requires generating 2GB of output. I'm hoping for now it's
not too bad, but we can disable the test if it's prohibitive and
otherwise just comment the necessary portions to be sure to run the
ignored test if these parts of the code have changed.
The final end-result of this commit is that for a large module I'm
working with the number of relocations dropped to zero, meaning that
nothing actually needs to be done to the text section when it's loaded
into memory (yay!). I haven't run final benchmarks yet but this is the
last remaining source of significant slowdown when loading modules,
after I land a number of other PRs both active and ones that I only have
locally for now.
* Fix arm32
* Review comments
* Add a `Module::deserialize_file` method
This commit adds a new method to the `wasmtime::Module` type,
`deserialize_file`. This is intended to be the same as the `deserialize`
method except for the serialized module is present as an on-disk file.
This enables Wasmtime to internally use `mmap` to avoid copying bytes
around and generally makes loading a module much faster.
A C API is added in this commit as well for various bindings to use this
accelerated path now as well. Another option perhaps for a Rust-based
API is to have an API taking a `File` itself to allow for a custom file
descriptor in one way or another, but for now that's left for a possible
future refactoring if we find a use case.
* Fix compat with main - handle readdonly mmap
* wip
* Try to fix Windows support
* Don't copy executable code into a `CodeMemory`
This commit moves a copy from compiled artifacts into a `CodeMemory`. In
general this commit drastically changes the meaning of a `CodeMemory`.
Previously it was an iteratively-pushed-on structure that would
accumulate executable code over time. Afterwards, however, it's a
manager for an `MmapVec` which updates the permissions on text section
to ensure that the pages are executable.
By taking ownership of an `MmapVec` within a `CodeMemory` there's no
need to copy any data around, which means that the `.text` section in
the ELF image produced by Wasmtime is usable as-is after placement in
memory and relocations have been resolved. This moves Wasmtime one step
closer to being able to directly use a module after it's `mmap`'d into
memory, optimizing when a module is loaded.
* Fix windows section alignment
* Review comments
Similar functionality to `scroll` is provided with the `object` crate
and doesn't have a `*_derive` crate to go with it. This commit updates
the jitdump linux support to use `object` instead of `scroll` to achieve
the needs of writing structs-as-bytes onto disk.
* Remove some allocations in `CodeMemory`
This commit removes the `FinishedFunctions` type as well as allocations
associated with trampolines when allocating inside of a `CodeMemory`.
The main goal of this commit is to improve the time spent in
`CodeMemory` where currently today a good portion of time is spent
simply parsing symbol names and trying to extract function indices from
them. Instead this commit implements a new strategy (different from #3236)
where compilation records offset/length information for all
functions/trampolines so this doesn't need to be re-learned from the
object file later.
A consequence of this commit is that this offset information will be
decoded/encoded through `bincode` unconditionally, but we can also
optimize that later if necessary as well.
Internally this involved quite a bit of refactoring since the previous
map for `FinishedFunctions` was relatively heavily relied upon.
* comments
* Use an mmap-friendly serialization format
This commit reimplements the main serialization format for Wasmtime's
precompiled artifacts. Previously they were generally a binary blob of
`bincode`-encoded metadata prefixed with some versioning information.
The downside of this format, though, is that loading a precompiled
artifact required pushing all information through `bincode`. This is
inefficient when some data, such as trap/address tables, are rarely
accessed.
The new format added in this commit is one which is designed to be
`mmap`-friendly. This means that the relevant parts of the precompiled
artifact are already page-aligned for updating permissions of pieces
here and there. Additionally the artifact is optimized so that if data
is rarely read then we can delay reading it until necessary.
The new artifact format for serialized modules is an ELF file. This is
not a public API guarantee, so it cannot be relied upon. In the meantime
though this is quite useful for exploring precompiled modules with
standard tooling like `objdump`. The ELF file is already constructed as
part of module compilation, and this is the main contents of the
serialized artifact.
THere is some extra information, though, not encoded in each module's
individual ELF file such as type information. This information continues
to be `bincode`-encoded, but it's intended to be much smaller and much
faster to deserialize. This extra information is appended to the end of
the ELF file. This means that the original ELF file is still a valid ELF
file, we just get to have extra bits at the end. More information on the
new format can be found in the module docs of the serialization module
of Wasmtime.
Another refatoring implemented as part of this commit is to deserialize
and store object files directly in `mmap`-backed storage. This avoids
the need to copy bytes after the artifact is loaded into memory for each
compiled module, and in a future commit it opens up the door to avoiding
copying the text section into a `CodeMemory`. For now, though, the main
change is that copies are not necessary when loading from a precompiled
compilation artifact once the artifact is itself in mmap-based memory.
To assist with managing `mmap`-based memory a new `MmapVec` type was
added to `wasmtime_jit` which acts as a form of `Vec<T>` backed by a
`wasmtime_runtime::Mmap`. This type notably supports `drain(..N)` to
slice the buffer into disjoint regions that are all separately owned,
such as having a separately owned window into one artifact for all
object files contained within.
Finally this commit implements a small refactoring in `wasmtime-cache`
to use the standard artifact format for cache entries rather than a
bincode-encoded version. This required some more hooks for
serializing/deserializing but otherwise the crate still performs as
before.
* Review comments
This commit moves the `traps` field of `FunctionInfo` into a section of
the compiled artifact produced by Cranelift. This section is quite large
and when previously encoded/decoded with `bincode` this can take quite
some time to process. Traps are expected to be relatively rare and it's
not necessarily the right tradeoff to spend so much time
serializing/deserializing this data, so this commit offloads the section
into a custom-encoded binary format located elsewhere in the compiled image.
This is similar to #3240 in its goal which is to move very large pieces
of metadata to their own sections to avoid decoding anything when we
load a precompiled modules. This also has a small benefit that it's
slightly more efficient storage for the trap information too, but that's
a negligible benefit.
This is part of #3230 to make loading modules fast.
