* 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of Wasmtime's implementation of module linking are no longer applicable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
* Add `*_unchecked` variants of `Func` APIs for the C API
This commit is what is hopefully going to be my last installment within
the saga of optimizing function calls in/out of WebAssembly modules in
the C API. This is yet another alternative approach to #3345 (sorry) but
also contains everything necessary to make the C API fast. As in #3345
the general idea is just moving checks out of the call path in the same
style of `TypedFunc`.
This new strategy takes inspiration from previously learned attempts
effectively "just" exposes how we previously passed `*mut u128` through
trampolines for arguments/results. This storage format is formalized
through a new `ValRaw` union that is exposed from the `wasmtime` crate.
By doing this it made it relatively easy to expose two new APIs:
* `Func::new_unchecked`
* `Func::call_unchecked`
These are the same as their checked equivalents except that they're
`unsafe` and they work with `*mut ValRaw` rather than safe slices of
`Val`. Working with these eschews type checks and such and requires
callers/embedders to do the right thing.
These two new functions are then exposed via the C API with new
functions, enabling C to have a fast-path of calling/defining functions.
This fast path is akin to `Func::wrap` in Rust, although that API can't
be built in C due to C not having generics in the same way that Rust
has.
For some benchmarks, the benchmarks here are:
* `nop` - Call a wasm function from the host that does nothing and
returns nothing.
* `i64` - Call a wasm function from the host, the wasm function calls a
host function, and the host function returns an `i64` all the way out to
the original caller.
* `many` - Call a wasm function from the host, the wasm calls
host function with 5 `i32` parameters, and then an `i64` result is
returned back to the original host
* `i64` host - just the overhead of the wasm calling the host, so the
wasm calls the host function in a loop.
* `many` host - same as `i64` host, but calling the `many` host function.
All numbers in this table are in nanoseconds, and this is just one
measurement as well so there's bound to be some variation in the precise
numbers here.
| Name | Rust | C (before) | C (after) |
|-----------|------|------------|-----------|
| nop | 19 | 112 | 25 |
| i64 | 22 | 207 | 32 |
| many | 27 | 189 | 34 |
| i64 host | 2 | 38 | 5 |
| many host | 7 | 75 | 8 |
The main conclusion here is that the C API is significantly faster than
before when using the `*_unchecked` variants of APIs. The Rust
implementation is still the ceiling (or floor I guess?) for performance
The main reason that C is slower than Rust is that a little bit more has
to travel through memory where on the Rust side of things we can
monomorphize and inline a bit more to get rid of that. Overall though
the costs are way way down from where they were originally and I don't
plan on doing a whole lot more myself at this time. There's various
things we theoretically could do I've considered but implementation-wise
I think they'll be much more weighty.
* Tweak `wasmtime_externref_t` API comments
This exposes the functionality of the `Linker` type where a
store-independent function can be created and inserted, allowing a
linker's functions to be used across many stores (instead of requiring
one linker-per-store).
Closes#3110
Implement Wasmtime's new API as designed by RFC 11. This is quite a large commit which has had lots of discussion externally, so for more information it's best to read the RFC thread and the PR thread.
* Update the C API with module linking support
This commit does everything necessary (ideally) to support the module
linking proposal in the C API. The changes here are:
* New `wasm_{module,instance}type_t` types and accessors
* New `wasm_{module,instance}_type` functions
* Conversions between `wasm_extern_t` and `wasm_{instance,module}_t`, as
well as `wasm_externtype_t` and the new types.
* Addition of `WASM_EXTERN_{MODULE,INSTANCE}` constants
* New `wasm_config_t` modifier to enable/disable module linking
With these functions it should be possible to pass instances/modules to
instances and also acquire them from exports. Altogether this should
enable everything for module linking.
An important point for this is that I've opted to add all these items
under the `wasm_*` name prefix instead of `wasmtime_*`. I've done this
since they're all following the idioms of existing APIs and while not
standard the intention would be to standardize them (unlike many other
Wasmtime-specific APIs).
cc #2094
* Appease doxygen
With the module linking proposal the field name on imports is now
optional, and only the module is required to be specified. This commit
propagates this API change to the boundary of wasmtime's API, ensuring
consumers are aware of what's optional with module linking and what
isn't. Note that it's expected that all existing users will either
update accordingly or unwrap the result since module linking is
presumably disabled.
This commit removes `HostRef<T>` from the C API which only served the
purpose now of converting each type to a `wasm_ref_t*`. Our
implementation, however, does not guarantee that you'll get the same
`wasm_ref_t*` for each actual underlying item (e.g. if you put a func in
a table and then get the func as an export and from the table then
`same` will report `false`). Additionally the fate of `wasm_ref_t*`
seems somewhat unclear at this point.
The change here is to make the `same` and cast functions all abort
saying they're unimplemented. (similar to the host info functions). If
and when we get around to reimplementing these functions we can ensure
they're implemented uniformly and work well for all intended use cases.
Better to be loud that we don't support attaching arbitrary host info to
`externref`s than to limp along and pretend we do support it. Supporting it
properly won't reuse any of this code anyways.
* C API: expose wasmtime_linker_get_one_by_name()
* C API: remove unnecessary 'unsafe' qualifiers
* C API: avoid unnecessary mutable borrows of the Linker
It isn't used by anything except for the C API and all of our embedder-exposed
APIs are already internally `Rc`-based, so it doesn't make sense to use with
them.
This is enough to get an `externref -> externref` identity function
passing.
However, `externref`s that are dropped by compiled Wasm code are (safely)
leaked. Follow up work will leverage cranelift's stack maps to resolve this
issue.
* Reactor support.
This implements the new WASI ABI described here:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/master/design/application-abi.md
It adds APIs to `Instance` and `Linker` with support for running
WASI programs, and also simplifies the process of instantiating
WASI API modules.
This currently only includes Rust API support.
* Add comments and fix a typo in a comment.
* Fix a rustdoc warning.
* Tidy an unneeded `mut`.
* Factor out instance initialization with `NewInstance`.
This also separates instantiation from initialization in a manner
similar to https://github.com/bytecodealliance/lucet/pull/506.
* Update fuzzing oracles for the API changes.
* Remove `wasi_linker` and clarify that Commands/Reactors aren't connected to WASI.
* Move Command/Reactor semantics into the Linker.
* C API support.
* Fix fuzzer build.
* Update usage syntax from "::" to "=".
* Remove `NewInstance` and `start()`.
* Elaborate on Commands and Reactors and add a spec link.
* Add more comments.
* Fix wat syntax.
* Fix wat.
* Use the `Debug` formatter to format an anyhow::Error.
* Fix wat.
* Add Wasmtime-specific C API functions to return errors
This commit adds new `wasmtime_*` symbols to the C API, many of which
mirror the existing counterparts in the `wasm.h` header. These APIs are
enhanced in a number of respects:
* Detailed error information is now available through a
`wasmtime_error_t`. Currently this only exposes one function which is
to extract a string version of the error.
* There is a distinction now between traps and errors during
instantiation and function calling. Traps only happen if wasm traps,
and errors can happen for things like runtime type errors when
interacting with the API.
* APIs have improved safety with respect to embedders where the lengths
of arrays are now taken as explicit parameters rather than assumed
from other parameters.
* Handle trap updates
* Update C examples
* Fix memory.c compile on MSVC
* Update test assertions
* Refactor C slightly
* Bare-bones .NET update
* Remove bogus nul handling
Add some crate features to compile out support for these features of the
C API. Avoiding these two features if they're not necessary shaves about
2MB off the final shared object in some local tests!
* Refactor and improve safety of C API
This commit is intended to be a relatively large refactoring of the C
API which is targeted at improving the safety of our C API definitions.
Not all of the APIs have been updated yet but this is intended to be the
start.
The goal here is to make as many functions safe as we can, expressing
inputs/outputs as native Rust types rather than raw pointers wherever
possible. For example instead of `*const wasm_foo_t` we'd take
`&wasm_foo_t`. Instead of returning `*mut wasm_foo_t` we'd return
`Box<wasm_foo_t>`. No ABI/API changes are intended from this commit,
it's supposed to only change how we define all these functions
internally.
This commit also additionally implements a few more API bindings for
exposed vector types by unifying everything into one macro.
Finally, this commit moves many internal caches in the C API to the
`OnceCell` type which provides a safe interface for one-time
initialization.
* Split apart monolithic C API `lib.rs`
This commit splits the monolithic `src/lib.rs` in the C API crate into
lots of smaller files. The goal here is to make this a bit more readable
and digestable. Each module now contains only API bindings for a
particular type, roughly organized around the grouping in the wasm.h
header file already.
A few more extensions were added, such as filling out `*_as_*`
conversions with both const and non-const versions. Additionally many
APIs were made safer in the same style as the previous commit, generally
preferring Rust types rather than raw pointer types.
Overall no functional change is intended here, it should be mostly just
code movement and minor refactorings!
* Make a few wasi C bindings safer
Use safe Rust types where we can and touch up a few APIs here and there.
* Implement `wasm_*type_as_externtype*` APIs
This commit restructures `wasm_externtype_t` to be similar to
`wasm_extern_t` so type conversion between the `*_extern_*` variants to
the concrete variants are all simple casts. (checked in the case of
general to concrete, of course).
* Consistently imlpement host info functions in the API
This commit adds a small macro crate which is then used to consistently
define the various host-info-related functions in the C API. The goal
here is to try to mirror what the `wasm.h` header provides to provide a
full implementation of the header.
