This commit removes the Lightbeam backend from Wasmtime as per [RFC 14].
This backend hasn't received maintenance in quite some time, and as [RFC
14] indicates this doesn't meet the threshold for keeping the code
in-tree, so this commit removes it.
A fast "baseline" compiler may still be added in the future. The
addition of such a backend should be in line with [RFC 14], though, with
the principles we now have for stable releases of Wasmtime. I'll close
out Lightbeam-related issues once this is merged.
[RFC 14]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rfcs/pull/14
* 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 can be useful for host functions that want to consume fuel to
reflect their relative cost. Additionally it's a relatively easy
addition to have and someone's asking for it!
Closes#3315
* 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
* Implement the memory64 proposal in Wasmtime
This commit implements the WebAssembly [memory64 proposal][proposal] in
both Wasmtime and Cranelift. In terms of work done Cranelift ended up
needing very little work here since most of it was already prepared for
64-bit memories at one point or another. Most of the work in Wasmtime is
largely refactoring, changing a bunch of `u32` values to something else.
A number of internal and public interfaces are changing as a result of
this commit, for example:
* Acessors on `wasmtime::Memory` that work with pages now all return
`u64` unconditionally rather than `u32`. This makes it possible to
accommodate 64-bit memories with this API, but we may also want to
consider `usize` here at some point since the host can't grow past
`usize`-limited pages anyway.
* The `wasmtime::Limits` structure is removed in favor of
minimum/maximum methods on table/memory types.
* Many libcall intrinsics called by jit code now unconditionally take
`u64` arguments instead of `u32`. Return values are `usize`, however,
since the return value, if successful, is always bounded by host
memory while arguments can come from any guest.
* The `heap_addr` clif instruction now takes a 64-bit offset argument
instead of a 32-bit one. It turns out that the legalization of
`heap_addr` already worked with 64-bit offsets, so this change was
fairly trivial to make.
* The runtime implementation of mmap-based linear memories has changed
to largely work in `usize` quantities in its API and in bytes instead
of pages. This simplifies various aspects and reflects that
mmap-memories are always bound by `usize` since that's what the host
is using to address things, and additionally most calculations care
about bytes rather than pages except for the very edge where we're
going to/from wasm.
Overall I've tried to minimize the amount of `as` casts as possible,
using checked `try_from` and checked arithemtic with either error
handling or explicit `unwrap()` calls to tell us about bugs in the
future. Most locations have relatively obvious things to do with various
implications on various hosts, and I think they should all be roughly of
the right shape but time will tell. I mostly relied on the compiler
complaining that various types weren't aligned to figure out
type-casting, and I manually audited some of the more obvious locations.
I suspect we have a number of hidden locations that will panic on 32-bit
hosts if 64-bit modules try to run there, but otherwise I think we
should be generally ok (famous last words). In any case I wouldn't want
to enable this by default naturally until we've fuzzed it for some time.
In terms of the actual underlying implementation, no one should expect
memory64 to be all that fast. Right now it's implemented with
"dynamic" heaps which have a few consequences:
* All memory accesses are bounds-checked. I'm not sure how aggressively
Cranelift tries to optimize out bounds checks, but I suspect not a ton
since we haven't stressed this much historically.
* Heaps are always precisely sized. This means that every call to
`memory.grow` will incur a `memcpy` of memory from the old heap to the
new. We probably want to at least look into `mremap` on Linux and
otherwise try to implement schemes where dynamic heaps have some
reserved pages to grow into to help amortize the cost of
`memory.grow`.
The memory64 spec test suite is scheduled to now run on CI, but as with
all the other spec test suites it's really not all that comprehensive.
I've tried adding more tests for basic things as I've had to implement
guards for them, but I wouldn't really consider the testing adequate
from just this PR itself. I did try to take care in one test to actually
allocate a 4gb+ heap and then avoid running that in the pooling
allocator or in emulation because otherwise that may fail or take
excessively long.
[proposal]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/memory64/blob/master/proposals/memory64/Overview.md
* Fix some tests
* More test fixes
* Fix wasmtime tests
* Fix doctests
* Revert to 32-bit immediate offsets in `heap_addr`
This commit updates the generation of addresses in wasm code to always
use 32-bit offsets for `heap_addr`, and if the calculated offset is
bigger than 32-bits we emit a manual add with an overflow check.
* Disable memory64 for spectest fuzzing
* Fix wrong offset being added to heap addr
* More comments!
* Clarify bytes/pages
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.
