* 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`.
- Fixes for compiling on OpenBSD
- io-lifetimes 0.3.0 has an option (io_lifetimes_use_std, which is off
by default) for testing the `io_safety` feature in Rust nightly.
* Port wasi-common to io-lifetimes.
This ports wasi-common from unsafe-io to io-lifetimes.
Ambient authority is now indicated via calls to `ambient_authority()`
from the ambient-authority crate, rather than using `unsafe` blocks.
The `GetSetFdFlags::set_fd_flags` function is now split into two phases,
to simplify lifetimes in implementations which need to close and re-open
the underlying file.
* Use posish for errno values instead of libc.
This eliminates one of the few remaining direct libc dependencies.
* Port to posish::io::poll.
Use posish::io::poll instead of calling libc directly. This factors out
more code from Wasmtime, and eliminates the need to manipulate raw file
descriptors directly.
And, this eliminates the last remaining direct dependency on libc in
wasi-common.
* Port wasi-c-api to io-lifetimes.
* Update to posish 0.16.0.
* Embeded NULs in filenames now get `EINVAL` instead of `EILSEQ`.
* Accept either `EILSEQ` or `EINVAL` for embedded NULs.
* Bump the nightly toolchain to 2021-07-12.
This fixes build errors on the semver crate, which as of this writing
builds with latest nightly and stable but not 2021-04-11, the old pinned
version.
* Have cap-std-sync re-export ambient_authority so that users get the same version.
This adds the ability to add feature flags (e.g. `--features wasi-nn`) when compiling `wasmtime-bench-api` to allow benchmarking Wasmtime with WASI proposals included. Note that due to https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5364, these features are only available:
- in the `crates/bench-api` directory, e.g. `pushd crates/bench-api; cargo build --features wasi-crypto`
- or from the top-level project directory using `-Zpackage-features`, e.g. `OPENVINO_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/intel/openvino cargo +nightly build -p wasmtime-bench-api -Zpackage-features --features wasi-nn`
This helps us avoid measurement bias due to accidental locality of unrelated
heap objects. See *Stabilizer: Statistically Sound Performance Evaluation* by
Curtsinger and Berger for details (although Stabilizer deals with much more than
just the location of heap allocations):
https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/stabilizer-asplos13.pdf
The new crate introduced here, `wasmtime-bench-api`, creates a shared library, e.g. `wasmtime_bench_api.so`, for executing Wasm benchmarks using Wasmtime. It allows us to measure several phases separately by exposing `engine_compile_module`, `engine_instantiate_module`, and `engine_execute_module`, which pass around an opaque pointer to the internally initialized state. This state is initialized and freed by `engine_create` and `engine_free`, respectively. The API also introduces a way of passing in functions to satisfy the `"bench" "start"` and `"bench" "end"` symbols that we expect Wasm benchmarks to import. The API is exposed in a C-compatible way so that we can dynamically load it (carefully) in our benchmark runner.
