* Add shared memories
This change adds the ability to use shared memories in Wasmtime when the
[threads proposal] is enabled. Shared memories are annotated as `shared`
in the WebAssembly syntax, e.g., `(memory 1 1 shared)`, and are
protected from concurrent access during `memory.size` and `memory.grow`.
[threads proposal]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals/threads/Overview.md
In order to implement this in Wasmtime, there are two main cases to
cover:
- a program may simply create a shared memory and possibly export it;
this means that Wasmtime itself must be able to create shared
memories
- a user may create a shared memory externally and pass it in as an
import during instantiation; this is the case when the program
contains code like `(import "env" "memory" (memory 1 1
shared))`--this case is handled by a new Wasmtime API
type--`SharedMemory`
Because of the first case, this change allows any of the current
memory-creation mechanisms to work as-is. Wasmtime can still create
either static or dynamic memories in either on-demand or pooling modes,
and any of these memories can be considered shared. When shared, the
`Memory` runtime container will lock appropriately during `memory.size`
and `memory.grow` operations; since all memories use this container, it
is an ideal place for implementing the locking once and once only.
The second case is covered by the new `SharedMemory` structure. It uses
the same `Mmap` allocation under the hood as non-shared memories, but
allows the user to perform the allocation externally to Wasmtime and
share the memory across threads (via an `Arc`). The pointer address to
the actual memory is carefully wired through and owned by the
`SharedMemory` structure itself. This means that there are differing
views of where to access the pointer (i.e., `VMMemoryDefinition`): for
owned memories (the default), the `VMMemoryDefinition` is stored
directly by the `VMContext`; in the `SharedMemory` case, however, this
`VMContext` must point to this separate structure.
To ensure that the `VMContext` can always point to the correct
`VMMemoryDefinition`, this change alters the `VMContext` structure.
Since a `SharedMemory` owns its own `VMMemoryDefinition`, the
`defined_memories` table in the `VMContext` becomes a sequence of
pointers--in the shared memory case, they point to the
`VMMemoryDefinition` owned by the `SharedMemory` and in the owned memory
case (i.e., not shared) they point to `VMMemoryDefinition`s stored in a
new table, `owned_memories`.
This change adds an additional indirection (through the `*mut
VMMemoryDefinition` pointer) that could add overhead. Using an imported
memory as a proxy, we measured a 1-3% overhead of this approach on the
`pulldown-cmark` benchmark. To avoid this, Cranelift-generated code will
special-case the owned memory access (i.e., load a pointer directly to
the `owned_memories` entry) for `memory.size` so that only
shared memories (and imported memories, as before) incur the indirection
cost.
* review: remove thread feature check
* review: swap wasmtime-types dependency for existing wasmtime-environ use
* review: remove unused VMMemoryUnion
* review: reword cross-engine error message
* review: improve tests
* review: refactor to separate prevent Memory <-> SharedMemory conversion
* review: into_shared_memory -> as_shared_memory
* review: remove commented out code
* review: limit shared min/max to 32 bits
* review: skip imported memories
* review: imported memories are not owned
* review: remove TODO
* review: document unsafe send + sync
* review: add limiter assertion
* review: remove TODO
* review: improve tests
* review: fix doc test
* fix: fixes based on discussion with Alex
This changes several key parts:
- adds memory indexes to imports and exports
- makes `VMMemoryDefinition::current_length` an atomic usize
* review: add `Extern::SharedMemory`
* review: remove TODO
* review: atomically load from VMMemoryDescription in JIT-generated code
* review: add test probing the last available memory slot across threads
* fix: move assertion to new location due to rebase
* fix: doc link
* fix: add TODOs to c-api
* fix: broken doc link
* fix: modify pooling allocator messages in tests
* review: make owned_memory_index panic instead of returning an option
* review: clarify calculation of num_owned_memories
* review: move 'use' to top of file
* review: change '*const [u8]' to '*mut [u8]'
* review: remove TODO
* review: avoid hard-coding memory index
* review: remove 'preallocation' parameter from 'Memory::_new'
* fix: component model memory length
* review: check that shared memory plans are static
* review: ignore growth limits for shared memory
* review: improve atomic store comment
* review: add FIXME for memory growth failure
* review: add comment about absence of bounds-checked 'memory.size'
* review: make 'current_length()' doc comment more precise
* review: more comments related to memory.size non-determinism
* review: make 'vmmemory' unreachable for shared memory
* review: move code around
* review: thread plan through to 'wrap()'
* review: disallow shared memory allocation with the pooling allocator
* 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
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
* Implement imported/exported modules/instances
This commit implements the final piece of the module linking proposal
which is to flesh out the support for importing/exporting instances and
modules. This ended up having a few changes:
* Two more `PrimaryMap` instances are now stored in an `Instance`. The value
for instances is `InstanceHandle` (pretty easy) and for modules it's
`Box<dyn Any>` (less easy).
* The custom host state for `InstanceHandle` for `wasmtime` is now
`Arc<TypeTables` to be able to fully reconstruct an instance's types
just from its instance.
* Type matching for imports now has been updated to take
instances/modules into account.
One of the main downsides of this implementation is that type matching
of imports is duplicated between wasmparser and wasmtime, leading to
posssible bugs especially in the subtelties of module linking. I'm not
sure how best to unify these two pieces of validation, however, and it
may be more trouble than it's worth.
cc #2094
* Update wat/wast/wasmparser
* Review comments
* Fix a bug in publish script to vendor the right witx
Currently there's two witx binaries in our repository given the two wasi
spec submodules, so this updates the publication script to vendor the
right one.
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.
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.
* Compute instance exports on demand.
Instead having instances eagerly compute a Vec of Externs, and bumping
the refcount for each Extern, compute Externs on demand.
This also enables `Instance::get_export` to avoid doing a linear search.
This also means that the closure returned by `get0` and friends now
holds an `InstanceHandle` to dynamically hold the instance live rather
than being scoped to a lifetime.
* Compute module imports and exports on demand too.
And compute Extern::ty on demand too.
* Add a utility function for computing an ExternType.
* Add a utility function for looking up a function's signature.
* Add a utility function for computing the ValType of a Global.
* Rename wasmtime_environ::Export to EntityIndex.
This helps differentiate it from other Export types in the tree, and
describes what it is.
* Fix a typo in a comment.
* Simplify module imports and exports.
* Make `Instance::exports` return the export names.
This significantly simplifies the public API, as it's relatively common
to need the names, and this avoids the need to do a zip with
`Module::exports`.
This also changes `ImportType` and `ExportType` to have public members
instead of private members and accessors, as I find that simplifies the
usage particularly in cases where there are temporary instances.
* Remove `Instance::module`.
This doesn't quite remove `Instance`'s `module` member, it gets a step
closer.
* Use a InstanceHandle utility function.
* Don't consume self in the `Func::get*` methods.
Instead, just create a closure containing the instance handle and the
export for them to call.
* Use `ExactSizeIterator` to avoid needing separate `num_*` methods.
* Rename `Extern::func()` etc. to `into_func()` etc.
* Revise examples to avoid using `nth`.
* Add convenience methods to instance for getting specific extern types.
* Use the convenience functions in more tests and examples.
* Avoid cloning strings for `ImportType` and `ExportType`.
* Remove more obviated clone() calls.
* Simplify `Func`'s closure state.
* Make wasmtime::Export's fields private.
This makes them more consistent with ExportType.
* Fix compilation error.
* Make a lifetime parameter explicit, and use better lifetime names.
Instead of 'me, use 'instance and 'module to make it clear what the
lifetime is.
* More lifetime cleanups.
* 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.
