* Remove the `wasmtime wasm2obj` command
This commit removes the `wasm2obj` subcommand of the `wasmtime` CLI.
This subcommand has a very long history and dates back quite far. While
it's existed, however, it's never been documented in terms of the output
it's produced. AFAIK it's only ever been used for debugging to see the
machine code output of Wasmtime on some modules. With recent changes to
the module serialization output the output of `wasmtime compile`, the
`*.cwasm` file, is now a native ELF file which can be fed to standard
tools like `objdump`. Consequently I dont think there's any remaining
need to keep `wasm2obj` around itself, so this commit removes the
subcommand.
* More code to delete
* Try to fix debuginfo tests
* Finished the Markdown Parser Example for Wasmtime
* Made requested changes
* Tiny change to explanation of `--dir` CLI arg
* Add `bash` annotations to shell script code blocks
* Trying to fix the markdown example bug
* Figured out rustdoc, and what needed to be done
* Made requested changes
Co-authored-by: Till Schneidereit <till@tillschneidereit.net>
The previous documentation only covers how to enable debug info when
embedding Wasmtime. This change should cover the commonly-asked
question: how do I debug in Wasmtime?
* Start a high-level architecture document for Wasmtime
This commit cleands up some existing documentation by removing a number
of "noop README files" and starting a high-level overview of the
architecture of Wasmtime. I've placed this documentation under the
contributing section of the book since it seems most useful for possible
contributors.
I've surely left some things out in this pass, and am happy to add more!
* Review comments
* More rewording
* typos
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.
* Bring back per-thread lazy initialization
Platforms Wasmtime supports may have per-thread initialization that
needs to run before WebAssembly. For example Unix needs to setup a
sigaltstack and macOS needs to set up mach ports. In #2757 this
per-thread setup was moved out of the invocation of a wasm function,
relying on the lack of Send for Store to initialize the thread at Store
creation time and never worry about it later.
This conflicted with [wasmtime's desired multithreading
story](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/2812) so a new
[`Store::notify_switched_thread` was
added](https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/2822) to
explicitly indicate a Store has moved to another thread (if it unsafely
did so).
It turns out though that it's not always easy to determine when a
`Store` moves to a new thread. For example the Go bindings for Wasmtime
are generally unaware when a goroutine switches OS threads. This led to
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime-go/issues/74 where a SIGILL
was left uncaught, making it appear that traps aren't working properly.
This commit revisits the decision in #2757 and moves per-thread
initialization back into the path of calling into WebAssembly. This is
differently from before, though, where there's still only one TLS access
on the path of calling into WebAssembly, unlike before where it was a
separate access. This allows us to get the speed benefits of #2757 as
well as the flexibility benefits of not having to explicitly move a
store between threads.
With this new ability this commit deletes the recently added
`Store::notify_switched_thread` method since it's no longer necessary.
* Fix a test compiling
* Introduce a new API that allows notifying that a Store has moved to a new thread
* Add backlink to documentation, and mention the new API in the multithreading doc;
* Document guidance around multithreading and Wasmtime
This commit writes a page of documentation for the Wasmtime book to
serve as guidance for embedders looking to add multithreading with
Wasmtime support. As always with any safe Rust API this reading is
optional because you can't mis-use Wasmtime without `unsafe`, but I'm
hoping that this documentation can serve as a point of reference for
folks who want to add multithreading but are confused/annoyed that
Wasmtime's types do not implement the `Send` and `Sync` traits.
Closes#793
* I can type
This commit adds a `compile` command to the Wasmtime CLI.
The command can be used to Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compile WebAssembly modules.
With the `all-arch` feature enabled, AOT compilation can be performed for
non-native architectures (i.e. cross-compilation).
The `Module::compile` method has been added to perform AOT compilation.
A few of the CLI flags relating to "on by default" Wasm features have been
changed to be "--disable-XYZ" flags.
A simple example of using the `wasmtime compile` command:
```text
$ wasmtime compile input.wasm
$ wasmtime input.cwasm
```
* Redo the statically typed `Func` API
This commit reimplements the `Func` API with respect to statically typed
dispatch. Previously `Func` had a `getN` and `getN_async` family of
methods which were implemented for 0 to 16 parameters. The return value
of these functions was an `impl Fn(..)` closure with the appropriate
parameters and return values.
There are a number of downsides with this approach that have become
apparent over time:
* The addition of `*_async` doubled the API surface area (which is quite
large here due to one-method-per-number-of-parameters).
* The [documentation of `Func`][old-docs] are quite verbose and feel
"polluted" with all these getters, making it harder to understand the
other methods that can be used to interact with a `Func`.
* These methods unconditionally pay the cost of returning an owned `impl
Fn` with a `'static` lifetime. While cheap, this is still paying the
cost for cloning the `Store` effectively and moving data into the
closed-over environment.
* Storage of the return value into a struct, for example, always
requires `Box`-ing the returned closure since it otherwise cannot be
named.
* Recently I had the desire to implement an "unchecked" path for
invoking wasm where you unsafely assert the type signature of a wasm
function. Doing this with today's scheme would require doubling
(again) the API surface area for both async and synchronous calls,
further polluting the documentation.
The main benefit of the previous scheme is that by returning a `impl Fn`
it was quite easy and ergonomic to actually invoke the function. In
practice, though, examples would often have something akin to
`.get0::<()>()?()?` which is a lot of things to interpret all at once.
Note that `get0` means "0 parameters" yet a type parameter is passed.
There's also a double function invocation which looks like a lot of
characters all lined up in a row.
Overall, I think that the previous design is starting to show too many
cracks and deserves a rewrite. This commit is that rewrite.
The new design in this commit is to delete the `getN{,_async}` family of
functions and instead have a new API:
impl Func {
fn typed<P, R>(&self) -> Result<&Typed<P, R>>;
}
impl Typed<P, R> {
fn call(&self, params: P) -> Result<R, Trap>;
async fn call_async(&self, params: P) -> Result<R, Trap>;
}
This should entirely replace the current scheme, albeit by slightly
losing ergonomics use cases. The idea behind the API is that the
existence of `Typed<P, R>` is a "proof" that the underlying function
takes `P` and returns `R`. The `Func::typed` method peforms a runtime
type-check to ensure that types all match up, and if successful you get
a `Typed` value. Otherwise an error is returned.
Once you have a `Typed` then, like `Func`, you can either `call` or
`call_async`. The difference with a `Typed`, however, is that the
params/results are statically known and hence these calls can be much
more efficient.
This is a much smaller API surface area from before and should greatly
simplify the `Func` documentation. There's still a problem where
`Func::wrapN_async` produces a lot of functions to document, but that's
now the sole offender. It's a nice benefit that the
statically-typed-async verisons are now expressed with an `async`
function rather than a function-returning-a-future which makes it both
more efficient and easier to understand.
The type `P` and `R` are intended to either be bare types (e.g. `i32`)
or tuples of any length (including 0). At this time `R` is only allowed
to be `()` or a bare `i32`-style type because multi-value is not
supported with a native ABI (yet). The `P`, however, can be any size of
tuples of parameters. This is also where some ergonomics are lost
because instead of `f(1, 2)` you now have to write `f.call((1, 2))`
(note the double-parens). Similarly `f()` becomes `f.call(())`.
Overall I feel that this is a better tradeoff than before. While not
universally better due to the loss in ergonomics I feel that this design
is much more flexible in terms of what you can do with the return value
and also understanding the API surface area (just less to take in).
[old-docs]: https://docs.rs/wasmtime/0.24.0/wasmtime/struct.Func.html#method.get0
* Rename Typed to TypedFunc
* Implement multi-value returns through `Func::typed`
* Fix examples in docs
* Fix some more errors
* More test fixes
* Rebasing and adding `get_typed_func`
* Updating tests
* Fix typo
* More doc tweaks
* Tweak visibility on `Func::invoke`
* Fix tests again
This commit adds initial (gated) support for the multi-memory wasm
proposal. This was actually quite easy since almost all of wasmtime
already expected multi-memory to be implemented one day. The only real
substantive change is the `memory.copy` intrinsic changes, which now
accounts for the source/destination memories possibly being different.
* Expand doc section about "what about `#![no_std]`?"
This commit expands the `#![no_std]` section of the documentation with
an FAQ-style set of words which explains in more detail about why we
don't support `#![no_std]` at this time, and how we can support it in
the future.
* Review comments
* Add some more words about -Zbuild-std
This commit updates our CI to verify that all crates are publish-able at
all times on every commit. During the 0.19.0 release we found another
case where the crates as they live in this repository weren't
publish-able, so the hope is that this no longer comes up again!
The script added in this commit also takes the time/liberty to remove
the existing bump/publish scripts and instead replace them with one Rust
script originally sourced from wasm-bindgen. The intention of this
script is that it has three modes:
* `./publish bump` - bumps version numbers which are sent as a PR to get
reviewed (probably with a changelog as well)
* `./publish verify` - run on CI on every commit, builds every crate we
publish as if it's being published to crates.io, notably without raw
access to other crates in the repository.
* `./publish publish` - publishes all crates to crates.io, passing the
`--no-verify` flag to make this a much speedier process than it is
today.
* This PR is against a branch called `main`
* Internally all docs/CI/etc is updated
* The default branch of the repo is now `main`
* All active PRs have been updated to retarget `main`
Closes#1914
