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Andrew Brown
edfa10d607 wasi-threads: an initial implementation (#5484)
This commit includes a set of changes that add initial support for `wasi-threads` to Wasmtime:

* feat: remove mutability from the WasiCtx Table

This patch adds interior mutability to the WasiCtx Table and the Table elements.

Major pain points:
* `File` only needs `RwLock<cap_std::fs::File>` to implement
  `File::set_fdflags()` on Windows, because of [1]
* Because `File` needs a `RwLock` and `RwLock*Guard` cannot
  be hold across an `.await`, The `async` from
  `async fn num_ready_bytes(&self)` had to be removed
* Because `File` needs a `RwLock` and `RwLock*Guard` cannot
  be dereferenced in `pollable`, the signature of
  `fn pollable(&self) -> Option<rustix::fd::BorrowedFd>`
  changed to `fn pollable(&self) -> Option<Arc<dyn AsFd + '_>>`

[1] da238e324e/src/fs/fd_flags.rs (L210-L217)

* wasi-threads: add an initial implementation

This change is a first step toward implementing `wasi-threads` in
Wasmtime. We may find that it has some missing pieces, but the core
functionality is there: when `wasi::thread_spawn` is called by a running
WebAssembly module, a function named `wasi_thread_start` is found in the
module's exports and called in a new instance. The shared memory of the
original instance is reused in the new instance.

This new WASI proposal is in its early stages and details are still
being hashed out in the [spec] and [wasi-libc] repositories. Due to its
experimental state, the `wasi-threads` functionality is hidden behind
both a compile-time and runtime flag: one must build with `--features
wasi-threads` but also run the Wasmtime CLI with `--wasm-features
threads` and `--wasi-modules experimental-wasi-threads`. One can
experiment with `wasi-threads` by running:

```console
$ cargo run --features wasi-threads -- \
    --wasm-features threads --wasi-modules experimental-wasi-threads \
    <a threads-enabled module>
```

Threads-enabled Wasm modules are not yet easy to build. Hopefully this
is resolved soon, but in the meantime see the use of
`THREAD_MODEL=posix` in the [wasi-libc] repository for some clues on
what is necessary. Wiggle complicates things by requiring the Wasm
memory to be exported with a certain name and `wasi-threads` also
expects that memory to be imported; this build-time obstacle can be
overcome with the `--import-memory --export-memory` flags only available
in the latest Clang tree. Due to all of this, the included tests are
written directly in WAT--run these with:

```console
$ cargo test --features wasi-threads -p wasmtime-cli -- cli_tests
```

[spec]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-threads
[wasi-libc]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-libc

This change does not protect the WASI implementations themselves from
concurrent access. This is already complete in previous commits or left
for future commits in certain cases (e.g., wasi-nn).

* wasi-threads: factor out process exit logic

As is being discussed [elsewhere], either calling `proc_exit` or
trapping in any thread should halt execution of all threads. The
Wasmtime CLI already has logic for adapting a WebAssembly error code to
a code expected in each OS. This change factors out this logic to a new
function, `maybe_exit_on_error`, for use within the `wasi-threads`
implementation.

This will work reasonably well for CLI users of Wasmtime +
`wasi-threads`, but embedders will want something better in the future:
when a `wasi-threads` threads fails, they may not want their application
to exit. Handling this is tricky, because it will require cancelling the
threads spawned by the `wasi-threads` implementation, something that is
not trivial to do in Rust. With this change, we defer that work until
later in order to provide a working implementation of `wasi-threads` for
experimentation.

[elsewhere]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-threads/pull/17

* review: work around `fd_fdstat_set_flags`

In order to make progress with wasi-threads, this change temporarily
works around limitations induced by `wasi-common`'s
`fd_fdstat_set_flags` to allow `&mut self` use in the implementation.
Eventual resolution is tracked in
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/5643. This change
makes several related helper functions (e.g., `set_fdflags`) take `&mut
self` as well.

* test: use `wait`/`notify` to improve `threads.wat` test

Previously, the test simply executed in a loop for some hardcoded number
of iterations. This changes uses `wait` and `notify` and atomic
operations to keep track of when the spawned threads are done and join
on the main thread appropriately.

* various fixes and tweaks due to the PR review

---------

Signed-off-by: Harald Hoyer <harald@profian.com>
Co-authored-by: Harald Hoyer <harald@profian.com>
Co-authored-by: Alex Crichton <alex@alexcrichton.com>
2023-02-07 13:43:02 -08:00
Pat Hickey
56daa8a199 Use wiggle "trappable error" to implement wasi-common (#5279)
* convert wasi-common from defining its own error to using wiggle trappable error

* wasi-common impl crates: switch error strategy

* wasmtime-wasi: error is trappable, and no longer requires UserErrorConversion

* docs

* typo

* readdir: windows fixes

* fix windows scheduler errors

fun fact! the Send and Recv errors here that just had a `.context` on
them were previously not being captured in the downcasting either. They
need to be traps, and would have ended up that way by ommission, but
you'd never actually know that by reading the code!
2022-11-16 16:57:22 -08:00
Alex Crichton
7a1b7cdf92 Implement RFC 11: Redesigning Wasmtime's APIs (#2897)
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.
2021-06-03 09:10:53 -05:00
Pat Hickey
d62b0a1f97 table keys can wrap around 2021-02-03 11:09:05 -08:00
Pat Hickey
e511dac9ec rustdoc the table 2021-02-01 17:56:20 -08:00
Pat Hickey
47fec44c10 move wasi-c2 into wasi-common 2021-01-28 15:15:50 -08:00