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* Switch macOS to using mach ports for trap handling This commit moves macOS to using mach ports instead of signals for handling traps. The motivation for this is listed in #2456, namely that once mach ports are used in a process that means traditional UNIX signal handlers won't get used. This means that if Wasmtime is integrated with Breakpad, for example, then Wasmtime's trap handler never fires and traps don't work. The `traphandlers` module is refactored as part of this commit to split the platform-specific bits into their own files (it was growing quite a lot for one inline `cfg_if!`). The `unix.rs` and `windows.rs` files remain the same as they were before with a few minor tweaks for some refactored interfaces. The `macos.rs` file is brand new and lifts almost its entire implementation from SpiderMonkey, adapted for Wasmtime though. The main gotcha with mach ports is that a separate thread is what services the exception. Some unsafe magic allows this separate thread to read non-`Send` and temporary state from other threads, but is hoped to be safe in this context. The unfortunate downside is that calling wasm on macOS now involves taking a global lock and modifying a global hash map twice-per-call. I'm not entirely sure how to get out of this cost for now, but hopefully for any embeddings on macOS it's not the end of the world. Closes #2456 * Add a sketch of arm64 apple support * store: maintain CallThreadState mapping when switching fibers * cranelift/aarch64: generate unwind directives to disable pointer auth Aarch64 post ARMv8.3 has a feature called pointer authentication, designed to fight ROP/JOP attacks: some pointers may be signed using new instructions, adding payloads to the high (previously unused) bits of the pointers. More on this here: https://lwn.net/Articles/718888/ Unwinders on aarch64 need to know if some pointers contained on the call frame contain an authentication code or not, to be able to properly authenticate them or use them directly. Since native code may have enabled it by default (as is the case on the Mac M1), and the default is that this configuration value is inherited, we need to explicitly disable it, for the only kind of supported pointers (return addresses). To do so, we set the value of a non-existing dwarf pseudo register (34) to 0, as documented in https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/master/aadwarf64/aadwarf64.rst#note-8. This is done at the function granularity, in the spirit of Cranelift compilation model. Alternatively, a single directive could be generated in the CIE, generating less information per module. * Make exception handling work on Mac aarch64 too * fibers: use a breakpoint instruction after the final call in wasmtime_fiber_start Co-authored-by: Alex Crichton <alex@alexcrichton.com>
wasmtime
A standalone runtime for WebAssembly
A Bytecode Alliance project
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Installation
The Wasmtime CLI can be installed on Linux and macOS with a small install script:
$ curl https://wasmtime.dev/install.sh -sSf | bash
Windows or otherwise interested users can download installers and binaries directly from the GitHub Releases page.
Example
If you've got the Rust compiler installed then you can take some Rust source code:
fn main() {
println!("Hello, world!");
}
and compile/run it with:
$ rustup target add wasm32-wasi
$ rustc hello.rs --target wasm32-wasi
$ wasmtime hello.wasm
Hello, world!
Features
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Lightweight. Wasmtime is a standalone runtime for WebAssembly that scales with your needs. It fits on tiny chips as well as makes use of huge servers. Wasmtime can be embedded into almost any application too.
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Fast. Wasmtime is built on the optimizing Cranelift code generator to quickly generate high-quality machine code at runtime.
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Configurable. Whether you need to precompile your wasm ahead of time, generate code blazingly fast with Lightbeam, or interpret it at runtime, Wasmtime has you covered for all your wasm-executing needs.
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WASI. Wasmtime supports a rich set of APIs for interacting with the host environment through the WASI standard.
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Standards Compliant. Wasmtime passes the official WebAssembly test suite, implements the official C API of wasm, and implements future proposals to WebAssembly as well. Wasmtime developers are intimately engaged with the WebAssembly standards process all along the way too.
Language Support
You can use Wasmtime from a variety of different languages through embeddings of the implementation:
- Rust - the
wasmtimecrate - C - the
wasm.h,wasi.h, andwasmtime.hheaders - Python - the
wasmtimePyPI package - .NET - the
WasmtimeNuGet package - Go - the
wasmtime-gorepository
Documentation
📚 Read the Wasmtime guide here! 📚
The wasmtime guide is the best starting point to learn about what Wasmtime can do for you or help answer your questions about Wasmtime. If you're curious in contributing to Wasmtime, it can also help you do that!
It's Wasmtime.