This change upgrades `UnsafeGuestSlice` in Wiggle to expose more functionality to be able to use `std::ptr::copy` for writing bytes into Wasm shared memory. Additionally, it adds a new `GuestCow` type for delineating between Wasm memory regions that can be borrowed (non-shared memory) or must be copied (shared memory) in order to maintain Rust guarantees. With these in place, it is now possible to implement the `preview1` "read" functions for shared memory. Previously, these would panic if attempting to copy to a shared memory. This change removes the panic and introduces some (rather complex) logic for handling both the shared and non-shared cases: - if reading into a Wasm non-shared memory, Wiggle guarantees that no other guest pointers will touch the memory region and, in the absence of concurrency, a WASI function can write directly to this memory - if reading into a Wasm shared memory, the memory region can be concurrently modified. At @alexcrichton's request re: Rust safety, this change copies all of the bytes into an intermediate buffer before using `std::ptr::copy` to move them into Wasm memory. This change only applies to the `preview0` and `preview1` implementations of `wasi-common`. Fixing up other WASI implementations (esp. wasi-crypto) is left for later.
wasi-common
A Bytecode Alliance project
A library providing a common implementation of WASI hostcalls for re-use in any WASI-enabled runtime.
The wasi-common crate will ultimately serve as a library providing a common implementation of
WASI hostcalls for re-use in any WASI (and potentially non-WASI) runtimes
such as Wasmtime and Lucet.
The library is an adaption of lucet-wasi crate from the Lucet project, and it is currently based on 40ae1df git revision.
Please note that the library requires Rust compiler version at least 1.37.0.
Supported syscalls
*nix
In our *nix implementation, we currently support the entire WASI API
with the exception of the proc_raise hostcall, as it is expected to
be dropped entirely from WASI.
Windows
In our Windows implementation, we currently support the minimal subset of WASI API which allows for running the very basic "Hello world!" style WASM apps. More coming shortly, so stay tuned!
Development hints
When testing the crate, you may want to enable and run full wasm32 integration testsuite. This
requires wasm32-wasi target installed which can be done as follows using rustup
rustup target add wasm32-wasi
Now, you should be able to run the integration testsuite by running cargo test on the
test-programs package with test-programs/test_programs feature enabled:
cargo test --features test-programs/test_programs --package test-programs