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Alex Crichton c8ab1e293e Improve robustness of cache loading/storing (#974)
* Improve robustness of cache loading/storing

Today wasmtime incorrectly loads compiled compiled modules from the
global cache when toggling settings such as optimizations. For example
if you execute `wasmtime foo.wasm` that will cache globally an
unoptimized version of the wasm module. If you then execute `wasmtime -O
foo.wasm` it would then reload the unoptimized version from cache, not
realizing the compilation settings were different, and use that instead.
This can lead to very surprising behavior naturally!

This commit updates how the cache is managed in an attempt to make it
much more robust against these sorts of issues. This takes a leaf out of
rustc's playbook and models the cache with a function that looks like:

    fn load<T: Hash>(
        &self,
        data: T,
        compute: fn(T) -> CacheEntry,
    ) -> CacheEntry;

The goal here is that it guarantees that all the `data` necessary to
`compute` the result of the cache entry is hashable and stored into the
hash key entry. This was previously open-coded and manually managed
where items were hashed explicitly, but this construction guarantees
that everything reasonable `compute` could use to compile the module is
stored in `data`, which is itself hashable.

This refactoring then resulted in a few workarounds and a few fixes,
including the original issue:

* The `Module` type was split into `Module` and `ModuleLocal` where only
  the latter is hashed. The previous hash function for a `Module` left
  out items like the `start_func` and didn't hash items like the imports
  of the module. Omitting the `start_func` was fine since compilation
  didn't actually use it, but omitting imports seemed uncomfortable
  because while compilation didn't use the import values it did use the
  *number* of imports, which seems like it should then be put into the
  cache key. The `ModuleLocal` type now derives `Hash` to guarantee that
  all of its contents affect the hash key.

* The `ModuleTranslationState` from `cranelift-wasm` doesn't implement
  `Hash` which means that we have a manual wrapper to work around that.
  This will be fixed with an upstream implementation, since this state
  affects the generated wasm code. Currently this is just a map of
  signatures, which is present in `Module` anyway, so we should be good
  for the time being.

* Hashing `dyn TargetIsa` was also added, where previously it was not
  fully hashed. Previously only the target name was used as part of the
  cache key, but crucially the flags of compilation were omitted (for
  example the optimization flags). Unfortunately the trait object itself
  is not hashable so we still have to manually write a wrapper to hash
  it, but we likely want to add upstream some utilities to hash isa
  objects into cranelift itself. For now though we can continue to add
  hashed fields as necessary.

Overall the goal here was to use the compiler to expose what we're not
hashing, and then make sure we organize data and write the right code to
ensure everything is hashed, and nothing more.

* Update crates/environ/src/module.rs

Co-Authored-By: Peter Huene <peterhuene@protonmail.com>

* Fix lightbeam

* Fix compilation of tests

* Update the expected structure of the cache

* Revert "Update the expected structure of the cache"

This reverts commit 2b53fee426a4e411c313d8c1e424841ba304a9cd.

* Separate the cache dir a bit

* Add a test the cache is busted with opt levels

* rustfmt

Co-authored-by: Peter Huene <peterhuene@protonmail.com>
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This is the wasmtime-obj crate, which contains an experimental prototype for writing out native object files, using the wasm ABI defined by wasmtime-environ.