Andrew Brown f911855612 wiggle: copy guest slices back to shared memory (#5471)
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.
2023-01-03 19:51:34 +00:00
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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

  • Fast. Wasmtime is built on the optimizing Cranelift code generator to quickly generate high-quality machine code either at runtime or ahead-of-time. Wasmtime is optimized for efficient instantiation, low-overhead calls between the embedder and wasm, and scalability of concurrent instances.

  • Secure. Wasmtime's development is strongly focused on correctness and security. Building on top of Rust's runtime safety guarantees, each Wasmtime feature goes through careful review and consideration via an RFC process. Once features are designed and implemented, they undergo 24/7 fuzzing donated by Google's OSS Fuzz. As features stabilize they become part of a release, and when things go wrong we have a well-defined security policy in place to quickly mitigate and patch any issues. We follow best practices for defense-in-depth and integrate protections and mitigations for issues like Spectre. Finally, we're working to push the state-of-the-art by collaborating with academic researchers to formally verify critical parts of Wasmtime and Cranelift.

  • Configurable. Wasmtime uses sensible defaults, but can also be configured to provide more fine-grained control over things like CPU and memory consumption. Whether you want to run Wasmtime in a tiny environment or on massive servers with many concurrent instances, we've got you covered.

  • WASI. Wasmtime supports a rich set of APIs for interacting with the host environment through the WASI standard.

  • 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:

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!


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