1 //! # Wasmtime's embedding API 2 //! 3 //! Wasmtime is a WebAssembly engine for JIT-compiled or ahead-of-time compiled 4 //! WebAssembly modules and components. More information about the Wasmtime 5 //! project as a whole can be found [in the documentation 6 //! book](https://docs.wasmtime.dev) whereas this documentation mostly focuses 7 //! on the API reference of the `wasmtime` crate itself. 8 //! 9 //! This crate contains an API used to interact with [WebAssembly modules] or 10 //! [WebAssembly components]. For example you can compile WebAssembly, create 11 //! instances, call functions, etc. As an embedder of WebAssembly you can also 12 //! provide guests functionality from the host by creating host-defined 13 //! functions, memories, globals, etc, which can do things that WebAssembly 14 //! cannot (such as print to the screen). 15 //! 16 //! [WebAssembly modules]: https://webassembly.github.io/spec 17 //! [WebAssembly components]: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org 18 //! 19 //! The `wasmtime` crate is designed to be safe, efficient, and ergonomic. 20 //! This enables executing WebAssembly without the embedder needing to use 21 //! `unsafe` code, meaning that you're guaranteed there is no undefined behavior 22 //! or segfaults in either the WebAssembly guest or the host itself. 23 //! 24 //! The `wasmtime` crate can roughly be thought of as being split into two 25 //! halves: 26 //! 27 //! * One half of the crate is similar to the [JS WebAssembly 28 //! API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly) as well as the 29 //! [proposed C API](https://github.com/webassembly/wasm-c-api) and is 30 //! intended for working with [WebAssembly modules]. This API resides in the 31 //! root of the `wasmtime` crate's namespace, for example 32 //! [`wasmtime::Module`](`Module`). 33 //! 34 //! * The second half of the crate is for use with the [WebAssembly Component 35 //! Model]. The implementation of the component model is present in 36 //! [`wasmtime::component`](`component`) and roughly mirrors the structure for 37 //! core WebAssembly, for example [`component::Func`] mirrors [`Func`]. 38 //! 39 //! [WebAssembly Component Model]: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org 40 //! 41 //! An example of using Wasmtime to run a core WebAssembly module looks like: 42 //! 43 //! ``` 44 //! use wasmtime::*; 45 //! 46 //! fn main() -> wasmtime::Result<()> { 47 //! let engine = Engine::default(); 48 //! 49 //! // Modules can be compiled through either the text or binary format 50 //! let wat = r#" 51 //! (module 52 //! (import "host" "host_func" (func $host_hello (param i32))) 53 //! 54 //! (func (export "hello") 55 //! i32.const 3 56 //! call $host_hello) 57 //! ) 58 //! "#; 59 //! let module = Module::new(&engine, wat)?; 60 //! 61 //! // Host functionality can be arbitrary Rust functions and is provided 62 //! // to guests through a `Linker`. 63 //! let mut linker = Linker::new(&engine); 64 //! linker.func_wrap("host", "host_func", |caller: Caller<'_, u32>, param: i32| { 65 //! println!("Got {} from WebAssembly", param); 66 //! println!("my host state is: {}", caller.data()); 67 //! })?; 68 //! 69 //! // All wasm objects operate within the context of a "store". Each 70 //! // `Store` has a type parameter to store host-specific data, which in 71 //! // this case we're using `4` for. 72 //! let mut store: Store<u32> = Store::new(&engine, 4); 73 //! 74 //! // Instantiation of a module requires specifying its imports and then 75 //! // afterwards we can fetch exports by name, as well as asserting the 76 //! // type signature of the function with `get_typed_func`. 77 //! let instance = linker.instantiate(&mut store, &module)?; 78 //! let hello = instance.get_typed_func::<(), ()>(&mut store, "hello")?; 79 //! 80 //! // And finally we can call the wasm! 81 //! hello.call(&mut store, ())?; 82 //! 83 //! Ok(()) 84 //! } 85 //! ``` 86 //! 87 //! ## Core Concepts 88 //! 89 //! There are a number of core types and concepts that are important to be aware 90 //! of when using the `wasmtime` crate: 91 //! 92 //! * [`Engine`] - a global compilation and runtime environment for WebAssembly. 93 //! An [`Engine`] is an object that can be shared concurrently across threads 94 //! and is created with a [`Config`] with many knobs for configuring 95 //! behavior. Compiling or executing any WebAssembly requires first 96 //! configuring and creating an [`Engine`]. All [`Module`]s and 97 //! [`Component`](component::Component)s belong to an [`Engine`], and 98 //! typically there's one [`Engine`] per process. 99 //! 100 //! * [`Store`] - container for all information related to WebAssembly objects 101 //! such as functions, instances, memories, etc. A [`Store<T>`][`Store`] 102 //! allows customization of the `T` to store arbitrary host data within a 103 //! [`Store`]. This host data can be accessed through host functions via the 104 //! [`Caller`] function parameter in host-defined functions. A [`Store`] is 105 //! required for all WebAssembly operations, such as calling a wasm function. 106 //! The [`Store`] is passed in as a "context" to methods like [`Func::call`]. 107 //! Dropping a [`Store`] will deallocate all memory associated with 108 //! WebAssembly objects within the [`Store`]. A [`Store`] is cheap to create 109 //! and destroy and does not GC objects such as unused instances internally, 110 //! so it's intended to be short-lived (or no longer than the instances it 111 //! contains). 112 //! 113 //! * [`Linker`] (or [`component::Linker`]) - host functions are defined within 114 //! a linker to provide them a string-based name which can be looked up when 115 //! instantiating a WebAssembly module or component. Linkers are traditionally 116 //! populated at startup and then reused for all future instantiations of all 117 //! instances, assuming the set of host functions does not change over time. 118 //! Host functions are `Fn(..) + Send + Sync` and typically do not close over 119 //! mutable state. Instead it's recommended to store mutable state in the `T` 120 //! of [`Store<T>`] which is accessed through [`Caller<'_, 121 //! T>`](crate::Caller) provided to host functions. 122 //! 123 //! * [`Module`] (or [`Component`](component::Component)) - a compiled 124 //! WebAssembly module or component. These structures contain compiled 125 //! executable code from a WebAssembly binary which is ready to execute after 126 //! being instantiated. These are expensive to create as they require 127 //! compilation of the input WebAssembly. Modules and components are safe to 128 //! share across threads, however. Modules and components can additionally be 129 //! [serialized into a list of bytes](crate::Module::serialize) to later be 130 //! [deserialized](crate::Module::deserialize) quickly. This enables JIT-style 131 //! compilation through constructors such as [`Module::new`] and AOT-style 132 //! compilation by having the compilation process use [`Module::serialize`] 133 //! and the execution process use [`Module::deserialize`]. 134 //! 135 //! * [`Instance`] (or [`component::Instance`]) - an instantiated WebAssembly 136 //! module or component. An instance is where you can actually acquire a 137 //! [`Func`] (or [`component::Func`]) from, for example, to call. 138 //! 139 //! * [`Func`] (or [`component::Func`]) - a WebAssembly function. This can be 140 //! acquired as the export of an [`Instance`] to call WebAssembly functions, 141 //! or it can be created via functions like [`Func::wrap`] to wrap 142 //! host-defined functionality and give it to WebAssembly. Functions also have 143 //! typed views as [`TypedFunc`] or [`component::TypedFunc`] for a more 144 //! efficient calling convention. 145 //! 146 //! * [`Table`], [`Global`], [`Memory`], [`component::Resource`] - other 147 //! WebAssembly objects which can either be defined on the host or in wasm 148 //! itself (via instances). These all have various ways of being interacted 149 //! with like [`Func`]. 150 //! 151 //! All "store-connected" types such as [`Func`], [`Memory`], etc, require the 152 //! store to be passed in as a context to each method. Methods in wasmtime 153 //! frequently have their first parameter as either [`impl 154 //! AsContext`][`AsContext`] or [`impl AsContextMut`][`AsContextMut`]. These 155 //! traits are implemented for a variety of types, allowing you to, for example, 156 //! pass the following types into methods: 157 //! 158 //! * `&Store<T>` 159 //! * `&mut Store<T>` 160 //! * `&Caller<'_, T>` 161 //! * `&mut Caller<'_, T>` 162 //! * `StoreContext<'_, T>` 163 //! * `StoreContextMut<'_, T>` 164 //! 165 //! A [`Store`] is the sole owner of all WebAssembly internals. Types like 166 //! [`Func`] point within the [`Store`] and require the [`Store`] to be provided 167 //! to actually access the internals of the WebAssembly function, for instance. 168 //! 169 //! ## WASI 170 //! 171 //! The `wasmtime` crate does not natively provide support for WASI, but you can 172 //! use the [`wasmtime-wasi`] crate for that purpose. With [`wasmtime-wasi`] all 173 //! WASI functions can be added to a [`Linker`] and then used to instantiate 174 //! WASI-using modules. For more information see the [WASI example in the 175 //! documentation](https://docs.wasmtime.dev/examples-rust-wasi.html). 176 //! 177 //! [`wasmtime-wasi`]: https://crates.io/crates/wasmtime-wasi 178 //! 179 //! ## Crate Features 180 //! 181 //! The `wasmtime` crate comes with a number of compile-time features that can 182 //! be used to customize what features it supports. Some of these features are 183 //! just internal details, but some affect the public API of the `wasmtime` 184 //! crate. Wasmtime APIs gated behind a Cargo feature should be indicated as 185 //! such in the documentation. 186 //! 187 //! * `runtime` - Enabled by default, this feature enables executing 188 //! WebAssembly modules and components. If a compiler is not available (such 189 //! as `cranelift`) then [`Module::deserialize`] must be used, for example, to 190 //! provide an ahead-of-time compiled artifact to execute WebAssembly. 191 //! 192 //! * `cranelift` - Enabled by default, this features enables using Cranelift at 193 //! runtime to compile a WebAssembly module to native code. This feature is 194 //! required to process and compile new WebAssembly modules and components. 195 //! 196 //! * `cache` - Enabled by default, this feature adds support for wasmtime to 197 //! perform internal caching of modules in a global location. This must still 198 //! be enabled explicitly through [`Config::cache`]. 199 //! 200 //! * `wat` - Enabled by default, this feature adds support for accepting the 201 //! text format of WebAssembly in [`Module::new`] and 202 //! [`Component::new`](component::Component::new). The text format will be 203 //! automatically recognized and translated to binary when compiling a 204 //! module. 205 //! 206 //! * `parallel-compilation` - Enabled by default, this feature enables support 207 //! for compiling functions in parallel with `rayon`. 208 //! 209 //! * `async` - Enabled by default, this feature enables APIs and runtime 210 //! support for defining asynchronous host functions and calling WebAssembly 211 //! asynchronously. For more information see [`Config::async_support`]. 212 //! 213 //! * `profiling` - Enabled by default, this feature compiles in support for 214 //! profiling guest code via a number of possible strategies. See 215 //! [`Config::profiler`] for more information. 216 //! 217 //! * `all-arch` - Not enabled by default. This feature compiles in support for 218 //! all architectures for both the JIT compiler and the `wasmtime compile` CLI 219 //! command. This can be combined with [`Config::target`] to precompile 220 //! modules for a different platform than the host. 221 //! 222 //! * `pooling-allocator` - Enabled by default, this feature adds support for 223 //! [`PoolingAllocationConfig`] to pass to [`Config::allocation_strategy`]. 224 //! The pooling allocator can enable efficient reuse of resources for 225 //! high-concurrency and high-instantiation-count scenarios. 226 //! 227 //! * `demangle` - Enabled by default, this will affect how backtraces are 228 //! printed and whether symbol names from WebAssembly are attempted to be 229 //! demangled. Rust and C++ demanglings are currently supported. 230 //! 231 //! * `coredump` - Enabled by default, this will provide support for generating 232 //! a core dump when a trap happens. This can be configured via 233 //! [`Config::coredump_on_trap`]. 234 //! 235 //! * `addr2line` - Enabled by default, this feature configures whether traps 236 //! will attempt to parse DWARF debug information and convert WebAssembly 237 //! addresses to source filenames and line numbers. 238 //! 239 //! * `debug-builtins` - Enabled by default, this feature includes some built-in 240 //! debugging utilities and symbols for native debuggers such as GDB and LLDB 241 //! to attach to the process Wasmtime is used within. The intrinsics provided 242 //! will enable debugging guest code compiled to WebAssembly. This must also 243 //! be enabled via [`Config::debug_info`] as well for guests. 244 //! 245 //! * `component-model` - Enabled by default, this enables support for the 246 //! [`wasmtime::component`](component) API for working with components. 247 //! 248 //! * `gc` - Enabled by default, this enables support for a number of 249 //! WebAssembly proposals such as `reference-types`, `function-references`, 250 //! and `gc`. Note that the implementation of the `gc` proposal itself is not 251 //! yet complete at this time. 252 //! 253 //! * `threads` - Enabled by default, this enables compile-time support for the 254 //! WebAssembly `threads` proposal, notably shared memories. 255 //! 256 //! * `call-hook` - Disabled by default, this enables support for the 257 //! [`Store::call_hook`] API. This incurs a small overhead on all 258 //! entries/exits from WebAssembly and may want to be disabled by some 259 //! embedders. 260 //! 261 //! * `memory-protection-keys` - Disabled by default, this enables support for 262 //! the [`PoolingAllocationConfig::memory_protection_keys`] API. This feature 263 //! currently only works on x64 Linux and can enable compacting the virtual 264 //! memory allocation for linear memories in the pooling allocator. This comes 265 //! with the same overhead as the `call-hook` feature where entries/exits into 266 //! WebAssembly will have more overhead than before. 267 //! 268 //! * `signals-based-traps` - Enabled by default, this enables support for using 269 //! host signal handlers to implement WebAssembly traps. For example virtual 270 //! memory is used to catch out-of-bounds accesses in WebAssembly that result 271 //! in segfaults. This is implicitly enabled by the `std` feature and is the 272 //! best way to get high-performance WebAssembly. 273 //! 274 //! More crate features can be found in the [manifest] of Wasmtime itself for 275 //! seeing what can be enabled and disabled. 276 //! 277 //! [manifest]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/crates/wasmtime/Cargo.toml 278 279 #![deny(missing_docs)] 280 #![doc(test(attr(deny(warnings))))] 281 #![doc(test(attr(allow(dead_code, unused_variables, unused_mut))))] 282 #![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_auto_cfg))] 283 // NB: this list is currently being burned down to remove all features listed 284 // here to get warnings in all configurations of Wasmtime. 285 #![cfg_attr( 286 any(not(feature = "runtime"), not(feature = "std")), 287 expect(dead_code, unused_imports, reason = "list not burned down yet") 288 )] 289 // Allow broken links when the default features is disabled because most of our 290 // documentation is written for the "one build" of the `main` branch which has 291 // most features enabled. This will present warnings in stripped-down doc builds 292 // and will prevent the doc build from failing. 293 #![cfg_attr(feature = "default", warn(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links))] 294 #![no_std] 295 296 #[cfg(feature = "std")] 297 #[macro_use] 298 extern crate std; 299 extern crate alloc; 300 301 pub(crate) mod prelude { 302 pub use crate::{Error, Result}; 303 pub use anyhow::{Context, anyhow, bail, ensure, format_err}; 304 pub use wasmtime_environ::prelude::*; 305 } 306 307 pub(crate) use hashbrown::{hash_map, hash_set}; 308 309 /// A helper macro to safely map `MaybeUninit<T>` to `MaybeUninit<U>` where `U` 310 /// is a field projection within `T`. 311 /// 312 /// This is intended to be invoked as: 313 /// 314 /// ```ignore 315 /// struct MyType { 316 /// field: u32, 317 /// } 318 /// 319 /// let initial: &mut MaybeUninit<MyType> = ...; 320 /// let field: &mut MaybeUninit<u32> = map_maybe_uninit!(initial.field); 321 /// ``` 322 /// 323 /// Note that array accesses are also supported: 324 /// 325 /// ```ignore 326 /// 327 /// let initial: &mut MaybeUninit<[u32; 2]> = ...; 328 /// let element: &mut MaybeUninit<u32> = map_maybe_uninit!(initial[1]); 329 /// ``` 330 #[doc(hidden)] 331 #[macro_export] 332 macro_rules! map_maybe_uninit { 333 ($maybe_uninit:ident $($field:tt)*) => ({ 334 #[allow(unused_unsafe, reason = "macro-generated code")] 335 { 336 unsafe { 337 use $crate::MaybeUninitExt; 338 339 let m: &mut core::mem::MaybeUninit<_> = $maybe_uninit; 340 // Note the usage of `&raw` here which is an attempt to "stay 341 // safe" here where we never accidentally create `&mut T` where `T` is 342 // actually uninitialized, hopefully appeasing the Rust unsafe 343 // guidelines gods. 344 m.map(|p| &raw mut (*p)$($field)*) 345 } 346 } 347 }) 348 } 349 350 #[doc(hidden)] 351 pub trait MaybeUninitExt<T> { 352 /// Maps `MaybeUninit<T>` to `MaybeUninit<U>` using the closure provided. 353 /// 354 /// # Safety 355 /// 356 /// Requires that `*mut U` is a field projection from `*mut T`. Use 357 /// `map_maybe_uninit!` above instead. 358 unsafe fn map<U>(&mut self, f: impl FnOnce(*mut T) -> *mut U) 359 -> &mut core::mem::MaybeUninit<U>; 360 } 361 362 impl<T> MaybeUninitExt<T> for core::mem::MaybeUninit<T> { 363 unsafe fn map<U>( 364 &mut self, 365 f: impl FnOnce(*mut T) -> *mut U, 366 ) -> &mut core::mem::MaybeUninit<U> { 367 let new_ptr = f(self.as_mut_ptr()); 368 // SAFETY: the memory layout of these two types are the same, and 369 // asserting that it's a safe reference with the same lifetime as `self` 370 // is a requirement of this function itself. 371 unsafe { core::mem::transmute::<*mut U, &mut core::mem::MaybeUninit<U>>(new_ptr) } 372 } 373 } 374 375 #[cfg(feature = "runtime")] 376 mod runtime; 377 #[cfg(feature = "runtime")] 378 pub use runtime::*; 379 380 #[cfg(any(feature = "cranelift", feature = "winch"))] 381 mod compile; 382 #[cfg(any(feature = "cranelift", feature = "winch"))] 383 pub use compile::{CodeBuilder, CodeHint}; 384 385 mod config; 386 mod engine; 387 mod profiling_agent; 388 389 pub use crate::config::*; 390 pub use crate::engine::*; 391 392 #[cfg(feature = "std")] 393 mod sync_std; 394 #[cfg(feature = "std")] 395 use sync_std as sync; 396 397 mod sync_nostd; 398 #[cfg(not(feature = "std"))] 399 use sync_nostd as sync; 400 401 /// A convenience wrapper for `Result<T, anyhow::Error>`. 402 /// 403 /// This type can be used to interact with `wasmtimes`'s extensive use 404 /// of `anyhow::Error` while still not directly depending on `anyhow`. 405 /// 406 /// This type alias is identical to `anyhow::Result`. 407 #[doc(no_inline)] 408 pub use anyhow::{Error, Result}; 409 410 /// A re-exported instance of Wasmtime's `wasmparser` dependency. 411 /// 412 /// This may be useful for embedders that also use `wasmparser` 413 /// directly: it allows embedders to ensure that they are using the same 414 /// version as Wasmtime, both to eliminate redundant dependencies on 415 /// multiple versions of the library, and to ensure compatibility in 416 /// validation and feature support. 417 /// 418 /// Note that this re-export is *not subject to semver*: we reserve the 419 /// right to make patch releases of Wasmtime that bump the version of 420 /// wasmparser used, and hence the version re-exported, in 421 /// semver-incompatible ways. This is the tradeoff that the embedder 422 /// needs to opt into: in order to stay exactly in sync with an internal 423 /// detail of Wasmtime, the cost is visibility into potential internal 424 /// version changes. 425 #[cfg(feature = "reexport-wasmparser")] 426 pub use wasmparser; 427 428 fn _assert_send_and_sync<T: Send + Sync>() {} 429 430 fn _assertions_lib() { 431 _assert_send_and_sync::<Engine>(); 432 _assert_send_and_sync::<Config>(); 433 } 434 435 #[cfg(feature = "runtime")] 436 #[doc(hidden)] 437 pub mod _internal { 438 // Exported just for the CLI. 439 pub use crate::runtime::vm::MmapVec; 440 } 441