Some issues are related with memory fragmentation, which may cause
the linear memory cannot be allocated. In WAMR, the memory managed
by the system is often trivial, but linear memory usually directly allocates
a large block and often remains unchanged for a long time. Their sensitivity
and contribution to fragmentation are different, which is suitable for
different allocation strategies. If we can control the linear memory's allocation,
do not make it from system heap, the overhead of heap management might
be avoided.
Add `mem_alloc_usage_t usage` as the first argument for user defined
malloc/realloc/free functions when `WAMR_BUILD_ALLOC_WITH_USAGE` cmake
variable is set as 1, and make passing `Alloc_For_LinearMemory` to the
argument when allocating the linear memory.
Add GC, exception handling and memory64 to README.md post MVP feature list,
and update build_wamr.md for how to build them.
And remove `Non-trapping float-to-int conversions`, `Sign-extension operators`,
`Multi-value` links in README since they are in wasm MVP and very common now.
Add cmake variable `-DWAMR_BUILD_AOT_INTRINSICS=1/0` to enable/disable
the aot intrinsic functions, which are normally used by AOT XIP feature, and
can be disabled to reduce the aot runtime binary size.
And refactor the code in aot_intrinsics.h/.c.
Implement the GC (Garbage Collection) feature for interpreter mode,
AOT mode and LLVM-JIT mode, and support most features of the latest
spec proposal, and also enable the stringref feature.
Use `cmake -DWAMR_BUILD_GC=1/0` to enable/disable the feature,
and `wamrc --enable-gc` to generate the AOT file with GC supported.
And update the AOT file version from 2 to 3 since there are many AOT
ABI breaks, including the changes of AOT file format, the changes of
AOT module/memory instance layouts, the AOT runtime APIs for the
AOT code to invoke and so on.
Follow-up on #2907. The log level is needed in the host embedder to
better integrate with the embedder's logger.
Allow the developer to customize his bh_log callback with
`cmake -DWAMR_BH_LOG=<log_callback>`,
and update sample/basic to show the usage.
The content in custom name section is changed after loaded since the strings
are adjusted with '\0' appended, the emitted AOT file then cannot be loaded.
The PR disables changing the content for AOT compiler to resolve it.
And disable emitting custom name section for `wamrc --enable-dump-call-stack`,
instead, use `wamrc --emit-custom-sections=name` to emit it.
Send a signal whose handler is no-op to a blocking thread to wake up
the blocking syscall with either EINTR equivalent or partial success.
Unlike the approach taken in the `dev/interrupt_block_insn` branch (that is,
signal + longjmp similarly to `OS_ENABLE_HW_BOUND_CHECK`), this PR
does not use longjmp because:
* longjmp from signal handler doesn't work on nuttx
refer to https://github.com/apache/nuttx/issues/10326
* the singal+longjmp approach may be too difficult for average programmers
who might implement host functions to deal with
See also https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/issues/1910
Implement 2-level Multi-tier JIT engine: tier-up from Fast JIT to LLVM JIT to
get quick cold startup by Fast JIT and better performance by gradually
switching to LLVM JIT when the LLVM JIT functions are compiled by the
backend threads.
Refer to:
https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/issues/1302
Add a new options to control the native stack hw bound check feature:
- Besides the original option `cmake -DWAMR_DISABLE_HW_BOUND_CHECK=1/0`,
add a new option `cmake -DWAMR_DISABLE_STACK_HW_BOUND_CHECK=1/0`
- When the linear memory hw bound check is disabled, the stack hw bound check
will be disabled automatically, no matter what the input option is
- When the linear memory hw bound check is enabled, the stack hw bound check
is enabled/disabled according to the value of input option
- Besides the original option `--bounds-checks=1/0`, add a new option
`--stack-bounds-checks=1/0` for wamrc
Refer to: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/issues/1677
Use the cmake variable `WAMR_BUILD_GLOBAL_HEAP_POOL` and
`WAMR_BUILD_GLOBAL_HEAP_SIZE` to enable/disable the global heap pool
and set its size. And set the default global heap size in core/config.h and
the cmake files.
As a result, the developers who build iwasm can easily enable/disable the
global heap pool and change its size regardless of the iwasm implementation,
without manually finding and patching the right location for that value.
Refactor LLVM JIT for some purposes:
- To simplify the source code of JIT compilation
- To simplify the JIT modes
- To align with LLVM latest changes
- To prepare for the Multi-tier JIT compilation, refer to #1302
The changes mainly include:
- Remove the MCJIT mode, replace it with ORC JIT eager mode
- Remove the LLVM legacy pass manager (only keep the LLVM new pass manager)
- Change the lazy mode's LLVM module/function binding:
change each function in an individual LLVM module into all functions in a single LLVM module
- Upgraded ORC JIT to ORCv2 JIT to enable lazy compilation
Refer to #1468
Add a new option WAMR_BUILD_STACK_GUARD_SIZE to set the custom
stack guard size. For most RTOS systems, we use the native stack base
address as the check boundary which may be not safe as POSIX based
systems (like Linux).
Lookup table for i32.const and i64.const for xtensa XIP
Lookup const offset from table for load/store opcodes for xtensa XIP
Fill capability flags for xtensa XIP
Enable lower switch pass for xtensa XIP
Import WAMR Fast JIT which is a lightweight JIT with quick startup, small footprint,
relatively good performance (~40% to ~50% of LLVM JIT) and good portability.
Platforms supported: Linux, MacOS and Linux SGX.
Arch supported: x86-64.
Allow compilation on Windows MinGW, see build_wamr.md for more details.
Note that WASI and some other smallish details are still not supported, but
we have a starting point. See more discussion at #993
Refactor LLVM Orc JIT to actually enable the lazy compilation and speedup
the launching process:
https://llvm.org/docs/ORCv2.html#laziness
Main modifications:
- Create LLVM module for each wasm function, wrap it with thread safe module
so that the modules can be compiled parallelly
- Lookup function from aot module instance's func_ptrs but not directly call the
function to decouple the module relationship
- Compile the function when it is first called and hasn't been compiled
- Create threads to pre-compile the WASM functions parallelly when loading
- Set Lazy JIT as default, update document and build/test scripts
Update the Zephyr document to provide more detailed instructions, and add info
about espressif toolchain too.
Add ESP32C3 (RISC-V) and Particle Argon boards support to the zephyr platform
sample. More boards are possible, but the script doesn't scale well and is to be
improved in future.
Add Dockerfile to kickstart a Zephyr development environment as it can be rather
confusing for new users.
