Summary:
The WebAssembly backend automatically lowers atomic operations and TLS
to nonatomic operations and non-TLS data when either are present and
the atomics or bulk-memory features are not present, respectively. The
resulting object is no longer thread-safe, so the linker has to be
told not to allow it to be linked into a module with shared
memory. This was previously done by disallowing the 'atomics' feature,
which prevented any objct with its atomic operations or TLS removed
from being linked with any object containing atomics or TLS, and
therefore preventing it from being linked into a module with shared
memory since shared memory requires atomics.
However, as of https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/144, the
validation rules are relaxed to allow atomic operations to validate
with unshared memories, which makes it perfectly safe to link an
object with stripped atomics and TLS with another object that still
contains TLS and atomics as long as the resulting module has an
unshared memory. To allow this kind of link, this patch disallows a
pseudo-feature 'shared-mem' rather than 'atomics' to communicate to
the linker that the object is not thread-safe. This means that the
'atomics' feature is available to accurately reflect whether or not an
object has atomics enabled.
As a drive-by tweak, this change also requires that bulk-memory be
enabled in addition to atomics in order to use shared memory. This is
because initializing shared memories requires bulk-memory operations.
Reviewers: aheejin, sbc100
Subscribers: dschuff, jgravelle-google, hiraditya, sunfish, jfb, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79542
Summary:
Thread local variables are placed inside a `.tdata` segment. Their symbols are
offsets from the start of the segment. The address of a thread local variable
is computed as `__tls_base` + the offset from the start of the segment.
`.tdata` segment is a passive segment and `memory.init` is used once per thread
to initialize the thread local storage.
`__tls_base` is a wasm global. Since each thread has its own wasm instance,
it is effectively thread local. Currently, `__tls_base` must be initialized
at thread startup, and so cannot be used with dynamic libraries.
`__tls_base` is to be initialized with a new linker-synthesized function,
`__wasm_init_tls`, which takes as an argument a block of memory to use as the
storage for thread locals. It then initializes the block of memory and sets
`__tls_base`. As `__wasm_init_tls` will handle the memory initialization,
the memory does not have to be zeroed.
To help allocating memory for thread-local storage, a new compiler intrinsic
is introduced: `__builtin_wasm_tls_size()`. This instrinsic function returns
the size of the thread-local storage for the current function.
The expected usage is to run something like the following upon thread startup:
__wasm_init_tls(malloc(__builtin_wasm_tls_size()));
Reviewers: tlively, aheejin, kripken, sbc100
Subscribers: dschuff, jgravelle-google, hiraditya, sunfish, jfb, cfe-commits, llvm-commits
Tags: #clang, #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64537
llvm-svn: 366272
Summary:
It does not currently make sense to use WebAssembly features in some functions
but not others, so this CL adds an IR pass that takes the union of all used
feature sets and applies it to each function in the module. This allows us to
prevent atomics from being lowered away if some function has opted in to using
them. When atomics is not enabled anywhere, we detect whether there exists any
atomic operations or thread local storage that would be stripped and disallow
linking with objects that contain atomics if and only if atomics or tls are
stripped. When atomics is enabled, mark it as used but do not require it of
other objects in the link. These changes allow libraries that do not use atomics
to be built once and linked into both single-threaded and multithreaded
binaries.
Reviewers: aheejin, sbc100, dschuff
Subscribers: jgravelle-google, hiraditya, sunfish, jfb, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59625
llvm-svn: 357226
Thomas Lively