We see multiple cases inside rustc and ecosystem code where ThreadId is
transmuted to u64, exploiting the underlying detail. This is suboptimal
(can break unexpectedly if we change things in std).
It is unlikely that ThreadId will ever need to be larger than u64 --
creating even 2^32 threads over the course of a program is quite hard,
2^64 is even harder. As such, we do not choose to return a larger sized
type (e.g. u128). If we choose to shrink ThreadId in the future, or
otherwise change its internals, it is likely that a mapping to u64 will
still be applicable (though may become more complex).
This is a stylistic change to libstd to reduce the number of checks of
`feature = "backtrace"` now that we unconditionally depend on the
`backtrace` crate and rely on it having an empty implementation.
otherwise.
Include id in Thread's Debug implementation
Since Rust 1.19.0, `id` is a stable method, so there is no reason to not include it in Debug implementation.
SGX target: fix std unit tests
This fixes some tests and some code in the SGX sys implementation to make the `std` unit test suite pass.
#59009 must be merged first.
This means when the other thread wakes it can continue right away
instead of having to wait for the mutex.
Also add some comments explaining why the mutex needs to be locked in
the first place.
Unchecked thread spawning
# Summary
Add an unsafe interface for spawning lifetime-unrestricted threads for
library authors to build less-contrived, less-hacky safe abstractions
on.
# Motivation
So a few years back scoped threads were entirely removed from the Rust
stdlib, the reason being that it was possible to leak the scoped thread's
join guards without resorting to unsafe code, which meant the concept
was not completely safe, either.
Only a maximally-restrictive safe API for thread spawning was kept in the
stdlib, that requires `'static` lifetime bounds on both the thread closure
and its return type.
A number of 3rd party libraries sprung up to offer their implementations
for safe scoped threads implementations.
These work by essentially hiding the join guards from the user, thus
forcing them to join at the end of an (internal) function scope.
However, since these libraries have to use the maximally restrictive
thread spawning API, they have to resort to some very contrived manipulations
and subversions of Rust's type system to basically achieve what this commit does
with some minimal restructuring of the current code and exposing a new unsafe
function signature for spawning threads without lifetime restrictions.
Obviously this is unsafe, but its main use would be to allow library authors
to write safe abstractions with and around it.
To further illustrate my point, here's a quick summary of the hoops that,
for instance `crossbeam`, has to jump through to spawn a lifetime unrestricted
thread, all of which would not be necessary if an unsafe API existed as part
of the stdlib:
1. Allocate an `Arc<Option<T>>` on the heap where the result with type
`T: 'a` will go (in practice requires `Mutex` or `UnsafeCell` as well).
2. Wrap the desired thread closure with lifetime bound `'a` into another
closure (also `..: 'a`) that returns `()`, executes the inner closure and
writes its result into the pre-allocated `Option<T>`.
3. Box the wrapping closure, cast it to a trait object (`FnBox`) and
(unsafely) transmute its lifetime bound from `'a` to `'static`.
So while this new `spawn_unchecked` function is certainly not very relevant
for general use, since scoped threads are so common I think it makes sense
to expose an interface for libraries implementing these to build on.
The changes implemented are also very minimal: The current `spawn` function
(which internally contains unsafe code) is moved into an unsafe `spawn_unchecked`
function, which the safe function then wraps around.
# Issues
- ~~so far, no documentation for the new function (yet)~~
- the name of the function might be controversial, as `*_unchecked` more commonly
indicates that some sort of runtime check is omitted (`unrestricted` may be
more fitting)
- if accepted, it might make sense to add a freestanding `thread::spawn_unchecked`
function similar to the current `thread::spawn` for convenience.
This adds an implementation of thread local storage for the
`wasm32-unknown-unknown` target when the `atomics` feature is
implemented. This, however, comes with a notable caveat of that it
requires a new feature of the standard library, `wasm-bindgen-threads`,
to be enabled.
Thread local storage for wasm (when `atomics` are enabled and there's
actually more than one thread) is powered by the assumption that an
external entity can fill in some information for us. It's not currently
clear who will fill in this information nor whose responsibility it
should be long-term. In the meantime there's a strategy being gamed out
in the `wasm-bindgen` project specifically, and the hope is that we can
continue to test and iterate on the standard library without committing
to a particular strategy yet.
As to the details of `wasm-bindgen`'s strategy, LLVM doesn't currently
have the ability to emit custom `global` values (thread locals in a
`WebAssembly.Module`) so we leverage the `wasm-bindgen` CLI tool to do
it for us. To that end we have a few intrinsics, assuming two global values:
* `__wbindgen_current_id` - gets the current thread id as a 32-bit
integer. It's `wasm-bindgen`'s responsibility to initialize this
per-thread and then inform libstd of the id. Currently `wasm-bindgen`
performs this initialization as part of the `start` function.
* `__wbindgen_tcb_{get,set}` - in addition to a thread id it's assumed
that there's a global available for simply storing a pointer's worth
of information (a thread control block, which currently only contains
thread local storage). This would ideally be a native `global`
injected by LLVM, but we don't have a great way to support that right
now.
To reiterate, this is all intended to be unstable and purely intended
for testing out Rust on the web with threads. The story is very likely
to change in the future and we want to make sure that we're able to do
that!
