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add wasm32-wasip2 support #6893

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Motivation

This adds support for the new wasm32-wasip2 target platform, which includes more extensive support for sockets than wasm32-wasip1 (formerly known as wasm32-wasi).

Solution

The bulk of the changes are in tokio-rs/mio#1836. This patch just tweaks a few cfg directives to indicate wasm32-wasip2's additional capabilities.

In the future, we could consider adding support for tokio::net::lookup_host. WASIp2 natively supports asynchronous DNS lookups and is single threaded, whereas Tokio currently assumes DNS lookups are blocking and require multithreading to emulate async lookups. A WASIp2-specific implementation could do the lookup directly without multithreading.

I've tested this end-to-end using https://github.com/dicej/wasi-sockets-tests, which includes smoke tests for mio, tokio, tokio-postgres, etc. I'd also be happy to add tests to this repo if appropriate; it would require adding a dev-dependency on e.g. wasmtime to actually run the test cases.

Note that this is a draft PR until tokio-rs/mio#1836 is merged, at which point I'll switch the mio dependency back to the upstream project.

This adds support for the new `wasm32-wasip2` target platform, which includes
more extensive support for sockets than `wasm32-wasip1` (formerly known as
`wasm32-wasi`).

The bulk of the changes are in tokio-rs/mio#1836.  This
patch just tweaks a few `cfg` directives to indicate `wasm32-wasip2`'s
additional capabilities.

In the future, we could consider adding support for `ToSocketAddrs`.  WASIp2
natively supports asynchronous DNS lookups and is single threaded, whereas Tokio
currently assumes DNS lookups are blocking and require multithreading to emulate
async lookups.  A WASIp2-specific implementation could do the lookup directly
without multithreading.

I've tested this end-to-end using https://github.com/dicej/wasi-sockets-tests,
which includes smoke tests for `mio`, `tokio`, `tokio-postgres`, etc.  I'd also
be happy to add tests to this repo if appropriate; it would require adding a
dev-dependency on e.g. `wasmtime` to actually run the test cases.

Signed-off-by: Joel Dice <[email protected]>
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@Darksonn Darksonn added A-tokio Area: The main tokio crate T-wasm Topic: Web Assembly labels Oct 10, 2024
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Looks ok, but let's wait for the mio PR.

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