This commit is intended to do almost everything necessary for processing
the alias section of module linking. Most of this is internal
refactoring, the highlights being:
* Type contents are now stored separately from a `wasmtime_env::Module`.
Given that modules can freely alias types and have them used all over
the place, it seemed best to have one canonical location to type
storage which everywhere else points to (with indices). A new
`TypeTables` structure is produced during compilation which is shared
amongst all member modules in a wasm blob.
* Instantiation is heavily refactored to account for module linking. The
main gotcha here is that imports are now listed as "initializers". We
have a sort of pseudo-bytecode-interpreter which interprets the
initialization of a module. This is more complicated than just
matching imports at this point because in the module linking proposal
the module, alias, import, and instance sections may all be
interleaved. This means that imports aren't guaranteed to show up at
the beginning of the address space for modules/instances.
Otherwise most of the changes here largely fell out from these two
design points. Aliases are recorded as initializers in this scheme.
Copying around type information and/or just knowing type information
during compilation is also pretty easy since everything is just a
pointer into a `TypeTables` and we don't have to actually copy any types
themselves. Lots of various refactorings were necessary to accomodate
these changes.
Tests are hoped to cover a breadth of functionality here, but not
necessarily a depth. There's still one more piece of the module linking
proposal missing which is exporting instances/modules, which will come
in a future PR.
It's also worth nothing that there's one large TODO which isn't
implemented in this change that I plan on opening an issue for.
With module linking when a set of modules comes back from compilation
each modules has all the trampolines for the entire set of modules. This
is quite a lot of duplicate trampolines across module-linking modules.
We'll want to refactor this at some point to instead have only one set
of trampolines per set of module linking modules and have them shared
from there. I figured it was best to separate out this change, however,
since it's purely related to resource usage, and doesn't impact
non-module-linking modules at all.
cc #2094
* Provide filename/line number information in `Trap`
This commit extends the `Trap` type and `Store` to retain DWARF debug
information found in a wasm file unconditionally, if it's present. This
then enables us to print filenames and line numbers which point back to
actual source code when a trap backtrace is printed. Additionally the
`FrameInfo` type has been souped up to return filename/line number
information as well.
The implementation here is pretty simplistic currently. The meat of all
the work happens in `gimli` and `addr2line`, and otherwise wasmtime is
just schlepping around bytes of dwarf debuginfo here and there!
The general goal here is to assist with debugging when using wasmtime
because filenames and line numbers are generally orders of magnitude
better even when you already have a stack trace. Another nicety here is
that backtraces will display inlined frames (learned through debug
information), improving the experience in release mode as well.
An example of this is that with this file:
```rust
fn main() {
panic!("hello");
}
```
we get this stack trace:
```
$ rustc foo.rs --target wasm32-wasi -g
$ cargo run foo.wasm
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.16s
Running `target/debug/wasmtime foo.wasm`
thread 'main' panicked at 'hello', foo.rs:2:5
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Error: failed to run main module `foo.wasm`
Caused by:
0: failed to invoke command default
1: wasm trap: unreachable
wasm backtrace:
0: 0x6c1c - panic_abort::__rust_start_panic::abort::h2d60298621b1ccbf
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/panic_abort/src/lib.rs:77:17
- __rust_start_panic
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/panic_abort/src/lib.rs:32:5
1: 0x68c7 - rust_panic
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panicking.rs:626:9
2: 0x65a1 - std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook::h2345fb0909b53e12
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panicking.rs:596:5
3: 0x1436 - std::panicking::begin_panic::{{closure}}::h106f151a6db8c8fb
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panicking.rs:506:9
4: 0xda8 - std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_end_short_backtrace::he55aa13f22782798
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/sys_common/backtrace.rs:153:18
5: 0x1324 - std::panicking::begin_panic::h1727e7d1d719c76f
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panicking.rs:505:12
6: 0xfde - foo::main::h2db1313a64510850
at /Users/acrichton/code/wasmtime/foo.rs:2:5
7: 0x11d5 - core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once::h20ee1cc04aeff1fc
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/core/src/ops/function.rs:227:5
8: 0xddf - std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::h054493e41e27e69c
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/sys_common/backtrace.rs:137:18
9: 0x1d5a - std::rt::lang_start::{{closure}}::hd83784448d3fcb42
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/rt.rs:66:18
10: 0x69d8 - core::ops::function::impls::<impl core::ops::function::FnOnce<A> for &F>::call_once::h564d3dad35014917
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/core/src/ops/function.rs:259:13
- std::panicking::try::do_call::hdca4832ace5a8603
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panicking.rs:381:40
- std::panicking::try::ha8624a1a6854b456
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panicking.rs:345:19
- std::panic::catch_unwind::h71421f57cf2bc688
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/panic.rs:382:14
- std::rt::lang_start_internal::h260050c92cd470af
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/rt.rs:51:25
11: 0x1d0c - std::rt::lang_start::h0b4bcf3c5e498224
at /rustc/7eac88abb2e57e752f3302f02be5f3ce3d7adfb4/library/std/src/rt.rs:65:5
12: 0xffc - <unknown>!__original_main
13: 0x393 - __muloti4
at /cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/compiler_builtins-0.1.35/src/macros.rs:269
```
This is relatively noisy by default but there's filenames and line
numbers! Additionally frame 10 can be seen to have lots of frames
inlined into it. All information is always available to the embedder but
we could try to handle the `__rust_begin_short_backtrace` and
`__rust_end_short_backtrace` markers to trim the backtrace by default as
well.
The only gotcha here is that it looks like `__muloti4` is out of place.
That's because the libc that Rust ships with doesn't have dwarf
information, although I'm not sure why we land in that function for
symbolizing it...
* Add a configuration switch for debuginfo
* Control debuginfo by default with `WASM_BACKTRACE_DETAILS`
* Try cpp_demangle on demangling as well
* Rename to WASMTIME_BACKTRACE_DETAILS
This commit implements the interpretation necessary of the instance
section of the module linking proposal. Instantiating a module which
itself has nested instantiated instances will now instantiate the nested
instances properly. This isn't all that useful without the ability to
alias exports off the result, but we can at least observe the side
effects of instantiation through the `start` function.
cc #2094
With the module linking proposal the field name on imports is now
optional, and only the module is required to be specified. This commit
propagates this API change to the boundary of wasmtime's API, ensuring
consumers are aware of what's optional with module linking and what
isn't. Note that it's expected that all existing users will either
update accordingly or unwrap the result since module linking is
presumably disabled.
* this requires upgrading to wasmparser 0.67.0.
* There are no CLIF side changes because the CLIF `select` instruction is
polymorphic enough.
* on aarch64, there is unfortunately no conditional-move (csel) instruction on
vectors. This patch adds a synthetic instruction `VecCSel` which *does*
behave like that. At emit time, this is emitted as an if-then-else diamond
(4 insns).
* aarch64 implementation is otherwise straightforwards.
This commit adds lots of plumbing to get the type section from the
module linking proposal plumbed all the way through to the `wasmtime`
crate and the `wasmtime-c-api` crate. This isn't all that useful right
now because Wasmtime doesn't support imported/exported
modules/instances, but this is all necessary groundwork to getting that
exported at some point. I've added some light tests but I suspect the
bulk of the testing will come in a future commit.
One major change in this commit is that `SignatureIndex` no longer
follows type type index space in a wasm module. Instead a new
`TypeIndex` type is used to track that. Function signatures, still
indexed by `SignatureIndex`, are then packed together tightly.
This commit is intended to be the first of many in implementing the
module linking proposal. At this time this builds on #2059 so it
shouldn't land yet. The goal of this commit is to compile bare-bones
modules which use module linking, e.g. those with nested modules.
My hope with module linking is that almost everything in wasmtime only
needs mild refactorings to handle it. The goal is that all per-module
structures are still per-module and at the top level there's just a
`Vec` containing a bunch of modules. That's implemented currently where
`wasmtime::Module` contains `Arc<[CompiledModule]>` and an index of
which one it's pointing to. This should enable
serialization/deserialization of any module in a nested modules
scenario, no matter how you got it.
Tons of features of the module linking proposal are missing from this
commit. For example instantiation flat out doesn't work, nor does
import/export of modules or instances. That'll be coming as future
commits, but the purpose here is to start laying groundwork in Wasmtime
for handling lots of modules in lots of places.
I don't think this has happened in awhile but I've run a `cargo update`
as well as trimming some of the duplicate/older dependencies in
`Cargo.lock` by updating some of our immediate dependencies as well.
After compilation there's actually no need to hold onto the native
signature for a wasm function type, so this commit moves out the
`ir::Signature` value from a `Module` into a separate field that's
deallocated when compilation is finished. This simplifies the
`SignatureRegistry` because it only needs to track wasm functino types
and it also means less work is done for `Func::wrap`.
This patch implements, for aarch64, the following wasm SIMD extensions
i32x4.dot_i16x8_s instruction
https://github.com/WebAssembly/simd/pull/127
It also updates dependencies as follows, in order that the new instruction can
be parsed, decoded, etc:
wat to 1.0.27
wast to 26.0.1
wasmparser to 0.65.0
wasmprinter to 0.2.12
The changes are straightforward:
* new CLIF instruction `widening_pairwise_dot_product_s`
* translation from wasm into `widening_pairwise_dot_product_s`
* new AArch64 instructions `smull`, `smull2` (part of the `VecRRR` group)
* translation from `widening_pairwise_dot_product_s` to `smull ; smull2 ; addv`
There is no testcase in this commit, because that is a separate repo. The
implementation has been tested, nevertheless.
This commit reduces the size of `InstructionAddressMap` from 24 bytes to
8 bytes by dropping the `code_len` field and reducing `code_offset` to
`u32` instead of `usize`. The intention is to primarily make the
in-memory version take up less space, and the hunch is that the
`code_len` is largely not necessary since most entries in this map are
always adjacent to one another. The `code_len` field is now implied by
the `code_offset` field of the next entry in the map.
This isn't as big of an improvement to serialized module size as #2321
or #2322, primarily because of the switch to variable-length encoding.
Despite this though it shaves about 10MB off the encoded size of the
module from #2318
Turns out this wasn't needed anywhere! Additionally we can construct it
from `InstructionAddressMap` anyway. There's so many pieces of trap
information that it's best to keep these structures small as well.
This commit adds initial (gated) support for the multi-memory wasm
proposal. This was actually quite easy since almost all of wasmtime
already expected multi-memory to be implemented one day. The only real
substantive change is the `memory.copy` intrinsic changes, which now
accounts for the source/destination memories possibly being different.
* Validate modules while translating
This commit is a change to cranelift-wasm to validate each function body
as it is translated. Additionally top-level module translation functions
will perform module validation. This commit builds on changes in
wasmparser to perform module validation interwtwined with parsing and
translation. This will be necessary for future wasm features such as
module linking where the type behind a function index, for example, can
be far away in another module. Additionally this also brings a nice
benefit where parsing the binary only happens once (instead of having an
up-front serial validation step) and validation can happen in parallel
for each function.
Most of the changes in this commit are plumbing to make sure everything
lines up right. The major functional change here is that module
compilation should be faster by validating in parallel (or skipping
function validation entirely in the case of a cache hit). Otherwise from
a user-facing perspective nothing should be that different.
This commit does mean that cranelift's translation now inherently
validates the input wasm module. This means that the Spidermonkey
integration of cranelift-wasm will also be validating the function as
it's being translated with cranelift. The associated PR for wasmparser
(bytecodealliance/wasmparser#62) provides the necessary tools to create
a `FuncValidator` for Gecko, but this is something I'll want careful
review for before landing!
* Read function operators until EOF
This way we can let the validator take care of any issues with
mismatched `end` instructions and/or trailing operators/bytes.
This commit extracts the two implementations of `Compiler` into two
separate crates, `wasmtime-cranelfit` and `wasmtime-lightbeam`. The
`wasmtime-jit` crate then depends on these two and instantiates them
appropriately. The goal here is to start reducing the weight of the
`wasmtime-environ` crate, which currently serves as a common set of
types between all `wasmtime-*` crates. Long-term I'd like to remove the
dependency on Cranelift from `wasmtime-environ`, but that's going to
take a lot more work.
In the meantime I figure it's a good way to get started by separating
out the lightbeam/cranelift function compilers from the
`wasmtime-environ` crate. We can continue to iterate on moving things
out in the future, too.
This commit moves all of the caching support that currently lives in
`wasmtime-environ` into a `wasmtime-cache` crate and makes it optional. The
goal here is to slim down the `wasmtime-environ` crate and clearly separate
boundaries where caching is a standalone and optional feature, not intertwined
with other crates.
This was added long ago at this point to assist with caching, but
caching has moved to a different level such that this wonky second level
of a `Module` isn't necessary. This commit removes the `ModuleLocal`
type to simplify accessors and generally make it easier to work with.
The implementation is pretty straightforward. Wasm atomic instructions fall
into 5 groups
* atomic read-modify-write
* atomic compare-and-swap
* atomic loads
* atomic stores
* fences
and the implementation mirrors that structure, at both the CLIF and AArch64
levels.
At the CLIF level, there are five new instructions, one for each group. Some
comments about these:
* for those that take addresses (all except fences), the address is contained
entirely in a single `Value`; there is no offset field as there is with
normal loads and stores. Wasm atomics require alignment checks, and
removing the offset makes implementation of those checks a bit simpler.
* atomic loads and stores get their own instructions, rather than reusing the
existing load and store instructions, for two reasons:
- per above comment, makes alignment checking simpler
- reuse of existing loads and stores would require extension of `MemFlags`
to indicate atomicity, which sounds semantically unclean. For example,
then *any* instruction carrying `MemFlags` could be marked as atomic, even
in cases where it is meaningless or ambiguous.
* I tried to specify, in comments, the behaviour of these instructions as
tightly as I could. Unfortunately there is no way (per my limited CLIF
knowledge) to enforce the constraint that they may only be used on I8, I16,
I32 and I64 types, and in particular not on floating point or vector types.
The translation from Wasm to CLIF, in `code_translator.rs` is unremarkable.
At the AArch64 level, there are also five new instructions, one for each
group. All of them except `::Fence` contain multiple real machine
instructions. Atomic r-m-w and atomic c-a-s are emitted as the usual
load-linked store-conditional loops, guarded at both ends by memory fences.
Atomic loads and stores are emitted as a load preceded by a fence, and a store
followed by a fence, respectively. The amount of fencing may be overkill, but
it reflects exactly what the SM Wasm baseline compiler for AArch64 does.
One reason to implement r-m-w and c-a-s as a single insn which is expanded
only at emission time is that we must be very careful what instructions we
allow in between the load-linked and store-conditional. In particular, we
cannot allow *any* extra memory transactions in there, since -- particularly
on low-end hardware -- that might cause the transaction to fail, hence
deadlocking the generated code. That implies that we can't present the LL/SC
loop to the register allocator as its constituent instructions, since it might
insert spills anywhere. Hence we must present it as a single indivisible
unit, as we do here. It also has the benefit of reducing the total amount of
work the RA has to do.
The only other notable feature of the r-m-w and c-a-s translations into
AArch64 code, is that they both need a scratch register internally. Rather
than faking one up by claiming, in `get_regs` that it modifies an extra
scratch register, and having to have a dummy initialisation of it, these new
instructions (`::LLSC` and `::CAS`) simply use fixed registers in the range
x24-x28. We rely on the RA's ability to coalesce V<-->R copies to make the
cost of the resulting extra copies zero or almost zero. x24-x28 are chosen so
as to be call-clobbered, hence their use is less likely to interfere with long
live ranges that span calls.
One subtlety regarding the use of completely fixed input and output registers
is that we must be careful how the surrounding copy from/to of the arg/result
registers is done. In particular, it is not safe to simply emit copies in
some arbitrary order if one of the arg registers is a real reg. For that
reason, the arguments are first moved into virtual regs if they are not
already there, using a new method `<LowerCtx for Lower>::ensure_in_vreg`.
Again, we rely on coalescing to turn them into no-ops in the common case.
There is also a ridealong fix for the AArch64 lowering case for
`Opcode::Trapif | Opcode::Trapff`, which removes a bug in which two trap insns
in a row were generated.
In the patch as submitted there are 6 "FIXME JRS" comments, which mark things
which I believe to be correct, but for which I would appreciate a second
opinion. Unless otherwise directed, I will remove them for the final commit
but leave the associated code/comments unchanged.
* Refactor where results of compilation are stored
This commit refactors the internals of compilation in Wasmtime to change
where results of individual function compilation are stored. Previously
compilation resulted in many maps being returned, and compilation
results generally held all these maps together. This commit instead
switches this to have all metadata stored in a `CompiledFunction`
instead of having a separate map for each item that can be stored.
The motivation for this is primarily to help out with future
module-linking-related PRs. What exactly "module level" is depends on
how we interpret modules and how many modules are in play, so it's a bit
easier for operations in wasmtime to work at the function level where
possible. This means that we don't have to pass around multiple
different maps and a function index, but instead just one map or just
one entry representing a compiled function.
Additionally this change updates where the parallelism of compilation
happens, pushing it into `wasmtime-jit` instead of `wasmtime-environ`.
This is another goal where `wasmtime-jit` will have more knowledge about
module-level pieces with module linking in play. User-facing-wise this
should be the same in terms of parallel compilation, though.
The ultimate goal of this refactoring is to make it easier for the
results of compilation to actually be a set of wasm modules. This means
we won't be able to have a map-per-metadata where the primary key is the
function index, because there will be many modules within one "object
file".
* Don't clear out fields, just don't store them
Persist a smaller set of fields in `CompilationArtifacts` instead of
trying to clear fields out and dynamically not accessing them.
* Don't re-parse wasm for debuginfo
This commit updates debuginfo parsing to happen during the main
translation of the original wasm module. This avoid re-parsing the wasm
module twice (at least the section-level headers). Additionally this
ties debuginfo directly to a `ModuleTranslation` which makes it easier
to process debuginfo for nested modules in the upcoming module linking
proposal.
The changes here are summarized by taking the `read_debuginfo` function
and merging it with the main module translation that happens which is
driven by cranelift. Some new hooks were added to the module environment
trait to support this, but most of it was integrating with existing hooks.
* Fix tests in debug crate
* move caching to the CompilationArtifacts
* mv cache_config from Compiler to CompiledModule
* hash isa flags
* no cache for wasm2obj
* mv caching to wasmtime crate
* account each Compiler field when hash
This commit is intended to update wasmparser to 0.59.0. This primarily
includes bytecodealliance/wasm-tools#40 which is a large update to how
parsing and validation works. The impact on Wasmtime is pretty small at
this time, but over time I'd like to refactor the internals here to lean
more heavily on that upstream wasmparser refactoring.
For now, though, the intention is to get on the train of wasmparser's
latest `main` branch to ensure we get bug fixes and such.
As part of this update a few other crates and such were updated. This is
primarily to handle the new encoding of `ref.is_null` where the type is
not part of the instruction encoding any more.
When running in embedded environments, threads creation is sometimes
undesirable. This adds a feature to toggle wasmtime's internal thread
creation for parallel compilation.
* wasmtime: Implement `global.{get,set}` for externref globals
We use libcalls to implement these -- unlike `table.{get,set}`, for which we
create inline JIT fast paths -- because no known toolchain actually uses
externref globals.
Part of #929
* wasmtime: Enable `{extern,func}ref` globals in the API
These instructions have fast, inline JIT paths for the common cases, and only
call out to host VM functions for the slow paths. This required some changes to
`cranelift-wasm`'s `FuncEnvironment`: instead of taking a `FuncCursor` to insert
an instruction sequence within the current basic block,
`FuncEnvironment::translate_table_{get,set}` now take a `&mut FunctionBuilder`
so that they can create whole new basic blocks. This is necessary for
implementing GC read/write barriers that involve branching (e.g. checking for
null, or whether a store buffer is at capacity).
Furthermore, it required that the `load`, `load_complex`, and `store`
instructions handle loading and storing through an `r{32,64}` rather than just
`i{32,64}` addresses. This involved making `r{32,64}` types acceptable
instantiations of the `iAddr` type variable, plus a few new instruction
encodings.
Part of #929
`funcref`s are implemented as `NonNull<VMCallerCheckedAnyfunc>`.
This should be more efficient than using a `VMExternRef` that points at a
`VMCallerCheckedAnyfunc` because it gets rid of an indirection, dynamic
allocation, and some reference counting.
Note that the null function reference is *NOT* a null pointer; it is a
`VMCallerCheckedAnyfunc` that has a null `func_ptr` member.
Part of #929
This serves two purposes:
1. It ensures that we call `get_or_create_table` to ensure that the embedder
already had a chance to create the given table (although this is mostly
redundant due to validation).
2. It allows the embedder to easily get the `ir::TableData` associated with this
table, and more easily emit whatever inline JIT code to translate the table
instruction (rather than falling back to VM calls).
This introduces two changes:
- first, a Cargo feature is added to make it possible to use the
Cranelift x64 backend directly from wasmtime's CLI.
- second, when passing a `cranelift-flags` parameter, and the given
parameter's name doesn't exist at the target-independent flag level, try
to set it as a target-dependent setting.
These two changes make it possible to try out the new x64 backend with:
cargo run --features experimental_x64 -- run --cranelift-flags use_new_backend=true -- /path/to/a.wasm
Right now, this will fail because most opcodes required by the
trampolines are actually not implemented yet.
This commit enables `wasmtime_runtime::Table` to internally hold elements of
either `funcref` (all that is currently supported) or `externref` (newly
introduced in this commit).
This commit updates `Table`'s API, but does NOT generally propagate those
changes outwards all the way through the Wasmtime embedding API. It only does
enough to get everything compiling and the current test suite passing. It is
expected that as we implement more of the reference types spec, we will bubble
these changes out and expose them to the embedding API.
For host VM code, we use plain reference counting, where cloning increments
the reference count, and dropping decrements it. We can avoid many of the
on-stack increment/decrement operations that typically plague the
performance of reference counting via Rust's ownership and borrowing system.
Moving a `VMExternRef` avoids mutating its reference count, and borrowing it
either avoids the reference count increment or delays it until if/when the
`VMExternRef` is cloned.
When passing a `VMExternRef` into compiled Wasm code, we don't want to do
reference count mutations for every compiled `local.{get,set}`, nor for
every function call. Therefore, we use a variation of **deferred reference
counting**, where we only mutate reference counts when storing
`VMExternRef`s somewhere that outlives the activation: into a global or
table. Simultaneously, we over-approximate the set of `VMExternRef`s that
are inside Wasm function activations. Periodically, we walk the stack at GC
safe points, and use stack map information to precisely identify the set of
`VMExternRef`s inside Wasm activations. Then we take the difference between
this precise set and our over-approximation, and decrement the reference
count for each of the `VMExternRef`s that are in our over-approximation but
not in the precise set. Finally, the over-approximation is replaced with the
precise set.
The `VMExternRefActivationsTable` implements the over-approximized set of
`VMExternRef`s referenced by Wasm activations. Calling a Wasm function and
passing it a `VMExternRef` moves the `VMExternRef` into the table, and the
compiled Wasm function logically "borrows" the `VMExternRef` from the
table. Similarly, `global.get` and `table.get` operations clone the gotten
`VMExternRef` into the `VMExternRefActivationsTable` and then "borrow" the
reference out of the table.
When a `VMExternRef` is returned to host code from a Wasm function, the host
increments the reference count (because the reference is logically
"borrowed" from the `VMExternRefActivationsTable` and the reference count
from the table will be dropped at the next GC).
For more general information on deferred reference counting, see *An
Examination of Deferred Reference Counting and Cycle Detection* by Quinane:
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/42030/2/hon-thesis.pdf
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