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Fix crash on Web / Wasm when 'atomics' flag is enabled #837

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As the title says this pull request is a minimal change to fix a crash that occurs within cpal on the Wasm target when the 'atomics' flag is enabled. This allows cpal to be used with multithreaded Wasm / Rust applications.

This change is a small change adapted from this other, significantly larger, pull request: #774.

@est31 est31 merged commit 8d50e6a into RustAudio:master Feb 17, 2024
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# Objective

This gets Bevy building on Wasm when the `atomics` flag is enabled. This
does not yet multithread Bevy itself, but it allows Bevy users to use a
crate like `wasm_thread` to spawn their own threads and manually
parallelize work. This is a first step towards resolving #4078 . Also
fixes #9304.

This provides a foothold so that Bevy contributors can begin to think
about multithreaded Wasm's constraints and Bevy can work towards changes
to get the engine itself multithreaded.

Some flags need to be set on the Rust compiler when compiling for Wasm
multithreading. Here's what my build script looks like, with the correct
flags set, to test out Bevy examples on web:

```bash
set -e
RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+atomics,+bulk-memory,+mutable-globals' \
     cargo build --example breakout --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -Z build-std=std,panic_abort --release
 wasm-bindgen --out-name wasm_example \
   --out-dir examples/wasm/target \
   --target web target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/examples/breakout.wasm
 devserver --header Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy='same-origin' --header Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy='require-corp' --path examples/wasm
```

A few notes:

1. `cpal` crashes immediately when the `atomics` flag is set. That is
patched in RustAudio/cpal#837, but not yet in
the latest crates.io release.

That can be temporarily worked around by patching Cpal like so:
```toml
[patch.crates-io]
cpal = { git = "https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal" }
```

2. When testing out `wasm_thread` you need to enable the `es_modules`
feature.

## Solution

The largest obstacle to compiling Bevy with `atomics` on web is that
`wgpu` types are _not_ Send and Sync. Longer term Bevy will need an
approach to handle that, but in the near term Bevy is already configured
to be single-threaded on web.

Therefor it is enough to wrap `wgpu` types in a
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` that _is_ Send / Sync, but panics if
accessed off the `wgpu` thread.

---

## Changelog

- `wgpu` types that are not `Send` are wrapped in
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` on Wasm + 'atomics'
- CommandBuffers are not generated in parallel on Wasm + 'atomics'

## Questions
- Bevy should probably add CI checks to make sure this doesn't regress.
Should that go in this PR or a separate PR? **Edit:** Added checks to
build Wasm with atomics

---------

Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: daxpedda <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit to bevyengine/bevy that referenced this pull request Mar 25, 2024
# Objective

This gets Bevy building on Wasm when the `atomics` flag is enabled. This
does not yet multithread Bevy itself, but it allows Bevy users to use a
crate like `wasm_thread` to spawn their own threads and manually
parallelize work. This is a first step towards resolving #4078 . Also
fixes #9304.

This provides a foothold so that Bevy contributors can begin to think
about multithreaded Wasm's constraints and Bevy can work towards changes
to get the engine itself multithreaded.

Some flags need to be set on the Rust compiler when compiling for Wasm
multithreading. Here's what my build script looks like, with the correct
flags set, to test out Bevy examples on web:

```bash
set -e
RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+atomics,+bulk-memory,+mutable-globals' \
     cargo build --example breakout --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -Z build-std=std,panic_abort --release
 wasm-bindgen --out-name wasm_example \
   --out-dir examples/wasm/target \
   --target web target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/examples/breakout.wasm
 devserver --header Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy='same-origin' --header Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy='require-corp' --path examples/wasm
```

A few notes:

1. `cpal` crashes immediately when the `atomics` flag is set. That is
patched in RustAudio/cpal#837, but not yet in
the latest crates.io release.

That can be temporarily worked around by patching Cpal like so:
```toml
[patch.crates-io]
cpal = { git = "https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal" }
```

2. When testing out `wasm_thread` you need to enable the `es_modules`
feature.

## Solution

The largest obstacle to compiling Bevy with `atomics` on web is that
`wgpu` types are _not_ Send and Sync. Longer term Bevy will need an
approach to handle that, but in the near term Bevy is already configured
to be single-threaded on web.

Therefor it is enough to wrap `wgpu` types in a
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` that _is_ Send / Sync, but panics if
accessed off the `wgpu` thread.

---

## Changelog

- `wgpu` types that are not `Send` are wrapped in
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` on Wasm + 'atomics'
- CommandBuffers are not generated in parallel on Wasm + 'atomics'

## Questions
- Bevy should probably add CI checks to make sure this doesn't regress.
Should that go in this PR or a separate PR? **Edit:** Added checks to
build Wasm with atomics

---------

Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: daxpedda <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit to bevyengine/bevy that referenced this pull request Mar 25, 2024
# Objective

This gets Bevy building on Wasm when the `atomics` flag is enabled. This
does not yet multithread Bevy itself, but it allows Bevy users to use a
crate like `wasm_thread` to spawn their own threads and manually
parallelize work. This is a first step towards resolving #4078 . Also
fixes #9304.

This provides a foothold so that Bevy contributors can begin to think
about multithreaded Wasm's constraints and Bevy can work towards changes
to get the engine itself multithreaded.

Some flags need to be set on the Rust compiler when compiling for Wasm
multithreading. Here's what my build script looks like, with the correct
flags set, to test out Bevy examples on web:

```bash
set -e
RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+atomics,+bulk-memory,+mutable-globals' \
     cargo build --example breakout --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -Z build-std=std,panic_abort --release
 wasm-bindgen --out-name wasm_example \
   --out-dir examples/wasm/target \
   --target web target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/examples/breakout.wasm
 devserver --header Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy='same-origin' --header Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy='require-corp' --path examples/wasm
```

A few notes:

1. `cpal` crashes immediately when the `atomics` flag is set. That is
patched in RustAudio/cpal#837, but not yet in
the latest crates.io release.

That can be temporarily worked around by patching Cpal like so:
```toml
[patch.crates-io]
cpal = { git = "https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal" }
```

2. When testing out `wasm_thread` you need to enable the `es_modules`
feature.

## Solution

The largest obstacle to compiling Bevy with `atomics` on web is that
`wgpu` types are _not_ Send and Sync. Longer term Bevy will need an
approach to handle that, but in the near term Bevy is already configured
to be single-threaded on web.

Therefor it is enough to wrap `wgpu` types in a
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` that _is_ Send / Sync, but panics if
accessed off the `wgpu` thread.

---

## Changelog

- `wgpu` types that are not `Send` are wrapped in
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` on Wasm + 'atomics'
- CommandBuffers are not generated in parallel on Wasm + 'atomics'

## Questions
- Bevy should probably add CI checks to make sure this doesn't regress.
Should that go in this PR or a separate PR? **Edit:** Added checks to
build Wasm with atomics

---------

Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: daxpedda <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit to bevyengine/bevy that referenced this pull request Mar 25, 2024
# Objective

This gets Bevy building on Wasm when the `atomics` flag is enabled. This
does not yet multithread Bevy itself, but it allows Bevy users to use a
crate like `wasm_thread` to spawn their own threads and manually
parallelize work. This is a first step towards resolving #4078 . Also
fixes #9304.

This provides a foothold so that Bevy contributors can begin to think
about multithreaded Wasm's constraints and Bevy can work towards changes
to get the engine itself multithreaded.

Some flags need to be set on the Rust compiler when compiling for Wasm
multithreading. Here's what my build script looks like, with the correct
flags set, to test out Bevy examples on web:

```bash
set -e
RUSTFLAGS='-C target-feature=+atomics,+bulk-memory,+mutable-globals' \
     cargo build --example breakout --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -Z build-std=std,panic_abort --release
 wasm-bindgen --out-name wasm_example \
   --out-dir examples/wasm/target \
   --target web target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/examples/breakout.wasm
 devserver --header Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy='same-origin' --header Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy='require-corp' --path examples/wasm
```

A few notes:

1. `cpal` crashes immediately when the `atomics` flag is set. That is
patched in RustAudio/cpal#837, but not yet in
the latest crates.io release.

That can be temporarily worked around by patching Cpal like so:
```toml
[patch.crates-io]
cpal = { git = "https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal" }
```

2. When testing out `wasm_thread` you need to enable the `es_modules`
feature.

## Solution

The largest obstacle to compiling Bevy with `atomics` on web is that
`wgpu` types are _not_ Send and Sync. Longer term Bevy will need an
approach to handle that, but in the near term Bevy is already configured
to be single-threaded on web.

Therefor it is enough to wrap `wgpu` types in a
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` that _is_ Send / Sync, but panics if
accessed off the `wgpu` thread.

---

## Changelog

- `wgpu` types that are not `Send` are wrapped in
`send_wrapper::SendWrapper` on Wasm + 'atomics'
- CommandBuffers are not generated in parallel on Wasm + 'atomics'

## Questions
- Bevy should probably add CI checks to make sure this doesn't regress.
Should that go in this PR or a separate PR? **Edit:** Added checks to
build Wasm with atomics

---------

Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: daxpedda <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>
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