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One of Rust's promises is "if it compiles, it works". However, there are certain situations in which this isn't true. In particular, when using dynamic typing patterns where trait objects are downcast to concrete types, having two versions of the same dependency can silently break things. This happened in #7379 where I forgot to patch a certain Sentry dependency. A similar problem exists with our `tracing-stackdriver` dependency (see #7241). Lastly, duplicate dependencies increase the compile-times of a project, so we should aim for having as few duplicate versions of a particular dependency as possible in our dependency graph. This PR introduces `cargo deny`, a linter for Rust dependencies. In addition to linting for duplicate dependencies, it also enforces that all dependencies are compatible with an allow-list of licenses and it warns when a dependency is referred to from multiple crates without introducing a workspace dependency. Thanks to existing tooling (https://github.com/mainmatter/cargo-autoinherit), transitioning all dependencies to workspace dependencies was quite easy. Resolves: #7241.
Rust development guide
Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.
We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml.
If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you.
Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.
Reading Client logs
The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.
To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:
cd path/to/logs # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'
Resulting in, e.g.
2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null
Benchmarking on Linux
The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility.
For example, to attach to a running application, do:
- Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the
benchprofile. sudo perf perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).- Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
sudo perf script > profile.perf- Open profiler.firefox.com and load
profile.perf
Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly.
That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.