The total difficulty is the sum of all block difficulties from genesis
to a certain block. This value was used in PoW for deciding which chain
is heavier, and thus which chain to select. Since PoS has a different
fork selection algorithm, all blocks since the merge have a difficulty
of 0, and all total difficulties are the same for the past 2 years.
Whilst the TDs are mostly useless nowadays, there was never really a
reason to mess around removing them since they are so tiny. This
reasoning changes when we go down the path of pruned chain history. In
order to reconstruct any TD, we **must** retrieve all the headers from
chain head to genesis and then iterate all the difficulties to compute
the TD.
In a world where we completely prune past chain segments (bodies,
receipts, headers), it is not possible to reconstruct the TD at all. In
a world where we still keep chain headers and prune only the rest,
reconstructing it possible as long as we process (or download) the chain
forward from genesis, but trying to snap sync the head first and
backfill later hits the same issue, the TD becomes impossible to
calculate until genesis is backfilled.
All in all, the TD is a messy out-of-state, out-of-consensus computed
field that is overall useless nowadays, but code relying on it forces
the client into certain modes of operation and prevents other modes or
other optimizations. This PR completely nukes out the TD from the node.
It doesn't compute it, it doesn't operate on it, it's as if it didn't
even exist.
Caveats:
- Whenever we have APIs that return TD (devp2p handshake, tracer, etc.)
we return a TD of 0.
- For era files, we recompute the TD during export time (fairly quick)
to retain the format content.
- It is not possible to "verify" the merge point (i.e. with TD gone, TTD
is useless). Since we're not verifying PoW any more, just blindly trust
it, not verifying but blindly trusting the many year old merge point
seems just the same trust model.
- Our tests still need to be able to generate pre and post merge blocks,
so they need a new way to split the merge without TTD. The PR introduces
a settable ttdBlock field on the consensus object which is used by tests
as the block where originally the TTD happened. This is not needed for
live nodes, we never want to generate old blocks.
- One merge transition consensus test was disabled. With a
non-operational TD, testing how the client reacts to TTD is useless, it
cannot react.
Questions:
- Should we also drop total terminal difficulty from the genesis json?
It's a number we cannot react on any more, so maybe it would be cleaner
to get rid of even more concepts.
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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
This change simplifies the logic for indexing transactions and enhances the UX when transaction is not found by returning more information to users.
Transaction indexing is now considered as a part of the initial sync, and `eth.syncing` will thus be `true` if transaction indexing is not yet finished. API consumers can use the syncing status to determine if the node is ready to serve users.
This change implements CommitteeChain which is a key component of the beacon light client. It is a passive data structure that can validate, hold and update a chain of beacon light sync committees and updates, starting from a checkpoint that proves the starting committee through a beacon block hash, header and corresponding state. Once synced to the current sync period, CommitteeChain can also validate signed beacon headers.
* all: implement path-based state scheme
* all: edits from review
* core/rawdb, trie/triedb/pathdb: review changes
* core, light, trie, eth, tests: reimplement pbss history
* core, trie/triedb/pathdb: track block number in state history
* trie/triedb/pathdb: add history documentation
* core, trie/triedb/pathdb: address comments from Peter's review
Important changes to list:
- Cache trie nodes by path in clean cache
- Remove root->id mappings when history is truncated
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fallback to disk if unexpect node in clean cache
* core/rawdb: fix tests
* trie/triedb/pathdb: rename metrics, change clean cache key
* trie/triedb: manage the clean cache inside of disk layer
* trie/triedb/pathdb: move journal function
* trie/triedb/path: fix tests
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fix journal
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fix history
* trie/triedb/pathdb: try to fix tests on windows
* core, trie: address comments
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fix test issues
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This PR moves some trie-related db accessor methods to a different file, and also removes the schema type. Instead of the schema type, a string is used to distinguish between hashbased/pathbased db accessors.
This also moves some code from trie package to rawdb package.
This PR is intended to be a no-functionality-change prep PR for #25963 .
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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
* eth/downloader: implement beacon sync
* eth/downloader: fix a crash if the beacon chain is reduced in length
* eth/downloader: fix beacon sync start/stop thrashing data race
* eth/downloader: use a non-nil pivot even in degenerate sync requests
* eth/downloader: don't touch internal state on beacon Head retrieval
* eth/downloader: fix spelling mistakes
* eth/downloader: fix some typos
* eth: integrate legacy/beacon sync switchover and UX
* eth: handle UX wise being stuck on post-merge TTD
* core, eth: integrate the beacon client with the beacon sync
* eth/catalyst: make some warning messages nicer
* eth/downloader: remove Ethereum 1&2 notions in favor of merge
* core/beacon, eth: clean up engine API returns a bit
* eth/downloader: add skeleton extension tests
* eth/catalyst: keep non-kiln spec, handle mining on ttd
* eth/downloader: add beacon header retrieval tests
* eth: fixed spelling, commented failing tests out
* eth/downloader: review fixes
* eth/downloader: drop peers failing to deliver beacon headers
* core/rawdb: track beacon sync data in db inspect
* eth: fix review concerns
* internal/web3ext: nit
Co-authored-by: Marius van der Wijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
* all: work for eth1/2 transtition
* consensus/beacon, eth: change beacon difficulty to 0
* eth: updates
* all: add terminalBlockDifficulty config, fix rebasing issues
* eth: implemented merge interop spec
* internal/ethapi: update to v1.0.0.alpha.2
This commit updates the code to the new spec, moving payloadId into
it's own object. It also fixes an issue with finalizing an empty blockhash.
It also properly sets the basefee
* all: sync polishes, other fixes + refactors
* core, eth: correct semantics for LeavePoW, EnterPoS
* core: fixed rebasing artifacts
* core: light: performance improvements
* core: use keyed field (f)
* core: eth: fix compilation issues + tests
* eth/catalyst: dbetter error codes
* all: move Merger to consensus/, remove reliance on it in bc
* all: renamed EnterPoS and LeavePoW to ReachTDD and FinalizePoS
* core: make mergelogs a function
* core: use InsertChain instead of InsertBlock
* les: drop merger from lightchain object
* consensus: add merger
* core: recoverAncestors in catalyst mode
* core: fix nitpick
* all: removed merger from beacon, use TTD, nitpicks
* consensus: eth: add docstring, removed unnecessary code duplication
* consensus/beacon: better comment
* all: easy to fix nitpicks by karalabe
* consensus/beacon: verify known headers to be sure
* core: comments
* core: eth: don't drop peers who advertise blocks, nitpicks
* core: never add beacon blocks to the future queue
* core: fixed nitpicks
* consensus/beacon: simplify IsTTDReached check
* consensus/beacon: correct IsTTDReached check
Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>
This PR offers two more database sub commands for exporting and importing data.
Two exporters are implemented: preimage and snapshot data respectively.
The import command is generic, it can take any data export and import into leveldb.
The data format has a 'magic' for disambiguation, and a version field for future compatibility.
This commit splits the eth package, separating the handling of eth and snap protocols. It also includes the capability to run snap sync (https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/caps/snap.md) , but does not enable it by default.
Co-authored-by: Marius van der Wijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This PR implements unclean shutdown marker. Every time geth boots, it adds a timestamp to a list of timestamps in the database. This list is capped at 10. At a clean shutdown, the timestamp is removed again.
Thus, when geth exits unclean, the marker remains, and at boot up we show the most recent unclean shutdowns to the user, which makes it easier to diagnose root-causes to certain problems.
Co-authored-by: Nagy Salem <me@muhnagy.com>
* core/state/snapshot: introduce snapshot journal version
* core: update the disk layer in an atomic way
* core: persist the disk layer generator periodically
* core/state/snapshot: improve logging
* core/state/snapshot: forcibly ensure the legacy snapshot is matched
* core/state/snapshot: add debug logs
* core, tests: fix tests and special recovery case
* core: polish
* core: add more blockchain tests for snapshot recovery
* core/state: fix comment
* core: add recovery flag for snapshot
* core: add restart after start-after-crash tests
* core/rawdb: fix imports
* core: fix tests
* core: remove log
* core/state/snapshot: fix snapshot
* core: avoid callbacks in SetHead
* core: fix setHead cornercase where the threshold root has state
* core: small docs for the test cases
Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>
* cmd, core, eth: init tx lookup in background
* core/rawdb: tiny log fixes to make it clearer what's happening
* core, eth: fix rebase errors
* core/rawdb: make reindexing less generic, but more optimal
* rlp: implement rlp list iterator
* core/rawdb: new implementation of tx indexing/unindex using generic tx iterator and hashing rlp-data
* core/rawdb, cmd/utils: fix review concerns
* cmd/utils: fix merge issue
* core/rawdb: add some log formatting polishes
Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>
* core, eth: some fixes for freezer
* vendor, core/rawdb, cmd/geth: add db inspector
* core, cmd/utils: check ancient store path forceily
* cmd/geth, common, core/rawdb: a few fixes
* cmd/geth: support windows file rename and fix rename error
* core: support ancient plugin
* core, cmd: streaming file copy
* cmd, consensus, core, tests: keep genesis in leveldb
* core: write txlookup during ancient init
* core: bump database version
* all: freezer style syncing
core, eth, les, light: clean up freezer relative APIs
core, eth, les, trie, ethdb, light: clean a bit
core, eth, les, light: add unit tests
core, light: rewrite setHead function
core, eth: fix downloader unit tests
core: add receipt chain insertion test
core: use constant instead of hardcoding table name
core: fix rollback
core: fix setHead
core/rawdb: remove canonical block first and then iterate side chain
core/rawdb, ethdb: add hasAncient interface
eth/downloader: calculate ancient limit via cht first
core, eth, ethdb: lots of fixes
* eth/downloader: print ancient disable log only for fast sync
Péter Szilágyi
rjl493456442
Felföldi Zsolt
Marius van der Wijden
Martin Holst Swende
s7v7nislands
유용환
Corey Lin
Wenbiao Zheng