I hit this case while trying something with the simulated backend. The
EVM only enables instruction set forks after the merge when 'Random' is
set. In the simulated backend, the random value will be set via the
engine API for all blocks after genesis. But for the genesis block
itself, the random value will not be assigned in the vm.BlockContext
because the genesis has a non-zero difficulty. For my case, this meant
that estimateGas did not work for the first transaction sent on the
simulated chain, since the contract contained a PUSH0 instruction.
This could also be fixed by explicitly configuring a zero difficulty in
the simulated backend. However, I think that zero difficulty is a better
default these days.
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Co-authored-by: lightclient <lightclient@protonmail.com>
This PR defines the Osaka fork. An easy first step to start our work on
the next hardfork
(This is needed for EOF testing as well)
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Co-authored-by: lightclient <14004106+lightclient@users.noreply.github.com>
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 pull request refactors the genesis setup function, the major
changes are highlighted here:
**(a) Triedb is opened in verkle mode if `EnableVerkleAtGenesis` is
configured in chainConfig or the database has been initialized previously with
`EnableVerkleAtGenesis` configured**.
A new config field `EnableVerkleAtGenesis` has been added in the
chainConfig. This field must be configured with True if Geth wants to initialize
the genesis in Verkle mode.
In the verkle devnet-7, the verkle transition is activated at genesis.
Therefore, the verkle rules should be used since the genesis. In production
networks (mainnet and public testnets), verkle activation always occurs after
the genesis block. Therefore, this flag is only made for devnet and should be
deprecated later. Besides, verkle transition at non-genesis block hasn't been
implemented yet, it should be done in the following PRs.
**(b) The genesis initialization condition has been simplified**
There is a special mode supported by the Geth is that: Geth can be
initialized with an existing chain segment, which can fasten the node sync
process by retaining the chain freezer folder.
Originally, if the triedb is regarded as uninitialized and the genesis block can
be found in the chain freezer, the genesis block along with genesis state will be
committed. This condition has been simplified to checking the presence of chain
config in key-value store. The existence of chain config can represent the genesis
has been committed.
rebased https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/29766 . The
downstream branch appears to have been deleted and I don't have perms to
push to that fork.
`TerminalTotalDifficultyPassed` is removed. `TerminalTotalDifficulty`
must now be non-nil, and it is expected that networks are already
merged: we can only import PoW/Clique chains, not produce blocks on
them.
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Co-authored-by: stevemilk <wangpeculiar@gmail.com>
This PR changes how sidechains are handled.
Before the merge, it was possible to import a chain with lower td and not set it as canonical. After the merge, we expect every chain that we get via InsertChain to be canonical. Non-canonical blocks can still be inserted
with InsertBlockWIthoutSetHead.
If during the InsertChain, the existing chain is not canonical anymore, we mark it as a sidechain and send the SideChainEvents normally.
This PR implements changes related to
[EIP-6800](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6800) and
[EIP-4762](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4762) spec updates.
A TL;DR of the changes is that `Version`, `Balance`, `Nonce` and
`CodeSize` are encoded in a single leaf named `BasicData`. For more
details, see the [_Header Values_ table in
EIP-6800](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-6800#header-values).
The motivation for this was simplifying access event patterns, reducing
code complexity, and, as a side effect, saving gas since fewer leaf
nodes must be accessed.
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Co-authored-by: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
This change allows the creation of a genesis block for verkle testnets. This makes for a chunk of code that is easier to review and still touches many discussion points.
* cmd, core: resolve scheme from a read-write database
* cmd, core, eth: move the scheme check in the ethereum constructor
* cmd/geth: dump should in ro mode
* cmd: reverts
This PR introduces a node scheme abstraction. The interface is only implemented by `hashScheme` at the moment, but will be extended by `pathScheme` very soon.
Apart from that, a few changes are also included which is worth mentioning:
- port the changes in the stacktrie, tracking the path prefix of nodes during commit
- use ethdb.Database for constructing trie.Database. This is not necessary right now, but it is required for path-based used to open reverse diff freezer
* core: write test showing that TD is not stored properly at genesis
The ToBlock method applies a default value for an empty
difficulty value. This default is not carried over through the Commit
method because the TotalDifficulty database write writes the
original difficulty value (nil) instead of the defaulty value
present on the genesis Block.
Date: 2021-10-22 08:25:32-07:00
Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>
* core: write TD value from Block, not original genesis value
This an issue where a default TD value was not written to
the database, resulting in a 0 value TD at genesis.
A test for this issue was provided at 90e3ffd393
Date: 2021-10-22 08:28:00-07:00
Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>
* core: fix tests by adding GenesisDifficulty to expected result
See prior two commits.
Date: 2021-10-22 09:16:01-07:00
Signed-off-by: meows <b5c6@protonmail.com>
* les: fix test with genesis change
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
* 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>
* cmd/utils: make goerli the default testnet
* cmd/geth: explicitly rename testnet to ropsten
* core: explicitly rename testnet to ropsten
* params: explicitly rename testnet to ropsten
* cmd: explicitly rename testnet to ropsten
* miner: explicitly rename testnet to ropsten
* mobile: allow for returning the goerli spec
* tests: explicitly rename testnet to ropsten
* docs: update readme to reflect changes to the default testnet
* mobile: allow for configuring goerli and rinkeby nodes
* cmd/geth: revert --testnet back to ropsten and mark as legacy
* cmd/util: mark --testnet flag as deprecated
* docs: update readme to properly reflect the 3 testnets
* cmd/utils: add an explicit deprecation warning on startup
* cmd/utils: swap goerli and ropsten in usage
* cmd/geth: swap goerli and ropsten in usage
* cmd/geth: if running a known preset, log it for convenience
* docs: improve readme on usage of ropsten's testnet datadir
* cmd/utils: check if legacy `testnet` datadir exists for ropsten
* cmd/geth: check for legacy testnet path in console command
* cmd/geth: use switch statement for complex conditions in main
* cmd/geth: move known preset log statement to the very top
* cmd/utils: create new ropsten configurations in the ropsten datadir
* cmd/utils: makedatadir should check for existing testnet dir
* cmd/geth: add legacy testnet flag to the copy db command
* cmd/geth: add legacy testnet flag to the inspect command
* cmd, consensus, core, miner: instatx clique for --dev
* cmd, consensus, clique: support configurable --dev block times
* cmd, core: allow --dev to use persistent storage too
This commit adds pluggable consensus engines to go-ethereum. In short, it
introduces a generic consensus interface, and refactors the entire codebase to
use this interface.
This commit solves several issues concerning the genesis block:
* Genesis/ChainConfig loading was handled by cmd/geth code. This left
library users in the cold. They could specify a JSON-encoded
string and overwrite the config, but didn't get any of the additional
checks performed by geth.
* Decoding and writing of genesis JSON was conflated in
WriteGenesisBlock. This made it a lot harder to embed the genesis
block into the forthcoming config file loader. This commit changes
things so there is a single Genesis type that represents genesis
blocks. All uses of Write*Genesis* are changed to use the new type
instead.
* If the chain config supplied by the user was incompatible with the
current chain (i.e. the chain had already advanced beyond a scheduled
fork), it got overwritten. This is not an issue in practice because
previous forks have always had the highest total difficulty. It might
matter in the future though. The new code reverts the local chain to
the point of the fork when upgrading configuration.
The change to genesis block data removes compression library
dependencies from package core.
Felix Lange
lightclient
Marius van der Wijden
Péter Szilágyi
rjl493456442
Guillaume Ballet
jwasinger
Ignacio Hagopian
stevemilk
Sina Mahmoodi
Martin Holst Swende
meowsbits
Zachinquarantine
Raw Pong Ghmoa
Miya Chen