fa6e6a3f03 doc: Remove confusing assert linter (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The `assert()` documentation and linter are redundant and confusing:
* The source code already refuses to compile with `assert()` disabled.
* They violate the assumptions about `Assert()`, which *requires* side effects.
* The existing linter doesn't enforce the guideline, only checking for `++` and `--` side effects.
Fix all issues by removing the docs and the linter. See also https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26684#discussion_r1287370102
Going forward everyone is free to use whatever code in this regard they think is the easiest to read. Also, everyone is still free to share style-nits, if they think it is a good use of their time and of the pull request author. Finally, the author is still free to dismiss or ignore this style-nit, or any other style-nit.
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edbed31066 chainparams: add signet assumeutxo param at height 160_000 (Sjors Provoost)
b8cafe3871 chainparams: add testnet assumeutxo param at height 2_500_000 (Sjors Provoost)
99839bbfa7 doc: add note about confusing HaveTxsDownloaded name (James O'Beirne)
7ee46a755f contrib: add script to demo/test assumeutxo (James O'Beirne)
42cae39356 test: add feature_assumeutxo functional test (James O'Beirne)
0f64bac603 rpc: add getchainstates (James O'Beirne)
bb05857794 refuse to activate a UTXO snapshot if mempool not empty (James O'Beirne)
ce585a9a15 rpc: add loadtxoutset (James O'Beirne)
62ac519e71 validation: do not activate snapshot if behind active chain (James O'Beirne)
9511fb3616 validation: assumeutxo: swap m_mempool on snapshot activation (James O'Beirne)
7fcd21544a blockstorage: segment normal/assumedvalid blockfiles (James O'Beirne)
4c3b8ca35c validation: populate nChainTx value for assumedvalid chainstates (James O'Beirne)
49ef778158 test: adjust chainstate tests to use recognized snapshot base (James O'Beirne)
1019c39982 validation: pruning for multiple chainstates (James O'Beirne)
373cf91531 validation: indexing changes for assumeutxo (James O'Beirne)
1fffdd76a1 net_processing: validationinterface: ignore some events for bg chain (James O'Beirne)
fbe0a7d7ca wallet: validationinterface: only handle active chain notifications (James O'Beirne)
f073917a9e validationinterface: only send zmq notifications for active (James O'Beirne)
4d8f4dcb45 validation: pass ChainstateRole for validationinterface calls (James O'Beirne)
1e59acdf17 validation: only call UpdatedBlockTip for active chainstate (James O'Beirne)
c6af23c517 validation: add ChainstateRole (James O'Beirne)
9f2318c76c validation: MaybeRebalanceCaches when chain leaves IBD (James O'Beirne)
434495a8c1 chainparams: add blockhash to AssumeutxoData (James O'Beirne)
c711ca186f assumeutxo: remove snapshot during -reindex{-chainstate} (James O'Beirne)
c93ef43e4f bugfix: correct is_snapshot_cs in VerifyDB (James O'Beirne)
b73d3bbd23 net_processing: Request assumeutxo background chain blocks (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
- Background and FAQ: https://github.com/jamesob/assumeutxo-docs/tree/2019-04-proposal/proposal
- Prior progress/project: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/11
- Replaces https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15606, which was closed due to Github slowness. Original description and commentary can be found there.
---
This changeset finishes the first phase of the assumeutxo project. It makes UTXO snapshots loadable via RPC (`loadtxoutset`) and adds `assumeutxo` parameters to chainparams. It contains all the remaining changes necessary to both use an assumedvalid snapshot chainstate and do a full validation sync in the background.
This may look like a lot to review, but note that
- ~200 lines are a (non-essential) demo shell script
- Many lines are functional test, documentation, and relatively dilute RPC code.
So it shouldn't be as burdensome to review as the linecount might suggest.
- **P2P**: minor changes are made to `init.cpp` and `net_processing.cpp` to make simultaneous IBD across multiple chainstates work.
- **Pruning**: implement correct pruning behavior when using a background chainstate
- **Blockfile separation**: to prevent "fragmentation" in blockfile storage, have background chainstates use separate blockfiles from active snapshot chainstates to avoid interleaving heights and impairing pruning.
- **Indexing**: some `CValidationInterface` events are given with an additional parameter, ChainstateRole, and all indexers ignore events from ChainstateRole::ASSUMEDVALID so that indexation only happens sequentially.
- Have `-reindex` properly wipe snapshot chainstates.
- **RPC**: introduce RPC commands `loadtxoutset` and (hidden) `getchainstates`.
- **Release docs & first assumeutxo commitment**: add notes and a particular assumeutxo hash value for first AU-enabled release.
- This will complete the project and allow use of UTXO snapshots for faster node bootstrap.
The next phase, if it were to be pursued, would be coming up with a way to distribute the UTXO snapshots over the P2P network.
---
### UTXO snapshots
Create your own with `./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh`, e.g.
```shell
./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh 788000 utxo.dat ./src/bitcoin-cli -datadir=$(pwd)/testdata`)
```
or use the pre-generated ones listed below.
- Testnet: **2'500'000** (Sjors):
- torrent: `magnet:?xt=urn:btih:511e09f4bf853aefab00de5c070b1e031f0ecbe9&dn=utxo-testnet-2500000.dat&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl%3A6969`
- sha256: `79db4b025448cc0ac388d8589a28eab02de53055d181e34eb47391717aa16388`
- Signet: **160'000** (Sjors):
- torrent: `magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9da986cb27b3980ea7fd06b21e199b148d486880&dn=utxo-signet-160000.dat&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl%3A6969`
- sha256: `eeeca845385ba91e84ef58c09d38f98f246a24feadaad57fe1e5874f3f92ef8c`
- Mainnet: **800'000** (Sjors):
- Note: this needs the following commit cherry-picked in: 24deb2022b
- torrent: `magnet:?xt=urn:btih:50ee955bef37f5ec3e5b0df4cf0288af3d715a2e&dn=utxo-800000.dat&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl%3A6969`
### Testing
#### For fun (~5min)
If you want to do a quick test, you can run `./contrib/devtools/test_utxo_snapshots.sh` and follow the instructions. This is mostly obviated by the functional tests, though.
#### For real (longer)
If you'd like to experience a real usage of assumeutxo, you can do that too.
I've cut a new snapshot at height 788'000 (http://img.jameso.be/utxo-788000.dat - but you can do it yourself with `./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh` if you want). Download that, and then create a datadir for testing:
```sh
$ cd ~/src/bitcoin # or whatever
# get the snapshot
$ curl http://img.jameso.be/utxo-788000.dat > utxo-788000.dat
# you'll want to do this if you like copy/pasting
$ export AU_DATADIR=/home/${USER}/au-test # or wherever
$ mkdir ${AU_DATADIR}
$ vim ${AU_DATADIR}/bitcoin.conf
dbcache=8000 # or, you know, something high
blockfilterindex=1
coinstatsindex=1
prune=3000
logthreadnames=1
```
Obtain this branch, build it, and then start bitcoind:
```sh
$ git remote add jamesob https://github.com/jamesob/bitcoin
$ git fetch jamesob assumeutxo
$ git checkout jamesob/assumeutxo
$ ./configure $conf_args && make # (whatever you like to do here)
# start 'er up and watch the logs
$ ./src/bitcoind -datadir=${AU_DATADIR}
```
Then, in some other window, load the snapshot
```sh
$ ./src/bitcoin-cli -datadir=${AU_DATADIR} loadtxoutset $(pwd)/utxo-788000.dat
```
You'll see some log messages about headers retrieval and waiting to see the snapshot in the headers chain. Once you get the full headers chain, you'll spend a decent amount of time (~10min) loading the snapshot, checking it, and flushing it to disk. After all that happens, you should be syncing to tip in pretty short order, and you'll see the occasional `[background validation]` log message go by.
In yet another window, you can check out chainstate status with
```sh
$ ./src/bitcoin-cli -datadir=${AU_DATADIR} getchainstates
```
as well as usual favorites like `getblockchaininfo`.
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Introduces ChainstateManager::GetPruneRange().
The prune budget is split evenly between the number of chainstates,
however the prune budget may be exceeded if the resulting shares are
beneath `MIN_DISK_SPACE_FOR_BLOCK_FILES`.
a99e9e655a doc: add release note (ismaelsadeeq)
2b4edf889a test: check `descriptorprocesspsbt` return hex encoded tx (ismaelsadeeq)
c405207a18 rpc: `descriptorprocesspsbt` return hex encoded tx (ismaelsadeeq)
Pull request description:
Coming from [#28414 comment](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28414#pullrequestreview-1618684391) Same thing also for `descriptorprocesspsbt`.
Before this PR `descriptorprocesspsbt` returns a boolean `complete` which indicates that the psbt is final, users then have to call `finalizepsbt` to get the hex encoded network transaction.
In this PR if the psbt is complete the return object also has the hex encoded network transaction ready for broadcast with `sendrawtransaction`.
This save users calling `finalizepsbt` with the descriptor, if it is already complete.
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While allowing submitted packages to be slightly larger than what
may be allowed in the mempool to allow simpler reasoning
about contextual-less checks vs chain limits.
2e249b9227 doc: add release note for PR #28414 (Matthew Zipkin)
4614332fc4 test: remove unnecessary finalizepsbt rpc calls (ismaelsadeeq)
e3d484b603 wallet rpc: return final tx hex from walletprocesspsbt if complete (Matthew Zipkin)
Pull request description:
See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28363#discussion_r1315753887
`walletprocesspsbt` currently returns a base64-encoded PSBT and a boolean indicating if the tx is "complete". If it is complete, the base64 PSBT can be finalized with `finalizepsbt` which returns the hex-encoded transaction suitable for `sendrawtransaction`.
With this patch, `walletprocesspsbt` return object will ALSO include the broadcast-able hex string if the tx is already final. This saves users the extra step of calling `finalizepsbt` assuming they have already inspected and approve the transaction from earlier steps.
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bd5ae6c663 doc: misc changes in release-process (fanquake)
d99ba3cc01 doc: filter out merge-script from list of authors (josibake)
472d6f79b9 doc: remove generate changelog section from release-process.md (fanquake)
5555ecb80e doc: remove note to update bips.md version number (fanquake)
Pull request description:
Collection of changes to to simplify / correct the release-process documentation.
I think we could still simplify this further.
For example, we could remove the guix building docs, and defer to `contrib/guix`.
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a733dd79e2 Remove unused function `reliesOnAssumedValid` (Suhas Daftuar)
d4a11abb19 Cache block index entry corresponding to assumeutxo snapshot base blockhash (Suhas Daftuar)
3556b85022 Move CheckBlockIndex() from Chainstate to ChainstateManager (Suhas Daftuar)
0ce805b632 Documentation improvements for assumeutxo (Ryan Ofsky)
768690b7ce Fix initialization of setBlockIndexCandidates when working with multiple chainstates (Suhas Daftuar)
d43a1f1a2f Tighten requirements for adding elements to setBlockIndexCandidates (Suhas Daftuar)
d0d40ea9a6 Move block-storage-related logic to ChainstateManager (Suhas Daftuar)
3cfc75366e test: Clear block index flags when testing snapshots (Suhas Daftuar)
272fbc370c Update CheckBlockIndex invariants for chains based on an assumeutxo snapshot (Suhas Daftuar)
10c05710ce Add wrapper for adding entries to a chainstate's block index candidates (Suhas Daftuar)
471da5f6e7 Move block-arrival information / preciousblock counters to ChainstateManager (Suhas Daftuar)
1cfc887d00 Remove CChain dependency in node/blockstorage (Suhas Daftuar)
fe86a7cd48 Explicitly track maximum block height stored in undo files (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
This PR proposes a clean up of the relationship between block storage and the chainstate objects, by moving the decision of whether to store a block on disk to something that is not chainstate-specific. Philosophically, the decision of whether to store a block on disk is related to validation rules that do not require any UTXO state; for anti-DoS reasons we were using some chainstate-specific heuristics, and those have been reworked here to achieve the proposed separation.
This PR also fixes a bug in how a chainstate's `setBlockIndexCandidates` was being initialized; it should always have all the HAVE_DATA block index entries that have more work than the chain tip. During startup, we were not fully populating `setBlockIndexCandidates` in some scenarios involving multiple chainstates.
Further, this PR establishes a concept that whenever we have 2 chainstates, that we always know the snapshotted chain's base block and the base block's hash must be an element of our block index. Given that, we can establish a new invariant that the background validation chainstate only needs to consider blocks leading to that snapshotted block entry as potential candidates for its tip. As a followup I would imagine that when writing net_processing logic to download blocks for the background chainstate, that we would use this concept to only download blocks towards the snapshotted entry as well.
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Sjors:
Code review ACK a733dd79e2.
ryanofsky:
Code review ACK a733dd79e2. Just suggested changes since the last review. There are various small things that could be followed up on, but I think this is ready for merge.
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6960c81cbf kernel: Remove Univalue from kernel library (TheCharlatan)
10eb3a9faa kernel: Split ParseSighashString (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
Besides the build system changes, this is a mostly move-only change for moving the few UniValue-related functions out of kernel files.
UniValue is not required by any of the kernel components and a JSON library should not need to be part of a consensus library.
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Nobody is pushing direct to guix.sigs, nor should they, as that
bypasses CI.
Use a newer example for the testing issue.
Don't duplicate the bitcoincore.org doc instructions.
The thread does not only load blocks, it loads the mempool and,
in a future commit, will start the indexes as well.
Also, renamed the 'ThreadImport' function to 'ImportBlocks'
And the 'm_load_block' class member to 'm_thread_load'.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
sed -i "s/ThreadImport/ImportBlocks/g" $(git grep -l ThreadImport -- ':!/doc/')
sed -i "s/loadblk/initload/g" $(git grep -l loadblk -- ':!/doc/release-notes/')
sed -i "s/m_load_block/m_thread_load/g" $(git grep -l m_load_block)
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
11900e5a8a doc: simplify the router options in doc/i2p.md (Jon Atack)
b505d59326 doc: clarify when and how to launch the SAM bridge in doc/i2p.md (Jon Atack)
Pull request description:
1. Clarify when and how to launch the SAM application bridge to address user questions and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/22759#issuecomment-1599449753. The bridge is not enabled by default in the Java I2P Router, and the relevant info is somewhat difficult to find in its documentation.
2. Remove a duplicate sentence and link (the preceding paragraph begins with the same sentence and link).
3. Simplify the router options:
- the Java I2P router and i2pd are the two routers have been heavily tested with Bitcoin Core and are what node operators and node software packages are using
- [i2p-zero](https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero) hasn't been updated since July 2021 and its last release was in December 2020
- the other routers in the wikipedia page are niche and I haven't heard anyone report using them
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3c83b1d884 doc: Add release note for wallet loading changes (Andrew Chow)
2636844f53 walletdb: Remove loading code where the database is iterated (Andrew Chow)
cd211b3b99 walletdb: refactor decryption key loading (Andrew Chow)
31c033e5ca walletdb: refactor defaultkey and wkey loading (Andrew Chow)
c978c6d39c walletdb: refactor active spkm loading (Andrew Chow)
6fabb7fc99 walletdb: refactor tx loading (Andrew Chow)
abcc13dd24 walletdb: refactor address book loading (Andrew Chow)
405b4d9147 walletdb: Refactor descriptor wallet records loading (Andrew Chow)
30ab11c497 walletdb: Refactor legacy wallet record loading into its own function (Andrew Chow)
9e077d9b42 salvage: Remove use of ReadKeyValue in salvage (Andrew Chow)
ad779e9ece walletdb: Refactor hd chain loading to its own function (Andrew Chow)
72c2a54ebb walletdb: Refactor encryption key loading to its own function (Andrew Chow)
3ccde4599b walletdb: Refactor crypted key loading to its own function (Andrew Chow)
7be10adff3 walletdb: Refactor key reading and loading to its own function (Andrew Chow)
52932c5adb walletdb: Refactor wallet flags loading (Andrew Chow)
01b35b55a1 walletdb: Refactor minversion loading (Andrew Chow)
Pull request description:
Currently when we load a wallet, we just iterate through all of the records in the database and add them completely statelessly. However we have some records which do rely on other records being loaded before they are. To deal with this, we use `CWalletScanState` to hold things temporarily until all of the records have been read and then we load the stateful things.
However this can be slow, and with some future improvements, can cause some pretty drastic slowdowns to retain this pattern. So this PR changes the way we load records by choosing to load the records in a particular order. This lets us do things such as loading a descriptor record, then finding and loading that descriptor's cache and key records. In the future, this will also let us use `IsMine` when loading transactions as then `IsMine` will actually be working as we now always load keys and descriptors before transactions.
In order to get records of a specific type, this PR includes some refactors to how we do database cursors. Functionality is also added to retrieve a cursor that will give us records beginning with a specified prefix.
Lastly, one thing that iterating the entire database let us do was to find unknown records. However even if unknown records were found, we would not do anything with this information except output a number in a log line. With this PR, we would no longer be aware of any unknown records. This does not change functionality as we don't do anything with unknown records, and having unknown records is not an error. Now we would just not be aware that unknown records even exist.
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ryanofsky:
Code review ACK 3c83b1d884. Just Marco's suggested error handling fixes since last review
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- the Java I2P router and i2pd are the two routers have been heavily tested
with Bitcoin Core and are what people and node software packages use
- i2p-zero (https://github.com/i2p-zero/i2p-zero) hasn't been updated since
July 2021 and its last release was in December 2020
- the other routers in the wikipedia page are niche
The SAM application bridge is not enabled by default in the Java I2P Router,
and the relevant info is somewhat difficult to find in its documentation.
Also, remove a duplicate sentence; the preceding paragraph begins with the same.
daa5a658c0 refactor: rename BCLog::BLOCKSTORE to BLOCKSTORAGE (Jon Atack)
cf622b214b doc: release note re raising on invalid -debug/debugexclude/loglevel (Jon Atack)
6cb1c66041 init: remove config option names from translated -loglevel strings (Jon Atack)
2547829272 test: -loglevel raises on invalid values (Jon Atack)
a9c295888b init: raise on invalid loglevel config option (Jon Atack)
b0c3995393 test: -debug and -debugexclude raise on invalid values (Jon Atack)
4c3c19d943 init: raise on invalid debug/debugexclude config options (Jon Atack)
Pull request description:
and rename BCLog::BLOCKSTORE to BLOCKSTORAGE so the enum is the same as its value like the other BCLog enums.
Per discussion in bitcoin-core-dev IRC today from https://bitcoin-irc.chaincode.com/bitcoin-core-dev/2023-05-11#921458.
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ryanofsky:
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5524fa00fa doc: add release note about removal of `deprecatedrpc=walletwarningfield` flag (Sebastian Falbesoner)
5c77db7354 Restorewallet/createwallet help documentation fixups/improvements (Jon Atack)
a00ae31fcc rpc: remove deprecated "warning" field from {create,load,restore,unload}wallet (Sebastian Falbesoner)
Pull request description:
The "warning" string field for wallet creating/loading RPCs (`createwallet`, `loadwallet`, `unloadwallet` and `restorewallet`) has been deprecated with the configuration option `-deprecatedrpc=walletwarningfield` in PR #27279 (released in v25.0). For the next release v26.0, the field and the configuration option can be removed.
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67b7fecacd [mempool] clear mapDeltas entry if prioritisetransaction sets delta to 0 (glozow)
c1061acb9d [functional test] prioritisation is not removed during replacement and expiry (glozow)
0e5874f0b0 [functional test] getprioritisedtransactions RPC (glozow)
99f8046829 [rpc] add getprioritisedtransactions (glozow)
9e9ca36c80 [mempool] add GetPrioritisedTransactions (glozow)
Pull request description:
Add an RPC to get prioritised transactions (also tells you whether the tx is in mempool or not), helping users clean up `mapDeltas` manually. When `CTxMemPool::PrioritiseTransaction` sets a delta to 0, remove the entry from `mapDeltas`.
Motivation / Background
- `mapDeltas` entries are never removed from mapDeltas except when the tx is mined in a block or conflicted.
- Mostly it is a feature to allow `prioritisetransaction` for a tx that isn't in the mempool {yet, anymore}. A user can may resbumit a tx and it retains its priority, or mark a tx as "definitely accept" before it is seen.
- Since #8448, `mapDeltas` is persisted to mempool.dat and loaded on restart. This is also good, otherwise we lose prioritisation on restart.
- Note the removal due to block/conflict is only done when `removeForBlock` is called, i.e. when the block is received. If you load a mempool.dat containing `mapDeltas` with transactions that were mined already (e.g. the file was saved prior to the last few blocks), you don't delete them.
- Related: #4818 and #6464.
- There is no way to query the node for not-in-mempool `mapDeltas`. If you add a priority and forget what the value was, the only way to get that information is to inspect mempool.dat.
- Calling `prioritisetransaction` with an inverse value does not remove it from `mapDeltas`, it just sets the value to 0. It disappears on a restart (`LoadMempool` checks if delta is 0), but that might not happen for a while.
Added together, if a user calls `prioritisetransaction` very regularly and not all those transactions get mined/conflicted, `mapDeltas` might keep lots of entries of delta=0 around. A user should clean up the not-in-mempool prioritisations, but that's currently difficult without keeping track of what those txids/amounts are.
ACKs for top commit:
achow101:
ACK 67b7fecacd
theStack:
Code-review ACK 67b7fecacd
instagibbs:
code review ACK 67b7fecacd
ajtowns:
ACK 67b7fecacd code review only, some nits
Tree-SHA512: 9df48b622ef27f33db1a2748f682bb3f16abe8172fcb7ac3c1a3e1654121ffb9b31aeaad5570c4162261f7e2ff5b5912ddc61a1b8beac0e9f346a86f5952260a
