This pull request removes the `fsync` of index files in freezer.ModifyAncients function for
performance gain.
Originally, fsync is added after each freezer write operation to ensure
the written data is truly transferred into disk. Unfortunately, it turns
out `fsync` can be relatively slow, especially on
macOS (see https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/28754 for more
information).
In this pull request, fsync for index file is removed as it turns out
index file can be recovered even after a unclean shutdown. But fsync for data file is still kept, as
we have no meaningful way to validate the data correctness after unclean shutdown.
---
**But why do we need the `fsync` in the first place?**
As it's necessary for freezer to survive/recover after the machine crash
(e.g. power failure).
In linux, whenever the file write is performed, the file metadata update
and data update are
not necessarily performed at the same time. Typically, the metadata will
be flushed/journalled
ahead of the file data. Therefore, we make the pessimistic assumption
that the file is first
extended with invalid "garbage" data (normally zero bytes) and that
afterwards the correct
data replaces the garbage.
We have observed that the index file of the freezer often contain
garbage entry with zero value
(filenumber = 0, offset = 0) after a machine power failure. It proves
that the index file is extended
without the data being flushed. And this corruption can destroy the
whole freezer data eventually.
Performing fsync after each write operation can reduce the time window
for data to be transferred
to the disk and ensure the correctness of the data in the disk to the
greatest extent.
---
**How can we maintain this guarantee without relying on fsync?**
Because the items in the index file are strictly in order, we can
leverage this characteristic to
detect the corruption and truncate them when freezer is opened.
Specifically these validation
rules are performed for each index file:
For two consecutive index items:
- If their file numbers are the same, then the offset of the latter one
MUST not be less than that of the former.
- If the file number of the latter one is equal to that of the former
plus one, then the offset of the latter one MUST not be 0.
- If their file numbers are not equal, and the latter's file number is
not equal to the former plus 1, the latter one is valid
And also, for the first non-head item, it must refer to the earliest
data file, or the next file if the
earliest file is not sufficient to place the first item(very special
case, only theoretical possible
in tests)
With these validation rules, we can detect the invalid item in index
file with greatest possibility.
---
But unfortunately, these scenarios are not covered and could still lead
to a freezer corruption if it occurs:
**All items in index file are in zero value**
It's impossible to distinguish if they are truly zero (e.g. all the data
entries maintained in freezer
are zero size) or just the garbage left by OS. In this case, these index
items will be kept by truncating
the entire data file, namely the freezer is corrupted.
However, we can consider that the probability of this situation
occurring is quite low, and even
if it occurs, the freezer can be considered to be close to an empty
state. Rerun the state sync
should be acceptable.
**Index file is integral while relative data file is corrupted**
It might be possible the data file is corrupted whose file size is
extended correctly with garbage
filled (e.g. zero bytes). In this case, it's impossible to detect the
corruption by index validation.
We can either choose to `fsync` the data file, or blindly believe that
if index file is integral then
the data file could be integral with very high chance. In this pull
request, the first option is taken.
Reverts ethereum/go-ethereum#30495
You are free to create a proper Clear method if that's the best way. But
one that does a proper cleanup, not some hacky call to set gas which
screws up logs, metrics and everything along the way. Also doesn't work
for legacy pool local transactions.
The current code had a hack in the simulated code, now we have a hack in
live txpooling code. No, that's not acceptable. I want the live code to
be proper, meaningful API, meaningful comments, meaningful
implementation.
Here we move the method that drops all transactions by temporarily increasing the fee
into the TxPool itself. It's better to have it there because we can set it back to the
configured value afterwards. This resolves a TODO in the simulated backend.
This PR fixes two tests, which had a tendency to sometimes write to the `*testing.T` `log` facility after the test function had completed, which is not allowed. This PR fixes it by using waitgroups to ensure that the handler/logwriter terminates before the test exits.
closes#30505
Extends the opcontext interface to include accessor for code being executed in current context. While it is possible to get the code via `statedb.GetCode`, that approach doesn't work for initcode.
In #27720, we introduced RPC global gas cap. A value of `0` means an unlimited gas cap. However, this was not the case for simulated calls. This PR fixes the behaviour.
This pull request skips the state snapshot update if the base layer is
not existent, eliminating the numerous warning logs after an unclean
shutdown.
Specifically, Geth will rewind its chain head to a historical block
after unclean shutdown and state snapshot will be remained as unchanged
waiting for recovery. During this period of time, the snapshot is unusable
and all state updates should be ignored/skipped for state snapshot update.
This is a work-around for a strange issue with travis, specifically,
`os=osx, go: 1.23.1`. When this is used, the actual go that ends up
being used is `go1.19.4 darwin/amd64 `.
Using `which go`, it told me that the `go` in the path was a softlink at
`/Users/travis/gopath/bin/go1.23.1 `. However, this was not true: using
`command -v go`, it told me that the actual `go` that was used is a
softlink at `/usr/local/bin/go`.
This change rewrites the `/usr/local/bin/go` softlink to point to the
binary at `/Users/travis/gopath/bin/go1.23.1`, so we get the right
go-version.
This PR integrates witness-enabled block production, witness-creating
payload execution and stateless cross-validation into the `engine` API.
The purpose of the PR is to enable the following use-cases (for API
details, please see next section):
- Cross validating locally created blocks:
- Call `forkchoiceUpdatedWithWitness` instead of `forkchoiceUpdated` to
trigger witness creation too.
- Call `getPayload` as before to retrieve the new block and also the
above created witness.
- Call `executeStatelessPayload` against another client to
cross-validate the block.
- Cross validating locally processed blocks:
- Call `newPayloadWithWitness` instead of `newPayload` to trigger
witness creation too.
- Call `executeStatelessPayload` against another client to
cross-validate the block.
- Block production for stateless clients (local or MEV builders):
- Call `forkchoiceUpdatedWithWitness` instead of `forkchoiceUpdated` to
trigger witness creation too.
- Call `getPayload` as before to retrieve the new block and also the
above created witness.
- Propagate witnesses across the consensus libp2p network for stateless
Ethereum.
- Stateless validator validation:
- Call `executeStatelessPayload` with the propagated witness to
statelessly validate the block.
*Note, the various `WithWitness` methods could also *just be* an
additional boolean flag on the base methods, but this PR wanted to keep
the methods separate until a final consensus is reached on how to
integrate in production.*
---
The following `engine` API types are introduced:
```go
// StatelessPayloadStatusV1 is the result of a stateless payload execution.
type StatelessPayloadStatusV1 struct {
Status string `json:"status"`
StateRoot common.Hash `json:"stateRoot"`
ReceiptsRoot common.Hash `json:"receiptsRoot"`
ValidationError *string `json:"validationError"`
}
```
- Add `forkchoiceUpdatedWithWitnessV1,2,3` with same params and returns
as `forkchoiceUpdatedV1,2,3`, but triggering a stateless witness
building if block production is requested.
- Extend `getPayloadV2,3` to return `executionPayloadEnvelope` with an
additional `witness` field of type `bytes` iff created via
`forkchoiceUpdatedWithWitnessV2,3`.
- Add `newPayloadWithWitnessV1,2,3,4` with same params and returns as
`newPayloadV1,2,3,4`, but triggering a stateless witness creation during
payload execution to allow cross validating it.
- Extend `payloadStatusV1` with a `witness` field of type `bytes` if
returned by `newPayloadWithWitnessV1,2,3,4`.
- Add `executeStatelessPayloadV1,2,3,4` with same base params as
`newPayloadV1,2,3,4` and one more additional param (`witness`) of type
`bytes`. The method returns `statelessPayloadStatusV1`, which mirrors
`payloadStatusV1` but replaces `latestValidHash` with `stateRoot` and
`receiptRoot`.
After this PR, https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/28187, the
way to set the default logger is different. This PR only updates the way
to set logger in some test cases' comments that existed in the codebase
(since this commit
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/commit/b63e3c37a6). Although I
am not sure if it a good way to leave the code in the comment, it truly
makes me more efficiently to debug and fix the failing test cases.
Add changes from #30409 and #29338 to changelog.
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Co-authored-by: Martin HS <martin@swende.se>
Co-authored-by: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
This change makes the code slightly easier for downstream-projects to extend with more signer-types, but if functionalily equivalent to the previous code.
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