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 PR implements EIP-7702: "Set EOA account code".
Specification: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7702
> Add a new transaction type that adds a list of `[chain_id, address,
nonce, y_parity, r, s]` authorization tuples. For each tuple, write a
delegation designator `(0xef0100 ++ address)` to the signing account’s
code. All code reading operations must load the code pointed to by the
designator.
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Co-authored-by: Mario Vega <marioevz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
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>
Way back we've added `common.math.BigMin` and `common.math.BigMax`.
These were kind of cute helpers, but unfortunate ones, because package
all over out codebase added dependencies to this package just to avoid
having to write out 3 lines of code.
Because of this, we've also started having package name clashes with the
stdlib `math`, which got solves even more badly by moving some helpers
over ***from*** the stdlib into our custom lib (e.g. MaxUint64). The
latter ones were nuked out in a previous PR and this PR nukes out BigMin
and BigMax, inlining them at all call sites.
As we're transitioning to uint256, if need be, we can add a min and max
to that.
This is a successor PR to #25743. This PR is based on a new iteration of
the spec: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pull/484.
`eth_multicall` takes in a list of blocks, each optionally overriding
fields like number, timestamp, etc. of a base block. Each block can
include calls. At each block users can override the state. There are
extra features, such as:
- Include ether transfers as part of the logs
- Overriding precompile codes with evm bytecode
- Redirecting accounts to another address
## Breaking changes
This PR includes the following breaking changes:
- Block override fields of eth_call and debug_traceCall have had the
following fields renamed
- `coinbase` -> `feeRecipient`
- `random` -> `prevRandao`
- `baseFee` -> `baseFeePerGas`
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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This change makes use of uin256 to represent balance in state. It touches primarily upon statedb, stateobject and state processing, trying to avoid changes in transaction pools, core types, rpc and tracers.
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.
* eth/gasestimator: early exit for plain transfer and error allowance
* core, eth/gasestimator: hard guess at a possible required gas
* internal/ethapi: update estimation tests with the error ratio
* eth/gasestimator: I hate you linter
* graphql: fix gas estimation test
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Co-authored-by: Oren <orenyomtov@users.noreply.github.com>
This adds block and receipt fields for EIP-4844.
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Signed-off-by: jsvisa <delweng@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sina Mahmoodi <itz.s1na@gmail.com>
Block takes a number and a hash. The spec is unclear on what should happen in this case, leaving it an implemenation detail. With this change, we return an error in case both number and hash are passed in.
The clean trie cache is persisted periodically, therefore Geth can
quickly warmup the cache in next restart.
However it will reduce the robustness of system. The assumption is
held in Geth that if the parent trie node is present, then the entire
sub-trie associated with the parent are all prensent.
Imagine the scenario that Geth rewinds itself to a past block and
restart, but Geth finds the root node of "future state" in clean
cache then regard this state is present in disk, while is not in fact.
Another example is offline pruning tool. Whenever an offline pruning
is performed, the clean cache file has to be removed to aviod hitting
the root node of "deleted states" in clean cache.
All in all, compare with the minor performance gain, system robustness
is something we care more.
Upgrades graphiql to v2.4.4. The interface has become much nicer, and there are extra features like tabs, history, dark mode etc.
This change also now uses golang embed to bundle the resources.
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
* EstimateGas should use LatestBlockNumber by default
* graphql: default to use latest for gas estimation
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
Adds an optional config parameter to eth_call which allows users to override block context fields (same functionality that was added to traceCall in #24871)
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This is a breaking GraphQL API change. All numeric values are now encoded as
hex strings. The motivation for this change is matching JSON-RPC outputs more
closely.
Numbers in query parameters are accepted as both decimal integers and hex strings.
Fixes multiple data races caused by the fact that resolving fields are done concurrently by the graphql library. It also enforces caching at the stateobject level for account fields.
Here we add special handling for sending an error response when the write timeout of the
HTTP server is just about to expire. This is surprisingly difficult to get right, since is
must be ensured that all output is fully flushed in time, which needs support from
multiple levels of the RPC handler stack:
The timeout response can't use chunked transfer-encoding because there is no way to write
the final terminating chunk. net/http writes it when the topmost handler returns, but the
timeout will already be over by the time that happens. We decided to disable chunked
encoding by setting content-length explicitly.
Gzip compression must also be disabled for timeout responses because we don't know the
true content-length before compressing all output, i.e. compression would reintroduce
chunked transfer-encoding.
This adds a cache for block logs which is shared by all filters. The cache
size of is configurable using the `--cache.blocklogs` flag.
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
This enables the following linters
- typecheck
- unused
- staticcheck
- bidichk
- durationcheck
- exportloopref
- gosec
WIth a few exceptions.
- We use a deprecated protobuf in trezor. I didn't want to mess with that, since I cannot meaningfully test any changes there.
- The deprecated TypeMux is used in a few places still, so the warning for it is silenced for now.
- Using string type in context.WithValue is apparently wrong, one should use a custom type, to prevent collisions between different places in the hierarchy of callers. That should be fixed at some point, but may require some attention.
- The warnings for using weak random generator are squashed, since we use a lot of random without need for cryptographic guarantees.
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