FatalError replaces what previously was the AbortNode function in
shutdown.cpp.
This commit is part of the libbitcoinkernel project and further removes
the shutdown's and, more generally, the kernel library's dependency on
interface_ui with a kernel notification method. By removing interface_ui
from the kernel library, its dependency on boost is reduced to just
boost::multi_index. At the same time it also takes a step towards
de-globalising the interrupt infrastructure.
Co-authored-by: Russell Yanofsky <russ@yanofsky.org>
Co-authored-by: TheCharlatan <seb.kung@gmail.com>
This is done in addition with the following commit. Both have the goal
of getting rid of direct calls to AbortNode from kernel code. This extra
flushError method is added to notify specifically about errors that
arrise when flushing (syncing) block data to disk. Unlike other
instances, the current calls to AbortNode in the blockstorage flush
functions do not report an error to their callers.
This commit is part of the libbitcoinkernel project and further removes
the shutdown's and, more generally, the kernel library's dependency on
interface_ui with a kernel notification method. By removing interface_ui
from the kernel library, its dependency on boost is reduced to just
boost::multi_index. At the same time it also takes a step towards
de-globalising the interrupt infrastructure.
This and the following commit seek to decouple the libbitcoinkernel
library from the shutdown code. As a library, it should it should have
its own flexible interrupt infrastructure without relying on node-wide
globals.
The commit takes the first step towards this goal by de-globalising
`ShutdownRequested` calls in kernel code.
Co-authored-by: Russell Yanofsky <russ@yanofsky.org>
Co-authored-by: TheCharlatan <seb.kung@gmail.com>
32e2ffc39374f61bb2435da507f285459985df9e Remove the syscall sandbox (fanquake)
Pull request description:
After initially being merged in #20487, it's no-longer clear that an internal syscall sandboxing mechanism is something that Bitcoin Core should have/maintain, especially when compared to better maintained/supported alterantives, i.e [firejail](https://github.com/netblue30/firejail).
There is more related discussion in #24771.
Note that given where it's used, the sandbox also gets dragged into the kernel.
If it's removed, this should not require any sort of deprecation, as this was only ever an opt-in, experimental feature.
Closes#24771.
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1c7d08b9acd33aff343228ada7e058e606cb1062 validation: Stricter assumeutxo error handling in InvalidateCoinsDBOnDisk (Ryan Ofsky)
9047337d369d800e6eca4d3b686139073a8e8905 validation: Stricter assumeutxo error handling in LoadChainstate (Ryan Ofsky)
Pull request description:
There are two places in assumeutxo code where it is calling `AbortNode` to trigger asynchronous shutdowns without returning errors to calling functions.
One case, in `LoadChainstate`, happens when snapshot validation succeeds, and there is an error trying to replace the background chainstate with the snapshot chainstate.
The other case, in `InvalidateCoinsDBOnDisk`, happens when snapshot validatiion fails, and there is an error trying to remove the snapshot chainstate.
In both cases the node is being forced to shut down, so it makes sense for these functions to raise errors so callers can know that an error happened without having to infer it from the shutdown state.
Noticed these cases while reviewing #27861, which replaces the `AbortNode` function with a `FatalError` function.
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After initially being merged in #20487, it's no-longer clear that an
internal syscall sandboxing mechanism is something that Bitcoin Core
should have/maintain, especially when compared to better
maintained/supported alterantives, i.e firejail.
Note that given where it's used, the sandbox also gets dragged into the
kernel.
There is some related discussion in #24771.
This should not require any sort of deprecation, as this was only ever
an opt-in, experimental feature.
Closes#24771.
Make LoadChainstate return an explicit error when snapshot validation succeeds,
but there is an error trying to replace the background chainstate with the
snapshot chainstate. Previously in this case LoadChainstate would trigger a
shutdown and return INTERRUPTED, now it will return an actual error code.
There's no real change to behavior other than error message being formatted a
little differently.
Motivation for this change is to replace error handling via callbacks with
error handling via return value ahead of
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27861
61c569ab6069d04079a0831468eb713983919636 refactor: decouple early return commands from AppInit (furszy)
4927167f855f8ed3bbf6d2766f61229f742e632a gui: return EXIT_FAILURE on post-init fatal errors (furszy)
3b2c61e8198bcefb1c2343caff1d705951026cc4 Return EXIT_FAILURE on post-init fatal errors (furszy)
3c06926cf21dcca3074ef51506f556b2286c299b refactor: index: use `AbortNode` in fatal error helper (Sebastian Falbesoner)
9ddf7e03a35592617a016418fd320cc93c8d1abd move ThreadImport ABC error to use AbortNode (furszy)
Pull request description:
It seems odd to return `EXIT_SUCCESS` when the node aborted execution due a fatal internal error
or any post-init problem that triggers an unrequested shutdown.
e.g. blocks or coins db I/O errors, disconnect block failure, failure during thread import (external
blocks loading process error), among others.
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It seems odd to return `EXIT_SUCCESS` when the node aborted
execution due a fatal internal error or any post-init problem
that triggers an unrequested shutdown.
e.g. blocks or coins db I/O errors, disconnect block failure,
failure during thread import (external blocks loading process
error), among others.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
db77f87c6365cb5f414036d6bfb1a12705772028 scripted-diff: move settings to common namespace (TheCharlatan)
c27e4bdc35bc7cedd1ee07e98a52c230241120d1 move-only: Move settings to the common library (TheCharlatan)
c2dae5d7d89634fbd771755ce3909719f5462f63 kernel: Remove chainparams, chainparamsbase, args, settings from kernel library (TheCharlatan)
05870b1c92f39d90e5ba6e0caf2f6c2b37955528 refactor: Remove gArgs access from validation.cpp (TheCharlatan)
8789b11114b4bd6c7ee727dffbc75a6bdf20dd27 refactor: Add path argument to FindSnapshotChainstateDir (TheCharlatan)
ef95be334f3aec671346372b64606e0fd390979a refactor: Add stop_at_height option in ChainstateManager (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
This pull request is part of the `libbitcoinkernel` project https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27587https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/18 and more specifically its "Step 2: Decouple most non-consensus code from libbitcoinkernel".
---
This completes the removal of the node's chainparams, chainparamsbase, args and settings files and their respective classes from the kernel library. This is the last pull request in a long series working towards decoupling the `ArgsManager` and the `gArgs` global from kernel code. These prior pull requests are: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26177https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27125https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25527https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25487https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25290
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Code review ACK db77f87c6365cb5f414036d6bfb1a12705772028. Looks great!
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The slow fuzz seed described in #27799 was just slower than expected,
not an endless loop. Ensuring that every anscestor is only processed
once speeds up the termination of the graph traversal.
Fixes#27799
Remove access to the global gArgs for getting the directory in
utxo_snapshot.
This is done in the context of the libbitcoinkernel project, wherein
reliance of libbitcoinkernel code on the global gArgs is incrementally
removed.
Remove access to the global gArgs for the stopatheight argument and
replace it by adding a field to the existing ChainstateManager Options
struct.
This should eventually allow users of the ChainstateManager to not rely
on the global gArgs and instead pass in their own options.
fa5680b7520c340952239c4e25ebe505d16c7c39 fix includes for touched header files (iwyu) (MarcoFalke)
dddde27f6fbcff7cdb31f7138efc5d8363537b03 Add [[nodiscard]] where ignoring a Result return type is an error (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Only add it for those where it is an error to ignore. Also, fix the gcc compile warning https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25977#issuecomment-1564350880. Also, fix iwyu for touched header files.
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7d3b35004b039f2bd606bb46a540de7babdbc41e refactor: Move system from util to common library (TheCharlatan)
7eee356c0a7fefd70c8de21689efa335f52a69ba refactor: Split util::AnyPtr into its own file (TheCharlatan)
44de325d95447498036479c3112ba741caf45bf6 refactor: Split util::insert into its own file (TheCharlatan)
9ec5da36b62276ae22e348f26f88aaf646357d6d refactor: Move ScheduleBatchPriority to its own file (TheCharlatan)
f871c69191dfe1331861ebcdbadb6bd47e45c8b1 kernel: Add warning method to notifications (TheCharlatan)
4452707edec91c7d7991f486dd41ef3edb4f7fbf kernel: Add progress method to notifications (TheCharlatan)
84d71457e7250ab25c0a11d1ad1c7657197ffd90 kernel: Add headerTip method to notifications (TheCharlatan)
447761c8228d58f948aae7e73ed079c028cacb97 kernel: Add notification interface (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
This pull request is part of the `libbitcoinkernel` project https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27587https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/18 and more specifically its "Step 2: Decouple most non-consensus code from libbitcoinkernel".
---
It removes the kernel library's dependency on `util/system` and `interface_ui`. `util/system` contains networking and shell-related code that should not be part of the kernel library. The following pull requests prepared `util/system` for this final step: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27419https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27254https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27238.
`interface_ui` defines functions for a more general node interface and has a dependency on `boost/signals2`. After applying the patches from this pull request, the kernel's reliance on boost is down to `boost::multiindex`.
The approach implemented here introduces some indirection, which makes the code a bit harder to read. Any suggestions for improving or reworking this pull request to make it more concise, or even reworking it into a more proper interface, are appreciated.
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Since the kernel library no longer depends on the system file, move it
to the common library instead in accordance to the diagram in
doc/design/libraries.md.
With the previous move of AlertNotify out of the validation file, and
thus out of the kernel library, ScheduleBatchPriority is the last
remaining function used by the kernel library from util/system. Move it
to its own file, such that util/system can be moved out of the util
library in the following few commits.
Moving util/system out of the kernel library removes further networking
as well as shell related code from it.
This commit is part of the libbitcoinkernel project and seeks to remove
the ChainstateManager's and, more generally, the kernel library's
dependency on interface_ui with options methods in this and the following
few commits. By removing interface_ui from the kernel library, its
dependency on boost is reduced to just boost::multi_index.
The DoWarning and AlertNotify functions are moved out of the
validation.cpp file, which removes its dependency on interface_ui as
well as util/system.
This commit is part of the libbitcoinkernel project and seeks to remove
the ChainstateManager's and, more generally, the kernel library's
dependency on interface_ui with options methods in this and the
following few commits. By removing interface_ui from the kernel library,
its dependency on boost is reduced to just boost::multi_index.
This commit is part of the libbitcoinkernel project and seeks to remove
the ChainstateManager's and, more generally, the kernel library's
dependency on interface_ui with options methods in this and the following
few commits. By removing interface_ui from the kernel library, its
dependency on boost is reduced to just boost::multi_index.
This commit is part of the libbitcoinkernel project and seeks to remove
the ChainstateManager's and, more generally, the kernel library's
dependency on interface_ui with options methods in this and the following
few commits. By removing interface_ui from the kernel library, its
dependency on boost is reduced to just boost::multi_index.
Define a new kernel notification class with virtual methods for
notifying about internal kernel events. Create a new file in the node
library for defining a function creating the default set of notification
methods such that these do not need to be re-defined all over the
codebase. As a first step, add a `blockTip` method, wrapping
`uiInterface.NotifyBlockTip`.
6b605b91c1faf2c7f7cc0c9d39b4fcfd66dc2965 [fuzz] Add MiniMiner target + diff fuzz against BlockAssembler (glozow)
3f3f2d59ea2946a7b7cc8cb0222fb602d62645d0 [unit test] GatherClusters and MiniMiner unit tests (glozow)
59afcc83548ea67a863dac7b75d000bc8f6a7023 Implement Mini version of BlockAssembler to calculate mining scores (glozow)
56484f0fdc44261e723563f59df886d5acdd851f [mempool] find connected mempool entries with GatherClusters(…) (glozow)
Pull request description:
Implement Mini version of BlockAssembler to calculate mining scores
Run the mining algorithm on a subset of the mempool, only disturbing the
mempool to copy out fee information for relevant entries. Intended to be
used by wallet to calculate amounts needed for fee-bumping unconfirmed
transactions.
From comments of sipa and glozow below:
> > In what way does the code added here differ from the real block assembly code?
>
> * Only operates on the relevant transactions rather than full mempool
> * Has the ability to remove transactions that will be replaced so they don't impact their ancestors
> * Does not hold mempool lock outside of the constructor, makes copies of the entries it needs instead (though I'm not sure if this has an effect in practice)
> * Doesn't do the sanity checks like keeping weight within max block weight and `IsFinalTx()`
> * After the block template is built, additionally calculates fees to bump remaining ancestor packages to target feerate
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This is achieved by letting the index sync thread wait until
reindex-chainstate is finished.
This also disables the pruning check when reindexing the chainstate (which is
incompatible with prune mode) because there would be no chain at this point
in init.
Add a stop_after_block_import field to the BlockManager options. Use
this field instead of the global gArgs.
This should allow users of the BlockManager to not rely on the global
Args.
Add a blocks_dir field to the BlockManager options. Move functions
relying on the global gArgs to get the blocks_dir into the BlockManager
class.
This should eventually allow users of the BlockManager to not rely on
the global Args and instead pass in their own options.
Remove access to the global gArgs for the fastprune argument and
replace it by adding a field to the existing BlockManager Options
struct.
When running `clang-tidy-diff` on this commit, there is a diagnostic
error: `unknown type name 'uint64_t' [clang-diagnostic-error] uint64_t
prune_target{0};`, which is fixed by including cstdint.
This should eventually allow users of the BlockManager to not rely on
the global gArgs and instead pass in their own options.
This is a commit in preparation for the next few commits. The functions
are moved to methods to avoid their re-declaration for the purpose of
passing in BlockManager options.
The functions that were now moved into the BlockManager should no longer
use the params as an argument, but instead use the member variable.
In the moved ReadBlockFromDisk and UndoReadFromDisk, change
the function signature to accept a reference to a CBlockIndex instead of
a raw pointer. The pointer is expected to be non-null, so reflect that
in the type.
To allow for the move of functions to BlockManager methods all call
sites require an instantiated BlockManager, or a callback to one.
This commit effectively moves the definition of these constants
out of the chainparamsbase to their own file.
Using the ChainType enums provides better type safety compared to
passing around strings.
The commit is part of an ongoing effort to decouple the libbitcoinkernel
library from the ArgsManager and other functionality that should not be
part of the kernel library.
8f14fc86225d8fe77353f61ebd6b0bdda8d13aa9 test: cover fastprune with excessive block size (Matthew Zipkin)
271c23e87f61276d7acab74e115b25a35144c8b4 blockstorage: Adjust fastprune limit if block exceeds blockfile size (Martin Zumsande)
Pull request description:
The debug-only `-fastprune` option used in several tests is not always safe to use:
If a `-fastprune` node receives a block larger than the maximum blockfile size of `64kb` bad things happen: The while loop in `BlockManager::FindBlockPos` never terminates, and the node runs oom because memory for `m_blockfile_info` is allocated in each iteration of the loop.
The same would happen if a naive user used `-fastprune` on anything other than regtest (so this can be tested by syncing on signet for example, the first block that crashes the node is at height 2232).
Change the approach by raising the blockfile size to the size of the block, if that block otherwise wouldn't fit (idea by TheCharlatan).
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If the added block exceeds the blockfile size in test-only
-fastprune mode, the node would get stuck in an infinite loop and
run out of memory.
Avoid this by raising the blockfile size to the size of the added block
in this situation.
Co-authored-by: TheCharlatan <seb.kung@gmail.com>
This is an extraction of ArgsManager related functions from util/system
into their own common file.
Config file related functions are moved to common/config.cpp.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager. The ArgsManager belongs
into the common library, since the kernel library should not depend on
it. See doc/design/libraries.md for more information on this rationale.
00e9b97f37e0bdf4c647236838c10b68b7ad5be3 refactor: Move fs.* to util/fs.* (TheCharlatan)
106b46d9d25b5228ef009fbbe6f9a7ae35090d15 Add missing fs.h includes (TheCharlatan)
b202b3dd6393b415fa68e18dc49c9431dc6b58b2 Add missing cstddef include in assumptions.h (TheCharlatan)
18fb36367a28819bd5ab402344802796a1248979 refactor: Extract util/fs_helpers from util/system (Ben Woosley)
Pull request description:
This pull request is part of the `libbitcoinkernel` project https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/24303https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/18 and more specifically its "Step 2: Decouple most non-consensus code from libbitcoinkernel". This commit was originally authored by empact and is taken from its parent PR #25152.
#### Context
There is an ongoing effort to decouple the `ArgsManager` used for command line parsing user-provided arguments from the libbitcoinkernel library (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25290, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25487, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25527, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25862, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/26177, and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27125). The `ArgsManager` is defined in `system.h`. A similar pull request extracting functionality from `system.h` has been merged in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27238.
#### Changes
Next to providing better code organization, this PR removes some reliance of the tree of libbitcoinkernel header includes on `system.h` (and thus the `ArgsManager` definition) by moving filesystem related functions out of the `system.*` files.
There is already a pair of `fs.h` / `fs.cpp` in the top-level `src/` directory. They were not combined with the files introduced here, to keep the patch cleaner and more importantly because they are often included without the utility functions. The new files are therefore named `fs_helpers` and the existing `fs` files are moved into the util directory.
Further commits splitting more functionality out of `system.h` are still in #25152 and will be submitted in separate PRs once this PR has been processed.
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Rewrite the same algo instead of reusing BlockAssembler because we have
a few extra requirements that would make the changes invasive and
difficult to review:
- Only operate on the relevant transactions rather than full mempool
- Remove transactions that will be replaced so they can't bump their ancestors
- Don't hold mempool lock outside of the constructor
- Skip things like max block weight and IsFinalTx
- Additionally calculate fees to bump remaining ancestor packages to target feerate
Co-authored-by: Murch <murch@murch.one>
The fs.* files are already part of the libbitcoin_util library. With the
introduction of the fs_helpers.* it makes sense to move fs.* into the
util/ directory as well.
b3e78dc91d01e364b77aacd9fb9a2f88688ab8a6 refactor: Don't use global chainparams in chainstatemanager method (TheCharlatan)
382b692a503355df7347efd9c128aff465b5583e Split non/kernel chainparams (Carl Dong)
edabbc78a3bc272b2b802e1dbab73d6ed8e31e96 Add factory functions for Main/Test/Sig/Reg chainparams (Carl Dong)
d938098398814f37fed9b018b44716179cfa4b03 Remove UpdateVersionBitsParameters (Carl Dong)
84b85786f0f5cb23cc257a4464ae345e1d372313 Decouple RegTestChainParams from ArgsManager (Carl Dong)
76cd4e7c96242398172989609f1b9a8843c404b4 Decouple SigNetChainParams from ArgsManager (Carl Dong)
Pull request description:
This pull request is part of the `libbitcoinkernel` project https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/24303https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/18 and more specifically its "Step 2: Decouple most non-consensus code from libbitcoinkernel". dongcarl is the original author of this patchset, these commits were taken from https://github.com/dongcarl/bitcoin/tree/2022-03-libbitcoinkernel-chainparams-args-only.
#### Context
The bitcoin kernel library currently relies on code containing user configurations through the `ArgsManager`. This is not optimal, since as a stand-alone library it should not rely on bitcoind's argument parsing logic. Instead, its interfaces should accept control and options structs that control the kernel library's desired configuration.
Similar work towards decoupling the `ArgsManager` from the kernel has been done in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25290, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25487, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25527 and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25862.
#### Changes
By moving the `CChainParams` class definition into the kernel and giving it new factory functions `CChainParams::{RegTest,SigNet,Main,TestNet}`it can be constructed without an `ArgsManager` reference, unlike the current factory function `CreateChainParams`.
The first few commits remove uses of `ArgsManager` within `CChainParams`. Then the `CChainParams` definition is moved to a new file in the `kernel/` subdirectory.
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Moves chainparams code not using the ArgsManager to the kernel.
Subsequently use the kernel chainparams header now where possible in
order to further decouple chainparams call sites from gArgs.
