6c7a34f3b0 kernel: Add Purpose section to header documentation (TheCharlatan)
7e9f00bcc1 kernel: Allowing reducing exports (TheCharlatan)
7990463b10 kernel: Add pure kernel bitcoin-chainstate (TheCharlatan)
36ec9a3ea2 Kernel: Add functions for working with outpoints (TheCharlatan)
5eec7fa96a kernel: Add block hash type and block tree utility functions to C header (TheCharlatan)
f5d5d1213c kernel: Add function to read block undo data from disk to C header (TheCharlatan)
09d0f62638 kernel: Add functions to read block from disk to C header (TheCharlatan)
a263a4caf2 kernel: Add function for copying block data to C header (TheCharlatan)
b30e15f432 kernel: Add functions for the block validation state to C header (TheCharlatan)
aa262da7bc kernel: Add validation interface to C header (TheCharlatan)
d27e27758d kernel: Add interrupt function to C header (TheCharlatan)
1976b13be9 kernel: Add import blocks function to C header (TheCharlatan)
a747ca1f51 kernel: Add chainstate load options for in-memory dbs in C header (TheCharlatan)
070e77732c kernel: Add options for reindexing in C header (TheCharlatan)
ad80abc73d kernel: Add block validation to C header (TheCharlatan)
cb1590b05e kernel: Add chainstate loading when instantiating a ChainstateManager (TheCharlatan)
e2c1bd3d71 kernel: Add chainstate manager option for setting worker threads (TheCharlatan)
65571c36a2 kernel: Add chainstate manager object to C header (TheCharlatan)
c62f657ba3 kernel: Add notifications context option to C header (TheCharlatan)
9e1bac4585 kernel: Add chain params context option to C header (TheCharlatan)
337ea860df kernel: Add kernel library context object (TheCharlatan)
28d679bad9 kernel: Add logging to kernel library C header (TheCharlatan)
2cf136dec4 kernel: Introduce initial kernel C header API (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
This is a first attempt at introducing a C header for the libbitcoinkernel library that may be used by external applications for interfacing with Bitcoin Core's validation logic. It currently is limited to operations on blocks. This is a conscious choice, since it already offers a lot of powerful functionality, but sits just on the cusp of still being reviewable scope-wise while giving some pointers on how the rest of the API could look like.
The current design was informed by the development of some tools using the C header:
* A re-implementation (part of this pull request) of [bitcoin-chainstate](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/bitcoin-chainstate.cpp).
* A re-implementation of the python [block linearize](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib/linearize) scripts: https://github.com/TheCharlatan/bitcoin/tree/kernelLinearize
* A silent payment scanner: https://github.com/josibake/silent-payments-scanner
* An electrs index builder: https://github.com/josibake/electrs/commits/electrs-kernel-integration
* A rust bitcoin node: https://github.com/TheCharlatan/kernel-node
* A reindexer: https://github.com/TheCharlatan/bitcoin/tree/kernelApi_Reindexer
The library has also been used by other developers already:
* A historical block analysis tool: https://github.com/ismaelsadeeq/mining-analysis
* A swiftsync hints generator: https://github.com/theStack/swiftsync-hints-gen
* Fast script validation in floresta: https://github.com/vinteumorg/Floresta/pull/456
* A swiftsync node implementation: https://github.com/2140-dev/swiftsync/tree/master/node
Next to the C++ header also made available in this pull request, bindings for other languages are available here:
* Rust: https://github.com/TheCharlatan/rust-bitcoinkernel
* Python: https://github.com/stickies-v/py-bitcoinkernel
* Go: https://github.com/stringintech/go-bitcoinkernel
* Java: https://github.com/yuvicc/java-bitcoinkernel
The rust bindings include unit and fuzz tests for the API.
The header currently exposes logic for enabling the following functionality:
* Feature-parity with the now deprecated libbitcoin-consensus
* Optimized sha256 implementations that were not available to previous users of libbitcoin-consensus thanks to a static kernel context
* Full support for logging as well as control over categories and severity
* Feature parity with the existing experimental bitcoin-chainstate
* Traversing the block index as well as using block index entries for reading block and undo data.
* Running the chainstate in memory
* Reindexing (both full and chainstate-only)
* Interrupting long-running functions
The pull request introduces a new kernel-only test binary that purely relies on the kernel C header and the C++ standard library. This is intentionally done to show its capabilities without relying on other code inside the project. This may be relaxed to include some of the existing utilities, or even be merged into the existing test suite.
The complete docs for the API as well as some usage examples are hosted on [thecharlatan.ch/kernel-docs](https://thecharlatan.ch/kernel-docs/index.html). The docs are generated from the following repository (which also holds the examples): [github.com/TheCharlatan/kernel-docs](https://github.com/TheCharlatan/kernel-docs).
#### How can I review this PR?
Scrutinize the commit messages, run the tests, write your own little applications using the library, let your favorite code sanitizer loose on it, hook it up to your fuzzing infrastructure, profile the difference between the existing bitcoin-chainstate and the bitcoin-chainstate introduced here, be nitty on the documentation, police the C interface, opine on your own API design philosophy.
To get a feeling for the API, read through the tests, or one of the examples.
To configure this PR for making the shared library and the bitcoin-chainstate and test_kernel utilities available:
```
cmake -B build -DBUILD_KERNEL_LIB=ON -DBUILD_UTIL_CHAINSTATE=ON
```
Once compiled the library is part of the build artifacts that can be installed with:
```
cmake --install build
```
#### Why a C header (and not a C++ header)
* Shipping a shared library with a C++ header is hard, because of name mangling and an unstable ABI.
* Mature and well-supported tooling for integrating C exists for nearly every popular language.
* C offers a reasonably stable ABI
Also see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595#issuecomment-2285719575.
#### What about versioning?
The header and library are still experimental and I would expect this to remain so for some time, so best not to worry about versioning yet.
#### Potential future additions
In future, the C header could be expanded to support (some of these have been roughly implemented):
* Handling transactions, block headers, coins cache, utxo set, meta data, and the mempool
* Adapters for an abstract coins store
* Adapters for an abstract block store
* Adapters for an abstract block tree store
* Allocators and buffers for more efficient memory usage
* An "[io-less](https://sans-io.readthedocs.io/how-to-sans-io.html)" interface
* Hooks for an external mempool, or external policy rules
#### Current drawbacks
* For external applications to read the block index of an existing Bitcoin Core node, Bitcoin Core needs to shut down first, since leveldb does not support reading across multiple processes. Other than migrating away from leveldb, there does not seem to be a solution for this problem. Such a migration is implemented in #32427.
* The fatal error handling through the notifications is awkward. This is partly improved through #29642.
* Handling shared pointers in the interfaces is unfortunate. They make ownership and freeing of the resources fuzzy and poison the interfaces with additional types and complexity. However, they seem to be an artifact of the current code that interfaces with the validation engine. The validation engine itself does not seem to make extensive use of these shared pointers.
* If multiple instances of the same type of objects are used, there is no mechanism for distinguishing the log messages produced by each of them. A potential solution is #30342.
* The background leveldb compaction thread may not finish in time leading to a non-clean exit. There seems to be nothing we can do about this, outside of patching leveldb.
ACKs for top commit:
alexanderwiederin:
re-ACK 6c7a34f3b0
stringintech:
re-ACK 6c7a34f
laanwj:
Code review ACK 6c7a34f3b0
ismaelsadeeq:
reACK 6c7a34f3b0👾
fanquake:
ACK 6c7a34f3b0 - soon we'll be running bitcoin (kernel)
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This is the main driver class for anything validation related, so expose
it here.
Creating the chainstate manager options will currently also trigger the
creation of their respectively configured directories.
The chainstate manager and block manager options are consolidated into a
single object. The kernel might eventually introduce a separate block
manager object for the purposes of being a light-weight block store
reader.
The chainstate manager will associate with the context with which it was
created for the duration of its lifetime and it keeps it in memory with
a shared pointer.
The tests now also create dedicated temporary directories. This is
similar to the behaviour in the existing unit test framework.
Co-authored-by: stickies-v <stickies-v@protonmail.com>
Without this change linter produces errors about:
- Use of std::filesystem the libmultiprocess example program.
- Use of locale-dependent functions in example program, in the build time code
generator, and in the runtime library for debug logging.
- Include guards not beginning with BITCOIN_
Allowing to call the check from the test_runner allows for consistent
error messages and better UX by having a single test_runner for all
checks.
This requires the env var to be set for now. The next commit makes the
commit range optional.
- No empty line separating errors and arrows ("^^^"). Keeping them together signals they are related.
- No empty line separating error message and linter failure line (not completely empty, it contains several spaces left over from Rust multi-line literal).
- Keep the linter description on the same line as the failure line, otherwise it looks like it's a description for the following step.
On failure, this makes the output more consistent with the other linter.
Each failure will be marked with an '⚠️ ' emoji and explanation, making
it easier to spot.
Also, add --line-number to the filesystem linter.
Also, add newlines after each failing check, to visually separate
different failures from each other.
Can be reviewed with:
"--color-moved=dimmed-zebra --color-moved-ws=ignore-all-space"
fae76393bd test: Avoid F541 (f-string without any placeholders) (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
An extra `f` string-prefix is mostly harmless, but could be confusing or hint to a mistake where a format argument was forgotten.
Try to avoid the confusion and mistakes by applying the `F541` linter rule.
ACKs for top commit:
lucasbalieiro:
**Tested ACK** [fae7639](fae76393bd)
danielabrozzoni:
ACK fae76393bd
tdb3:
Code review ACK fae76393bd
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cccca8a77f test: Avoid logging error when logging error (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Currently a logging error in the form of `--- Logging error ---` happens when an error is logged in the `_on_data` helper.
Fix it by properly logging the error.
Also, treat pylint errors as errors, to avoid this problem in the future.
Can be tested by running `p2p_addrv2_relay.py` with the following example diff:
```diff
diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py b/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py
index 523e1bd068..0f1eb29d13 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/p2p.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ MESSAGEMAP = {
b"notfound": msg_notfound,
b"ping": msg_ping,
b"pong": msg_pong,
- b"sendaddrv2": msg_sendaddrv2,
+ #b"sendaddrv2": msg_sendaddrv2,
b"sendcmpct": msg_sendcmpct,
b"sendheaders": msg_sendheaders,
b"sendtxrcncl": msg_sendtxrcncl,
ACKs for top commit:
fanquake:
ACK cccca8a77f
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Fixes: #31044
This MLC update includes a change which will ignore files being ignored
by git, and help avoid false-positives when linting in this repo.
Previously they may have taken more than 10 seconds. Now they should
finish in less than one second.
This also allows to drop one dependency to be installed.
Updating to MLC v0.18.0 includes a new feature which will ignore all
files ignored by git: `--gitignore`.
This helps avoid false-positives flagged by this linter in non-project
files, such as a developer might expect to have in their directory (e.g.
guix-builds, python venvs, etc.)
This adds a markdown hyperlink check task to the lint test_runner. It
relies on having the [`mlc`](https://crates.io/crates/mlc) binary found
on $PATH, but will fail with `success` if the binary is not found.
`mlc` is also added to the ci/04_install.sh script run by the
containerfile.
Note that broken markdown hyperlinks will be detected in untracked
markdown files found in a dirty working directory (including e.g.
.venv).
fa09451f8e Add lint check for bitcoin-config.h include IWYU pragma (MarcoFalke)
dddd40ba82 scripted-diff: Add IWYU pragma keep to bitcoin-config.h includes (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
The `bitcoin-config.h` includes have issues:
* The header is incompatible with iwyu, because symbols may be defined or not defined. So the `IWYU pragma: keep` is needed to keep the include when a symbol is not defined on a platform. Compare the previous discussion in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29408#issuecomment-1948959711
* Guarding the includes by `HAVE_CONFIG_H` is verbose and brittle. Now that all build config dependencies have been removed from low level headers, the benefits are questionable, and the guard can be removed. The linter could also be tricked by guarding the include by `#if defined(HAVE_C0NFIG_H)` (`O` replaced by `0`). Compare the previous discussion in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29404#discussion_r1483189853 .
ACKs for top commit:
achow101:
ACK fa09451f8e
TheCharlatan:
ACK fa09451f8e
hebasto:
re-ACK fa09451f8e, only rebased since my recent [review](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29494#pullrequestreview-2028864535) (`timedata.cpp` removed in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29623).
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