6d0ea4cf5b doc: add release notes (Andrew Toth)
a2b1c86903 txospenderindex: disable bloom filters to optimize disk usage (Andrew Toth)
Pull request description:
LevelDB bloom filters are only consulted on `Get` point reads. This can be verified in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/leveldb/table/table.cc#L224-L228. `InternalGet` is the only place that consults the filter, and it is only reached via a `Get` or `Exists` point read. The filters are never consulted for iterator seeks with an iterator created via `NewIterator`.
txospenderindex only reads via iterator seeks, so building them is wasted effort and space.
For a db as large as txospenderindex, this results in measurable performance and disk usage.
On master, a full sync took 4h37m, and the resulting db was 85.0 GiB.
On this branch, a full sync took 3h57m, and the resulting db was 80.9 GiB.
So this is a sync speedup of 39 minutes (1.17x), and a disk space reduction of 4.2 GiB.
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dc1c17c085 doc: add release notes (Andrew Toth)
0e10937184 fuzz: add coins_view_stacked fuzz harness to test concurrent leveldb reads (Andrew Toth)
ce610a6ff4 fuzz: update harnesses to cover CoinsViewOverlay::StartFetching (Andrew Toth)
760fb22dc3 test: add unit tests for CoinsViewOverlay::StartFetching (Andrew Toth)
d69a3b20de doc: update CoinsViewOverlay docstring to describe parallel fetching (Andrew Toth)
ab2a379237 coins: fetch inputs in parallel (Andrew Toth)
fdf283036a coins: add ready flag to InputToFetch (Andrew Toth)
ede11b8314 validation: collect block inputs in CoinsViewOverlay before ConnectBlock (Andrew Toth)
f82043af50 coins: introduce thread pool in CoinsViewOverlay (Andrew Toth)
5bf1c32008 validation: add -prevoutfetchthreads configuration option (Andrew Toth)
Pull request description:
This PR is a continuation of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132. All outstanding issues raised there have been resolved, but the volume of stale comments can make that change difficult to review.
Currently, when connecting a block, each input prevout is looked up one at a time. For every input we first check the in-memory coins cache, and on a miss we make a synchronous round-trip to the chainstate LevelDB to read the coin from disk. Because these lookups happen serially as the block is being validated, the disk read latency stacks up and dominates the time spent in `ConnectBlock` whenever many inputs are not already in the cache.
This PR moves those disk reads onto a pool of worker threads that run in parallel with block connection. Before entering `ConnectBlock` the block is handed to a `CoinsViewOverlay`, which kicks off the workers to begin fetching all of the block's prevouts from disk and warming the cache. The main validation thread continues to do exactly the same work it does today, hitting the cache for each input in order. The only difference is that by the time it asks, the coin is much more likely to already be there. There are no validation logic or consensus behavior changes. This is purely a parallelization of an existing read pattern.
The number of fetcher threads is configurable via `-prevoutfetchthreads=<n>`, defaulting to 8 and capped at 16. Setting it to 0 disables input fetching entirely and reverts to the previous serial behavior.
We have measured large performance gains for IBD and `-reindex-chainstate`, as well as worst-case steady-state block connection at the tip. l0rinc ran many thorough benchmarking passes on the original PR across multiple machines, storage types, dbcache sizes[^1], operating systems[^2], and fetcher thread counts[^3]. Many other contributors also posted their benchmark results in the original PR. IBD speedups range from 1.18× to over 3× faster[^4]. Worst-case block connection time for network-attached storage was over 2× faster[^5]. Flamegraph comparisons before and after this change are available[^6].
On safety: `ConnectBlock` runs while holding `cs_main`, so nothing else in the node can mutate the chainstate while the fetchers are reading it.
On LevelDB: [concurrent reads are fully supported](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/leveldb/include/leveldb/db.h#L44) and [documented as such](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/leveldb/doc/index.md#concurrency). We already rely on this in production today against our other LevelDB-backed databases. The `txindex` DB is read by multiple simultaneous HTTP RPC worker threads via the `getrawtransaction` RPC. The `blockfilterindex` DB is called concurrently from both the P2P `cfilters` / `cfheaders` / `cfcheckpt` message handlers on the `msghand` thread, and from the `getblockfilter` RPC on the HTTP RPC worker threads. We have not yet been issuing concurrent reads against the chainstate DB, but there is no LevelDB-side reason we can't. In fact, the chainstate DB is already being touched by more than one thread on master, because LevelDB schedules its own background compaction work.
For reviewers:
The main change is `CoinsViewOverlay` gets 1 new public and 2 new private methods.
- `StartFetching`: public method called in lieu of `CreateResetGuard` before we enter `ConnectBlock`. It still returns a `ResetGuard` so the view is `Reset` before the block it is working on leaves scope. This kicks off worker threads who each just run `while (ProcessInput()) {}` and then return.
- `StopFetching`: private method called on `Reset` whenever the guard leaves scope or `Flush`. Stops all threads and clears multi threaded state.
- `ProcessInput`: private method that fetches a single input prevout. Returns `true` if an input was fetched and `false` otherwise. This is the only method on `CoinsViewOverlay` that is called concurrently by multiple threads. Every other method on the overlay is still called synchronously on the main thread.
The `CoinsViewOverlay::FetchCoinFromBase` method is also extended to lookup the coins fetched from `ProcessInput` first before falling back to `base->PeekCoin`.
Mutating methods `Reset` and `Flush` are overridden in `CoinsViewOverlay` to call `StopFetching` first.
[^1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#pullrequestreview-3515011880
[^2]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#issuecomment-3767758819
[^3]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#issuecomment-3617721711
[^4]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#issuecomment-3678847806
[^5]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#issuecomment-4071032270
[^6]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31132#issuecomment-3617315125
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2b6e767d96 doc: archive release notes for v31.1 (fanquake)
Pull request description:
v31.1 has been tagged: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v31.1/.
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31abaa264c doc: add an AI contribution policy (will)
Pull request description:
This policy, adapted from ripgrep, f0cec341ab/AI_POLICY.md who in turn adapted it from uv c5187e200d/AI_POLICY.md, works as a reasonable and pragmatic AI contribution policy at this point in time.
It codifies roughly how the project is currently operating, it's expectations when Ai is being used, and what we don't wish to see.
Link to the document directly from the new PR and issue helptext.
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68cb7840d2 doc: improve offline-signing-tutorial after 32489 (Pablo Martin)
Pull request description:
General improvements noted in the #32489 review and deferred by the author:
- Remove [a stale NOTE](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32489#discussion_r3484961398) referencing `walletcreatefundedpsbt`; the tutorial was updated to use the send RPC instead.
- [Fix](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32489#discussion_r3484961536) `listtransactions` example output from `{...}` to `[...]`; the RPC returns a JSON array, not an object.
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4e29de719e private broadcast: add release note for limited cap (Gregory Sanders)
cbf8c107c1 Release cs_main between individual private tx re-attempts (Greg Sanders)
5aea3d0373 private broadcast: limit outstanding txs to count of 10,000 (Gregory Sanders)
Pull request description:
Add a belt-and-suspenders feature, limit the amount of memory and cpu possible when unlucky or simply misconfigured. The worst case limit is roughly 400kB * 10,000 = 4GB, regardless of usage pattern.
Before this change, sheer volume of broadcasts, mismatches in standardness rules, or simply fee mismatches may result in unbounded growth of memory usage. As the feature may be expanded in the future, explicit bounds helps reasoning going forward.
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cddbad325d doc: Add release notes for 32489 (exportwatchonlywallet RPC) (Pablo Martin)
Pull request description:
This is a follow-up to #32489.
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General improvements noted in the #32489 review and deferred by the
author:
- Remove a stale NOTE referencing walletcreatefundedpsbt; the tutorial
was updated to use the send RPC instead.
- Fix listtransactions example output from {...} to [...]; the RPC
returns a JSON array, not an object.
9b2ef81757 doc: add release notes for #33671 (getbalances nonmempool field) (Pablo Martin)
Pull request description:
This is a follow-up to #33671.
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a15bdc0598 doc: update offline-signing-tutorial to use exportwatchonlywallet rpc (Pol Espinasa)
a388076401 test: Test for exportwatchonlywallet (Ava Chow)
d053e3e5c8 wallet, rpc: Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC (Ava Chow)
444878efef wallet: Add CWallet::ExportWatchOnly (Ava Chow)
f9273f01db wallet: Move listdescriptors retrieving from RPC to CWallet (Ava Chow)
a1c83789a7 wallet: Write new descriptor's cache in AddWalletDescriptor (Ava Chow)
1e996640e6 wallet: Use Descriptor::CanSelfExpand() in CanGetAddresses() (Ava Chow)
d2ee9227da descriptor: Add CanSelfExpand() (Ava Chow)
Pull request description:
Currently, if a user wants to use an airgapped setup, they need to manually create the watchonly wallet that will live on the online node by importing the public descriptors. This PR introduces `exportwatchonlywallet` which will create a wallet file with the public descriptors to avoid exposing the specific internals to the user. Additionally, this RPC will copy any existing labels, transactions, and wallet flags. This ensures that the exported watchonly wallet is almost entirely a copy of the original wallet but without private keys.
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Document project expectations for AI-assisted contributions so contributors
understand when AI use is acceptable and when it creates review or moderation
burden.
Link to the document directly from the new PR and issues helptext.
Document that newly indexed `txospenderindex` entries use less disk space and that existing indexes remain readable.
Users only need to rebuild the index if they want previously indexed entries rewritten with the smaller marker.
3765b428d1 logging: More fully remove libevent log category (Ryan Ofsky)
Pull request description:
Libevent log category was partially removed in 39e9099da5, and this commit extends that with the following changes:
- Stops showing libevent in the list of supported log categories in `bitcoind -help` and `bitcoin-cli help logging` output.
- Stops returning `"libevent": false` in `logging` RPC output.
It's not good to treat libevent as a supported log category when it can't be enabled and trying to enable it results in warnings.
There's also no need to define an unused LIBEVENT constant value and keep more complicated logic for dealing with deprecated log categories, so this change also simplifies code internally.
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Add a configuration option for the number of worker threads used for
parallel UTXO prevout prefetching during block connection.
Default is 8 threads, max is 16, 0 disables parallel fetching.
0cdd817a82 add release note (Pol Espinasa)
517d37ce3e test: tests wallet migration with load_wallet disabled (Pol Espinasa)
b98dd63da7 rpc: Add load_wallet argument to migratewallet RPC (Pol Espinasa)
4acd063ba6 wallet: make loading the wallet after migrating optional (Pol Espinasa)
97d08d62ba refactor: store wallet names to MigrationResult (Pol Espinasa)
Pull request description:
This PR is motivated by this [Stack Exchange question](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/130713/bitcoin-core-quickest-method-legacy-descriptor-wallet-migration).
Long story short, someone who has a node pruned before his legacy wallet birthday, is unable to migrate the wallet as it is not possible to load it.
Loading is not necessary for migration, and migrating without wanting to use the wallet in that node is a valid use-case.
This PR adds a new RPC argument to `migratewallet` that allow the user disabling the wallet loading.
Second commits adds tests for it.
Follow-up: Add an option to the GUI to not load the wallet after migrating.
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Libevent log category was partially removed in 39e9099da5, and this
commit extends that with the following changes:
- Stops showing libevent in the list of supported log categories in
`bitcoind -help` and `bitcoin-cli help logging` output.
- Stops returning `"libevent": false` in `logging` RPC output.
It's not good to treat libevent as a supported log category when it
can't be enabled and trying to enable it results in warnings.
There's also no need to define an unused LIBEVENT constant value and
keep more complicated logic for dealing with deprecated log categories,
so this change also simplifies code internally.
Co-authored-by: David Gumberg <davidzgumberg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: l0rinc <pap.lorinc@gmail.com>
2fe34808fa wallet: reject sendtoaddress and sendmany for external signers (Sjors Provoost)
bd5a32f7db doc: add taproot descriptor to getdescriptors example (woltx)
7131c82937 doc: clarify which commands receive --chain, --fingerprint and --stdin (woltx)
4fdd4d8d29 doc: replace stale signtransaction wording with current signtx flow (woltx)
fab92257fe doc, rpc: document enumerate model field and fingerprint deduplication (woltx)
Pull request description:
This PR aligns the external signer documentation with current behavior, and makes one previously implicit behavior explicit.
Per review feedback, each commit fixes a limited set of issues:
* **doc, rpc: document enumerate model field and fingerprint deduplication** — the `enumerate` response uses the optional `model` field, which Bitcoin Core maps to the `name` field of the `enumeratesigners` RPC result. Duplicate fingerprints are skipped, and wallet operations require exactly one connected signer.
* **doc: replace stale signtransaction wording with current signtx flow** — spending from an external signer wallet uses `send`/`sendall` (and `bumpfee` for fee-bumping), which invoke `<cmd> --stdin` and pass the `signtx` subcommand and PSBT over stdin.
* **doc: clarify which commands receive --chain, --fingerprint and --stdin** — mark `--chain` and `--fingerprint` as required except for `enumerate`, keep `--stdin` required for protocol flexibility, and match the order and form of the actual invocations in the usage examples.
* **doc: add taproot descriptor to getdescriptors example** — show the BIP86 `tr()` descriptor alongside the other address types.
* **wallet: reject sendtoaddress and sendmany for external signers** — return a specific error instead of the misleading "Private keys are disabled for this wallet", with functional test coverage. Cherry-picked from #33112 (thanks Sjors).
How the documentation went stale:
* The `enumerate` example has shown a `name` field since external signer support landed in #16546, but the implementation has always read `model`.
* `sendtoaddress`/`sendmany` external signer support was effectively precluded by #21201, which was merged a few days before #16546, so the interaction was missed in review and the documented `signtransaction` flow never existed in this form.
* Fingerprint deduplication was added in #35251.
* The documentation was last updated in #33765.
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`BaseIndex` currently uses the same name for logs, `getindexinfo`, prune locks, and the sync thread.
Linux truncates system thread names to 15 visible bytes after the `b-` prefix, so long indexer names are clipped in system tools.
Pass a separate thread name explicitly at each `BaseIndex` call site and shorten the OS-visible indexer names to `txidx`, `blkfltbscidx`, `coinstatsidx`, and `txospenderidx`.
Add an `Assume` to `ThreadRename()` so future OS-visible thread names keep fitting the same Linux limit.
The public index names, `getindexinfo` keys, command-line options, and on-disk paths stay unchanged.
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Co-authored-by: Hodlinator <172445034+hodlinator@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thread names with numeric suffixes are easier to scan when the suffixes use a fixed width.
Format `ThreadPool` and script-check worker suffixes as two digits while keeping the compact dotted convention.
Co-authored-by: Hodlinator <172445034+hodlinator@users.noreply.github.com>
ThreadPool workers currently format their names as `name_pool_N`.
Linux truncates the system thread name to 15 visible bytes, so `b-http_pool_N` spends much of that space on the suffix.
Use a dotted numeric suffix so HTTP worker names become `b-http.N`, leaving more room for longer pool names.
This feature was broken for more than a year and no developer apparently
even noticed, so one can conclude that it is largely unused; it seems
thus reasonable to remove it to reduce maintenance burden.
Wallets import descriptors for all supported address types in a
BIP44/49/84/86 compatible manner, so show the BIP86 tr() descriptor in
the example response as well.
Bitcoin Core passes --chain and --fingerprint to every signer command
except enumerate, so mark them "(required except for enumerate)" and
name the current commands only as examples. Keep --stdin documented as
required for all commands so the interface stays flexible, noting that
Bitcoin Core currently only uses it for signtx.
Add the missing flags to the getdescriptors and displayaddress usage
examples and the corresponding doxygen comments, matching the order and
form of the actual invocations, add testnet4 to the chain name lists,
and drop the getaddressinfo implementation detail from the
walletdisplayaddress description.
The protocol documentation still described a "signtransaction" command
driven by sendtoaddress and sendmany. Those RPCs never gained external
signer support: it was effectively precluded by #21201, which was
merged a few days before external signer support landed in #16546, so
the interaction was missed in review (#33112 has a commit making the
rejection explicit). Spending from an external signer wallet uses
send/sendall (and bumpfee for fee-bumping), which invoke the signer
with `<cmd> --stdin` and pass the `signtx` subcommand and PSBT over
stdin.
Update the spending example and the protocol description accordingly,
using `bitcoin rpc` for the example since it enables -named by default.
The external signer "enumerate" response uses the optional "model"
field, not "name". Document that Bitcoin Core maps it to the "name"
field of the enumeratesigners RPC result, and that signers with
duplicate master key fingerprints are skipped.
Also document that wallet operations require exactly one connected
signer.
Co-authored-by: optout <13562139+optout21@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: naiyoma <lankas.aurelia@gmail.com>
BIP434 defines FEATURE messages which are sent between VERSION and VERACK
to indicate support for new P2P protocol features. This commit provides
the infrastructure for easily using BIP434 negotiation when implementing
such new P2P protocol features. Note that advertised protocol version
is bumped to 70017, as per BIP434's specification.
bf0d257c11 net: un-default the OpenNetworkConnection()'s proxy_override argument (Eugene Siegel)
5a3756d150 test: add a regression test for private broadcast v1 retries (Vasil Dimov)
ab35a028ed test: make reusable filling of a node's addrman (Vasil Dimov)
2333be9cbc test: make reusable starting a standalone P2P listener (Vasil Dimov)
2ffa81fac4 test: make reusable SOCKS5 server starting (Vasil Dimov)
32d072a49f doc: add release notes for #35319 (Vasil Dimov)
d01b461f71 net: ensure no direct private broadcast connections (Vasil Dimov)
fd230f942d net: use the proxy if overriden when doing v2->v1 reconnections (Vasil Dimov)
Pull request description:
This PR includes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/35319 and on top of that adds a regression functional test.
The functional test exercises the relevant code paths without modifying non-test code. To do that it does:
* Add a bunch of IPv4 addresses to the node's addrman (they will be added without P2P_V2 flag).
* Get them to report P2P_V2 in their service flags and connect to each one, so that the flags
in addrman are updated to contain P2P_V2.
* Get one successful connection to a Tor peer (.onion) so that bitcoind assumes the configured
Tor proxy works and is indeed a proxy to the Tor network. This will make it open private
broadcast connections also to IPv4 addresses via that proxy.
* Start some private broadcast connections.
* Remember the destination IPv4 address of the first connection and get it to fail the v2
transport.
* Wait for a subsequent connection also through the Tor proxy to the same IPv4 and expect
it to be v1, i.e. the v2->v1 downgrade retry.
The test fails without the fix - the v1 retry never arrives to the Tor proxy. And passes with the fix. The fix is in the first commit here and in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/35319, can remove it by `git show fd230f942d | git apply -R`.
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107d4178d9 versionbits: update VersionBitsCache doc comment to match current behaviour (Antoine Poinsot)
94e3ac0b21 doc: release notes and bips doc update for #34779 (Antoine Poinsot)
1d5240574a qa: test we don't warn for ignored unknown version bits deployments (Antoine Poinsot)
f802edf57c versionbits: Limit live activation params and activation warnings per BIP323 (Anthony Towns)
Pull request description:
This implements https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2116, which repurposes 24 version bits as extra nonce space for miners rather than soft fork deployment coordination. 24 bits allows a miner to perform up to 72 PH before needing a fresh job from its controller. The current 16 bits in use by miners only allow up to 280 TH, which [apparently led some ASIC designers to start rolling the timestamp field](https://github.com/bitaxeorg/ESP-Miner/pull/1553#issuecomment-3937736319) on their beefier machines.
Mailing list discussion available [here](https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/6fa0cb45-37d6-4b41-9ff8-03730fd96d6e@mattcorallo.com/). A previous shot at this is https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13972 (with a smaller extranonce space).
This change only affects the warning logic.
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