This adds functions for reading the undo data from disk with a retrieved
block tree entry. The undo data of a block contains all the spent
script pubkeys of all the transactions in a block. For ease of
understanding the undo data is renamed to spent outputs with seperate
data structures exposed for a block's and a transaction's spent outputs.
In normal operations undo data is used during re-orgs. This data might
also be useful for building external indexes, or to scan for silent
payment transactions.
Internally the block undo data contains a vector of transaction undo
data which contains a vector of the coins consumed. The coins are all
int the order of the transaction inputs of the consuming transactions.
Each coin can be used to retrieve a transaction output and in turn a
script pubkey and amount.
This translates to the three-level hierarchy the api provides: Block
spent outputs contain transaction spent outputs, which contain
individual coins. Each coin includes the associated output, the height
of the block is contained in, and whether it is from a coinbase
transaction.
This adds functions for reading a block from disk with a retrieved block
tree entry. External services that wish to build their own index, or
analyze blocks can use this to retrieve block data.
The block tree can now be traversed from the tip backwards. This is
guaranteed to work, since the chainstate maintains an internal block
tree index in memory and every block (besides the genesis) has an
ancestor.
The user can use this function to iterate through all blocks in the
chain (starting from the tip). The tip is retrieved from a separate
`Chain` object, which allows distinguishing whether entries are
currently in the best chain. Once the block tree entry for the genesis
block is reached a nullptr is returned if the user attempts to get the
previous entry.
This adds a function for streaming bytes into a user-owned data
structure.
Use it in the tests for verifying the implementation of the validation
interface's `BlockChecked` method.
These allow for the interpretation of the data in a `BlockChecked`
validation interface callback. The validation state passed through
`BlockChecked` is the source of truth for the validity of a block (the
mode). It is
also useful to get richer information in case a block failed to
validate (the result).
This adds the infrastructure required to process validation events. For
now the external validation interface only has support for the
`BlockChecked` , `NewPoWValidBlock`, `BlockConnected`, and
`BlockDisconnected` callback. Support for the other internal
validation interface methods can be added in the future.
The validation interface follows an architecture for defining its
callbacks and ownership that is similar to the notifications.
The task runner is created internally with a context, which itself
internally creates a unique ValidationSignals object. When the user
creates a new chainstate manager the validation signals are internally
passed to the chainstate manager through the context.
A validation interface can register for validation events with a
context. Internally the passed in validation interface is registerd with
the validation signals of a context.
The callbacks block any further validation execution when they are
called. It is up to the user to either multiplex them, or use them
otherwise in a multithreaded mechanism to make processing the validation
events non-blocking.
I.e. for a synchronous mechanism, the user executes instructions
directly at the end of the callback function:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant V as Validation
participant C as Callback
V->>C: Call callback
Note over C: Process event (blocks)
C-->>V: Return
Note over V: Validation resumes
```
To avoid blocking, the user can submit the data to e.g. a worker thread
or event manager, so processing happens asynchronously:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant V as Validation
participant C as Callback
participant W as Worker Thread
V->>C: Call callback
C->>W: Submit to worker thread
C-->>V: Return immediately
Note over V: Validation continues
Note over W: Process event async
```
Add `btck_import_blocks` to import block data and rebuild indexes. The
function can either reindex all existing block files if the indexes were
previously wiped through the chainstate manager options, or import
blocks from specified file paths.
This allows a user to run the kernel without creating on-disk files for
the block tree and chainstate indexes. This is potentially useful in
scenarios where the user needs to do some ephemeral validation
operations.
One specific use case is when linearizing the blocks on disk. The block
files store blocks out of order, so a program may utilize the library
and its header to read the blocks with one chainstate manager, and then
write them back in order, and without orphans, with another chainstate
maanger. To save disk resources and if the indexes are not required once
done, it may be beneficial to keep the indexes in memory for the
chainstate manager that writes the blocks back again.
Adds options for wiping the chainstate and block tree indexes to the
chainstate manager options. In combination and once the
`*_import_blocks(...)` function is added in a later commit, this
triggers a reindex. For now, it just wipes the existing data.
The added function allows the user process and validate a given block
with the chainstate manager. The *_process_block(...) function does some
preliminary checks on the block before passing it to
`ProcessNewBlock(...)`. These are similar to the checks in the
`submitblock()` rpc.
Richer processing of the block validation result will be made available
in the following commits through the validation interface.
The commits also adds a utility for deserializing a `CBlock`
(`kernel_block_create()`) that may then be passed to the library for
processing.
The tests exercise the function for both mainnet and regtest. The
commit also adds the data of 206 regtest blocks (some blocks also
contain transactions).
The library will now internally load the chainstate when a new
ChainstateManager is instantiated.
Options for controlling details of loading the chainstate will be added
over the next few commits.
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>
The notifications are used for notifying on connected blocks and on
warning and fatal error conditions.
The user of the C header may define callbacks that gets passed to the
internal notification object in the
`kernel_NotificationInterfaceCallbacks` struct.
Each of the callbacks take a `user_data` argument that gets populated
from the `user_data` value in the struct. It can be used to recreate the
structure containing the callbacks on the user's side, or to give the
callbacks additional contextual information.
As a first option, add the chainparams. For now these can only be
instantiated with default values. In future they may be expanded to take
their own options for regtest and signet configurations.
This commit also introduces a unique pattern for setting the option
values when calling the `*_set(...)` function.
The context introduced here holds the objects that will be required for
running validation tasks, such as the chosen chain parameters, callbacks
for validation events, and interrupt handling. These will be used by the
chainstate manager introduced in subsequent commits.
This commit also introduces conventions for defining option objects. A
common pattern throughout the C header will be:
```
options = object_option_create();
object = object_create(options);
```
This allows for more consistent usage of a "builder pattern" for
objects where options can be configured independently from
instantiation.
Exposing logging in the kernel library allows users to follow
operations. Users of the C header can use
`kernel_logging_connection_create(...)` to pass a callback function to
Bitcoin Core's internal logger. Additionally the level and category can
be globally configured.
By default, the logger buffers messages until
`kernel_loggin_connection_create(...)` is called. If the user does not
want any logging messages, it is recommended that
`kernel_disable_logging()` is called, which permanently disables the
logging and any buffering of messages.
Co-authored-by: stringintech <stringintech@gmail.com>
As a first step, implement the equivalent of what was implemented in the
now deprecated libbitcoinconsensus header. Also add a test binary to
exercise the header and library.
Unlike the deprecated libbitcoinconsensus the kernel library can now use
the hardware-accelerated sha256 implementations thanks for its
statically-initialzed context. The functions kept around for
backwards-compatibility in the libbitcoinconsensus header are not ported
over. As a new header, it should not be burdened by previous
implementations. Also add a new error code for handling invalid flag
combinations, which would otherwise cause a crash.
The macros used in the new C header were adapted from the libsecp256k1
header.
To make use of the C header from C++ code, a C++ header is also
introduced for wrapping the C header. This makes it safer and easier to
use from C++ code.
Co-authored-by: stickies-v <stickies-v@protonmail.com>
Move calculated constants from the top of src/headerssync.cpp into src/kernel/chainparams.cpp.
Instead of being hardcoded to mainnet parameters, HeadersSyncState can now vary depending on chain or test. (This means we can reset TARGET_BLOCKS back to the nice round number of 15'000).
Signet and testnets got new HeadersSyncParams constants through temporarily altering headerssync-params.py with corresponding GENESIS_TIME and MINCHAINWORK_HEADERS (based off defaultAssumeValid block height comments, corresponding to nMinimumChainWork). Regtest doesn't have a default assume valid block height, so the values are copied from Testnet 4. Since the constants only affect memory usage, and have very low impact unless dealing with a largely malicious chain, it's not that critical to keep updating them for non-mainnet chains.
GENESIS_TIMEs (UTC):
Testnet3: 1296688602 = datetime(2011, 2, 2)
Testnet4: 1714777860 = datetime(2024, 5, 3)
Signet: 1598918400 = datetime(2020, 9, 1)
75d9b72475 kernel: make blockTip index const (stickies-v)
Pull request description:
Notification interface subscribers need to view, but not mutate, the index.
This change allows improving the #30595 kernel interface, see e.g. `BlockTreeEntry` where [currently](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595/files#diff-4d05cd02fdce641be603f0f9abcecfeaf76944285d4539ba4bbc40337fa9bbc2R617) a `View` is constructed from a non-const pointer, whereas really this should be a `const btck_BlockTreeEntry* entry`.
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The index originally stored cumulative values in a CAmount type but this allowed for
potential overflow issues which were observed on Signet. Fix this by
storing the values that are in danger of overflowing in a arith_uint256.
Also turns an unnecessary copy into a reference in RevertBlock and
CustomAppend and gets
rid of the explicit total unspendable tracking which can be calculated
by adding the four categories of unspendables together.
de0675f9de refactor: Move `transaction_identifier.h` to primitives (marcofleon)
6f068f65de Remove implicit uint256 conversion and comparison (marcofleon)
9c24cda72e refactor: Convert remaining instances from uint256 to Txid (marcofleon)
d2ecd6815d policy, refactor: Convert uint256 to Txid (marcofleon)
f6c0d1d231 mempool, refactor: Convert uint256 to Txid (marcofleon)
aeb0f78330 refactor: Convert `mini_miner` from uint256 to Txid (marcofleon)
326f244724 refactor: Convert RPCs and `merkleblock` from uint256 to Txid (marcofleon)
49b3d3a92a Clean up `FindTxForGetData` (marcofleon)
Pull request description:
This is the final leg of the [type safety refactor](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32189).
All of these changes are straightforward `uint256` --> `Txid` along with any necessary explicit conversions. Also, `transaction_identifier.h` is moved to primitives in the last commit, as `Txid` and `Wtxid` become fundamental types after this PR.
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These remaining miscellaneous changes were identified by commenting out
the `operator const uint256&` conversion and the `Compare(const uint256&)`
method from `transaction_identifier.h`.
Historically, the headers have been bumped some time after a file has
been touched. Do it now to avoid having to touch them again in the
future for that reason.
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Also, the header related changes were done manually.
fab1e02086 refactor: Pass verification_progress into block tip notifications (MarcoFalke)
fa76b378e4 rpc: Round verificationprogress to exactly 1 for a recent tip (MarcoFalke)
faf6304bdf test: Use mockable time in GuessVerificationProgress (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Some users really seem to care about this. While it shouldn't matter much, the diff is so trivial that it is probably worth doing.
Fixes#31127
One could also consider to split the field into two dedicated ones (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28847#issuecomment-1807115357), but this is left for a more involved follow-up and may also be controversial.
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a58cb3b1c1 qa: sanity check mined block have their coinbase timelocked to height (Antoine Poinsot)
8f2078af6a miner: timelock coinbase transactions (Antoine Poinsot)
788aeebf34 qa: use prev height as nLockTime for coinbase txs created in unit tests (Antoine Poinsot)
c76dbe9b8b qa: timelock coinbase transactions created in fuzz targets (Antoine Poinsot)
9c94069d8b contrib: timelock coinbase transactions in signet miner (Antoine Poinsot)
a5f52cfcc4 qa: timelock coinbase transactions created in functional tests (Antoine Poinsot)
Pull request description:
The Consensus Cleanup soft fork proposal includes enforcing that coinbase transactions set their
nLockTime field to the block height minus 1, as well as their nSequence such as to not disable the
timelock. If such a fork were to be activated by Bitcoin users, miners need to be ready to produce
compliant blocks at the risk of losing substantial amounts mining would-be invalid blocks. As miners
are unfamously slow to upgrade, it's good to make this change as early as possible.
Although Bitcoin Core's GBT implementation does not provide the `coinbasetxn` field, and mining
pool software crafts the coinbase on its own, updating the Bitcoin Core mining code is a first step
toward convincing pools to update their (often closed source) code. A possible followup is also to
introduce new fields to GBT. In addition, this first step also makes it possible to test future
Consensus Cleanup changes.
The commit making the change also updates a bunch of seemingly-unrelated tests. This is because those tests were asserting error messages based on the txid of transactions involved, and changing the coinbase transaction structure necessarily changes the txid of all tests' transactions.
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e3014017ba test: add IsActiveAfter tests for versionbits (Anthony Towns)
60950f77c3 versionbits: docstrings for BIP9Info (Anthony Towns)
7565563bc7 tests: refactor versionbits fuzz test (Anthony Towns)
2e4e9b9608 tests: refactor versionbits unit test (Anthony Towns)
525c00f91b versionbits: Expose VersionBitsConditionChecker via impl header (Anthony Towns)
e74a7049b4 versionbits: Expose StateName function (Anthony Towns)
d00d1ed52c versionbits: Split out internal details into impl header (Anthony Towns)
37b9b67a39 versionbits: Simplify VersionBitsCache API (Anthony Towns)
1198e7d2fd versionbits: Move BIP9 status logic for getblocktemplate to versionbits (Anthony Towns)
b1e967c3ec versionbits: Move getdeploymentinfo logic to versionbits (Anthony Towns)
3bd32c2055 versionbits: Move WarningBits logic from validation to versionbits (Anthony Towns)
5da119e5d0 versionbits: Change BIP9Stats to uint32_t types (Anthony Towns)
a679040ec1 consensus/params: Move version bits period/threshold to bip9 param (Anthony Towns)
e9d617095d versionbits: Remove params from AbstractThresholdConditionChecker (Anthony Towns)
9bc41f1b48 versionbits: Use std::array instead of C-style arrays (Anthony Towns)
Pull request description:
Increases the encapsulation/modularity of the versionbits code, moving more of the logic into the versionbits module rather than having it scattered across validation and rpc code. Updates unit/fuzz tests to test the actual code used rather than just a close approximation of it.
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The Consensus Cleanup soft fork proposal includes enforcing that coinbase transactions set their
locktime field to the block height, minus 1 (as well as their nSequence such as to not disable the
timelock). If such a fork were to be activated by Bitcoin users, miners need to be ready to produce
compliant blocks at the risk of losing substantial amounts mining would-be invalid blocks. As miners
are unfamously slow to upgrade, it's good to make this change as early as possible.
Although Bitcoin Core's GBT implementation does not provide the "coinbasetxn" field, and mining
pool software crafts the coinbase on its own, updating the Bitcoin Core mining code is a first step
toward convincing pools to update their (often closed source) code. A possible followup is also to
introduce new fields to GBT. In addition, this first step also makes it possible to test future
Consensus Cleanup changes.
The changes to the seemingly-unrelated RBF tests is because these tests assert an error message
which may vary depending on the txid of the transactions used in the test. This commit changes the
coinbase transaction structure and therefore impact the txid of transactions in all tests.
The change to the "Bad snapshot" error message in the assumeutxo functional test is because this
specific test case reads into the txid of the next transaction in the snapshot and asserts the error
message based it gets on deserializing this txid as a coin for the previous transaction. As this
commit changes this txid it impacts the deserialization error raised.
63b534f97e fuzz: sanity check hardcoded snapshot in utxo_snapshot target (Antoine Poinsot)
3b85eba83a test util: split up ConnectBlock from MineBlock (Antoine Poinsot)
d1527f6b88 qa: correct off-by-one in utxo snapshot fuzz target (Antoine Poinsot)
Pull request description:
The assumeutxo data for the fuzz target could change and invalidate the hash silently, preventing the fuzz target from reaching some code paths. Fix this by introducing a unit test which would break if the snapshot data the fuzz target relies on were to change.
In implementing this i noticed the height used for coins in the fuzz target is actually off-by-one (as if the first block in the created chain was the genesis but it's block `1`), so fix that too.
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