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Péter Szilágyi 39638c81c5
all: nuke total difficulty (#30744)
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>
2025-01-28 18:55:41 +01:00

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// Copyright 2022 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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//
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// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package rawdb
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethdb"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/log"
"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
)
const (
// freezerRecheckInterval is the frequency to check the key-value database for
// chain progression that might permit new blocks to be frozen into immutable
// storage.
freezerRecheckInterval = time.Minute
// freezerBatchLimit is the maximum number of blocks to freeze in one batch
// before doing an fsync and deleting it from the key-value store.
freezerBatchLimit = 30000
)
// chainFreezer is a wrapper of chain ancient store with additional chain freezing
// feature. The background thread will keep moving ancient chain segments from
// key-value database to flat files for saving space on live database.
type chainFreezer struct {
ethdb.AncientStore // Ancient store for storing cold chain segment
quit chan struct{}
wg sync.WaitGroup
trigger chan chan struct{} // Manual blocking freeze trigger, test determinism
}
// newChainFreezer initializes the freezer for ancient chain segment.
//
// - if the empty directory is given, initializes the pure in-memory
// state freezer (e.g. dev mode).
// - if non-empty directory is given, initializes the regular file-based
// state freezer.
func newChainFreezer(datadir string, namespace string, readonly bool) (*chainFreezer, error) {
var (
err error
freezer ethdb.AncientStore
)
if datadir == "" {
freezer = NewMemoryFreezer(readonly, chainFreezerNoSnappy)
} else {
freezer, err = NewFreezer(datadir, namespace, readonly, freezerTableSize, chainFreezerNoSnappy)
}
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return &chainFreezer{
AncientStore: freezer,
quit: make(chan struct{}),
trigger: make(chan chan struct{}),
}, nil
}
// Close closes the chain freezer instance and terminates the background thread.
func (f *chainFreezer) Close() error {
select {
case <-f.quit:
default:
close(f.quit)
}
f.wg.Wait()
return f.AncientStore.Close()
}
// readHeadNumber returns the number of chain head block. 0 is returned if the
// block is unknown or not available yet.
func (f *chainFreezer) readHeadNumber(db ethdb.KeyValueReader) uint64 {
hash := ReadHeadBlockHash(db)
if hash == (common.Hash{}) {
log.Error("Head block is not reachable")
return 0
}
number := ReadHeaderNumber(db, hash)
if number == nil {
log.Error("Number of head block is missing")
return 0
}
return *number
}
// readFinalizedNumber returns the number of finalized block. 0 is returned
// if the block is unknown or not available yet.
func (f *chainFreezer) readFinalizedNumber(db ethdb.KeyValueReader) uint64 {
hash := ReadFinalizedBlockHash(db)
if hash == (common.Hash{}) {
return 0
}
number := ReadHeaderNumber(db, hash)
if number == nil {
log.Error("Number of finalized block is missing")
return 0
}
return *number
}
// freezeThreshold returns the threshold for chain freezing. It's determined
// by formula: max(finality, HEAD-params.FullImmutabilityThreshold).
func (f *chainFreezer) freezeThreshold(db ethdb.KeyValueReader) (uint64, error) {
var (
head = f.readHeadNumber(db)
final = f.readFinalizedNumber(db)
headLimit uint64
)
if head > params.FullImmutabilityThreshold {
headLimit = head - params.FullImmutabilityThreshold
}
if final == 0 && headLimit == 0 {
return 0, errors.New("freezing threshold is not available")
}
if final > headLimit {
return final, nil
}
return headLimit, nil
}
// freeze is a background thread that periodically checks the blockchain for any
// import progress and moves ancient data from the fast database into the freezer.
//
// This functionality is deliberately broken off from block importing to avoid
// incurring additional data shuffling delays on block propagation.
func (f *chainFreezer) freeze(db ethdb.KeyValueStore) {
var (
backoff bool
triggered chan struct{} // Used in tests
nfdb = &nofreezedb{KeyValueStore: db}
)
timer := time.NewTimer(freezerRecheckInterval)
defer timer.Stop()
for {
select {
case <-f.quit:
log.Info("Freezer shutting down")
return
default:
}
if backoff {
// If we were doing a manual trigger, notify it
if triggered != nil {
triggered <- struct{}{}
triggered = nil
}
select {
case <-timer.C:
backoff = false
timer.Reset(freezerRecheckInterval)
case triggered = <-f.trigger:
backoff = false
case <-f.quit:
return
}
}
threshold, err := f.freezeThreshold(nfdb)
if err != nil {
backoff = true
log.Debug("Current full block not old enough to freeze", "err", err)
continue
}
frozen, _ := f.Ancients() // no error will occur, safe to ignore
// Short circuit if the blocks below threshold are already frozen.
if frozen != 0 && frozen-1 >= threshold {
backoff = true
log.Debug("Ancient blocks frozen already", "threshold", threshold, "frozen", frozen)
continue
}
// Seems we have data ready to be frozen, process in usable batches
var (
start = time.Now()
first = frozen // the first block to freeze
last = threshold // the last block to freeze
)
if last-first+1 > freezerBatchLimit {
last = freezerBatchLimit + first - 1
}
ancients, err := f.freezeRange(nfdb, first, last)
if err != nil {
log.Error("Error in block freeze operation", "err", err)
backoff = true
continue
}
// Batch of blocks have been frozen, flush them before wiping from key-value store
if err := f.Sync(); err != nil {
log.Crit("Failed to flush frozen tables", "err", err)
}
// Wipe out all data from the active database
batch := db.NewBatch()
for i := 0; i < len(ancients); i++ {
// Always keep the genesis block in active database
if first+uint64(i) != 0 {
DeleteBlockWithoutNumber(batch, ancients[i], first+uint64(i))
DeleteCanonicalHash(batch, first+uint64(i))
}
}
if err := batch.Write(); err != nil {
log.Crit("Failed to delete frozen canonical blocks", "err", err)
}
batch.Reset()
// Wipe out side chains also and track dangling side chains
var dangling []common.Hash
frozen, _ = f.Ancients() // Needs reload after during freezeRange
for number := first; number < frozen; number++ {
// Always keep the genesis block in active database
if number != 0 {
dangling = ReadAllHashes(db, number)
for _, hash := range dangling {
log.Trace("Deleting side chain", "number", number, "hash", hash)
DeleteBlock(batch, hash, number)
}
}
}
if err := batch.Write(); err != nil {
log.Crit("Failed to delete frozen side blocks", "err", err)
}
batch.Reset()
// Step into the future and delete any dangling side chains
if frozen > 0 {
tip := frozen
for len(dangling) > 0 {
drop := make(map[common.Hash]struct{})
for _, hash := range dangling {
log.Debug("Dangling parent from Freezer", "number", tip-1, "hash", hash)
drop[hash] = struct{}{}
}
children := ReadAllHashes(db, tip)
for i := 0; i < len(children); i++ {
// Dig up the child and ensure it's dangling
child := ReadHeader(nfdb, children[i], tip)
if child == nil {
log.Error("Missing dangling header", "number", tip, "hash", children[i])
continue
}
if _, ok := drop[child.ParentHash]; !ok {
children = append(children[:i], children[i+1:]...)
i--
continue
}
// Delete all block data associated with the child
log.Debug("Deleting dangling block", "number", tip, "hash", children[i], "parent", child.ParentHash)
DeleteBlock(batch, children[i], tip)
}
dangling = children
tip++
}
if err := batch.Write(); err != nil {
log.Crit("Failed to delete dangling side blocks", "err", err)
}
}
// Log something friendly for the user
context := []interface{}{
"blocks", frozen - first, "elapsed", common.PrettyDuration(time.Since(start)), "number", frozen - 1,
}
if n := len(ancients); n > 0 {
context = append(context, []interface{}{"hash", ancients[n-1]}...)
}
log.Debug("Deep froze chain segment", context...)
// Avoid database thrashing with tiny writes
if frozen-first < freezerBatchLimit {
backoff = true
}
}
}
// freezeRange moves a batch of chain segments from the fast database to the freezer.
// The parameters (number, limit) specify the relevant block range, both of which
// are included.
func (f *chainFreezer) freezeRange(nfdb *nofreezedb, number, limit uint64) (hashes []common.Hash, err error) {
hashes = make([]common.Hash, 0, limit-number+1)
_, err = f.ModifyAncients(func(op ethdb.AncientWriteOp) error {
for ; number <= limit; number++ {
// Retrieve all the components of the canonical block.
hash := ReadCanonicalHash(nfdb, number)
if hash == (common.Hash{}) {
return fmt.Errorf("canonical hash missing, can't freeze block %d", number)
}
header := ReadHeaderRLP(nfdb, hash, number)
if len(header) == 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("block header missing, can't freeze block %d", number)
}
body := ReadBodyRLP(nfdb, hash, number)
if len(body) == 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("block body missing, can't freeze block %d", number)
}
receipts := ReadReceiptsRLP(nfdb, hash, number)
if len(receipts) == 0 {
return fmt.Errorf("block receipts missing, can't freeze block %d", number)
}
// Write to the batch.
if err := op.AppendRaw(ChainFreezerHashTable, number, hash[:]); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't write hash to Freezer: %v", err)
}
if err := op.AppendRaw(ChainFreezerHeaderTable, number, header); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't write header to Freezer: %v", err)
}
if err := op.AppendRaw(ChainFreezerBodiesTable, number, body); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't write body to Freezer: %v", err)
}
if err := op.AppendRaw(ChainFreezerReceiptTable, number, receipts); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't write receipts to Freezer: %v", err)
}
hashes = append(hashes, hash)
}
return nil
})
return hashes, err
}