The update for London (EIP-1559) in 1cdb30df ("bump nim-emvc with evmc revision
8.0.0 to 9.0.0") really bumped EVMC ABI version from 7.5 up to 9.
In other words, it skipped Berlin, going direct from Istanbul to London.
That was accompanied by EVMC changes in 05e9b891 ("EIP-3198: add baseFee op
code in nim-evm"), which added the API changes needed for London.
But the missing Berlin functions weren't added in the move to London.
As a result, our EVMC host became incompatible with Berlin, London, and really
all revisions of the ABI, and if a third party EVM was loaded, it crashed.
This commit adds the missing Berlin host support, and makes our ABI
binary-compatible with real EVMC again.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
* Update readme with adjusted intro and dev updates link
* Remove pcre from prerequisites as it no longer is
* Change to hackmd doc as status notes seem not accessible
although they are technically different, but in reality,
many networks are using the same id for ChainId dan NetworkId.
in this commit, we set networkid from config file's chainId.
- allow clique period and epoch to be configured via config file
- this also activate poaEngine mode
- remove clique period configuration from cli to reduce confusion
- fix#786
websock:
- "Host" header override (#87)
- Use caps for log-levels in tests
- Perform utf-8 validation at message boundaries (#90)
json-rpc:
- fix both ws rpc server and client due to websock breaking changes
As this branch of vm2 doesn't support EVMC, this EVMC-motivated change is only
required here for internal compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
This changes fixes a bug in `CREATE2` ops when used with EVMC.
Because it changes the salt type, it affects non-EVMC code as well.
The salt was passed through EVMC with the wrong byte order, although this went
unnoticed as the Nimbus host flipped the byte order before using it.
This was found when running Nimbus with third-party EVM,
["evmone"](https://github.com/ethereum/evmone).
There are different ways to remedy this.
If treated as a number, Nimbus EVM would byte-flip the value when calling EVMC,
then Nimbus host would flip the received value. Finally, it would be flipped a
third time when generating the address in `generateSafeAddress`. The first two
flips can be eliminated by negotiation (like other numbers), but there would
always be one flip.
As a bit pattern, Nimbus EVM would flip the same way it does when dealing with
hashes on the stack (e.g. with `getBlockHash`). Nimbus host wouldn't flip at
all - and when using third-party EVMs there would be no flips in Nimbus.
Because this value is not for arithmetic, any bit pattern is valid, and there
shouldn't be any flips when using a third-party EVM, the bit-pattern
interpretation is favoured. The only flip is done in Nimbus EVM (and might be
eliminated in an optimised version).
As suggested, we'll define a new "opaque 256 bits" type to hold this value.
(Similar to `Hash256`, but the salt isn't necessarily a hash.)
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Nimbus types generally use the bit count not the byte count, e.g. `UInt256`,
`Hash256`, so make `ZERO_HASH256` (which has type `Hash256`) fit this pattern.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Add these to the list of specially disabled tests during `make test`,
as they are exceptionally slow.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
* Provide PoA voting header generator
why:
Handy for hive/smoke test
details:
Header generator is a re-implementation of the generator previously
used for the canonical reference tests.
* try fixing ci out-of-mem condition
why:
for some reason, the ci began behaving like a real win7/i386 machine
where gcc is limited to 64k optimiser space
* fix comments, typos ..
new command line options:
--ws Enable the Websocket JSON-RPC server
--wsbind:<value> Set address:port pair(s) (comma-separated) Websocket JSON-RPC server will bind to (default: localhost:8546)
--wsapi:<value> Enable specific set of Websocket RPC API from list (comma-separated) (available: eth, debug)
fixes#770
new command line options:
--clique-period:<value> Enables clique support. value is block time in seconds
--engine-signer:<value> Enables mining. value is EthAddress in hex
--import-key:<path> Import unencrypted 32 bytes hex private key file
fixes#771
* Provide API
details:
API is bundled via clique.nim.
* Set extraValidation as default for PoA chains
why:
This triggers consensus verification and an update of the list
of authorised signers. These signers are integral part of the
PoA block chain.
todo:
Option argument to control validation for the nimbus binary.
* Fix snapshot state block number
why:
Using sub-sequence here, so the len() function was wrong.
* Optional start where block verification begins
why:
Can speed up time building loading initial parts of block chain. For
PoA, this allows to prove & test that authorised signers can be
(correctly) calculated starting at any point on the block chain.
todo:
On Goerli around blocks #193537..#197568, processing time increases
disproportionally -- needs to be understand
* For Clique test, get old grouping back (7 transactions per log entry)
why:
Forgot to change back after troubleshooting
* Fix field/function/module-name misunderstanding
why:
Make compilation work
* Use eth_types.blockHash() rather than utils.hash() in Clique modules
why:
Prefer lib module
* Dissolve snapshot_misc.nim
details:
.. into clique_verify.nim (the other source file clique_unused.nim
is inactive)
* Hide unused AsyncLock in Clique descriptor
details:
Unused here but was part of the Go reference implementation
* Remove fakeDiff flag from Clique descriptor
details:
This flag was a kludge in the Go reference implementation used for the
canonical tests. The tests have been adapted so there is no need for
the fakeDiff flag and its implementation.
* Not observing minimum distance from epoch sync point
why:
For compiling PoA state, the go implementation will walk back to the
epoch header with at least 90000 blocks apart from the current header
in the absence of other synchronisation points.
Here just the nearest epoch header is used. The assumption is that all
the checkpoints before have been vetted already regardless of the
current branch.
details:
The behaviour of using the nearest vs the minimum distance epoch is
controlled by a flag and can be changed at run time.
* Analysing processing time (patch adds some debugging/visualisation support)
why:
At the first half million blocks of the Goerli replay, blocks on the
interval #194854..#196224 take exceptionally long to process, but not
due to PoA processing.
details:
It turns out that much time is spent in p2p/excecutor.processBlock()
where the elapsed transaction execution time is significantly greater
for many of these blocks.
Between the 1371 blocks #194854..#196224 there are 223 blocks with more
than 1/2 seconds execution time whereas there are only 4 such blocks
before and 13 such after this range up to #504192.
* fix debugging symbol in clique_desc (causes CI failing)
* Fixing canonical reference tests
why:
Two errors were introduced earlier but ovelooked:
1. "Remove fakeDiff flag .." patch was incomplete
2. "Not observing minimum distance .." introduced problem w/tests 23/24
details:
Fixing 2. needed to revert the behaviour by setting the
applySnapsMinBacklog flag for the Clique descriptor. Also a new
test was added to lock the new behaviour.
* Remove cruft
why:
Clique/PoA processing was intended to take place somewhere in
executor/process_block.processBlock() but was decided later to run
from chain/persist_block.persistBlock() instead.
* Update API comment
* ditto
Using the same packet tracing format to match `protocol_eth65`.
There aren't many calls, and this makes them clear.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
The format is reasonably useful and not too large, when looking at the
behaviour of sync processes. It doesn't try to show all the details of
packets, just something at a useful level of detail to see what's going on.
The consistent presentation has proven helpful too, e.g. when grepping.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Disable some trace messages which appeared a lot in the output and probably
aren't so useful any more, when block processing is functioning well at high
speed.
Turning on the trace level globally is useful to get a feel for what's
happening, but only if each category is kept to a reasonable amount.
As well as overwhelming the output so that it's hard to see general activity,
some of these messages happen so much they severely slow down processing. Ones
called every time an EVM opcode uses some gas are particularly extreme.
These messages have all been chosen as things which are probably not useful any
more (the relevant functionality has been debugged and is tested plenty).
These have been commented out rather than removed. It may be that turning
trace topics on/off, or other selection, is a better longer term solution, but
that will require better command line options and good defaults for sure.
(I think higher levels `tracev` and `tracevv` levels (extra verbose) would be
more useful for this sort of deep tracing on request.)
For now, enabling `--log-level:TRACE` on the command line is quite useful as
long as we keep each category reasonable, and this patch tries to keep that
balance.
- Don't show "has transactions" on virtually every block imported.
- Don't show "Sender" and "txHash" lines on every transaction processed.
- Don't show "GAS CONSUMPTION" on every opcode executed", this is way too much.
- Don't show "GAS RETURNED" and "GAS REFUND" on each contract call.
- Don't show "op: Stop" on every Stop opcode, which means every transaction.
- Don't show "Insufficient funds" whenever a contract can't call another.
- Don't show "ECRecover", "SHA256 precompile", "RIPEMD160", "Identity"
or even "Call precompile" every time a precompile is called. These are
very well tested now.
- Don't show "executeOpcodes error" whenever a contract returns an error.
(This is changed to `trace` too, it's a normal event that is well tested.)
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Move `blockchain_sync.nim` from `nim-eth` to `nimbus-eth1`.
This lets `blockchain_sync` use the `eth/65` protocol to synchronise with more
modern peers than before.
Practically, the effect is the sync process runs more quickly and reliably than
before. It finds usable peers, and they are up to date.
Note, this is mostly old code, and it mostly performs "classic sync", the
original Ethereum method. Here's a summary of this code:
- It decides on a blockchain canonical head by sampling a few peers.
- Starting from block 0 (genesis), it downloads each block header and
block, mostly in order.
- After it downloads each block, it executes the EVM transactions in that block
and updates state trie from that, before going to the next block.
- This way the database state is updated by EVM executions in block order,
and new state is persisted to the trie database after each block.
Even though it mentions Geth "fast sync" (comments near end of file), and has
some elements, it isn't really. The most obvious missing part is this code
_doesn't download a state trie_, it calculates all state from block 0.
Geth "fast sync" has several parts:
1. Find an agreed common chain among several peers to treat as probably secure,
and a sufficiently long suffix to provide "statistical economic consensus"
when it is validated.
2. Perform a subset of PoW calculations, skipping forward over a segment to
verify some of the PoWs according to a pattern in the relevant paper.
3. Download the state trie from the block at the start of that last segment.
4. Execute only the blocks/transactions in that last segment, using the
downloaded state trie, to fill out the later states and properly validate the
blocks in the last segment.
Some other issues with `blockchain_sync` code:
- If it ever reaches the head of the chain, it doesn't follow new blocks with
increasing block numbers, at least not rapidly.
- If the chain undergoes a reorg, this code won't fetch a block number it has
already fetched, so it can't accept the reorg. It will end up conflicted
with peers. This hasn't mattered because the development focus has been on
the bulk of the catching up process, not the real-time head and reorgs.
- So it probably doesn't work correctly when it gets close to the head due to
many small reorgs, though it might for subtle reasons.
- Some of the network message handling isn't sufficiently robust, and it
discards some replies that have valid data according to specification.
- On rare occasions the initial query mapping block hash to number can
fail (because the peer's state changes).
- It makes some assumptions about the state of peers based on their responses
which may not be valid (I'm not convinced they are). The method for working
out "trusted" peers that agree a common chain prefix is clever. It compares
peers by asking each peer if it has the header matching another peer's
canonical head block by hash. But it's not clear that merely knowing about a
block constitutes agreement about the canonical chain. (If it did, query by
block number would give the same answer more authoritatively.)
Nonetheless, being able to run this sync process on `eth/65` is useful.
<# interactive rebase in progress; onto 66532e8a
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
This constant shouldn't be used outside `protocol_eth65`.
When we support multiple `eth/NN` versions side by side, or even just have
multiple code files, there's a risk some code would import just one of the
files (e.g. `protocol_eth65`), use `protocolVersion`, and incorrectly act as
though that version is the one active on the node.
In fact that happened, and now it can't happen. Other code needs to query the
`EtheruemNode` to find what versions are really active.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
In RPC `eth_protocolVersion`, look at the live `EthereumNode` to find which
version of `eth/NN` protocol is active, instead of trusting a compile-time
constant. It's better to check dynamically. GraphQL already does this.
As a result, the RPC code doesn't depend on `eth_protocol` any more.
To make sure there are no more accidental users of the old constant,
`protocolVersion` is no longer exported from `protocol_eth65`.
(The simplest way to support `eth/65` was to make `eth_protocolVersion` use
`protocol_eth65.protocolVersion`, to get 65. But that's silly. More
seriously, when we add another version (`eth/66`) running alongside `eth/65`,
that expression would still compile ok yet return the wrong value, while still
passing the RPC test suite.)
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Use a hard-coded number instead of the same expression as the client, so that
bugs introduced via that expression are detected. Using the same expression as
the client can hide issues when the value is wrong in both places.
When the expected value genuinely changes, it'll be obvious.
Just change this number.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Use a hard-coded number instead of the same expression as the client, so that
bugs introduced via that expression are detected. Using the same expression as
the client can hide issues when the value is wrong in both places.
When the expected value genuinely changes, it'll be obvious.
Just change this number.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Turns out `{.rlpInline.}` doesn't do anything.
It's documented but not implemented.
Due to this, whenever a peer sent us a `NewBlock` message, we had an RLP
decoding error processing it, and disconnected the peer thinking it was the
peer's error.
These messages are sent often by good peers, so whenever we connected to a
really good peer, we'd end up disconnecting from it due to this.
Because a block body is a list of transactions, the parse errors looked
suspiciously like EIP-2718/2976/2930/1559 typed transaction RLP errors.
But it was a failure to parse `BlockBody` inline.
Conveniently, the `EthBlock` type defined for another reason is encoded exactly
the way `NewBlockAnnounce` needs to be, so we can reuse that type.
This didn't stand out before updating to `eth/65`, because with old protocols
we tend to only connect to old peers, which may be out of date themselves and
have no new blocks to send. Also, we didn't really investigate occasional
disconnects before, we assumed they're just part of P2P life.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
This patch adds the `eth/65` protocol, documented at
https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/blob/master/caps/eth.md.
This is an intentionally simple patch, designed to not break, change or depend
on other functionality much, so that the "_old_ sync" methods can be run
usefully again and observed. This patch isn't "new sync" (a different set of
sync algorithms), but it is one of the foundations.
For a while now Nimbus Eth1 only supported protocol `eth/63`. But that's
obsolete, and very few nodes still support it. This meant Nimbus Eth1 would
make slow progress trying to sync, as most up to date clients rejected it.
The current specification is `eth/66`, and the functionality we really need is
in `eth/64`.
So why `eth/65`?
- `eth/64` is essential because of the `forkId` feature. But `eth/64` is on
its way out as well. Many clients, especially the most up to date Geth
running the current hard-forks (Berlin/London) don't talk `eth/64` any more.
- `eth/66` is the current specification, but some clients don't talk `eth/66`
yet. We'd like to have the best peer connectivity during tests, and
currently everything that talks `eth/66` also talks `eth/65`.
- Nimbus Eth1 RLPx only talks one version at a time. (Without changes to the
RLPx module. When those go in we'll add `eth/64..eth/66` for greater peer
reach and testing the `eth/66` behaviour. For simplicity and decoupling,
this patch contains just one version, the most useful.)
What are `eth/64` and `eth/65`?
- `eth/64` (EIP-2364) added `forkId` which allows nodes to distinguish between
Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchains, which share the same
genesis block. `forkId` also protects the system when a new hard fork is
going to be rolled out, by blocking interaction with out of date nodes. The
feature is required nowadays.
We send the right details to allow connection (this has been tested a lot),
but don't apply the full validation rules of EIP-2124/EIP-2364 in this patch.
It's to keep this patch simple (in its effects) and because those rules have
consequences best tested separately. In practice the other node will reject
us when we would reject it, so this is ok for testing, as long as it doesn't
get seriously deployed.
- `eth/65` added more efficient transaction pool methods.
- Then a later version of `eth/65` (without a new number) added typed
transactions, described in [EIP-2976](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2976).
Why it's moved to `nimbus-eth1`:
- Mainly because `eth/64` onwards depend on the current state of block
synchronisation, as well as the blockchain's sequence of hard-fork block
numbers, both of which are part of `nimbus-eth1` run-time state. These
aren't available to pure `nim-eth` code. Although it would be possible to
add an API to let `nimbus-eth1` set these numbers, there isn't any point
because the protocol would still only be useful to `nimbus-eth1`.
Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
* Renamed source file clique_utils => clique_helpers
why:
New name is more in line with other modules where local libraries
are named similarly.
* re-implemented PoA verification module as clique_verify.nim
details:
The verification code was ported from the go sources and provisionally
stored in the clique_misc.nim source file.
todo:
Bring it to life.
* re-design Snapshot descriptor as: ref object
why:
Avoids some copying descriptor objects
details:
The snapshot management in clique_snapshot.nim has been cleaned up.
todo:
There is a lot of unnecessary copying & sub-list manipulation of
seq[BlockHeader] lists which needs to be simplified by managing
index intervals.
* optimised sequence handling for Clique/PoA
why:
To much ado about nothing
details:
* Working with shallow sequences inside PoA processing avoids
unnecessary copying.
* Using degenerate lists in the cliqueVerify() batch where only the
parent (and no other ancestor) is needed.
todo:
Expose only functions that are needed, shallow sequences should be
handles with care.
* fix var-parameter function argument
* Activate PoA engine -- currently proof of concept
details:
PoA engine is activated with newChain(extraValidation = true) applied
to a PoA network.
status and todo:
The extraValidation flag on the Chain object can be set at a later
state which allows to pre-load parts of the block chain without
verification. Setting it later will only go back the block chain to
the latest epoch checkpoint. This is inherent to the Clique protocol,
needs testing though.
PoA engine works in fine weather mode on Goerli replay. With the
canonical eip-225 tests, there are quite a few fringe conditions
that fail. These can easily fudged over to make things work but need
some more work to understand and correct properly.
* Make the last offending verification header available
why:
Makes some fringe case tests work.
details:
Within a failed transaction comprising several blocks, this
feature help to identify the offending block if there was a
PoA verification error.
* Make PoA header verifier store the final snapshot
why:
The last snapshot needed by the verifier is the one of the parent but
the list of authorised signer is derived from the current snapshot. So
updating to the latest snapshot provides the latest signers list.
details:
Also, PoA processing has been implemented as transaction in
persistBlocks() with Clique state rollback.
Clique tests succeed now.
* Avoiding double yields in iterator => replaced by template
why:
Tanks to Andri who observed it (see #762)
* Calibrate logging interval and fix logging event detection
why:
Logging interval as copied from Go implementation was too large and
needed re-calibration. Elapsed time calculation was bonkers, negative
the wrong way round.
* re-shuffled Clique functions
why:
Due to the port from the go-sources, the interface logic is not optimal
for nimbus. The main visible function is currently snapshot() and most
of the _procurement_ of this function result has been moved to a
sub-directory.
* run eip-225 Clique test against p2p/chain.persistBlocks()
why:
Previously, loading the test block chains was fugdged with the purpose
only to fill the database. As it is now clear how nimbus works on
Goerli, the same can be achieved with a more realistic scenario.
details:
Eventually these tests will be pre-cursor to the reply tests for the
Goerli chain supporting TDD approach with more simple cases.
* fix exception annotations for executor module
why:
needed for exception tracking
details:
main annoyance are vmState methods (in state.nim) which potentially
throw a base level Exception (a proc would only throws CatchableError)
* split p2p/chain into sub-modules and fix exception annotations
why:
make space for implementing PoA stuff
* provide over-loadable Clique PRNG
why:
There is a PRNG provided for generating reproducible number sequences.
The functions which employ the PRNG to generate time slots were ported
ported from the go-implementation. They are currently unused.
* implement trusted signer assembly in p2p/chain.persistBlocks()
details:
* PoA processing moved there at the end of a transaction. Currently,
there is no action (eg. transaction rollback) if this fails.
* The unit tests with staged blocks work ok. In particular, there should
be tests with to-be-rejected blocks.
* TODO: 1.Optimise throughput/cache handling; 2.Verify headers
* fix statement cast in pool.nim
* added table features to LRU cache
why:
Clique uses the LRU cache using a mixture of volatile online items
from the LRU cache and database checkpoints for hard synchronisation.
For performance, Clique needs more table like features.
details:
First, last, and query key added, as well as efficient random delete
added. Also key-item pair iterator added for debugging.
* re-factored LRU snapshot caching
why:
Caching was sub-optimal (aka. bonkers) in that it skipped over memory
caches in many cases and so mostly rebuild the snapshot from the
last on-disk checkpoint.
details;
The LRU snapshot toValue() handler has been moved into the module
clique_snapshot. This is for the fact that toValue() is not supposed
to see the whole LRU cache database. So there must be a higher layer
working with the the whole LRU cache and the on-disk checkpoint
database.
also:
some clean up
todo:
The code still assumes that the block headers are valid in itself. This
is particular important when an epoch header (aka re-sync header) is
processed as it must contain the PoA result of all previous headers.
So blocks need to be verified when they come in before used for PoA
processing.
* fix some snapshot cache fringe cases
why:
Must not index empty sequences in clique_snapshot module
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