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Jacek Sieka 61342c2449
limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks (#3293)
* limit by-root requests to non-finalized blocks

Presently, we keep a mapping from block root to `BlockRef` in memory -
this has simplified reasoning about the dag, but is not sustainable with
the chain growing.

We can distinguish between two cases where by-root access is useful:

* unfinalized blocks - this is where the beacon chain is operating
generally, by validating incoming data as interesting for future fork
choice decisions - bounded by the length of the unfinalized period
* finalized blocks - historical access in the REST API etc - no bounds,
really

In this PR, we limit the by-root block index to the first use case:
finalized chain data can more efficiently be addressed by slot number.

Future work includes:

* limiting the `BlockRef` horizon in general - each instance is 40
bytes+overhead which adds up - this needs further refactoring to deal
with the tail vs state problem
* persisting the finalized slot-to-hash index - this one also keeps
growing unbounded (albeit slowly)

Anyway, this PR easily shaves ~128mb of memory usage at the time of
writing.

* No longer honor `BeaconBlocksByRoot` requests outside of the
non-finalized period - previously, Nimbus would generously return any
block through this libp2p request - per the spec, finalized blocks
should be fetched via `BeaconBlocksByRange` instead.
* return `Opt[BlockRef]` instead of `nil` when blocks can't be found -
this becomes a lot more common now and thus deserves more attention
* `dag.blocks` -> `dag.forkBlocks` - this index only carries unfinalized
blocks from now - `finalizedBlocks` covers the other `BlockRef`
instances
* in backfill, verify that the last backfilled block leads back to
genesis, or panic
* add backfill timings to log
* fix missing check that `BlockRef` block can be fetched with
`getForkedBlock` reliably
* shortcut doppelganger check when feature is not enabled
* in REST/JSON-RPC, fetch blocks without involving `BlockRef`

* fix dag.blocks ref
2022-01-21 13:33:16 +02:00
Jacek Sieka 805e85e1ff
time: spring cleaning (#3262)
Time in the beacon chain is expressed relative to the genesis time -
this PR creates a `beacon_time` module that collects helpers and
utilities for dealing the time units - the new module does not deal with
actual wall time (that's remains in `beacon_clock`).

Collecting the time related stuff in one place makes it easier to find,
avoids some circular imports and allows more easily identifying the code
actually needs wall time to operate.

* move genesis-time-related functionality into `spec/beacon_time`
* avoid using `chronos.Duration` for time differences - it does not
support negative values (such as when something happens earlier than it
should)
* saturate conversions between `FAR_FUTURE_XXX`, so as to avoid
overflows
* fix delay reporting in validator client so it uses the expected
deadline of the slot, not "closest wall slot"
* simplify looping over the slots of an epoch
* `compute_start_slot_at_epoch` -> `start_slot`
* `compute_epoch_at_slot` -> `epoch`

A follow-up PR will (likely) introduce saturating arithmetic for the
time units - this is merely code moves, renames and fixing of small
bugs.
2022-01-11 11:01:54 +01:00
Jacek Sieka 0a4728a241
Handle access to historical data for which there is no state (#3217)
With checkpoint sync in particular, and state pruning in the future,
loading states or state-dependent data may fail. This PR adjusts the
code to allow this to be handled gracefully.

In particular, the new availability assumption is that states are always
available for the finalized checkpoint and newer, but may fail for
anything older.

The `tail` remains the point where state loading de-facto fails, meaning
that between the tail and the finalized checkpoint, we can still get
historical data (but code should be prepared to handle this as an
error).

However, to harden the code against long replays, several operations
which are assumed to work only with non-final data (such as gossip
verification and validator duties) now limit their search horizon to
post-finalized data.

* harden several state-dependent operations by logging an error instead
of introducing a panic when state loading fails
* `withState` -> `withUpdatedState` to differentiate from the other
`withState`
* `updateStateData` can now fail if no state is found in database - it
is also hardened against excessively long replays
* `getEpochRef` can now fail when replay fails
* reject blocks with invalid target root - they would be ignored
previously
* fix recursion bug in `isProposed`
2022-01-05 19:38:04 +01:00
Jacek Sieka 9f27f0d97c
BlockId reform (#3176)
* BlockId reform

Introduce `BlockId` that helps track a root/slot pair - this prepares
the codebase for backfilling and handling out-of-dag blocks

* move block dag code to separate module
* fix finalised state root in REST event stream
* fix finalised head computation on head update, when starting from
checkpoint
* clean up chaindag init
* revert `epochAncestor` change in introduced in #3144 that would return
an epoch ancestor from the canoncial history instead of the given
history, causing `EpochRef` keys to point to the wrong block
2021-12-09 19:06:21 +02:00
Jacek Sieka df3fc9525f
import cleanup (#2997)
* import cleanup

...and remove some unused types

* add random imports

* more imports
2021-10-19 16:09:26 +02:00
Jacek Sieka 1da4192f3f
json-rpc: fix crashes on altair+ blocks in certain operations (#2983)
For the v2 interfaces, REST is recommeded instead
2021-10-13 13:20:18 +03:00
Jacek Sieka 7a622e8505
rework spec imports (#2779)
The spec imports are a mess to work with, so this branch cleans them up
a bit to ensure that we avoid generic sandwitches and that importing
stuff generally becomes easier.

* reexport crypto/digest/presets because these are part of the public
symbol set of the rest of the spec types
* don't export `merge` types from `base` - this causes circular deps
* fix circular deps in `ssz/spec_types` - this is the first step in
disentangling ssz from spec
* be explicit about phase0 vs altair - longer term, `altair` will become
the "natural" type set, then merge and so on, so no point in giving
`phase0` special preferential treatment
2021-08-12 13:08:20 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 9697b73e71
forkedbeaconstate_helpers -> forks (#2772)
Simpler module name for stuff that covers forks

* check that runtime config matches database state
* also include some assorted altair cleanups
* use "standard" genesis fork in local testnet to work around missing
runtime config support
2021-08-10 22:46:35 +02:00
Jacek Sieka 3d7bee8502
REST API client, JSON-RPC cleanups (#2756)
This refactoring puts the JSON-RPC and REST APIs on more equal footing
by renaming and moving things around, creating a separation between
client and server, and documenting what they are - the aim is to have a
simple-to-use base to start from when developing API clients, as well as
make it easier to navigate the code when looking for the legacy JSON-RPC
interface vs the new REST API.

* move REST client, serialization and supporting types to spec/eth2_apis
* REST stuff now starts with `rest_`, JSON-RPC stuff starts with `rpc_`,
more or less
* simplify imports such that there's a simple module to import for both
server and client
* map REST type and proc names to yaml spec more closely - in
particular, reuse operation and type names in `rest_types` to make
comparisons against spec more easy
* cleaner separation between client and server modules - modules common
between server and client such as `rest_types` and serialization move to
the spec folder - this allows the client to be built with less knowledge
about server internals
2021-08-03 17:17:11 +02:00
tersec 7577f8c2ef
add blockchain_dag altair database reading; add rollback tests (#2683)
* add blockchain_dag altair database reading; add rollback tests; fix some unnecessary type conversions

* remove debugging scaffolding

* proposeSignedBlock() will need to be async for merge; introduce altair types to VC
2021-06-29 15:09:29 +00:00
tersec ae1abf24af
add Altair support to block quarantine/clearance and block_sim (#2662)
* add Altair support to the block quarantine

* switch some spec/datatypes imports to spec/datatypes/base

* add Altair support to block_clearance

* allow runtime configuration of Altair transition slot

* enable Altair in block_sim, including in CI
2021-06-23 14:43:18 +00:00
tersec 146fa48454
use ForkedHashedBeaconState in StateData (#2634)
* use ForkedHashedBeaconState in StateData

* fix FAR_FUTURE_EPOCH -> slot overflow; almost always use assign()

* avoid stack allocation in maybeUpgradeStateToAltair()

* create and use dispatch functions for check_attester_slashing(), check_proposer_slashing(), and check_voluntary_exit()

* use getStateRoot() instead of various state.data.hbsPhase0.root

* remove withStateVars.hashedState(), which doesn't work as a design anymore

* introduce spec/datatypes/altair into beacon_chain_db

* fix inefficient codegen for getStateField(largeStateField)

* state_transition_slots() doesn't either need/use blocks or runtime presets

* combine process_slots(HBS)/state_transition_slots(HBS) which differ only in last-slot htr optimization

* getStateField(StateData, ...) was replaced by getStateField(ForkedHashedBeaconState, ...)

* fix rollback

* switch some state_transition(), process_slots, makeTestBlocks(), etc to use ForkedHashedBeaconState

* remove state_transition(phase0.HashedBeaconState)

* remove process_slots(phase0.HashedBeaconState)

* remove state_transition_block(phase0.HashedBeaconState)

* remove unused callWithBS(); separate case expression from if statement

* switch back from nested-ref-object construction to (ref Foo)(Bar())
2021-06-11 20:51:46 +03:00
Jacek Sieka abe0d7b4ae singe validator key cache
Instead of keeping a validator key list per EpochRef, this PR introduces
a single shared validator key list in ChainDAG, and cleans up some other
ChainDAG and key-related issues.

The PR does not introduce the validator key list in the state transition
- this is because we batch-check all signatures before entering the spec
code, thus the spec code never hits the cache.

A future refactor should _probably_ remove the threadvar altogether.

There's a few other small fixes in here that make the flow easier to
read:

* fix `var ChainDAGRef` -> `ChainDAGRef`
* fix `var QuarantineRef` -> `QuarantineRef`
* consistent `dag` variable name
* avoid using threadvar pubkey cache in most cases
* better error messages in batch signature checking
2021-06-01 20:43:44 +03:00
tersec d3cad92693
remove some BeaconState use and abstract over other uses (#2482)
* remove some BeaconState use and abstract over other uses

* remove out-of-context comment
2021-04-08 08:24:25 +00:00
Jacek Sieka 74732a23fe
json cleanups (#2456)
* move json-rpc specific marshalling to rpc
* serialize Epoch/Slot with cast to avoid Defect
* avoid a few eth1 deps
* simplify imports
2021-03-26 15:11:06 +01:00
Jacek Sieka 2695cfa864
EH cleanup (#2455)
almost 100% raises in nimbus-eth2 now!

* fix some rare exception-related crashes in json-rpc
2021-03-26 07:52:01 +01:00
Jacek Sieka 3cb31e66b4
set upper bound on EpochRef cache (#2403)
* set upper bound on EpochRef cache

* max 32 EpochRef instances
* less memory waste in BlockRef by removing EpochRef seq that is mostly
unused (~20mb)
* less memory waste in dag block lookup by not keeping an extra copy of
digest (~70mb)
* fix `==` and `$` for Eth2Digest
* remove `ChainDAG.tmpState` (~50mb?)

all in all, this branch cuts mainnet memory usage by ~160-180mb and puts
limits on EpochRef cache usage - where normally it hovered around 950mb
before, it's now sitting at 600-700mb on my machine.

* docs
2021-03-17 11:17:15 +01:00
Mamy Ratsimbazafy 5d7f9c3a04
Consensus object pools [reorg 4/5] (#2374)
* Add documentation

* make test doesn't try to build the beacon node :/
2021-03-04 10:13:44 +01:00
Mamy Ratsimbazafy 3276dfc683
Consolidate modules by areas [part 1] (#2365)
* Move sync in subfolder

* move validator related thingies in validators

* fix binary builds

* update bounds comment [skip ci]
2021-03-02 11:27:45 +01:00
Jacek Sieka ee2ebc96a8
move rpc api to own folder, mimic upstream structure (#1905)
also implements a few more endpoints
2020-10-27 10:00:57 +01:00