For the coinbase vTxFees used a dummy value of -nFees. This
value was never returned by the RPC or used in a test.
Similarly the fist vTxSigOpsCost entry was calculated from
the dummy coinbase transaction.
Drop both and add code comments to prevent confusion.
386eecff5f doc: add release notes (ismaelsadeeq)
3eaa0a3b66 miner: init: add `-blockreservedweight` startup option (ismaelsadeeq)
777434a2cd doc: rpc: improve `getmininginfo` help text (ismaelsadeeq)
c8acd4032d init: fail to start when `-blockmaxweight` exceeds `MAX_BLOCK_WEIGHT` (ismaelsadeeq)
5bb31633cc test: add `-blockmaxweight` startup option functional test (ismaelsadeeq)
2c7d90a6d6 miner: bugfix: fix duplicate weight reservation in block assembler (ismaelsadeeq)
Pull request description:
* This PR attempts to fix the duplicate coinbase weight reservation issue we currently have.
* Fixes#21950
We reserve 4000 weight units for coinbase transaction in `DEFAULT_BLOCK_MAX_WEIGHT`
7590e93bc7/src/policy/policy.h (L23)
And also reserve additional `4000` weight units in the default `BlockCreationOptions` struct.
7590e93bc7/src/node/types.h (L36-L40)
**Motivation**
- This issue was first noticed during a review here https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11100#discussion_r136157411)
- It was later reported in issue #21950.
- I also came across the bug while writing a test for building the block template. I could not create a block template above `3,992,000` in the block assembler, and this was not documented anywhere. It took me a while to realize that we were reserving space for the coinbase transaction weight twice.
---
This PR fixes this by consolidating the reservation to be in a single location in the codebase.
This PR then adds a new startup option `-blockreservedweight` whose default is `8000` that can be used to lower or increase the block reserved weight for block header, txs count, coinbase tx.
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- This commit renamed coinbase_max_additional_weight to block_reserved_weight.
- Also clarify that the reservation is for block header, transaction count
and coinbase transaction.
Before bip94 there was an assumption that the minimum permitted
timestamp is GetMedianTimePast() + 1.
This commit splits a helper function out of UpdateTime() to
obtain the minimum time in a way that takes the
timewarp attack rule into account.
733fa0b0a1 miner: never create a template which exploits the timewarp bug (Antoine Poinsot)
Pull request description:
This check was introduced in #30681 but only enabled for testnet4. To avoid potentially creating an invalid block template if a soft fork to fix the timewarp attack were to activate in the future, we should have this check on all networks. It also seems wise for our miner to not support it whether or not a soft fork activates to fix it at the consensus level.
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- The package feerates are ordered by the sequence in which
packages are selected for inclusion in the block template.
- The commit also tests this new behaviour.
Co-authored-by: willcl-ark <will@256k1.dev>
Providing a script for the coinbase transaction is only done in test code
and for CPU solo mining.
Production miners use the getblocktemplate RPC which omits the coinbase
transaction entirely from its block template, leaving it to external (pool)
software to construct it.
A coinbase script can still be passed via BlockCreateOptions instead.
A temporary overload is added so that the test can be modified in the
next commit.
192dac1d33 [refactor] Cleanup BlockAssembler mempool usage (TheCharlatan)
Pull request description:
The `addPackageTxs` method of the `BlockAssembler` currently has access to two mempool variables, as an argument and as a member. Clean this up and clarify that they both are the same mempool instance by removing the argument and instead only using the member variable in the method.
This was noticed in this PR review: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25223#discussion_r898164322.
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The `addPackageTxs` method of the `BlockAssembler` currently has access
to two mempool variables, as an argument and as a member. Clean this up
and clarify that they both are the same mempool instance by removing the
argument and instead only using the member variable in the method.
Co-Authored-By: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
Co-authored-by: stickies-v <stickies-v@protonmail.com>
When generating a block template through e.g. getblocktemplate RPC,
we reserve 4000 weight units and 400 sigops. Pools use this space
for their coinbase outputs.
At least one pool patched their Bitcoin Core node to adjust
these hardcoded values. They eventually produced an invalid
block which exceeded the sigops limit.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/117837/how-many-sigops-are-in-the-invalid-block-783426
The existince of such patches suggests it may be useful to
make this value configurable. This commit would make such a
change easier.
The main motivation however is that the Stratum v2 spec
requires the pool to communicate the maximum bytes they intend
to add to the coinbase outputs. A proposed change to the spec
would also require them to communicate the maximum number of sigops.
This commit also documents what happens when
-blockmaxweight is lower than the coinbase
reserved value.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
Rather than pass options individually to createNewBlock and then
combining them into BlockAssembler::Options, this commit introduces
BlockCreateOptions and passes that instead.
Currently there's only one option (use_mempool) but the next
commit adds more.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Ofsky <ryan@ofsky.org>
AddToBlock was called repeatedly from `addPackageTxs` where the constant value of `printpriority` is recalculated every time.
Since its behavior was changed in 400b151, I've named the variable accordingly.
This showed up during profiling of AssembleBlock, fetching it once in the constructor results in a measurable speed increase for many iterations.
> ./src/bench/bench_bitcoin --filter='AssembleBlock' --min-time=1000
before:
| ns/op | op/s | err% | total | benchmark
|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
| 155,558.97 | 6,428.43 | 0.1% | 1.10 | `AssembleBlock`
after:
| ns/op | op/s | err% | total | benchmark
|--------------------:|--------------------:|--------:|----------:|:----------
| 148,083.68 | 6,752.94 | 0.1% | 1.10 | `AssembleBlock`
Co-authored-by: furszy <mfurszy@protonmail.com>
This makes the options argument for BlockAssembler constructor mandatory,
dropping implicit use of ArgsManager. The caller i.e. the Mining
interface implementation now handles this.
In a future Stratum v2 change the Options object needs to be
mofified after arguments have been processed. Specifically
the pool communicates how many extra bytes it needs for
its own outputs (payouts, extra commitments, etc). This will need
to be substracted from what the user set as -blockmaxweight.
Such a change can be implemented in createNewBlock, after
ApplyArgsManOptions.
This is an extraction of ArgsManager related functions from util/system
into their own common file.
Config file related functions are moved to common/config.cpp.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager. The ArgsManager belongs
into the common library, since the kernel library should not depend on
it. See doc/design/libraries.md for more information on this rationale.
ApplyArgsManOptions does not need to set default values for missing
arguments, these are already defined in the BlockAssembler::Options.
This commit changes the interface of ApplyArgsManOptions(). If
ApplyArgsManOptions() is called again after a option is changed,
this option will no longer be reset to the default value.
There is no observed behaviour change due to how
ApplyArgsManOptions() is currently used, and the new interface is
consistent with e.g. ValidationCacheSizes and MemPoolLimits.
Add Options as a member to BlockAssembler to avoid having to assign
all the options individually.
Additionally brings the struct more in line with how we typically
define default and ArgManager values, as e.g. with
ChainstateManager::Options and and CTxMemPool::Options
04528054fc [bench] BlockAssembler with mempool packages (glozow)
6ce265acf4 [test util] lock cs_main before pool.cs in PopulateMempool (glozow)
8791410662 [test util] randomize fee in PopulateMempool (glozow)
cba5934eb6 [miner] allow bypassing TestBlockValidity (glozow)
c058852308 [refactor] parameterize BlockAssembler::Options in PrepareBlock (glozow)
a2de971ba1 [refactor] add helper to apply ArgsManager to BlockAssembler::Options (glozow)
Pull request description:
Performance of block template building matters as miners likely want to be able to start mining on a block with transactions asap after a block is found. We would want to know if a mempool PR accidentally caused, for example, a 100x slowdown. An `AssembleBlock()` bench exists, but it operates on a mempool with 101 transactions, each with 0 ancestors or descendants and with the same fee. Adding a bench with a more complex mempool is useful because (1) it's more realistic (2) updating packages can potentially cause the algorithm to take a long time.
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47c4b1f52a mempool: log/halt when CalculateMemPoolAncestors fails unexpectedly (stickies-v)
5481f65849 mempool: add AssumeCalculateMemPoolAncestors helper function (stickies-v)
f911bdfff9 mempool: use util::Result for CalculateMemPoolAncestors (stickies-v)
66e028f739 mempool: use util::Result for CalculateAncestorsAndCheckLimits (stickies-v)
Pull request description:
Upon reviewing the documentation for `CTxMemPool::CalculateMemPoolAncestors`, I noticed `setAncestors` was meant to be an `out` parameter but actually is an `in,out` parameter, as can be observed by adding `assert(setAncestors.empty());` as the first line in the function and running `make check`. This PR fixes this unexpected behaviour and introduces refactoring improvements to make intents and effects of the code more clear.
## Unexpected behaviour
This behaviour occurs only in the package acceptance path, currently only triggered by `testmempoolaccept` and `submitpackage` RPCs.
In `MemPoolAccept::AcceptMultipleTransactions()`, we first call `PreChecks()` and then `SubmitPackage()` with the same `Workspace ws` reference. `PreChecks` leaves `ws.m_ancestors` in a potentially non-empty state, before it is passed on to `MemPoolAccept::SubmitPackage`. `SubmitPackage` is the only place where `setAncestors` isn't guaranteed to be empty before calling `CalculateMemPoolAncestors`. The most straightforward fix is to just forcefully clear `setAncestors` at the beginning of CalculateMemPoolAncestors, which is done in the first bugfix commit.
## Improvements
### Return value instead of out-parameters
This PR updates the function signatures for `CTxMemPool::CalculateMemPoolAncestors` and `CTxMemPool::CalculateAncestorsAndCheckLimits` to use a `util::Result` return type and eliminate both the `setAncestors` `in,out`-parameter as well as the error string. It simplifies the code and makes the intent and effects more explicit.
### Observability
There are 7 instances where we currently call `CalculateMemPoolAncestors` without actually checking if the function succeeded because we assume that it can't fail, such as in [miner.cpp](69b10212ea/src/node/miner.cpp (L399)). This PR adds a new wrapper `AssumeCalculateMemPoolAncestors` function that logs such unexpected failures, or in case of debug builds even halts the program. It's not crucial to the objective, more of an observability improvement that seems sensible to add on here.
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Allows us to test BlockAssembler on transactions without signatures or
mature coinbases (which is what PopulateMempool creates). Also means
that `TestBlockValidity()` is not included in the bench timing.
This allows us to both manually manipulate options and grab values from
ArgsManager (i.e. -blockmaxweight and -blockmintxfee config options)
when constructing BlockAssembler::Options. Prior to this change, the
only way to apply the config options is by ctoring BlockAssembler with
no options, which calls DefaultOptions().
When CalculateMemPoolAncestors fails unexpectedly (e.g. it exceeds
ancestor/descendant limits even though we expect no limits to be applied),
add an error log entry for increased visibility. For debug builds,
the application will even halt completely since this is not supposed
to happen.
fabf1cdb20 Use steady clock for bench logging (MacroFake)
faed342a23 scripted-diff: Rename time symbols (MacroFake)
Pull request description:
Instead of using `0.001` and similar constants to "convert" an int64_t to milliseconds, use the type-safe `Ticks<>` helper. Also, use steady clock instead of system clock, since the durations are used for benchmarking.
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33b12e5df6 docs: improve docs where MemPoolLimits is used (stickies-v)
6945853c0b test: use NoLimits() in MempoolIndexingTest (stickies-v)
3a86f24a4c refactor: mempool: use CTxMempool::Limits (stickies-v)
b85af25f87 refactor: mempool: add MemPoolLimits::NoLimits() (stickies-v)
Pull request description:
Mempool currently considers 4 limits regarding ancestor and descendant count and size, which get passed around between functions quite a bit. This PR uses `CTxMemPool::Limits` introduced in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25290 to simplify those signatures and callsites.
The purpose of this PR is to improve readability and maintenance, without behaviour change.
As noted in the first commit "refactor: mempool: change MemPoolLimits members to uint", we currently have an underflow issue where a user could pass a negative `-limitancestorsize`, which is eventually cast to an unsigned integer. This behaviour already exists. Because it's orthogonal and to minimize scope, I think this should be fixed in a separate PR.
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0f40d65321 refactor: remove duplicate code from BlockAssembler (James O'Beirne)
Pull request description:
Found while reminding myself how transactions are chosen for blocks. Take it or leave it!
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Simplifies function signatures by removing repetition of all the
ancestor/descendant limits, and increases readability by being
more verbose by naming the limits, while still reducing the LoC.
...also adjust callers
Changes:
- In BlockAssembler::CreateNewBlock, we now only lock m_mempool->cs and
call addPackageTxs if m_mempool is not nullptr
- BlockAssembler::addPackageTxs now takes in a mempool reference, and is
annotated to require that mempool's lock.
- In TestChain100Setup::CreateBlock and generateblock, don't construct
an empty mempool, just pass in a nullptr for mempool
Since UpdatePackagesForAdded is a helper function that's only used in
addPackageTxs we can make it static and avoid the unnecessary interface
and in-header lock annotation.
SkipMapTxEntry is a short helper function that's only used in
addPackageTxs, we can just inline it, keep the comments, and avoid the
unnecessary interface and lock annotations.
7036cf52aa Delete UpdatePackagesForAdded at beginning of addPackageTxs. (KevinMusgrave)
Pull request description:
In `CreateNewBlock` (in miner.cpp), `inBlock` is cleared before `addPackageTxs`, so `inBlock` will be empty in the first call to `UpdatePackagesForAdded`. I saw this brought up in these [PR review club logs](https://bitcoincore.reviews/24538) and there didn't seem to be a definitive answer for why the call is necessary. There's also an [old PR](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10200) where this change was going to be applied, but it got closed.
If `addPackageTxs` can be called when `inBlock` is not empty, then maybe a test should be added for that case. All the tests seem to pass with this deletion.
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This decouples validation.cpp from netaddress.cpp (transitively,
timedata.cpp, and asmap.cpp).
This is important for libbitcoinkernel as:
- There is no reason for the consensus engine to be coupled with
netaddress, timedata, and asmap
- Users of libbitcoinkernel can now easily supply their own
std::function that provides the adjusted time.
See the src/Makefile.am changes for some satisfying removals.
As described in commit 9cea7e37158aa85119de2c81e93901da9e476ee5, this is no longer needed because priority transaction selection (addPriorityTxs) was removed in commit 272b25a6a9.
