This PR has fixes for a number of instances in the bor heimdall stage
where nil headers are either ignored or inadvertently processed.
It also has a demotion of milestone related logging messages to debug
for missing blocks because the process is not at the head of the chain +
a general reduction in periodic logging to 30 secs rather than 20 to
reduce the log output on long runs.
In addition there is a refactor of persistValidatorSets to perform
validator set initiation in a seperate function. This is intended to
clarify the operation of persistValidatorSets - which is till performing
2 actions, persisting the snapshot and then using it to check the header
against synthesized validator set in the snapshot.
This PR adds support to store the transaction dependency (generated by
the block producer) in the block header for bor. This transaction
dependency will then be used by the parallel processor
([Block-STM](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/pull/7812/)).
I have created another
[PR](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon-lib/pull/1064) in the
erigon-lib repo which adds the `IsParallelUniverse()` function.
I using `https://heimdall-api-testnet.polygon.technology/` and seems
5sec timeout is not enough sometime - even that remote service working
well (node syncing well)
most of timeouts comes from same endpoint:
```
[bor.heimdall] request canceled reason="context deadline exceeded" path=/milestone/lastNoAck attempt=2
```
* fix "genesis hash does not match" when dev nodes connect
The "dev" nodes need to have the same --miner.etherbase in order to
generate the same genesis ExtraData by DeveloperGenesisBlock(). Override
DevnetEtherbase global var that's used if --miner.etherbase is not
passed. (for NonBlockProducer case)
* fix missing private key for the hardcoded DevnetEtherbase
Fixes panic if SigKey is not found. Bor non-producers will use a default
`DevnetEtherbase` while Dev nodes modify it. Save hardcoded
DevnetEtherbase/DevnetSignPrivateKey into accounts so that SigKey can
recover it.
* refactor devnet.node to contain Node config
This avoids interface{} type casts and fixes an error with
Heimdall.validatorSet == nil
* add connection retries to rpcCall and Subscribe of requestGenerator
Fixes "connection refused" errors due to node not ready to handle early
RPC requests.
* fix deadlock in Heimdall.NodeStarted
* fix GetBlockByNumber
Fixes "cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field body.transactions of
type jsonrpc.RPCTransaction"
* demote "no of blocks on childchain is less than confirmations
required" to Info (#8626)
* demote "mismatched pending subpool size" to Debug (#8615)
* revert wiggle testing code
If HeaderDownload.VerifyHeader always returns false, the memory usage
grows at a fast pace
due to Link objects (containing headers) not deallocated even after the
link queue pruning.
Add a check against the inbound headers before publishing a newly mined
block after the wait delay.
If the node received a block while it was processing transactions, or
waiting for its publish slot, do a final check that another node hasn't
already published a block.
Fixes and issue with Polygon validators where locally mined blocks are
broadcast with invalid header hashes because the NewBlock message
constructor was removing the ReceiptHash which contributed to the header
hash.
The results in the bor header validation code not being able to
correctly identify the signer of the header - so header validation
fails.
This also likely fixes part of the bogon-block issue which was
identified by the polygon team.
This fixes 2 related issues:
* Now that the bor consensus engine is required for queries it can't be
created based on the pretense of a db directory, but must be based on
chain config read from the db. Using the DB presence causes Bor to get
instantiated for non bor chains which breaks.
* At the moment eth_calls on a remote daemon don't check Bor headers
prior to calling the EVM code as it was just using a fake ETHash
instance - which performs ETH header validation only.
The current version is mostly working but needs adapting to perform lazy
initialization of the engine.
System contract upgrades for Polygon are already handled by the
`BlockAlloc` logic and there's no need to duplicate it with the
`CalcuttaBlock` logic (there's no Calcutta in
https://github.com/maticnetwork/bor).
When a new feature (like for the upcoming `Aalborg` hard fork) for
Polygon hasn't kicked in (in heimdall), the endpoints of heimdall will
now return 503 (Service Unavailable) status code. This PR makes sure
that erigon handles that code separately and doesn't keep retying to
fetch info. It also acts as a notifier of the HF in erigon.
Similar reference PR in bor:
https://github.com/maticnetwork/bor/pull/1023
Whitelisting calculation of the roothash should not be dependent on the
bor api running. This will not always be the case, for example when
erigon is configured with a separate rpc deamon.
To fix this the calculation has been moved to Bor.
Additionally the redundant Bor API code has been removed as this is not
called by any code and the functionality looks to have migrated to the
turbo/jsonrpc package.
Fixes for label discrepancies in collector for summaries etc which have
a template which includes a quantile.
Initial native Prometheus client implementation of metrics - which is
currently turned off except for local testing and interface exports.
This is a fix for at least one cause of this isssue:
https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/issues/8212.
It happens after the end of the snapshot load, because the snapshot
processing which was introduced a couple of month ago does not deal with
validation of the headers at the start of the start of the chain.
I have also added a fix to the persistence so that the last snapshot is
recorded so that subsequent runs are not forced to process the whole
snapshot run from start.
The relationship between this an memory usage is that the fact that
headers are not processed leads to a queue of pending headers with size
of around 5GB. I have not changed any header parameters - so likely a
prolonged stop to header processing will result in a similar level of
memory growth.
Add code to the headers state to break processing if a bor milestone
rewind is detected.
The rewind processing happens in the bor/heimdall stage - this change
just avoids unnecessary header loading
if a milestone fork is likely to be detected
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Co-authored-by: Anshal Shukla <shukla.anshal85@gmail.com>
This is the second part of the bor milestone release it contains the
following changes:
* Initialize services
* This is a change from the initial pull request I have moved all of the
initialization to the bor engine. To facilitate this I have just passed
in the heimdall client interface, rather than the whole engine
* Stage processing
* This is also a change from the original PR - the code is contained in
the bor heimdall stage rather than in headers - the effect should be the
same, but this needs testing
---------
Co-authored-by: Mark Holt <mark@disributed.vision>
Co-authored-by: Anshal Shukla <shukla.anshal85@gmail.com>
For example, erigon on devnet8 marked a block as bad due to
"mdbx_cursor_open: cannot allocate memory":
```
[INFO] [09-12|04:57:36.041] [NewPayload] Handling new payload height=171035 hash=0x321dea00c4853ee354bebaf8aef3e63fbe06c4508271c0db4c92b0f087aedc3b
171034
[WARN] [09-12|04:57:36.069] Could not validate block err="[3/7 BlockHashes] table: Header, mdbx_cursor_open: cannot allocate memory, stack: [kv_mdbx.go:1057 kv_mdbx.
go:1069 kv_mdbx.go:1077 memory_mutation.go:473 memory_mutation.go:502 etl.go:123 etl.go:96 block_writer.go:40 stage_blockhashes.go:49 default_stages.go:457 sync.go:425 sync.go:258 s
tageloop.go:414 backend.go:476 fork_validator.go:250 fork_validator.go:156 ethereum_execution.go:151 execution_client.go:51 chain_reader.go:252 engine_server.go:741 engine_server.go
:235 engine_server.go:600 value.go:586 value.go:370 service.go:224 handler.go:494 handler.go:444 handler.go:392 handler.go:223 handler.go:316 asm_amd64.s:1598]"
[WARN] [09-12|04:57:36.069] ethereumExecutionModule.ValidateChain: chain is invalid hash=0x321dea00c4853ee354bebaf8aef3e63fbe06c4508271c0db4c92b0f087aedc3b
```
With this PR blocks are marked as bad only on genuine protocol errors.
This is a non functional change which consolidates the various packages
under metrics into the top level package now that the dead code is
removed.
It is a precursor to the removal of Victoria metrics after which all
erigon metrics code will be contained in this single package.
ergon/metrics contains a lot of unused types - the pull is removing them
prior to rationalizing between Prometheus and Victoria Metrics types.
It also have upgrades of golang-lru + sets types to v2 when possible.
This is an update of:
https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/pull/7846
which uses a local fork of victoria metrics to include the changes that
https://github.com/anshalshukla added to the original for we where
using.
It also includes code to address the duplicate metrics issue identified
here:
https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/issues/8053
It has one more associated fix which is to correctly add a metadata
label to counters, these where previously labelled as gauges.
e.g.
```
# TYPE p2p_peers counter
p2p_peers 0
```
rather than
```
# TYPE p2p_peers gauge
p2p_peers 0
```
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Co-authored-by: Anshal Shukla <53994948+anshalshukla@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Anshal Shukla <shukla.anshal85@gmail.com>
