lighthouse-pulse/beacon_node/http_api/tests/interactive_tests.rs
Paul Hauner be4e261e74 Use async code when interacting with EL (#3244)
## Overview

This rather extensive PR achieves two primary goals:

1. Uses the finalized/justified checkpoints of fork choice (FC), rather than that of the head state.
2. Refactors fork choice, block production and block processing to `async` functions.

Additionally, it achieves:

- Concurrent forkchoice updates to the EL and cache pruning after a new head is selected.
- Concurrent "block packing" (attestations, etc) and execution payload retrieval during block production.
- Concurrent per-block-processing and execution payload verification during block processing.
- The `Arc`-ification of `SignedBeaconBlock` during block processing (it's never mutated, so why not?):
    - I had to do this to deal with sending blocks into spawned tasks.
    - Previously we were cloning the beacon block at least 2 times during each block processing, these clones are either removed or turned into cheaper `Arc` clones.
    - We were also `Box`-ing and un-`Box`-ing beacon blocks as they moved throughout the networking crate. This is not a big deal, but it's nice to avoid shifting things between the stack and heap.
    - Avoids cloning *all the blocks* in *every chain segment* during sync.
    - It also has the potential to clean up our code where we need to pass an *owned* block around so we can send it back in the case of an error (I didn't do much of this, my PR is already big enough 😅)
- The `BeaconChain::HeadSafetyStatus` struct was removed. It was an old relic from prior merge specs.

For motivation for this change, see https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/pull/3244#issuecomment-1160963273

## Changes to `canonical_head` and `fork_choice`

Previously, the `BeaconChain` had two separate fields:

```
canonical_head: RwLock<Snapshot>,
fork_choice: RwLock<BeaconForkChoice>
```

Now, we have grouped these values under a single struct:

```
canonical_head: CanonicalHead {
  cached_head: RwLock<Arc<Snapshot>>,
  fork_choice: RwLock<BeaconForkChoice>
} 
```

Apart from ergonomics, the only *actual* change here is wrapping the canonical head snapshot in an `Arc`. This means that we no longer need to hold the `cached_head` (`canonical_head`, in old terms) lock when we want to pull some values from it. This was done to avoid deadlock risks by preventing functions from acquiring (and holding) the `cached_head` and `fork_choice` locks simultaneously.

## Breaking Changes

### The `state` (root) field in the `finalized_checkpoint` SSE event

Consider the scenario where epoch `n` is just finalized, but `start_slot(n)` is skipped. There are two state roots we might in the `finalized_checkpoint` SSE event:

1. The state root of the finalized block, which is `get_block(finalized_checkpoint.root).state_root`.
4. The state root at slot of `start_slot(n)`, which would be the state from (1), but "skipped forward" through any skip slots.

Previously, Lighthouse would choose (2). However, we can see that when [Teku generates that event](de2b2801c8/data/beaconrestapi/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/beaconrestapi/handlers/v1/events/EventSubscriptionManager.java (L171-L182)) it uses [`getStateRootFromBlockRoot`](de2b2801c8/data/provider/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/teku/api/ChainDataProvider.java (L336-L341)) which uses (1).

I have switched Lighthouse from (2) to (1). I think it's a somewhat arbitrary choice between the two, where (1) is easier to compute and is consistent with Teku.

## Notes for Reviewers

I've renamed `BeaconChain::fork_choice` to `BeaconChain::recompute_head`. Doing this helped ensure I broke all previous uses of fork choice and I also find it more descriptive. It describes an action and can't be confused with trying to get a reference to the `ForkChoice` struct.

I've changed the ordering of SSE events when a block is received. It used to be `[block, finalized, head]` and now it's `[block, head, finalized]`. It was easier this way and I don't think we were making any promises about SSE event ordering so it's not "breaking".

I've made it so fork choice will run when it's first constructed. I did this because I wanted to have a cached version of the last call to `get_head`. Ensuring `get_head` has been run *at least once* means that the cached values doesn't need to wrapped in an `Option`. This was fairly simple, it just involved passing a `slot` to the constructor so it knows *when* it's being run. When loading a fork choice from the store and a slot clock isn't handy I've just used the `slot` that was saved in the `fork_choice_store`. That seems like it would be a faithful representation of the slot when we saved it.

I added the `genesis_time: u64` to the `BeaconChain`. It's small, constant and nice to have around.

Since we're using FC for the fin/just checkpoints, we no longer get the `0x00..00` roots at genesis. You can see I had to remove a work-around in `ef-tests` here: b56be3bc2. I can't find any reason why this would be an issue, if anything I think it'll be better since the genesis-alias has caught us out a few times (0x00..00 isn't actually a real root). Edit: I did find a case where the `network` expected the 0x00..00 alias and patched it here: 3f26ac3e2.

You'll notice a lot of changes in tests. Generally, tests should be functionally equivalent. Here are the things creating the most diff-noise in tests:
- Changing tests to be `tokio::async` tests.
- Adding `.await` to fork choice, block processing and block production functions.
- Refactor of the `canonical_head` "API" provided by the `BeaconChain`. E.g., `chain.canonical_head.cached_head()` instead of `chain.canonical_head.read()`.
- Wrapping `SignedBeaconBlock` in an `Arc`.
- In the `beacon_chain/tests/block_verification`, we can't use the `lazy_static` `CHAIN_SEGMENT` variable anymore since it's generated with an async function. We just generate it in each test, not so efficient but hopefully insignificant.

I had to disable `rayon` concurrent tests in the `fork_choice` tests. This is because the use of `rayon` and `block_on` was causing a panic.

Co-authored-by: Mac L <mjladson@pm.me>
2022-07-03 05:36:50 +00:00

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//! Generic tests that make use of the (newer) `InteractiveApiTester`
use crate::common::*;
use beacon_chain::test_utils::{AttestationStrategy, BlockStrategy};
use eth2::types::DepositContractData;
use tree_hash::TreeHash;
use types::{EthSpec, FullPayload, MainnetEthSpec, Slot};
type E = MainnetEthSpec;
// Test that the deposit_contract endpoint returns the correct chain_id and address.
// Regression test for https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/2657
#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
async fn deposit_contract_custom_network() {
let validator_count = 24;
let mut spec = E::default_spec();
// Rinkeby, which we don't use elsewhere.
spec.deposit_chain_id = 4;
spec.deposit_network_id = 4;
// Arbitrary contract address.
spec.deposit_contract_address = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa".parse().unwrap();
let tester = InteractiveTester::<E>::new(Some(spec.clone()), validator_count).await;
let client = &tester.client;
let result = client.get_config_deposit_contract().await.unwrap().data;
let expected = DepositContractData {
address: spec.deposit_contract_address,
chain_id: spec.deposit_chain_id,
};
assert_eq!(result, expected);
}
// Test that running fork choice before proposing results in selection of the correct head.
#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
pub async fn fork_choice_before_proposal() {
// Validator count needs to be at least 32 or proposer boost gets set to 0 when computing
// `validator_count // 32`.
let validator_count = 32;
let all_validators = (0..validator_count).collect::<Vec<_>>();
let num_initial: u64 = 31;
let tester = InteractiveTester::<E>::new(None, validator_count).await;
let harness = &tester.harness;
// Create some chain depth.
harness.advance_slot();
harness
.extend_chain(
num_initial as usize,
BlockStrategy::OnCanonicalHead,
AttestationStrategy::AllValidators,
)
.await;
// We set up the following block graph, where B is a block that is temporarily orphaned by C,
// but is then reinstated and built upon by D.
//
// A | B | - | D |
// ^ | - | C |
let slot_a = Slot::new(num_initial);
let slot_b = slot_a + 1;
let slot_c = slot_a + 2;
let slot_d = slot_a + 3;
let state_a = harness.get_current_state();
let (block_b, state_b) = harness.make_block(state_a.clone(), slot_b).await;
let block_root_b = harness.process_block(slot_b, block_b).await.unwrap();
// Create attestations to B but keep them in reserve until after C has been processed.
let attestations_b = harness.make_attestations(
&all_validators,
&state_b,
state_b.tree_hash_root(),
block_root_b,
slot_b,
);
let (block_c, state_c) = harness.make_block(state_a, slot_c).await;
let block_root_c = harness
.process_block(slot_c, block_c.clone())
.await
.unwrap();
// Create attestations to C from a small number of validators and process them immediately.
let attestations_c = harness.make_attestations(
&all_validators[..validator_count / 2],
&state_c,
state_c.tree_hash_root(),
block_root_c,
slot_c,
);
harness.process_attestations(attestations_c);
// Apply the attestations to B, but don't re-run fork choice.
harness.process_attestations(attestations_b);
// Due to proposer boost, the head should be C during slot C.
assert_eq!(
harness.chain.canonical_head.cached_head().head_block_root(),
block_root_c.into()
);
// Ensure that building a block via the HTTP API re-runs fork choice and builds block D upon B.
// Manually prod the per-slot task, because the slot timer doesn't run in the background in
// these tests.
harness.advance_slot();
harness.chain.per_slot_task().await;
let proposer_index = state_b
.get_beacon_proposer_index(slot_d, &harness.chain.spec)
.unwrap();
let randao_reveal = harness
.sign_randao_reveal(&state_b, proposer_index, slot_d)
.into();
let block_d = tester
.client
.get_validator_blocks::<E, FullPayload<E>>(slot_d, &randao_reveal, None)
.await
.unwrap()
.data;
// Head is now B.
assert_eq!(
harness.chain.canonical_head.cached_head().head_block_root(),
block_root_b.into()
);
// D's parent is B.
assert_eq!(block_d.parent_root(), block_root_b.into());
}