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authorAndrew Chow <github@achow101.com>2023-10-02 17:00:28 -0400
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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#27596: assumeutxo (2)
edbed31066e3674ba52b8c093ab235625527f383 chainparams: add signet assumeutxo param at height 160_000 (Sjors Provoost) b8cafe38713cbf10d15459042f7f911bcc1b1e4e chainparams: add testnet assumeutxo param at height 2_500_000 (Sjors Provoost) 99839bbfa7110c7abf22e587ae2f72c9c57d3c85 doc: add note about confusing HaveTxsDownloaded name (James O'Beirne) 7ee46a755f1d57ce9d51975d3b54dc9ac3d08d52 contrib: add script to demo/test assumeutxo (James O'Beirne) 42cae39356fd20d521aaf99aff1ed85856f3c9f3 test: add feature_assumeutxo functional test (James O'Beirne) 0f64bac6030334d798ae205cd7af4bf248feddd9 rpc: add getchainstates (James O'Beirne) bb0585779472962f40d9cdd9c6532132850d371c refuse to activate a UTXO snapshot if mempool not empty (James O'Beirne) ce585a9a158476b0ad3296477b922e79f308e795 rpc: add loadtxoutset (James O'Beirne) 62ac519e718eb7a31dca1102a96ba219fbc7f95d validation: do not activate snapshot if behind active chain (James O'Beirne) 9511fb3616b7bbe1d0d2f54a45ea0a650ba0367b validation: assumeutxo: swap m_mempool on snapshot activation (James O'Beirne) 7fcd21544a333ffdf1910b65c573579860be6a36 blockstorage: segment normal/assumedvalid blockfiles (James O'Beirne) 4c3b8ca35c2e4a441264749bb312df2bd054b5b8 validation: populate nChainTx value for assumedvalid chainstates (James O'Beirne) 49ef778158c43859946a592e11ec34fe1b93a5b6 test: adjust chainstate tests to use recognized snapshot base (James O'Beirne) 1019c399825b0d512c1fd751c376d46fed4992b9 validation: pruning for multiple chainstates (James O'Beirne) 373cf91531b84bfdd06fdf8abf4dca228029ce6b validation: indexing changes for assumeutxo (James O'Beirne) 1fffdd76a1bca908f55d73b64983655b14cf7432 net_processing: validationinterface: ignore some events for bg chain (James O'Beirne) fbe0a7d7ca680358237b6c2369b3fd2b43221113 wallet: validationinterface: only handle active chain notifications (James O'Beirne) f073917a9e7ba423643dcae0339776470b628f65 validationinterface: only send zmq notifications for active (James O'Beirne) 4d8f4dcb450d31e4847804e62bf91545b949fa14 validation: pass ChainstateRole for validationinterface calls (James O'Beirne) 1e59acdf17309f567c370885f0cf02605e2baa58 validation: only call UpdatedBlockTip for active chainstate (James O'Beirne) c6af23c5179cc383f8e6c275373af8d11e6a989f validation: add ChainstateRole (James O'Beirne) 9f2318c76cc6986d48e13831cf5bd8dab194fdf4 validation: MaybeRebalanceCaches when chain leaves IBD (James O'Beirne) 434495a8c1496ca23fe35b84499f3daf668d76b8 chainparams: add blockhash to AssumeutxoData (James O'Beirne) c711ca186f8d8a28810be0beedcb615ddcf93163 assumeutxo: remove snapshot during -reindex{-chainstate} (James O'Beirne) c93ef43e4fd4fbc1263cdc9e98ae5856830fe89e bugfix: correct is_snapshot_cs in VerifyDB (James O'Beirne) b73d3bbd23220857bf17cbb6401275bf58013b72 net_processing: Request assumeutxo background chain blocks (Suhas Daftuar) Pull request description: - Background and FAQ: https://github.com/jamesob/assumeutxo-docs/tree/2019-04-proposal/proposal - Prior progress/project: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/11 - Replaces https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15606, which was closed due to Github slowness. Original description and commentary can be found there. --- This changeset finishes the first phase of the assumeutxo project. It makes UTXO snapshots loadable via RPC (`loadtxoutset`) and adds `assumeutxo` parameters to chainparams. It contains all the remaining changes necessary to both use an assumedvalid snapshot chainstate and do a full validation sync in the background. This may look like a lot to review, but note that - ~200 lines are a (non-essential) demo shell script - Many lines are functional test, documentation, and relatively dilute RPC code. So it shouldn't be as burdensome to review as the linecount might suggest. - **P2P**: minor changes are made to `init.cpp` and `net_processing.cpp` to make simultaneous IBD across multiple chainstates work. - **Pruning**: implement correct pruning behavior when using a background chainstate - **Blockfile separation**: to prevent "fragmentation" in blockfile storage, have background chainstates use separate blockfiles from active snapshot chainstates to avoid interleaving heights and impairing pruning. - **Indexing**: some `CValidationInterface` events are given with an additional parameter, ChainstateRole, and all indexers ignore events from ChainstateRole::ASSUMEDVALID so that indexation only happens sequentially. - Have `-reindex` properly wipe snapshot chainstates. - **RPC**: introduce RPC commands `loadtxoutset` and (hidden) `getchainstates`. - **Release docs & first assumeutxo commitment**: add notes and a particular assumeutxo hash value for first AU-enabled release. - This will complete the project and allow use of UTXO snapshots for faster node bootstrap. The next phase, if it were to be pursued, would be coming up with a way to distribute the UTXO snapshots over the P2P network. --- ### UTXO snapshots Create your own with `./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh`, e.g. ```shell ./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh 788000 utxo.dat ./src/bitcoin-cli -datadir=$(pwd)/testdata`) ``` or use the pre-generated ones listed below. - Testnet: **2'500'000** (Sjors): - torrent: `magnet:?xt=urn:btih:511e09f4bf853aefab00de5c070b1e031f0ecbe9&dn=utxo-testnet-2500000.dat&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl%3A6969` - sha256: `79db4b025448cc0ac388d8589a28eab02de53055d181e34eb47391717aa16388` - Signet: **160'000** (Sjors): - torrent: `magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9da986cb27b3980ea7fd06b21e199b148d486880&dn=utxo-signet-160000.dat&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl%3A6969` - sha256: `eeeca845385ba91e84ef58c09d38f98f246a24feadaad57fe1e5874f3f92ef8c` - Mainnet: **800'000** (Sjors): - Note: this needs the following commit cherry-picked in: https://github.com/Sjors/bitcoin/commit/24deb2022b822f22fba9fcbee201e37a83225eb2 - torrent: `magnet:?xt=urn:btih:50ee955bef37f5ec3e5b0df4cf0288af3d715a2e&dn=utxo-800000.dat&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitcoin.sprovoost.nl%3A6969` ### Testing #### For fun (~5min) If you want to do a quick test, you can run `./contrib/devtools/test_utxo_snapshots.sh` and follow the instructions. This is mostly obviated by the functional tests, though. #### For real (longer) If you'd like to experience a real usage of assumeutxo, you can do that too. I've cut a new snapshot at height 788'000 (http://img.jameso.be/utxo-788000.dat - but you can do it yourself with `./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh` if you want). Download that, and then create a datadir for testing: ```sh $ cd ~/src/bitcoin # or whatever # get the snapshot $ curl http://img.jameso.be/utxo-788000.dat > utxo-788000.dat # you'll want to do this if you like copy/pasting $ export AU_DATADIR=/home/${USER}/au-test # or wherever $ mkdir ${AU_DATADIR} $ vim ${AU_DATADIR}/bitcoin.conf dbcache=8000 # or, you know, something high blockfilterindex=1 coinstatsindex=1 prune=3000 logthreadnames=1 ``` Obtain this branch, build it, and then start bitcoind: ```sh $ git remote add jamesob https://github.com/jamesob/bitcoin $ git fetch jamesob assumeutxo $ git checkout jamesob/assumeutxo $ ./configure $conf_args && make # (whatever you like to do here) # start 'er up and watch the logs $ ./src/bitcoind -datadir=${AU_DATADIR} ``` Then, in some other window, load the snapshot ```sh $ ./src/bitcoin-cli -datadir=${AU_DATADIR} loadtxoutset $(pwd)/utxo-788000.dat ``` You'll see some log messages about headers retrieval and waiting to see the snapshot in the headers chain. Once you get the full headers chain, you'll spend a decent amount of time (~10min) loading the snapshot, checking it, and flushing it to disk. After all that happens, you should be syncing to tip in pretty short order, and you'll see the occasional `[background validation]` log message go by. In yet another window, you can check out chainstate status with ```sh $ ./src/bitcoin-cli -datadir=${AU_DATADIR} getchainstates ``` as well as usual favorites like `getblockchaininfo`. ACKs for top commit: achow101: ACK edbed31066e3674ba52b8c093ab235625527f383 Tree-SHA512: 6086fb9a38dc7df85fedc76b30084dd8154617a2a91e89a84fb41326d34ef8e7d7ea593107afba01369093bf8cc91770621d98f0ea42a5b3b99db868d2f14dc2
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-rw-r--r--doc/design/assumeutxo.md2
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes-27596.md28
-rw-r--r--doc/zmq.md4
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design/assumeutxo.md b/doc/design/assumeutxo.md
index 1492877e62..8068a93f27 100644
--- a/doc/design/assumeutxo.md
+++ b/doc/design/assumeutxo.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Assumeutxo is a feature that allows fast bootstrapping of a validating bitcoind
instance with a very similar security model to assumevalid.
-The RPC commands `dumptxoutset` and `loadtxoutset` (yet to be merged) are used to
+The RPC commands `dumptxoutset` and `loadtxoutset` are used to
respectively generate and load UTXO snapshots. The utility script
`./contrib/devtools/utxo_snapshot.sh` may be of use.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes-27596.md b/doc/release-notes-27596.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..799b82643f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes-27596.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Pruning
+-------
+
+When using assumeutxo with `-prune`, the prune budget may be exceeded if it is set
+lower than 1100MB (i.e. `MIN_DISK_SPACE_FOR_BLOCK_FILES * 2`). Prune budget is normally
+split evenly across each chainstate, unless the resulting prune budget per chainstate
+is beneath `MIN_DISK_SPACE_FOR_BLOCK_FILES` in which case that value will be used.
+
+RPC
+---
+
+`loadtxoutset` has been added, which allows loading a UTXO snapshot of the format
+generated by `dumptxoutset`. Once this snapshot is loaded, its contents will be
+deserialized into a second chainstate data structure, which is then used to sync to
+the network's tip under a security model very much like `assumevalid`.
+
+Meanwhile, the original chainstate will complete the initial block download process in
+the background, eventually validating up to the block that the snapshot is based upon.
+
+The result is a usable bitcoind instance that is current with the network tip in a
+matter of minutes rather than hours. UTXO snapshot are typically obtained via
+third-party sources (HTTP, torrent, etc.) which is reasonable since their contents
+are always checked by hash.
+
+You can find more information on this process in the `assumeutxo` design
+document (<https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/design/assumeutxo.md>).
+
+`getchainstates` has been added to aid in monitoring the assumeutxo sync process.
diff --git a/doc/zmq.md b/doc/zmq.md
index 4055505d74..07c340fb99 100644
--- a/doc/zmq.md
+++ b/doc/zmq.md
@@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ Where the 8-byte uints correspond to the mempool sequence number.
| hashtx | <32-byte transaction hash in Little Endian> | <uint32 sequence number in Little Endian>
-`rawblock`: Notifies when the chain tip is updated. Messages are ZMQ multipart messages with three parts. The first part is the topic (`rawblock`), the second part is the serialized block, and the last part is a sequence number (representing the message count to detect lost messages).
+`rawblock`: Notifies when the chain tip is updated. When assumeutxo is in use, this notification will not be issued for historical blocks connected to the background validation chainstate. Messages are ZMQ multipart messages with three parts. The first part is the topic (`rawblock`), the second part is the serialized block, and the last part is a sequence number (representing the message count to detect lost messages).
| rawblock | <serialized block> | <uint32 sequence number in Little Endian>
-`hashblock`: Notifies when the chain tip is updated. Messages are ZMQ multipart messages with three parts. The first part is the topic (`hashblock`), the second part is the 32-byte block hash, and the last part is a sequence number (representing the message count to detect lost messages).
+`hashblock`: Notifies when the chain tip is updated. When assumeutxo is in use, this notification will not be issued for historical blocks connected to the background validation chainstate. Messages are ZMQ multipart messages with three parts. The first part is the topic (`hashblock`), the second part is the 32-byte block hash, and the last part is a sequence number (representing the message count to detect lost messages).
| hashblock | <32-byte block hash in Little Endian> | <uint32 sequence number in Little Endian>