error is a low-level function with a sole dependency on LogPrintf, which
is defined in logging.h
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager defined in system.h.
Moving the function out of system.h allows including it from a separate
source file without including the ArgsManager definitions from system.h.
Use DBParams struct to remove ArgsManager uses from txdb.
To reduce size of this commit, this moves references to gArgs variable out of
txdb.cpp to calling code in chainstate.cpp. But these moves are temporary. The
gArgs references in chainstate.cpp are moved out to calling code in init.cpp in
later commits.
This commit does not change behavior.
Add CoinsViewOptions struct to remove ArgsManager uses from txdb.
To reduce size of this commit, this moves references to gArgs variable out of
txdb.cpp to calling code in validation.cpp. But these moves are temporary. The
gArgs references in validation.cpp are moved out to calling code in init.cpp in
later commits.
This commit does not change behavior.
Add DBParams and DBOptions structs to remove ArgsManager uses from dbwrapper.
To reduce size of this commit, this moves references to gArgs variable out of
dbwrapper.cpp to calling code in txdb.cpp. But these moves are temporary. The
gArgs references in txdb.cpp are moved out to calling code in init.cpp in later
commits.
This commit does not change behavior.
In certain circumstances, we may want to flush to disk without
emptying `cacheCoins`, which affects performance. UTXO snapshot
activation is one such case.
This method is currently unused and this commit does not
change any behavior.
Incorporates feedback from John Newbery.
Co-authored-by: Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@gmail.com>
and mark the inherited CBlockIndex#GetBlockHash public interface member
as deleted, to disallow calling it in the derived CDiskBlockIndex class.
Here is a failing test on master demonstrating the inconsistent behavior of the
current design: calling the same inherited public interface functions on the
same CDiskBlockIndex object should yield identical behavior.
```diff
diff --git a/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp b/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp
index 6dc522b421..dac3840f32 100644
--- a/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp
+++ b/src/test/validation_chainstatemanager_tests.cpp
@@ -240,6 +240,15 @@ BOOST_FIXTURE_TEST_CASE(chainstatemanager_activate_snapshot, TestChain100Setup)
const CBlockIndex* tip = chainman.ActiveTip();
BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(tip->nChainTx, au_data.nChainTx);
+ // CDiskBlockIndex "is a" CBlockIndex, as it publicly inherits from it.
+ // Test that calling the same inherited interface functions on the same
+ // object yields identical behavior.
+ CDiskBlockIndex index{tip};
+ CBlockIndex *pB = &index;
+ CDiskBlockIndex *pD = &index;
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(pB->GetBlockHash(), pD->GetBlockHash());
+ BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(pB->ToString(), pD->ToString());
+
```
The GetBlockHash() test assertion only passes on master because the different
methods invoked by the current design happen to return the same result. If one
of the two is changed, it fails like the ToString() assertion does.
Redefining inherited non-virtual functions is well-documented as incorrect
design to avoid inconsistent behavior (see Scott Meyers, "Effective C++", Item
36). Class usage is confusing when the behavior depends on the pointer
definition instead of the object definition (static binding happening where
dynamic binding was expected). This can lead to unsuspected or hard-to-track
bugs.
Outside of critical hot spots, correctness usually comes before optimisation,
but the current design dates back to main.cpp and it may possibly have been
chosen to avoid the overhead of dynamic dispatch. This solution does the same:
the class sizes are unchanged and no vptr or vtbl is added.
There are better designs for doing this that use composition instead of
inheritance or that separate the public interface from the private
implementations. One example of the latter would be a non-virtual public
interface that calls private virtual implementation methods, i.e. the Template
pattern via the Non-Virtual Interface (NVI) idiom.
These methods haven't been used since the chainstate db cache has been
switched from per-tx to per-txout model years ago (PR #10195, commit
d342424301).
fa9112aac0 Remove utxo db upgrade code (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
It is not possible to upgrade Bitcoin Core pre-segwit (pre-0.13.1) to a recent version without a full IBD from scratch after commit 19a56d1519 (released in version 22.0).
Any Bitcoin Core version with the new database format after commit 1088b02f0c (released in version 0.15), can upgrade to any version that is supported as of today.
This leaves the versions 0.13.1-0.14.x. Even though those versions are unsupported, some users with an existing datadir may want to upgrade to a recent version. However, it seems reasonable to simply ask them to `-reindex` to run a full IBD from scratch. This allows us to remove the utxo db upgrade code.
ACKs for top commit:
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Improve readability of code, simplify future scripted diff cleanup PRs, and be
more consistent with naming for GetBoolArg.
This will also be useful for replacing runtime settings type checking
with compile time checking.
-BEGIN VERIFY SCRIPT-
git grep -l GetArg | xargs sed -i 's/GetArg(\([^)]*\( [0-9]\+\|-1\|port\|BaseParams().RPCPort()\|Params().GetDefaultPort()\|_TIMEOUT\|Height\|_WORKQUEUE\|_THREADS\|_CONNECTIONS\|LIMIT\|SigOp\|Bytes\|_VERSION\|_AGE\|_CHECKS\|Checks() ? 1 : 0\|_BANTIME\|Cache\|BLOCKS\|LEVEL\|Weight\|Version\|BUFFER\|TARGET\|WEIGHT\|TXN\|TRANSACTIONS\|ADJUSTMENT\|i64\|Size\|nDefault\|_EXPIRY\|HEIGHT\|SIZE\|SNDHWM\|_TIME_MS\)\))/GetIntArg(\1)/g'
-END VERIFY SCRIPT-
Co-authored-by: Hennadii Stepanov <32963518+hebasto@users.noreply.github.com>
- Finish removing all references to 'recheckpeginblockinterval', including
documentation and tests.
- Remove periodic calls to MainchainRPCCheck; use it only at startup (and
refactor accordingly to simplify logic.)
- Move MainchainRPCCheck from validation.h/cpp (public) to an internal
helper function of init.cpp.
- Comment out definition of 'revalidation queue' type in txdb, to suppress
"unused variable" warning. (Leave it visible to avoid future reuse.)
Currently, if -validatepegin is given, and block validation can't proceed
because the parent chain is not synced, we mark the block invalid and put
it in a queue to be "revalidated" later. Unfortunately, marking a block
invalid has downstream consequences, in particular causing descendant blocks
to be marked invalid, which are not currently fixed by the queue.
Instead, we'll use a different strategy: if the mainchain daemon isn't
sufficiently synced to validate a block, we will "stall" connecting that
block to the chain, and have ActivateBestChain simply keep the tip at the
previous block until we're ready.
We can still download and validate (partly) blocks past this point while
we're waiting. They will be connected once the parent chain daemon catches
up.
