a733dd79e2 Remove unused function `reliesOnAssumedValid` (Suhas Daftuar)
d4a11abb19 Cache block index entry corresponding to assumeutxo snapshot base blockhash (Suhas Daftuar)
3556b85022 Move CheckBlockIndex() from Chainstate to ChainstateManager (Suhas Daftuar)
0ce805b632 Documentation improvements for assumeutxo (Ryan Ofsky)
768690b7ce Fix initialization of setBlockIndexCandidates when working with multiple chainstates (Suhas Daftuar)
d43a1f1a2f Tighten requirements for adding elements to setBlockIndexCandidates (Suhas Daftuar)
d0d40ea9a6 Move block-storage-related logic to ChainstateManager (Suhas Daftuar)
3cfc75366e test: Clear block index flags when testing snapshots (Suhas Daftuar)
272fbc370c Update CheckBlockIndex invariants for chains based on an assumeutxo snapshot (Suhas Daftuar)
10c05710ce Add wrapper for adding entries to a chainstate's block index candidates (Suhas Daftuar)
471da5f6e7 Move block-arrival information / preciousblock counters to ChainstateManager (Suhas Daftuar)
1cfc887d00 Remove CChain dependency in node/blockstorage (Suhas Daftuar)
fe86a7cd48 Explicitly track maximum block height stored in undo files (Suhas Daftuar)
Pull request description:
This PR proposes a clean up of the relationship between block storage and the chainstate objects, by moving the decision of whether to store a block on disk to something that is not chainstate-specific. Philosophically, the decision of whether to store a block on disk is related to validation rules that do not require any UTXO state; for anti-DoS reasons we were using some chainstate-specific heuristics, and those have been reworked here to achieve the proposed separation.
This PR also fixes a bug in how a chainstate's `setBlockIndexCandidates` was being initialized; it should always have all the HAVE_DATA block index entries that have more work than the chain tip. During startup, we were not fully populating `setBlockIndexCandidates` in some scenarios involving multiple chainstates.
Further, this PR establishes a concept that whenever we have 2 chainstates, that we always know the snapshotted chain's base block and the base block's hash must be an element of our block index. Given that, we can establish a new invariant that the background validation chainstate only needs to consider blocks leading to that snapshotted block entry as potential candidates for its tip. As a followup I would imagine that when writing net_processing logic to download blocks for the background chainstate, that we would use this concept to only download blocks towards the snapshotted entry as well.
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jamesob:
reACK a733dd79e2 ([`jamesob/ackr/27746.5.sdaftuar.rework_validation_logic`](https://github.com/jamesob/bitcoin/tree/ackr/27746.5.sdaftuar.rework_validation_logic))
Sjors:
Code review ACK a733dd79e2.
ryanofsky:
Code review ACK a733dd79e2. Just suggested changes since the last review. There are various small things that could be followed up on, but I think this is ready for merge.
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The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state
(state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar
classes).
Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in
src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI
code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code
to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI
code to be maintained in separate source repositories.
As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/,
src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid
calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly
through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.
This directory is at the moment
sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like
src/validation.cpp and
src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.
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