Seems providing at least minimal visibility to the failure is a good practice.
The only remaining ignored state is in LoadExternalBlockFile, where logging
would likely be spammy.
6a3b0d3 Print to console by default when not run with -daemon (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
Cherry-picked ef6fa1c38e1bd115d1cce155907023d79da379d8 from the "up for grabs" PR: "Smarter default behavior for -printtoconsole" (#12689).
See previous review in #12689.
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c25321f Add config changes to release notes (Anthony Towns)
5e3cbe0 [tests] Unit tests for -testnet/-regtest in [test]/[regtest] sections (Anthony Towns)
005ad26 ArgsManager: special handling for -regtest and -testnet (Anthony Towns)
608415d [tests] Unit tests for network-specific config entries (Anthony Towns)
68797e2 ArgsManager: Warn when ignoring network-specific config setting (Anthony Towns)
d1fc4d9 ArgsManager: limit some options to only apply on mainnet when in default section (Anthony Towns)
8a9817d [tests] Use regtest section in functional tests configs (Anthony Towns)
30f9407 [tests] Unit tests for config file sections (Anthony Towns)
95eb66d ArgsManager: support config file sections (Anthony Towns)
4d34fcc ArgsManager: drop m_negated_args (Anthony Towns)
3673ca3 ArgsManager: keep command line and config file arguments separate (Anthony Towns)
Pull request description:
The weekly meeting on [2017-12-07](http://www.erisian.com.au/meetbot/bitcoin-core-dev/2017/bitcoin-core-dev.2017-12-07-19.00.log.html) discussed allowing options to bitcoin to have some sensitivity to what network is in use. @theuni suggested having sections in the config file:
<cfields> an alternative to that would be sections in a config file. and on the
cmdline they'd look like namespaces. so, [testnet] port=5. or -testnet::port=5.
This approach is (more or less) supported by `boost::program_options::detail::config_file_iterator` -- when it sees a `[testnet]` section with `port=5`, it will treat that the same as "testnet.port=5". So `[testnet] port=5` (or `testnet.port=5` without the section header) in bitcoin.conf and `-testnet.port=5` on the command line.
The other aspect to this question is possibly limiting some options so that there is no possibility of accidental cross-contamination across networks. For example, if you're using a particular wallet.dat on mainnet, you may not want to accidentally use the same wallet on testnet and risk reusing keys.
I've set this up so that the `-addnode` and `-wallet` options are `NETWORK_ONLY`, so that if you have a bitcoin.conf:
wallet=/secret/wallet.dat
upnp=1
and you run `bitcoind -testnet` or `bitcoind -regtest`, then the `wallet=` setting will be ignored, and should behave as if your bitcoin.conf had specified:
upnp=1
[main]
wallet=/secret/wallet.dat
For any `NETWORK_ONLY` options, if you're using `-testnet` or `-regtest`, you'll have to add the prefix to any command line options. This was necessary for `multiwallet.py` for instance.
I've left the "default" options as taking precedence over network specific ones, which might be backwards. So if you have:
maxmempool=200
[regtest]
maxmempool=100
your maxmempool will still be 200 on regtest. The advantage of doing it this way is that if you have `[regtest] maxmempool=100` in bitcoin.conf, and then say `bitcoind -regtest -maxmempool=200`, the same result is probably in line with what you expect...
The other thing to note is that I'm using the chain names from `chainparamsbase.cpp` / `ChainNameFromCommandLine`, so the sections are `[main]`, `[test]` and `[regtest]`; not `[mainnet]` or `[testnet]` as might be expected.
Thoughts? Ping @MeshCollider @laanwj @jonasschnelli @morcos
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4a6c0e3dcf Modernize best block mutex/cv/hash variable naming (Pieter Wuille)
45dd135039 Fix csBestBlock/cvBlockChange waiting in rpc/mining (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
This is an alternative to #11694.
It reintroduces a uint256 variable with the best block hash, protected by csBestBlock, and only updated while holding it.
Also rename the involved variable to modern guidelines, as there are very few uses.
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When network-specific options such as -addnode, -connect, etc are
specified in the default section of the config file, but that setting is
ignored due to testnet or regtest being in use, and it is not overridden
by either a command line option or a setting in the [regtest] or [test]
section of the config file, a warning is added to the log, eg:
Warning: Config setting for -connect only applied on regtest network when in [regtest] section.
d207207 [logging] add lint-logs.sh to check for newline termination. (John Newbery)
5c21e6c [logging] Comment all continuing logs. (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
Check that all calls to LogPrintf() are terminated by a newline,
except those that are explicitly marked as 'continued' logs.
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d54874d Set SCHED_BATCH priority on the loadblk thread. (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
Today I came across #10271, and while reading the discussion #6358 was linked to. Linux systems have a `SCHED_BATCH` scheduler priority that is useful for threads like loadblk. You can find the full details at [sched(7)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sched.7.html), but I'll quote the relevant part of the man page below:
> ...this policy will cause the scheduler to always assume that the thread is
CPU-intensive. Consequently, the scheduler will apply a small scheduling penalty
with respect to wakeup behavior, so that this thread is mildly disfavored in
scheduling decisions.
>
> This policy is useful for workloads that are noninteractive, but do not want to
lower their nice value, and for workloads that want a deterministic scheduling
policy without interactivity causing extra preemptions (between the workload's
tasks).
I think this change is useful independently of #10271 and irrespective of whether that change is merged. Under normal operation the loadblk thread will just import `mempool.dat`. However, if Bitcoin is started with `-reindex` or `-reindex-chainstate` this thread will use a great deal of CPU while it rebuilds the chainstate database (and the block database in the case of `-reindex`). By setting `SCHED_BATCH` this thread is less likely to interfere with interactive tasks (e.g. the user's web browser, text editor, etc.).
I'm leaving the nice value unchanged (which also affects scheduling decisions) because I think that's better set by the user. Likewise I'm not using [ioprio_set(2)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioprio_set.2.html) because it can cause the thread to become completely I/O starved (and knowledgeable users can use `ionice(1)` anyway).
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Most logs should terminated with a '\n'. Some logs
are built up over multiple calls to logPrintf(), so
do not need a newline terminater. Comment all of
these 'continued' logs as a linter hing.
Log messages should terminate with a '\n', or the following log will be
written to the same line without a timestamp. Fix a couple of cases
where the message is not terminated with a \n.
0c17e27630 init: Remove help text for non-existent -fuzzmessagestest arg (MarcoFalke)
136084470c contrib: Fix check-doc script regexes (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Fixup the regexes to properly find all used args. The regex should now match all of the getter and setter methods of the `ArgsManager`. See https://dev.visucore.com/bitcoin/doxygen/class_args_manager.html#pub-methods
Before:
```
Args used : 159
Args documented : 188
Args undocumented: 0
Args unknown : 29
```
After:
```
Args used : 183
Args documented : 188
Args undocumented: 0
Args unknown : 5
```
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cb1e319 Bugfix: RPC: savemempool: Don't save until LoadMempool() is finished (Jorge Timón)
Pull request description:
Fixes https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/12142
The tests are a little bit slow, mempool_persist.py goes from about 20 s to about 120 s in my hardware.
Perhaps there's a better way to test this.
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c7ec524 [wallet] Add dummy wallet init class (John Newbery)
49baa4a [wallet] Use global g_wallet_init_interface to init/destroy the wallet. (John Newbery)
caaf972 [wallet] Create wallet init interface. (John Newbery)
5fb5421 [wallet] Move wallet init functions into WalletInit class. (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
This continues the work of #7965. This PR, along with several others, would remove the remaining dependencies from libbitcoin_server.a on libbitcoin_wallet.a.
To create the interface, I've just translated all the old init.cpp wallet function calls into an interface class. I've not done any thinking about whether it makes sense to change that interface by combining/splitting those calls. This is a purely internal interface, so there's no problem in changing it later.
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a192636 -blocksdir: keep blockindex leveldb database in datadir (Jonas Schnelli)
f38e4fd QA: Add -blocksdir test (Jonas Schnelli)
386a6b6 Allow to optional specify the directory for the blocks storage (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Since the actual block files taking up more and more space, it may be desirable to have them stored in a different location then the data directory (use case: SSD for chainstate, etc., HD for blocks).
This PR adds a `-blocksdir` option that allows one to keep the blockfiles and the blockindex external from the data directory (instead of creating symlinks).
I fist had an option to keep the blockindex within the datadir, but seems to make no sense since accessing the index will (always) lead to access (r/w) the block files.
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This commit creates a global g_wallet_init_interface, which is created
in bitcoind and bitcoin-qt. g_wallet_init_interface is used to init
and destroy the wallet.
This removes the dependency from init.cpp on the wallet library.
4ae7d15 init: Fix help message for checkblockindex (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
Minor fixup for my commit fa6ab96799.
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1f45e21 scripted-diff: Convert 11 enums into scoped enums (C++11) (practicalswift)
Pull request description:
Rationale (from Bjarne Stroustrup's ["C++11 FAQ"](http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#enum)):
>
> The enum classes ("new enums", "strong enums") address three problems with traditional C++ enumerations:
>
> * conventional enums implicitly convert to int, causing errors when someone does not want an enumeration to act as an integer.
> * conventional enums export their enumerators to the surrounding scope, causing name clashes.
> * the underlying type of an enum cannot be specified, causing confusion, compatibility problems, and makes forward declaration impossible.
>
> The new enums are "enum class" because they combine aspects of traditional enumerations (names values) with aspects of classes (scoped members and absence of conversions).
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While reading another PR I saw a mention of #6358. The use case for
SCHED_BATCH is to hint to the kernel that the thread is running a
non-interactive workload that consumes a lot of CPU time. This is
helpful on desktop machines where the loadblk thread can interfere with
interactive applications. More details can be found in the sched(7) man
page.
4757c04 [config] Remove blockmaxsize option (John Newbery)
Pull request description:
The blockmaxsize option was marked as deprecated in V0.15.1, and code
was added to convert provided blockmaxsize into blockmaxweight. However,
this code was incorrectly implemented, and blockmaxsize was silently
ignored.
No users have complained about blockmaxsize being ignored, so just
remove it in V0.17.
Fixes#12640
cc @ajtowns
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The blockmaxsize option was marked as deprecated in V0.15.1, and code
was added to convert provided blockmaxsize into blockmaxweight. However,
this code was incorrectly implemented, and blockmaxsize was silently
ignored.
No users have complained about blockmaxsize being ignored, so just
remove it in V0.17.
8674e74 Provide relevant error message if datadir is not writable. (murrayn)
Pull request description:
If the --datadir exists, but is not writable, the current error message on startup is 'Cannot obtain a lock on data directory foo. Bitcoin Core is probably already running.' This is misleading.
I believe this PR addresses #11668, although the issue is not Windows-specific.
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92fabcd44 Add LookupBlockIndex function (João Barbosa)
43a32b739 Add missing cs_lock in CreateWalletFromFile (João Barbosa)
f814a3e8f Fix cs_main lock in LoadExternalBlockFile (João Barbosa)
c651df8b3 Lock cs_main while loading block index in AppInitMain (João Barbosa)
02de6a6bc Assert cs_main is held when accessing mapBlockIndex (João Barbosa)
Pull request description:
Replace all `mapBlockIndex` lookups with the new `LookupBlockIndex()`. In some cases it avoids a second lookup.
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* Z is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset.
* T is the delimiter used to separate date and time.
This makes it clear for the end-user that the date/time logged is
specified in UTC and not in the local time zone.
Jim Posen
Andrew Chow
Ben Woosley
Wladimir J. van der Laan
Evan Klitzke
João Barbosa
Pieter Wuille
Anthony Towns
Steve Lee
practicalswift
John Newbery
MarcoFalke
Jorge Timón
murrayn
Jonas Schnelli