// Copyright 2017 The go-ethereum Authors // This file is part of the go-ethereum library. // // The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License // along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see . package ethash import ( "bytes" "context" crand "crypto/rand" "encoding/json" "errors" "math" "math/big" "math/rand" "net/http" "runtime" "sync" "time" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common/gopool" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common/hexutil" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/consensus" "github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types" ) const ( // staleThreshold is the maximum depth of the acceptable stale but valid ethash solution. staleThreshold = 7 ) var ( errNoMiningWork = errors.New("no mining work available yet") errInvalidSealResult = errors.New("invalid or stale proof-of-work solution") ) // Seal implements consensus.Engine, attempting to find a nonce that satisfies // the block's difficulty requirements. func (ethash *Ethash) Seal(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, block *types.Block, results chan<- *types.Block, stop <-chan struct{}) error { // If we're running a fake PoW, simply return a 0 nonce immediately if ethash.config.PowMode == ModeFake || ethash.config.PowMode == ModeFullFake { header := block.Header() header.Nonce, header.MixDigest = types.BlockNonce{}, common.Hash{} select { case results <- block.WithSeal(header): default: ethash.config.Log.Warn("Sealing result is not read by miner", "mode", "fake", "sealhash", ethash.SealHash(block.Header())) } return nil } // If we're running a shared PoW, delegate sealing to it if ethash.shared != nil { return ethash.shared.Seal(chain, block, results, stop) } // Create a runner and the multiple search threads it directs abort := make(chan struct{}) ethash.lock.Lock() threads := ethash.threads if ethash.rand == nil { seed, err := crand.Int(crand.Reader, big.NewInt(math.MaxInt64)) if err != nil { ethash.lock.Unlock() return err } ethash.rand = rand.New(rand.NewSource(seed.Int64())) } ethash.lock.Unlock() if threads == 0 { threads = runtime.NumCPU() } if threads < 0 { threads = 0 // Allows disabling local mining without extra logic around local/remote } // Push new work to remote sealer if ethash.remote != nil { ethash.remote.workCh <- &sealTask{block: block, results: results} } var ( pend sync.WaitGroup locals = make(chan *types.Block) ) for i := 0; i < threads; i++ { pend.Add(1) go func(id int, nonce uint64) { defer pend.Done() ethash.mine(block, id, nonce, abort, locals) }(i, uint64(ethash.rand.Int63())) } // Wait until sealing is terminated or a nonce is found gopool.Submit(func() { var result *types.Block select { case <-stop: // Outside abort, stop all miner threads close(abort) case result = <-locals: // One of the threads found a block, abort all others select { case results <- result: default: ethash.config.Log.Warn("Sealing result is not read by miner", "mode", "local", "sealhash", ethash.SealHash(block.Header())) } close(abort) case <-ethash.update: // Thread count was changed on user request, restart close(abort) if err := ethash.Seal(chain, block, results, stop); err != nil { ethash.config.Log.Error("Failed to restart sealing after update", "err", err) } } // Wait for all miners to terminate and return the block pend.Wait() }) return nil } // mine is the actual proof-of-work miner that searches for a nonce starting from // seed that results in correct final block difficulty. func (ethash *Ethash) mine(block *types.Block, id int, seed uint64, abort chan struct{}, found chan *types.Block) { // Extract some data from the header var ( header = block.Header() hash = ethash.SealHash(header).Bytes() target = new(big.Int).Div(two256, header.Difficulty) number = header.Number.Uint64() dataset = ethash.dataset(number, false) ) // Start generating random nonces until we abort or find a good one var ( attempts = int64(0) nonce = seed powBuffer = new(big.Int) ) logger := ethash.config.Log.New("miner", id) logger.Trace("Started ethash search for new nonces", "seed", seed) search: for { select { case <-abort: // Mining terminated, update stats and abort logger.Trace("Ethash nonce search aborted", "attempts", nonce-seed) ethash.hashrate.Mark(attempts) break search default: // We don't have to update hash rate on every nonce, so update after after 2^X nonces attempts++ if (attempts % (1 << 15)) == 0 { ethash.hashrate.Mark(attempts) attempts = 0 } // Compute the PoW value of this nonce digest, result := hashimotoFull(dataset.dataset, hash, nonce) if powBuffer.SetBytes(result).Cmp(target) <= 0 { // Correct nonce found, create a new header with it header = types.CopyHeader(header) header.Nonce = types.EncodeNonce(nonce) header.MixDigest = common.BytesToHash(digest) // Seal and return a block (if still needed) select { case found <- block.WithSeal(header): logger.Trace("Ethash nonce found and reported", "attempts", nonce-seed, "nonce", nonce) case <-abort: logger.Trace("Ethash nonce found but discarded", "attempts", nonce-seed, "nonce", nonce) } break search } nonce++ } } // Datasets are unmapped in a finalizer. Ensure that the dataset stays live // during sealing so it's not unmapped while being read. runtime.KeepAlive(dataset) } // This is the timeout for HTTP requests to notify external miners. const remoteSealerTimeout = 1 * time.Second type remoteSealer struct { works map[common.Hash]*types.Block rates map[common.Hash]hashrate currentBlock *types.Block currentWork [4]string notifyCtx context.Context cancelNotify context.CancelFunc // cancels all notification requests reqWG sync.WaitGroup // tracks notification request goroutines ethash *Ethash noverify bool notifyURLs []string results chan<- *types.Block workCh chan *sealTask // Notification channel to push new work and relative result channel to remote sealer fetchWorkCh chan *sealWork // Channel used for remote sealer to fetch mining work submitWorkCh chan *mineResult // Channel used for remote sealer to submit their mining result fetchRateCh chan chan uint64 // Channel used to gather submitted hash rate for local or remote sealer. submitRateCh chan *hashrate // Channel used for remote sealer to submit their mining hashrate requestExit chan struct{} exitCh chan struct{} } // sealTask wraps a seal block with relative result channel for remote sealer thread. type sealTask struct { block *types.Block results chan<- *types.Block } // mineResult wraps the pow solution parameters for the specified block. type mineResult struct { nonce types.BlockNonce mixDigest common.Hash hash common.Hash errc chan error } // hashrate wraps the hash rate submitted by the remote sealer. type hashrate struct { id common.Hash ping time.Time rate uint64 done chan struct{} } // sealWork wraps a seal work package for remote sealer. type sealWork struct { errc chan error res chan [4]string } func startRemoteSealer(ethash *Ethash, urls []string, noverify bool) *remoteSealer { ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background()) s := &remoteSealer{ ethash: ethash, noverify: noverify, notifyURLs: urls, notifyCtx: ctx, cancelNotify: cancel, works: make(map[common.Hash]*types.Block), rates: make(map[common.Hash]hashrate), workCh: make(chan *sealTask), fetchWorkCh: make(chan *sealWork), submitWorkCh: make(chan *mineResult), fetchRateCh: make(chan chan uint64), submitRateCh: make(chan *hashrate), requestExit: make(chan struct{}), exitCh: make(chan struct{}), } go s.loop() return s } func (s *remoteSealer) loop() { defer func() { s.ethash.config.Log.Trace("Ethash remote sealer is exiting") s.cancelNotify() s.reqWG.Wait() close(s.exitCh) }() ticker := time.NewTicker(5 * time.Second) defer ticker.Stop() for { select { case work := <-s.workCh: // Update current work with new received block. // Note same work can be past twice, happens when changing CPU threads. s.results = work.results s.makeWork(work.block) s.notifyWork() case work := <-s.fetchWorkCh: // Return current mining work to remote miner. if s.currentBlock == nil { work.errc <- errNoMiningWork } else { work.res <- s.currentWork } case result := <-s.submitWorkCh: // Verify submitted PoW solution based on maintained mining blocks. if s.submitWork(result.nonce, result.mixDigest, result.hash) { result.errc <- nil } else { result.errc <- errInvalidSealResult } case result := <-s.submitRateCh: // Trace remote sealer's hash rate by submitted value. s.rates[result.id] = hashrate{rate: result.rate, ping: time.Now()} close(result.done) case req := <-s.fetchRateCh: // Gather all hash rate submitted by remote sealer. var total uint64 for _, rate := range s.rates { // this could overflow total += rate.rate } req <- total case <-ticker.C: // Clear stale submitted hash rate. for id, rate := range s.rates { if time.Since(rate.ping) > 10*time.Second { delete(s.rates, id) } } // Clear stale pending blocks if s.currentBlock != nil { for hash, block := range s.works { if block.NumberU64()+staleThreshold <= s.currentBlock.NumberU64() { delete(s.works, hash) } } } case <-s.requestExit: return } } } // makeWork creates a work package for external miner. // // The work package consists of 3 strings: // result[0], 32 bytes hex encoded current block header pow-hash // result[1], 32 bytes hex encoded seed hash used for DAG // result[2], 32 bytes hex encoded boundary condition ("target"), 2^256/difficulty // result[3], hex encoded block number func (s *remoteSealer) makeWork(block *types.Block) { hash := s.ethash.SealHash(block.Header()) s.currentWork[0] = hash.Hex() s.currentWork[1] = common.BytesToHash(SeedHash(block.NumberU64())).Hex() s.currentWork[2] = common.BytesToHash(new(big.Int).Div(two256, block.Difficulty()).Bytes()).Hex() s.currentWork[3] = hexutil.EncodeBig(block.Number()) // Trace the seal work fetched by remote sealer. s.currentBlock = block s.works[hash] = block } // notifyWork notifies all the specified mining endpoints of the availability of // new work to be processed. func (s *remoteSealer) notifyWork() { work := s.currentWork // Encode the JSON payload of the notification. When NotifyFull is set, // this is the complete block header, otherwise it is a JSON array. var blob []byte if s.ethash.config.NotifyFull { blob, _ = json.Marshal(s.currentBlock.Header()) } else { blob, _ = json.Marshal(work) } s.reqWG.Add(len(s.notifyURLs)) for _, url := range s.notifyURLs { go s.sendNotification(s.notifyCtx, url, blob, work) } } func (s *remoteSealer) sendNotification(ctx context.Context, url string, json []byte, work [4]string) { defer s.reqWG.Done() req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", url, bytes.NewReader(json)) if err != nil { s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Can't create remote miner notification", "err", err) return } ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, remoteSealerTimeout) defer cancel() req = req.WithContext(ctx) req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json") resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req) if err != nil { s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Failed to notify remote miner", "err", err) } else { s.ethash.config.Log.Trace("Notified remote miner", "miner", url, "hash", work[0], "target", work[2]) resp.Body.Close() } } // submitWork verifies the submitted pow solution, returning // whether the solution was accepted or not (not can be both a bad pow as well as // any other error, like no pending work or stale mining result). func (s *remoteSealer) submitWork(nonce types.BlockNonce, mixDigest common.Hash, sealhash common.Hash) bool { if s.currentBlock == nil { s.ethash.config.Log.Error("Pending work without block", "sealhash", sealhash) return false } // Make sure the work submitted is present block := s.works[sealhash] if block == nil { s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Work submitted but none pending", "sealhash", sealhash, "curnumber", s.currentBlock.NumberU64()) return false } // Verify the correctness of submitted result. header := block.Header() header.Nonce = nonce header.MixDigest = mixDigest start := time.Now() if !s.noverify { if err := s.ethash.verifySeal(nil, header, true); err != nil { s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Invalid proof-of-work submitted", "sealhash", sealhash, "elapsed", common.PrettyDuration(time.Since(start)), "err", err) return false } } // Make sure the result channel is assigned. if s.results == nil { s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Ethash result channel is empty, submitted mining result is rejected") return false } s.ethash.config.Log.Trace("Verified correct proof-of-work", "sealhash", sealhash, "elapsed", common.PrettyDuration(time.Since(start))) // Solutions seems to be valid, return to the miner and notify acceptance. solution := block.WithSeal(header) // The submitted solution is within the scope of acceptance. if solution.NumberU64()+staleThreshold > s.currentBlock.NumberU64() { select { case s.results <- solution: s.ethash.config.Log.Debug("Work submitted is acceptable", "number", solution.NumberU64(), "sealhash", sealhash, "hash", solution.Hash()) return true default: s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Sealing result is not read by miner", "mode", "remote", "sealhash", sealhash) return false } } // The submitted block is too old to accept, drop it. s.ethash.config.Log.Warn("Work submitted is too old", "number", solution.NumberU64(), "sealhash", sealhash, "hash", solution.Hash()) return false }