go-ethereum/core/chain_util.go

// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
//
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//
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// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

package core

import (
	"bytes"
	"math/big"
	"time"

	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/logger"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/logger/glog"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rlp"
)

var (
	blockHashPre  = []byte("block-hash-")
	blockNumPre   = []byte("block-num-")
	expDiffPeriod = big.NewInt(100000)
)

// CalcDifficulty is the difficulty adjustment algorithm. It returns
// the difficulty that a new block b should have when created at time
// given the parent block's time and difficulty.
func CalcDifficulty(time, parentTime uint64, parentNumber, parentDiff *big.Int) *big.Int {
	diff := new(big.Int)
	adjust := new(big.Int).Div(parentDiff, params.DifficultyBoundDivisor)
	bigTime := new(big.Int)
	bigParentTime := new(big.Int)

	bigTime.SetUint64(time)
	bigParentTime.SetUint64(parentTime)

	if bigTime.Sub(bigTime, bigParentTime).Cmp(params.DurationLimit) < 0 {
		diff.Add(parentDiff, adjust)
	} else {
		diff.Sub(parentDiff, adjust)
	}
	if diff.Cmp(params.MinimumDifficulty) < 0 {
		diff = params.MinimumDifficulty
	}

	periodCount := new(big.Int).Add(parentNumber, common.Big1)
	periodCount.Div(periodCount, expDiffPeriod)
	if periodCount.Cmp(common.Big1) > 0 {
		// diff = diff + 2^(periodCount - 2)
		expDiff := periodCount.Sub(periodCount, common.Big2)
		expDiff.Exp(common.Big2, expDiff, nil)
		diff.Add(diff, expDiff)
		diff = common.BigMax(diff, params.MinimumDifficulty)
	}

	return diff
}

// CalcTD computes the total difficulty of block.
func CalcTD(block, parent *types.Block) *big.Int {
	if parent == nil {
		return block.Difficulty()
	}
	d := block.Difficulty()
	d.Add(d, parent.Td)
	return d
}

// CalcGasLimit computes the gas limit of the next block after parent.
// The result may be modified by the caller.
// This is miner strategy, not consensus protocol.
func CalcGasLimit(parent *types.Block) *big.Int {
	// contrib = (parentGasUsed * 3 / 2) / 1024
	contrib := new(big.Int).Mul(parent.GasUsed(), big.NewInt(3))
	contrib = contrib.Div(contrib, big.NewInt(2))
	contrib = contrib.Div(contrib, params.GasLimitBoundDivisor)

	// decay = parentGasLimit / 1024 -1
	decay := new(big.Int).Div(parent.GasLimit(), params.GasLimitBoundDivisor)
	decay.Sub(decay, big.NewInt(1))

	/*
		strategy: gasLimit of block-to-mine is set based on parent's
		gasUsed value.  if parentGasUsed > parentGasLimit * (2/3) then we
		increase it, otherwise lower it (or leave it unchanged if it's right
		at that usage) the amount increased/decreased depends on how far away
		from parentGasLimit * (2/3) parentGasUsed is.
	*/
	gl := new(big.Int).Sub(parent.GasLimit(), decay)
	gl = gl.Add(gl, contrib)
	gl.Set(common.BigMax(gl, params.MinGasLimit))

	// however, if we're now below the target (GenesisGasLimit) we increase the
	// limit as much as we can (parentGasLimit / 1024 -1)
	if gl.Cmp(params.GenesisGasLimit) < 0 {
		gl.Add(parent.GasLimit(), decay)
		gl.Set(common.BigMin(gl, params.GenesisGasLimit))
	}
	return gl
}

// GetBlockByHash returns the block corresponding to the hash or nil if not found
func GetBlockByHash(db common.Database, hash common.Hash) *types.Block {
	data, _ := db.Get(append(blockHashPre, hash[:]...))
	if len(data) == 0 {
		return nil
	}
	var block types.StorageBlock
	if err := rlp.Decode(bytes.NewReader(data), &block); err != nil {
		glog.V(logger.Error).Infof("invalid block RLP for hash %x: %v", hash, err)
		return nil
	}
	return (*types.Block)(&block)
}

// GetBlockByHash returns the canonical block by number or nil if not found
func GetBlockByNumber(db common.Database, number uint64) *types.Block {
	key, _ := db.Get(append(blockNumPre, big.NewInt(int64(number)).Bytes()...))
	if len(key) == 0 {
		return nil
	}

	return GetBlockByHash(db, common.BytesToHash(key))
}

// WriteCanonNumber writes the canonical hash for the given block
func WriteCanonNumber(db common.Database, block *types.Block) error {
	key := append(blockNumPre, block.Number().Bytes()...)
	err := db.Put(key, block.Hash().Bytes())
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

// WriteHead force writes the current head
func WriteHead(db common.Database, block *types.Block) error {
	err := WriteCanonNumber(db, block)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	err = db.Put([]byte("LastBlock"), block.Hash().Bytes())
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

// WriteBlock writes a block to the database
func WriteBlock(db common.Database, block *types.Block) error {
	tstart := time.Now()

	enc, _ := rlp.EncodeToBytes((*types.StorageBlock)(block))
	key := append(blockHashPre, block.Hash().Bytes()...)
	err := db.Put(key, enc)
	if err != nil {
		glog.Fatal("db write fail:", err)
		return err
	}

	if glog.V(logger.Debug) {
		glog.Infof("wrote block #%v %s. Took %v\n", block.Number(), common.PP(block.Hash().Bytes()), time.Since(tstart))
	}

	return nil
}