This pull request refactors the genesis setup function, the major
changes are highlighted here:
**(a) Triedb is opened in verkle mode if `EnableVerkleAtGenesis` is
configured in chainConfig or the database has been initialized previously with
`EnableVerkleAtGenesis` configured**.
A new config field `EnableVerkleAtGenesis` has been added in the
chainConfig. This field must be configured with True if Geth wants to initialize
the genesis in Verkle mode.
In the verkle devnet-7, the verkle transition is activated at genesis.
Therefore, the verkle rules should be used since the genesis. In production
networks (mainnet and public testnets), verkle activation always occurs after
the genesis block. Therefore, this flag is only made for devnet and should be
deprecated later. Besides, verkle transition at non-genesis block hasn't been
implemented yet, it should be done in the following PRs.
**(b) The genesis initialization condition has been simplified**
There is a special mode supported by the Geth is that: Geth can be
initialized with an existing chain segment, which can fasten the node sync
process by retaining the chain freezer folder.
Originally, if the triedb is regarded as uninitialized and the genesis block can
be found in the chain freezer, the genesis block along with genesis state will be
committed. This condition has been simplified to checking the presence of chain
config in key-value store. The existence of chain config can represent the genesis
has been committed.
This pull request ports some changes from the main state snapshot
integration one, specifically introducing the flat state tracking in
pathdb.
Note, the tracked flat state changes are only held in memory and won't
be persisted in the disk. Meanwhile, the correspoding state retrieval in
persistent state is also not supported yet. The states management in
disk is more complicated and will be implemented in a separate pull
request.
Part 1: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/30752
This pull request introduces a state.Reader interface for state
accessing.
The interface could be implemented in various ways. It can be pure trie
only reader, or the combination of trie and state snapshot. What's more,
this interface allows us to have more flexibility in the future, e.g.
the
archive reader (for accessing archive state).
Additionally, this pull request removes the following metrics
- `chain/snapshot/account/reads`
- `chain/snapshot/storage/reads`
