evm: fix iterator on deeply nested cache contexts (#617)

* Problem: iterator on deeply nested cache contexts is extremely slow

Closes: #616

Solution:
- flatten cache contexts before doing `GetTxLogsTransient`

* Update x/evm/keeper/context_stack.go

* changelog

Co-authored-by: Federico Kunze Küllmer <31522760+fedekunze@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Federico Kunze <federico.kunze94@gmail.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
+* (evm) [tharsis#616](https://github.com/tharsis/ethermint/issues/616) Fix halt on deeply nested stack of cache context. Stack is now flattened before iterating over the tx logs.
 * (rpc, evm) [tharsis#614](https://github.com/tharsis/ethermint/issues/614) Use JSON for (un)marshaling tx `Log`s from events.
 * (rpc) [tharsis#611](https://github.com/tharsis/ethermint/pull/611) Fix panic on JSON-RPC when querying for an invalid block height.
 * (cmd) [tharsis#483](https://github.com/tharsis/ethermint/pull/483) Use config values on genesis accounts.

x/evm/keeper/context_stack.go

@@ -60,6 +60,27 @@ func (cs *ContextStack) Commit() {
 	cs.cachedContexts = []cachedContext{}
 }
 
+// CommitToRevision commit the cache after the target revision,
+// to improve efficiency of db operations.
+func (cs *ContextStack) CommitToRevision(target int) {
+	if target < 0 || target >= len(cs.cachedContexts) {
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("snapshot index %d out of bound [%d..%d)", target, 0, len(cs.cachedContexts)))
+	}
+
+	targetCtx := cs.cachedContexts[target].ctx
+	// commit in order from top to bottom
+	for i := len(cs.cachedContexts) - 1; i > target; i-- {
+		// keep all the cosmos events
+		targetCtx.EventManager().EmitEvents(cs.cachedContexts[i].ctx.EventManager().Events())
+		if cs.cachedContexts[i].commit == nil {
+			panic(fmt.Sprintf("commit function at index %d should not be nil", i))
+		} else {
+			cs.cachedContexts[i].commit()
+		}
+	}
+	cs.cachedContexts = cs.cachedContexts[0 : target+1]
+}
+
 // Snapshot pushes a new cached context to the stack,
 // and returns the index of it.
 func (cs *ContextStack) Snapshot() int {

x/evm/keeper/state_transition.go

@@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ func (k *Keeper) ApplyTransaction(tx *ethtypes.Transaction) (*types.MsgEthereumT
 		return nil, stacktrace.Propagate(err, "failed to apply ethereum core message")
 	}
 
+	// flatten the cache contexts to improve efficiency of following db operations
+	k.ctxStack.CommitToRevision(revision)
+
 	k.IncreaseTxIndexTransient()
 
 	res.Hash = txHash.Hex()