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core: during split properly insert parent blocks

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During a split parent and grand parent were included in the database but
not in the canonical chain (numbered chain). Added a `merge` function
which finds the common ancestor of the chains and reinserts the missing
blocks.
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obscuren 2015-04-14 00:18:38 +02:00
parent 4f3c169b4e
commit 333d4e0f27
1 changed files with 32 additions and 1 deletions
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core/chain_manager.go
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@ -490,8 +490,8 @@ func (self *ChainManager) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) error {
block.Td = td
self.mu.Lock()
cblock := self.currentBlock
{
cblock := self.currentBlock
// Write block to database. Eventually we'll have to improve on this and throw away blocks that are
// not in the canonical chain.
self.write(block)
@ -505,6 +505,8 @@ func (self *ChainManager) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) error {
if glog.V(logger.Info) {
glog.Infof("Split detected. New head #%v (%x) TD=%v, was #%v (%x) TD=%v\n", block.Header().Number, hash[:4], td, cblock.Header().Number, chash[:4], self.td)
}
// during split we merge two different chains and create the new canonical chain
self.merge(cblock, block)
queue[i] = ChainSplitEvent{block, logs}
queueEvent.splitCount++
@ -553,6 +555,35 @@ func (self *ChainManager) InsertChain(chain types.Blocks) error {
return nil
}
// merge takes two blocks, an old chain and a new chain and will reconstruct the blocks and inserts them
// to be part of the new canonical chain.
func (self *ChainManager) merge(oldBlock, newBlock *types.Block) {
glog.V(logger.Debug).Infof("Applying diff to %x & %x\n", oldBlock.Hash().Bytes()[:4], newBlock.Hash().Bytes()[:4])
var oldChain, newChain types.Blocks
// First find the split (common ancestor) so we can perform an adequate merge
for {
oldBlock, newBlock = self.GetBlock(oldBlock.ParentHash()), self.GetBlock(newBlock.ParentHash())
if oldBlock.Hash() == newBlock.Hash() {
break
}
oldChain = append(oldChain, oldBlock)
newChain = append(newChain, newBlock)
}
// insert blocks
for _, block := range newChain {
self.insert(block)
}
if glog.V(logger.Detail) {
for i, oldBlock := range oldChain {
glog.Infof("- %.10v = %x\n", oldBlock.Number(), oldBlock.Hash())
glog.Infof("+ %.10v = %x\n", newChain[i].Number(), newChain[i].Hash())
}
}
}
func (self *ChainManager) update() {
events := self.eventMux.Subscribe(queueEvent{})
futureTimer := time.NewTicker(5 * time.Second)