path: root/core/chain_util.go

// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
// This file is part of go-ethereum.
//
// go-ethereum is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
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// 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 go-ethereum.  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-")
)

// 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, 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 {
        return 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.
func CalcGasLimit(parent *types.Block) *big.Int {
    decay := new(big.Int).Div(parent.GasLimit(), params.GasLimitBoundDivisor)
    contrib := new(big.Int).Mul(parent.GasUsed(), big.NewInt(3))
    contrib = contrib.Div(contrib, big.NewInt(2))
    contrib = contrib.Div(contrib, params.GasLimitBoundDivisor)

    gl := new(big.Int).Sub(parent.GasLimit(), decay)
    gl = gl.Add(gl, contrib)
    gl = gl.Add(gl, big.NewInt(1))
    gl.Set(common.BigMax(gl, params.MinGasLimit))

    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))
}

// WriteHead force writes the current head
func WriteHead(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
    }
    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
}