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@ajtowns ajtowns commented Oct 9, 2021

Moves the following log messages into debug log categories:

  • "AcceptBlockHeader: ..." to validation
  • "Prune: deleted blk/rev" to new blockstorage log category
  • "Leaving block file" moves from validation to blockstorage
  • "write coins cache to disk" to bench

Also adds the hash of the block to the log message when AcceptBlockHeader is rejecting because of problems with the prev block.

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ajtowns commented Oct 9, 2021

Inspired by an irc complaint the other day about a ContextualCheckBlockHeader log message about a bad-diffbits failure for block 000000000000000000639be19a0123a1c99d9fef89f0b8ac055a77f4ef86ae3b which is BCH block at height 478577 from Aug 2017.

This might resolve issue #17421

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practicalswift commented Oct 9, 2021

Very Strong Concept ACK

We still do too much unconditional logging IMO: it is spammy (low signal-to-noise) and potentially dangerous (see disk fill attack scenarios described in #21559).

Thanks a lot for improving the situation! :)

I'm willing to review any PR that improves the logging situation by thoughtfully moving unconditional logging (LogPrintf(…)) to conditional logging (LogPrint(CATEGORY, …): feel free to ping me in to such PRs for speedy review! :)

FWIW:

$ git grep 'LogPrintf(' -- "*.cpp" "*.h" | wc -l
493

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maflcko commented Oct 11, 2021 

                                     File "/tmp/cirrus-build/ci/scratch/build/bitcoin-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/test/functional/rpc_misc.py", line 60, in run_test
                                       assert_equal(len(node.logging()), 26)
                                     File "/tmp/cirrus-build/ci/scratch/build/bitcoin-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/test/functional/test_framework/util.py", line 50, in assert_equal
                                       raise AssertionError("not(%s)" % " == ".join(str(arg) for arg in (thing1, thing2) + args))
                                   AssertionError: not(27 == 26)

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Code review ACK b5950dd.

src/validation.cpp
if (ppindex)
*ppindex = pindex;
if (pindex->nStatus & BLOCK_FAILED_MASK) {
LogPrintf("ERROR: %s: block %s is marked invalid\n", __func__, hash.ToString());
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da94ebc

nit, not sure if this change (commit) merits a release note.

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practicalswift commented Oct 13, 2021

cr ACK b5950dd

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Empact commented Oct 13, 2021

Code review ACK b5950dd

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laanwj commented Oct 13, 2021

Code review ACK b5950dd

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Code review ACK b5950dd

@meshcollider meshcollider merged commit ec4e43c into bitcoin:master Oct 14, 2021
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Merge bitcoin#23235: Reduce unnecessary default logging
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validation: include block hash when reporting prev block not found er…
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Summary:
This is a backport of [[bitcoin/bitcoin#23235 | core#23235]] [1/4]
bitcoin/bitcoin@1d7d835

Test Plan: `ninja all check-all`

Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D12038
Fabcien pushed a commit to Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2022
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validation: move header validation error logging to VALIDATION debug …
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…category

Summary:
This is a backport of [[bitcoin/bitcoin#23235 | core#23235]] [2/4]
bitcoin/bitcoin@da94ebc

Depends on D12038

Test Plan: `ninja all check-all`

Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Subscribers: Fabien

Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D12039
Fabcien pushed a commit to Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2022
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blockstorage: use debug log category
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Summary:
This is a backport of [[bitcoin/bitcoin#23235 | core#23235]] [3/4]
bitcoin/bitcoin@31b2b80

Depends on D12039, D12040 and D12041

Test Plan: `ninja all check-all`

Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D12042
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validation: put coins cache write log into bench debug log
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Summary:
This is a backport of [[bitcoin/bitcoin#23235 | core#23235]] [4/4]
bitcoin/bitcoin@b5950dd

Depends on D12042

Test Plan: `ninja all check-all`

Reviewers: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Reviewed By: #bitcoin_abc, Fabien

Differential Revision: https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D12043
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