t8n: verkle genesis

consensus/beacon/consensus.go

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/overlay"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/state"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/log"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/params"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/trie"
@@ -366,7 +365,7 @@ func (beacon *Beacon) Finalize(chain consensus.ChainHeaderReader, header *types.
 		// fmt.Println("at block", header.Number, "performing transition?", state.Database().InTransition())
 		parent := chain.GetHeaderByHash(header.ParentHash)
 		if err := overlay.OverlayVerkleTransition(state, parent.Root, chain.Config().OverlayStride); err != nil {
-			log.Error("error performing the transition", "err", err)
+			panic(fmt.Sprintf("error performing the transition: %s", err))
 		}
 	}
 }

core/genesis.go

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common/math"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/rawdb"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/state"
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/state/snapshot"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/ethdb"
@@ -173,18 +172,6 @@ func (ga *GenesisAlloc) flush(db ethdb.Database, triedb *trie.Database, blockhas
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-
-	sdb := database
-	sdb.TrieDB().WritePreimages()
-	snaps, err := snapshot.New(snapshot.Config{AsyncBuild: false, CacheSize: 10}, sdb.DiskDB(), sdb.TrieDB(), types.EmptyRootHash)
-	if err != nil {
-		panic(err)
-	}
-	if snaps == nil {
-		panic("snapshot is nil")
-	}
-	snaps.Cap(types.EmptyRootHash, 0)
-
 	// Commit newly generated states into disk if it's not empty.
 	if root != types.EmptyRootHash {
 		if err := triedb.Commit(root, true); err != nil {
@@ -343,7 +330,10 @@ func SetupGenesisBlockWithOverride(db ethdb.Database, triedb *trie.Database, gen
 	}
 	// Just commit the new block if there is no stored genesis block.
 	stored := rawdb.ReadCanonicalHash(db, 0)
-	if (stored == common.Hash{}) {
+	// TODO: remove `true`. The problem is that for test consumption, the genesis block is stored
+	// in the db and is unaware of preimage recording. This means that we won't enter this if and
+	// save the genesis block state with preimages enabled, thus missing the genesis preimages.
+	if true || (stored == common.Hash{}) {
 		if genesis == nil {
 			log.Info("Writing default main-net genesis block")
 			genesis = DefaultGenesisBlock()
@@ -573,7 +563,7 @@ func (g *Genesis) Commit(db ethdb.Database, triedb *trie.Database) (*types.Block
 // Note the state changes will be committed in hash-based scheme, use Commit
 // if path-scheme is preferred.
 func (g *Genesis) MustCommit(db ethdb.Database) *types.Block {
-	triedb := trie.NewDatabaseWithConfig(db, &trie.Config{Verkle: g.Config != nil && g.Config.IsVerkle(big.NewInt(int64(g.Number)), g.Timestamp), Preimages: true})
+	triedb := trie.NewDatabaseWithConfig(db, &trie.Config{Verkle: g.Config != nil && g.Config.IsVerkle(big.NewInt(int64(g.Number)), g.Timestamp)})
 	block, err := g.Commit(db, triedb)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)

tests/block_test_util.go

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ func (t *BlockTest) Run(snapshotter bool, tracer vm.EVMLogger) error {
 	// Wrap the original engine within the beacon-engine
 	engine := beacon.New(ethash.NewFaker())
 
-	cache := &core.CacheConfig{TrieCleanLimit: 0}
+	cache := &core.CacheConfig{TrieCleanLimit: 0, Preimages: true}
 	if snapshotter {
 		cache.SnapshotLimit = 1
 		cache.SnapshotWait = true