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    • Koute's avatar
      Build more runtimes targeting PolkaVM (#3209) · 402b64ca
      Koute authored 
      This PR improves compatibility with RISC-V and PolkaVM, allowing more
runtimes to successfully compile.

In particular, it makes the following changes:

- The `sp-mmr-primitives` and `sp-consensus-beefy` crates
unconditionally required an `std`-only dependency; now they only require
those dependencies when the `std` feature is actually enabled. (Our
RISC-V target is, unlike WASM, a true `no_std` target where you can't
accidentally use stuff from `std` anymore.)
- One of our dependencies (the `bitvec` trace) uses a crate called
`radium` which doesn't compile under RISC-V due to incomplete
autodetection logic in their `build.rs` file. The good news is that this
is already fixed in the newest upstream version of `radium`, and the
newest version of `bitvec` uses it. The bad news is that the newest
version of `bitvec` is not currently released on crates.io, so we can't
use it. I've [created an
issue](https://github.com/ferrilab/ferrilab/issues/5) asking for a new
release, but in the meantime I forked the currently used `radium` 0.7,
[fixed the faulty
logic](https://github.com/paritytech/radium-0.7-fork/commit/ed66c8a294b138c67f93499644051d97d4c7fbda)
and used cargo's patching capabilities to use it for the RISC-V runtime
builds. This might be a little hacky, but it is the least intrusive way
to fix the problem, doesn't affect WASM builds at all, and we can
trivially remove it once a new `bitvec` is released.
- The new runtimes are added to the CI to make sure their compilation
doesn't break.
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    • Koute's avatar
      Initial support for building RISC-V runtimes targeting PolkaVM (#3179) · e349fc9e
      Koute authored 
      This PR adds initial support for building RISC-V runtimes targeting
PolkaVM.

- Setting the `SUBSTRATE_RUNTIME_TARGET=riscv` environment variable will
now build a RISC-V runtime instead of a WASM runtime.
- This only adds support for *building* runtimes; running them will need
a PolkaVM-based executor, which I will add in a future PR.
- Only building the minimal runtime is supported (building the Polkadot
runtime doesn't work *yet* due to one of the dependencies).
- The builder now sets a `substrate_runtime` cfg flag when building the
runtimes, with the idea being that instead of doing `#[cfg(not(feature =
"std"))]` or `#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]` to detect that we're
building a runtime you'll do `#[cfg(substrate_runtime)]`. (Switching the
whole codebase to use this will be done in a future PR; I deliberately
didn't do this here to keep this PR minimal and reviewable.)
- Further renaming of things (e.g. types, environment variables and proc
macro attributes having "wasm" in their name) to be target-agnostic will
also be done in a future refactoring PR (while keeping backwards
compatibility where it makes sense; I don't intend to break anyone's
workflow or create unnecessary churn).
- This PR also fixes two bugs in the `wasm-builder` crate:
* The `RUSTC` environment variable is now removed when invoking the
compiler. This prevents the toolchain version from being overridden when
called from a `build.rs` script.
* When parsing the `rustup toolchain list` output the `(default)` is now
properly stripped and not treated as part of the version.
- I've also added a minimal CI job that makes sure this doesn't break in
the future. (cc @paritytech/ci)

cc @athei



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Also, just a fun little tidbit: quickly comparing the size of the built
runtimes it seems that the PolkaVM runtime is slightly smaller than the
WASM one. (`production` build, with the `names` section substracted from
the WASM's size to keep things fair, since for the PolkaVM runtime we're
currently stripping out everything)

- `.wasm`: 625505 bytes
- `.wasm` (after wasm-opt -O3): 563205 bytes
- `.wasm` (after wasm-opt -Os): 562987 bytes
- `.wasm` (after wasm-opt -Oz): 536852 bytes
- `.polkavm`: ~~580338 bytes~~ 550476 bytes (after enabling extra target
features; I'll add those in another PR once we have an executor working)

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Co-authored-by: default avatarBastian Köcher <[email protected]>
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    • Niklas Adolfsson's avatar
      rpc: backpressured RPC server (bump jsonrpsee 0.20) (#1313) · e16ef086
      Niklas Adolfsson authored 
      This is a rather big change in jsonrpsee, the major things in this bump
are:
- Server backpressure (the subscription impls are modified to deal with
that)
- Allow custom error types / return types (remove jsonrpsee::core::Error
and jsonrpee::core::CallError)
- Bug fixes (graceful shutdown in particular not used by substrate
anyway)
   - Less dependencies for the clients in particular
   - Return type requires Clone in method call responses
   - Moved to tokio channels
   - Async subscription API (not used in this PR)

Major changes in this PR:
- The subscriptions are now bounded and if subscription can't keep up
with the server it is dropped
- CLI: add parameter to configure the jsonrpc server bounded message
buffer (default is 64)
- Add our own subscription helper to deal with the unbounded streams in
substrate

The most important things in this PR to review is the added helpers
functions in `substrate/client/rpc/src/utils.rs` and the rest is pretty
much chore.

Regarding the "bounded buffer limit" it may cause the server to handle
the JSON-RPC calls
slower than before.

The message size limit is bounded by "--rpc-response-size" thus "by
default 10MB * 64 = 640MB"
but the subscription message size is not covered by this limit and could
be capped as well.

Hopefully the last release prior to 1.0, sorry in advance for a big PR

Previous attempt: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/13992

Resolves https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/748, resolves
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/627
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    • Sam Johnson's avatar
      Tasks: general system for recognizing and executing service work (#1343) · ac3f14d2
      Sam Johnson authored 
      `polkadot-sdk` version of original tasks PR located here:
https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/14329

Fixes #206

## Status
- [x] Generic `Task` trait
- [x] `RuntimeTask` aggregated enum, compatible with
`construct_runtime!`
- [x] Casting between `Task` and `RuntimeTask` without needing `dyn` or
`Box`
- [x] Tasks Example pallet
- [x] Runtime tests for Tasks example pallet
- [x] Parsing for task-related macros
- [x] Retrofit parsing to make macros optional
- [x] Expansion for task-related macros
- [x] Adds support for args in tasks
- [x] Retrofit tasks example pallet to use macros instead of manual
syntax
- [x] Weights
- [x] Cleanup
- [x] UI tests
- [x] Docs

## Target Syntax
Adapted from
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/206#issue-1865172283



```rust
// NOTE: this enum is optional and is auto-generated by the other macros if not present
#[pallet::task]
pub enum Task<T: Config> {
    AddNumberIntoTotal {
        i: u32,
    }
}

/// Some running total.
#[pallet::storage]
pub(super) type Total<T: Config<I>, I: 'static = ()> =
StorageValue<_, (u32, u32), ValueQuery>;

/// Numbers to be added into the total.
#[pallet::storage]
pub(super) type Numbers<T: Config<I>, I: 'static = ()> =
StorageMap<_, Twox64Concat, u32, u32, OptionQuery>;

#[pallet::tasks_experimental]
impl<T: Config<I>, I: 'static> Pallet<T, I> {
	/// Add a pair of numbers into the totals and remove them.
	#[pallet::task_list(Numbers::<T, I>::iter_keys())]
	#[pallet::task_condition(|i| Numbers::<T, I>::contains_key(i))]
	#[pallet::task_index(0)]
	pub fn add_number_into_total(i: u32) -> DispatchResult {
		let v = Numbers::<T, I>::take(i).ok_or(Error::<T, I>::NotFound)?;
		Total::<T, I>::mutate(|(total_keys, total_values)| {
			*total_keys += i;
			*total_values += v;
		});
		Ok(())
	}
}
```

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Co-authored-by: default avatarNikhil Gupta <[email protected]>
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    • Koute's avatar
      Build the standard library crates when building the runtimes (#2217) · 2610450a
      Koute authored 
      Our executor currently only supports the WASM MVP feature set, however
nowadays when compiling WASM the Rust compiler has more features enabled
by default.

We do set the `-C target-cpu=mvp` flag to make sure that *our* code gets
compiled in a way that is compatible with our executor, however this
doesn't affect Rust's standard library crates (`std`, `core` and
`alloc`) which are by default precompiled and still can make use of
these extra features.

So in this PR we force the compiler to also compile the standard library
crates for us to make sure that they also only use the MVP features.

I've added the `WASM_BUILD_STD` environment variable which can be used
to disable this behavior if set to `0`.

Unfortunately this *will* slow down the compile times when building
runtimes, but there isn't much that we can do about that.

Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1755



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Co-authored-by: default avatarBastian Köcher <[email protected]>
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    • Bastian Köcher's avatar
      `sc-block-builder`: Remove `BlockBuilderProvider` (#2099) · ca5f1056
      Bastian Köcher authored 
      The `BlockBuilderProvider` was a trait that was defined in
`sc-block-builder`. The trait was implemented for `Client`. This
basically meant that you needed to import `sc-block-builder` any way to
have access to the block builder. So, this trait was not providing any
real value. This pull request is removing the said trait. Instead of the
trait it introduces a builder for creating a `BlockBuilder`. The builder
currently has the quite fabulous name `BlockBuilderBuilder` (I'm open to
any better name 😅

). The rest of the pull request is about
replacing the old trait with the new builder.

# Downstream code changes

If you used `new_block` or `new_block_at` before you now need to switch
it over to the new `BlockBuilderBuilder` pattern:

```rust
// `new` requires a type that implements `CallApiAt`. 
let mut block_builder = BlockBuilderBuilder::new(client)
                // Then you need to specify the hash of the parent block the block will be build on top of
		.on_parent_block(at)
                // The block builder also needs the block number of the parent block. 
                // Here it is fetched from the given `client` using the `HeaderBackend`
                // However, there also exists `with_parent_block_number` for directly passing the number
		.fetch_parent_block_number(client)
		.unwrap()
                // Enable proof recording if required. This call is optional.
		.enable_proof_recording()
                // Pass the digests. This call is optional.
                .with_inherent_digests(digests)
		.build()
		.expect("Creates new block builder");
```

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Co-authored-by: default avatarSebastian Kunert <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: command-bot <>
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