Closes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1966,
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1963 and
https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/1962.

Disabling strategy specification
[here](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/2955). (Updated
13/02/2024)

Implements:
* validator disabling for a whole era instead of just a session
* no more than 1/3 of the validators in the active set are disabled
Removes:
* `DisableStrategy` enum - now each validator committing an offence is
disabled.
* New era is not forced if too many validators are disabled.

Before this PR not all offenders were disabled. A decision was made
based on [`enum
DisableStrategy`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb6631641f9adba30c0ee6f4d11023a424dd362/substrate/primitives/staking/src/offence.rs#L54).
Some offenders were disabled for a whole era, some just for a session,
some were not disabled at all.

This PR changes the disabling behaviour. Now a validator committing an
offense is disabled immediately till the end of the current era.

Some implementation notes:
* `OffendingValidators` in pallet session keeps all offenders (this is
not changed). However its type is changed from `Vec<(u32, bool)>` to
`Vec<u32>`. The reason is simple - each offender is getting disabled so
the bool doesn't make sense anymore.
* When a validator is disabled it is first added to
`OffendingValidators` and then to `DisabledValidators`. This is done in
[`add_offending_validator`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb6631641f9adba30c0ee6f4d11023a424dd362/substrate/frame/staking/src/slashing.rs#L325)
from staking pallet.
* In
[`rotate_session`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bdbe98297032e21a553bf191c530690b1d591405/substrate/frame/session/src/lib.rs#L623)
the `end_session` also calls
[`end_era`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb6631641f9adba30c0ee6f4d11023a424dd362/substrate/frame/staking/src/pallet/impls.rs#L490)
when an era ends. In this case `OffendingValidators` are cleared
**(1)**.
* Then in
[`rotate_session`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bdbe98297032e21a553bf191c530690b1d591405/substrate/frame/session/src/lib.rs#L623)
`DisabledValidators` are cleared **(2)**
* And finally (still in `rotate_session`) a call to
[`start_session`](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/blob/bbb6631641f9adba30c0ee6f4d11023a424dd362/substrate/frame/staking/src/pallet/impls.rs#L430

)
repopulates the disabled validators **(3)**.
* The reason for this complication is that session pallet knows nothing
abut eras. To overcome this on each new session the disabled list is
repopulated (points 2 and 3). Staking pallet knows when a new era starts
so with point 1 it ensures that the offenders list is cleared.

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This PR removes `AssignmentProviderConfig` and uses the corresponding
ondemand parameters from `HostConfiguration` instead. Additionally
`scheduling_lookahead` and all coretime/ondemand related parameters are
extracted in a separate struct - `SchedulerParams`.

The most relevant commit from the PR is [this
one](https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/pull/3181/commits/830bc0f5e858944474171bbe33382ad96040b535).

Fixes https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk/issues/2268

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Closes #1591.

The purpose of this PR is filter out backing statements from the network
signed by disabled validators. This is just an optimization, since we
will do filtering in the runtime in #1863 to avoid nodes to filter
garbage out at block production time.

- [x] Ensure it's ok to fiddle with the mask of manifests
- [x] Write more unit tests
- [x] Test locally
- [x] simple zombienet test
- [x] PRDoc

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This PR prepares chains specs for _native-runtime-free_  world.

This PR has following changes:
- `substrate`:
  - adds support for:
- JSON based `GenesisConfig` to `ChainSpec` allowing interaction with
runtime `GenesisBuilder` API.
- interacting with arbitrary runtime wasm blob to[
`chain-spec-builder`](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/blob/3ef576eaeb3f42610e85daecc464961cf1295570/bin/utils/chain-spec-builder/src/lib.rs#L46)
command line util,
- removes
[`code`](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/blob/3ef576eaeb3f42610e85daecc464961cf1295570/frame/system/src/lib.rs#L660)
from `system_pallet`
  - adds `code` to the `ChainSpec`
- deprecates
[`ChainSpec::from_genesis`](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/blob/3ef576eaeb3f42610e85daecc464961cf1295570/client/chain-spec/src/chain_spec.rs#L263),
but also changes the signature of this method extending it with `code`
argument.
[`ChainSpec::builder()`](https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/blob/20bee680ed098be7239cf7a6b804cd4de267983e/client/chain-spec/src/chain_spec.rs#L507

)
should be used instead.
- `polkadot`:
- all references to `RuntimeGenesisConfig` in `node/service` are
removed,
- all
`(kusama|polkadot|versi|rococo|wococo)_(staging|dev)_genesis_config`
functions now return the JSON patch for default runtime `GenesisConfig`,
  - `ChainSpecBuilder` is used, `ChainSpec::from_genesis` is removed,

- `cumulus`:
  - `ChainSpecBuilder` is used, `ChainSpec::from_genesis` is removed,
- _JSON_ patch configuration used instead of `RuntimeGenesisConfig
struct` in all chain specs.
  
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* zombienet: use test-parachain image for the slashing test

* use the right image

* try polkadot-parachain image

* try naming collator alice 🙈



* add needed job for the pipeline

* fix user id in polkadot-parachain-debug image

* small tweaks to the test

* another small tweak

* yet another small tweak

* bump zombienet version

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* fix tests

Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

* ZOMBIENET_INTEGRATION_TEST_SECONDARY_IMAGE

Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

* deleted by mistake

Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

* remove LOCAL_DIR override

Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

* Fix secondary image

Signed-off-by: Andrei Sandu <[email protected]>

* fix get BUILD_RELEASE_VERSION in pipeline

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Co-authored-by: Javier Viola <[email protected]>

* runtime/vstaging: unapplied_slashes runtime API

* runtime/vstaging: key_ownership_proof runtime API

* runtime/ParachainHost: submit_report_dispute_lost

* fix key_ownership_proof API

* runtime: submit_report_dispute_lost runtime API

* nits

* Update node/subsystem-types/src/messages.rs

Co-authored-by: Marcin S. <[email protected]>

* revert unrelated fmt changes

* dispute-coordinator: past session dispute slashing

* encapsule runtime api call for submitting report

* prettify: extract into a function

* do not exit on runtime api error

* fix tests

* try initial zombienet test

* try something

* fix a typo

* try cumulus-based collator

* fix clippy

* build polkadot-debug images with fast-runtime enabled

* wip

* runtime/inclusion: fix availability_threshold

* fix wip

* fix wip II

* revert native provider

* propagate tx submission error

* DEBUG: sync=trace

* print key ownership proof len

* panic repro

* log validator index in panic message

* post merge fixes

* replace debug assertion with a log

* fix compilation

* Let's log the dispatch info in validate block.

* fix double encoding

* Revert "Let's log the dispatch info in validate block."

This reverts commit a70fbc51b464d7f4355dbada5e16cd83cf71eab4.

* Revert "Let's log the dispatch info in validate block."

This reverts commit a70fbc51b464d7f4355dbada5e16cd83cf71eab4.

* fix compilation

* update to latest zombienet and fix test

* lower finality lag to 11

* bump zombienet again

* add a workaround, but still does not work

* Update .gitlab-ci.yml

bump zombienet.

* add a comment and search logs on all nodes

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