host_build_graph: upload the bind image once, and only the bytes the device reads

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Summary

The bind stage made 46 host-to-device transfers per bind and reserved 361 MB of device
memory, most of it for data the device never reads. Both come from the same habit: every
structure was shipped at the width of its type, and copied on its own.

One copy instead of forty-six. A slot's payload and descriptor are named by a
self-relative offset (an int32 delta from the field's own address), so the ring image
survives a single memcpy with no pointer fix-up — which retires the host-to-device
relocation pass. Graph submissions go up as one block rather than one allocation and one copy
each, and both the shared-memory image and that submission block become tails of the runtime
arena's own region, so they ride the arena's copy. What remains is one arena copy plus one
retained Definition object.

Only the bytes the device reads. The arena's host-only zone is dep-computation scratch no
device code touches, so it is no longer reserved on the device. The shared-memory image ships
pitched to the submitted task count rather than the ring capacity — 47 slots of 16,384 on
qwen3-14b decode — and the device reservation follows the same pitch.

Strided by what a bind holds, not by the type. PTO2TaskPayload's tensor array and
GraphNodeStorage's payload move last so each can be truncated; the shipped payload array and
the Graph execution storage are then strided by the widest task and the widest node in the
bind. sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) is not a power of two, so indexing already compiled to a
multiply — a runtime stride changes the operand from an immediate to a register and adds no
indirection on the dispatch path.

The int32 delta carries two bounds with it. set() leaves the field unbound rather than
storing a truncated delta — unbound is the value every consumer already tests for, while a
truncated one names unrelated memory — and attach_populated rejects an image whose end
exceeds the bound, next to the live-count and stride bounds it already checks. On the host side
compact_live_image asserts those same two bounds, where exceeding them would read past the
mirror's segments and ship a corrupt image with nothing to say so.

Three defects, not optimizations

• A Graph outer task's slot was not reset as it was claimed. It was only accidentally
  correct: the host mirror is a fresh new uint8_t[], which the kernel hands back
  zero-filled, so a stale slot never surfaced. A reused slot or reused mirror would have read
  the previous run's state. Covered by a test that fails without the reset.
• A latched orchestration fatal did not stop the upload. A heap or tensormap exhaustion
  drops tasks and a fanin overflow drops edges; the truncated graph was shipped anyway, and
  the error code only reached the host after the device had launched and timed out — so the
  reported failure was a scheduler timeout with the real cause behind it. Checking the same
  word before the upload costs one relaxed load.
• The execution storage reserved one stride per entry, while materialization
  placement-news a whole GraphNodeStorage into each, so the last entry's object ended past
  the allocation. Nothing in the truncated tail has a default initializer, so it corrupted
  nothing — but adding one would have made it a heap overrun. The reservation now ends at the
  last entry's full size.

Measurements

qwen3-14b decode, 7 binds, minimum over the run:

	before	after
bind-stage H2D	642,987 ns	65,441 ns (−90%)
upload shape	46 copies, ~467 KB	1 arena copy of 180,480 B + 1 Definition object
PTO2 shared memory reserved	81,412,352	77,440
graph heap high-water consumed	127,673,344	106,399,744
total device memory reserved	361,363,392	270,857,280 (−86.3 MiB, −25%)

The graph heap's reservation is deliberately untouched and still PTO2_HEAP_SIZE. Sizing it
from the measured requirement is separate work that depends on how heap positions are
represented, and #1897 has since made that a design question rather than a mechanical one.

Testing

• cpput 113/113
• a2a3 host_build_graph scene tests: 34 passed + 1 skipped, every L3 resource child green
• Review round 1 (CodeRabbit, 7 items): 6 fixed, 1 skipped as a false positive — the
  payload offset constants are asserted, in scheduler_dispatch.cpp:45-46 on both arches
• Rebased onto current main (host_build_graph: carry dispatch predicates through Graph Execution #1912/host_build_graph: prewarm concurrent Graph recording #1929/host_build_graph: drop the TensorCreateInfo initial-value fill #1930/Update: reversing the task wake-up waker #1924/Refactor: express the DSv4 MoE tile-loop control flow as dispatch predicates #1926 landed while this was open);
  the conflict with host_build_graph: carry dispatch predicates through Graph Execution #1912's new
  graph_rebind_tensor() helper was resolved in favour of the helper, with the runtime
  stride moved inside it (it indexed node_storage[] by the type's size, which lands
  between entries once the storage is pitched)
• a5 onboard — built for both arches, but only a2a3 silicon was available here

One flake seen and not caused by this change: a full-directory run once failed the L3 child
worker_async_fifo::test_incompatible_runtime_env_falls_back_to_depth_one on its
concurrency-overlap assertion during a 216.9 s run (usual ~140 s). That child runs
rt=tensormap_and_ringbuffer, while every file here is under host_build_graph/ or its unit
tests — no tmr source, no platform code, no worker code. It passes alone 2/2 and the whole file
passes; a re-run of the full gate was clean.

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Walkthrough

The HBG runtime now uses position-independent shared-memory and arena images. Host orchestration compacts live data, stages submissions, clears host-only pointers, and performs one device upload. Payload and graph storage use explicit strides, with tests covering copying, compaction, slot reuse, and layout validation.

Changes

HBG image pipeline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Image and storage contracts src/*/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h, src/*/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h, src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.h	Introduces self-relative slot pointers, reordered payload regions, variable shared-memory strides, compacted image helpers, and stride-aware graph storage.
Runtime storage and graph execution src/*/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/*, src/*/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/*, src/*/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/*, src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.cpp	Separates copied and host-only arena regions, wires host-only pointers separately, validates attached images, and accesses strided graph nodes through node_at().
A2A3 host orchestration upload src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp	Plans submissions, compacts shared memory, grows and reacquires the arena, and uploads the copied runtime image in one transfer.
A5 host orchestration upload src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp	Removes pointer relocation and per-submission transfers, then stages submissions and shared memory into one arena-backed upload.
Device attachment and documentation src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/aicpu/aicpu_executor.cpp, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/*, src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md	Updates AICPU attachment sizing and documents verbatim image copies, host-only pointers, and the removed relocation phase.
Validation and compatibility tests tests/ut/cpp/*	Adds coverage for self-relative pointers, compaction, slot reuse, graph strides, and updated APIs.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to dd518

The PR changes graph-image layout and upload behavior to use one compact arena image. The current head still contains two high-impact correctness hazards: large self-relative offsets can resolve to invalid memory, and compact graph storage is initialized with objects larger than their allocated stride, risking graph-execution corruption. These issues should be fixed before merge.

Possibly related issues

• [Tracking] host_build_graph — intent, vision & change tracking #1706 — The PR implements the position-independent HBG image and device-copy model described by this issue.
• [RFC] Compile PyPTO orchestration into host_build_graph Graph Execution (record once, replay per layer) pypto#2399 — The PR changes graph execution storage and GRAPH submission handling used by the referenced runtime flow.

Possibly related PRs

• hw-native-sys/simpler#1917 — Shares HBG runtime-maker, AICPU attachment, and shared-memory sizing changes.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1923 — Shares graph submission staging and packed arena upload changes.

Suggested labels: enhancement, code health

Poem

A rabbit packs the graph with care,
No pointer wanders through the air.
Slots find their paths by offsets bright,
One compact image takes its flight.
Tests thump softly: all is right.

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src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.cpp (1)

476-480: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not placement-new GraphNodeStorage into a compact stride.

graph_execution_storage_layout() reserves only node_stride, but placement new requires storage for the full sizeof(GraphNodeStorage). This overlaps interior entries and exceeds the allocation for the final entry. ChipTensor() = default currently performs no tensor-tail stores, but the placement-new object is still larger than its storage. Construct only the used prefix or reserve a full sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) for the final entry.

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In `@src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.cpp` around lines 476 - 480,
Update the GraphNodeStorage construction in the execution node initialization
path so it does not placement-new a full GraphNodeStorage into compact
node_stride storage. Either construct only the allocated prefix or adjust
graph_execution_storage_layout() to reserve sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) for the
final entry, while preserving constructed_nodes tracking and node access
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src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h (1)

73-74: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The payload offset constants are unasserted duplicates of the struct layout in both chip trees. 768 equals 640 + MAX_SCALAR_ARGS * sizeof(uint64_t) only while MAX_SCALAR_ARGS == 16. pto_runtime2_types.h asserts the struct offsets, but nothing asserts that the AICore-facing constants agree.

• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h#L73-L74: add a static_assert that compares both constants with offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, scalars) and offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, tensors).
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h#L73-L74: add the same assertions.

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h` around
lines 73 - 74, Add static_assert checks comparing
PTO2_TASKPAYLOAD_SCALARS_OFFSET and PTO2_TASKPAYLOAD_TENSORS_OFFSET with
offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, scalars) and offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, tensors) in
both src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h:73-74 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h:73-74.

src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h (1)

394-429: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

compact_live_image copies raw memory on unchecked preconditions in both chip trees. The function assumes submitted_tasks <= task_window_size and payload_stride <= sizeof(PTO2TaskPayload). Neither is checked, and the function is noexcept, so a wrong argument reads past the mirror segments and ships a corrupt image with no diagnostic.

• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h#L394-L429: add debug assertions on both bounds at the top of the function.
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h#L394-L429: add the same assertions.

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h` around lines
394 - 429, Add debug assertions at the start of compact_live_image in both
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h:394-429 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h:394-429, validating
submitted_tasks <= task_window_size and payload_stride <=
sizeof(PTO2TaskPayload). No other changes are needed.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h`:
- Around line 499-506: The SelfRelativePtr::set() implementations truncate
pointer deltas to int32_t without validation. In both
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h:499-506 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h:499-506, reject or
assert deltas outside the int32_t range before storing delta_, while preserving
the existing nullptr-to-zero behavior.

In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp`:
- Around line 399-402: Remove the stale comment block describing
run_host_orchestration and rt’s scheduler half pointing at device shared memory;
retain the newer host-build-graph comment beginning “host_build_graph host-orch”
as the applicable documentation.

In `@src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md`:
- Around line 378-383: Update the Host orchestration description to state that
submissions are staged in the shared-memory/runtime arena and transferred to the
device through one bind-image H2D upload before launching the resident
Scheduler. Remove the claim that every Graph POD image is uploaded separately
and eliminate the reference to two copies.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_self_relative_ptr.cpp`:
- Around line 103-111: Update the test’s source and destination buffers around
Image to provide 64-byte alignment, construct an Image object in each buffer
before access, and then copy the object representation without treating raw
std::byte storage as an already-live Image. Preserve the existing bind_buffers
and pointer assertions while ensuring both Image instances are properly aligned
and their lifetimes are started.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.cpp`:
- Around line 476-480: Update the GraphNodeStorage construction in the execution
node initialization path so it does not placement-new a full GraphNodeStorage
into compact node_stride storage. Either construct only the allocated prefix or
adjust graph_execution_storage_layout() to reserve sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) for
the final entry, while preserving constructed_nodes tracking and node access
behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h`:
- Around line 394-429: Add debug assertions at the start of compact_live_image
in both src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h:394-429
and src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h:394-429,
validating submitted_tasks <= task_window_size and payload_stride <=
sizeof(PTO2TaskPayload). No other changes are needed.

In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h`:
- Around line 73-74: Add static_assert checks comparing
PTO2_TASKPAYLOAD_SCALARS_OFFSET and PTO2_TASKPAYLOAD_TENSORS_OFFSET with
offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, scalars) and offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, tensors) in
both src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h:73-74 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h:73-74.

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• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/aicpu/aicpu_executor.cpp
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/RUNTIME_LOGIC.md
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• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/SUBMIT_BY_CLUSTER.md
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/profiling_levels.md
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2.h
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/runtime.h
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/pto_scheduler.h
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_runtime2_init.cpp
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_shared_memory.cpp
• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/aicpu/aicpu_executor.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/RUNTIME_LOGIC.md
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/SCALAR_DATA_ACCESS.md
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/SUBMIT_BY_CLUSTER.md
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/profiling_levels.md
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto2_dispatch_payload.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/runtime.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/pto_scheduler.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_runtime2_init.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_shared_memory.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/runtime.cpp
• src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md
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• tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_graph_activation.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_graph_activation.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_submit_failure.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_self_relative_ptr.cpp
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@coderabbitai the three out-of-line items from the review summary, each checked against the code:

graph_execution.cpp:476-480 — placement-new into a compact stride (Major). Fixed. Confirmed: graph_execution_storage_layout reserved node_count * node_stride, so the last entry’s object nominally ended sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) - node_stride past the allocation. It corrupted nothing today — nothing in the truncated tail has a default member initializer, so construction writes no bytes there — but one added initializer would have turned it into a heap overrun, and it is UB regardless.

The reservation now ends at the last entry’s full sizeof(GraphNodeStorage):
nodes_offset + (node_count - 1) * node_stride + sizeof(GraphNodeStorage). Cost is at most one sizeof - stride delta per graph, once. I kept the whole-struct placement-new rather than constructing a prefix: the interior nominal overlap stays inside the same allocation, and entries are constructed in increasing index order, so a later entry’s construction wins over any byte an earlier one could touch. GraphExecutionStorage.ComputesAlignedExactSize now asserts the new formula and that the last entry has room for a whole entry.

pto_shared_memory.h:394-429 — compact_live_image unchecked preconditions (nitpick). Fixed. Both bounds now always_assert at the top, matching the always_assert(compacted == image_bytes) its own caller does two lines from the call site. attach_populated checks the same two on the device side, and the comment says so.

pto2_dispatch_payload.h:73-74 — offset constants unasserted (nitpick). Skipping: false positive. The asserts exist, exactly where the comment above the constants says they are:

src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_dispatch.cpp:45-46
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_dispatch.cpp:45-46
static_assert(offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, tensors) == PTO2_TASKPAYLOAD_TENSORS_OFFSET);
static_assert(offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, scalars) == PTO2_TASKPAYLOAD_SCALARS_OFFSET);

(and both tensormap_and_ringbuffer copies carry them too). They live in the .cpp rather than the header on purpose: the AICore .o includes this header and cannot see PTO2TaskPayload, so an offsetof here would not compile for that target. Moving tensors last in this PR is exactly the drift those asserts are for, and they held.

Also rebased onto current main — the base had moved by #1912/#1929/#1930/#1924/#1926 since the first push.

Gate after all of the above: cpput 113/113, a2a3 host_build_graph scene tests 34 passed + 1 skipped with every L3 resource child green, both arches built. a5 onboard still unrun — no a5 silicon on this host.

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@ChaoWao Confirmed.

graph_execution_storage_layout now reserves a full GraphNodeStorage for the final compact-stride entry. The updated GraphExecutionStorage.ComputesAlignedExactSize test checks the formula and the final-entry capacity.

compact_live_image now asserts both source-image bounds before it copies data. Both A2A3 and A5 contain the same checks.

The PTO2TaskPayload offset finding was a false positive. The required offsetof assertions exist in all four scheduler translation units. Their placement outside the shared header is necessary because the AICore target does not see the complete PTO2TaskPayload definition.

The two valid findings are addressed. I withdraw the offset-assertion finding.

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URL: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/1932

Timestamp: 2026-08-20T13:38:58.197Z
Learning: For host-build-graph payload ABI checks, keep `offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, tensors/scalars)` assertions in each scheduler translation unit, not in `pto2_dispatch_payload.h`. The AICore object includes that header but cannot see the complete `PTO2TaskPayload` definition. The A2A3 and A5 host-build-graph and tensormap-and-ringbuffer `scheduler_dispatch.cpp` files contain the target-specific assertions.

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[ChaoWao]

@coderabbitai thanks for confirming, and for withdrawing the offset finding.

Pushed one more time: rebased onto current main (#1934 and #1935 landed since the last push) and fixed a clang-format failure I introduced with the previous round — the new *storage_bytes = ... line was hand-wrapped and the formatter wants it on one line. Formatting only; no behaviour change.

That failure was avoidable and I had the tooling for it locally, so I tightened the pre-push check. Worth recording for anyone else running clang-tidy locally on this repo: passing a header to tests/lint/clang_tidy.py silently analyses nothing. A header is not a translation unit, so no compile_commands.json entry names it and the hook exits 0 with no output — which reads exactly like "clean". I only caught that by re-injecting the bugprone-casting-through-void defect from the first review round as a positive control: on the header it still reported nothing, and on runtime/shared/pto_shared_memory.cpp — a TU that includes it — it reported the error and exited 1. That is how CI found it in the first place.

So this round was checked by running the hook over all 13 changed .cpp TUs (both arches) rather than the changed files: 0 diagnostics, and clang-format clean over all 33 changed C++ files.

Gate on the rebased commit: cpput 113/113, a2a3 host_build_graph scene tests 34 passed + 1 skipped, both arches built.

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@ChaoWao Thanks for the detailed validation.

The positive-control check confirms the important limitation: tests/lint/clang_tidy.py must receive compiled .cpp translation units, not headers. A header-only invocation can exit 0 without analysis.

The updated pre-push check covers the changed translation units. The reported clang-format, cpput, scene-test, and dual-architecture build results are clear.

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Learnt from: ChaoWao
URL: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/1932

Timestamp: 2026-08-20T14:01:26.989Z
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Repo: hw-native-sys/simpler PR: 0
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Timestamp: 2026-08-20T13:38:58.197Z
Learning: For host-build-graph payload ABI checks, keep `offsetof(PTO2TaskPayload, tensors/scalars)` assertions in each scheduler translation unit, not in `pto2_dispatch_payload.h`. The AICore object includes that header but cannot see the complete `PTO2TaskPayload` definition. The A2A3 and A5 host-build-graph and tensormap-and-ringbuffer `scheduler_dispatch.cpp` files contain the target-specific assertions.

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[ChaoWao]

CI round 2 found a real regression from this PR, in the four st-sim jobs (a2a3sim + a5sim, both OSes — consistent, not flaky). Fixed and pushed.

What broke. tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/test_host_build_graph_validation.py::test_invalid_input_reports_code_five — 4 parametrizations. The fail-fast added by this PR does what it claims, but it threw away the diagnosis on the way out:

Expected regex: (run_runtime|run) failed with code -5\b
Actual message: prepare_native_run failed with code -1 (...)

On main the truncated graph is uploaded, the device launches and reports the latched code as -5. This PR refuses the upload — correctly — but returned a bare -1, so a specific INVALID_ARGS became a generic failure. That is a worse error contract than the one it replaced, not just a stale test expectation, so I fixed the code rather than the test. The test is unchanged.

Fix, in both arches:

• the bind returns the latched code through runtime_status_from_error_codes(orch_error, PTO2_ERROR_NONE) — the same mapping validate_runtime_impl already uses for the run path, so the two paths agree and a caller does not need to know which one noticed;
• it reports through LOG_RUNTIME_FAILURE at the point of detection, which is what error_log.h documents that macro for. So error detail: orch_error_code=5 INVALID_ARGS - ... and its triage hint now arrive before the launch instead of after a device round-trip.

Net effect on the diagnosis, same input: main needs a device launch and a timeout to name the cause; this branch names it during bind, with the same code.

Why my gate missed it. These cases are sim-only and live in tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/, while both of my local gates ran tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph — onboard in one, sim in the other. Neither path reached them. I have added both sim platforms of that directory to the gate and reproduced the failure locally before fixing it, then confirmed the fix: a2a3sim 4/4, a5sim 4/4.

Full re-gate on the pushed commit: cpput 113/113 · a2a3 onboard hbg scene tests 34 passed + 1 skipped, every L3 child green · a2a3sim sim st 10 passed + 7 skipped · validation 4/4 on both sim platforms · both arches built.

One thing noted and deliberately not touched here: runtime_status_from_error_codes maps code N to -N, and pto_runtime_c_api.h reserves -2 (PTO_RUNTIME_ERR_UNSUPPORTED) and -3 (PTO_RUNTIME_ERR_PREPARED_INCOMPATIBLE). So a latched HEAP_RING_DEADLOCK (2) or FLOW_CONTROL_DEADLOCK (3) collides with a reserved code, and -3 would make ChipWorker throw PreparedRunIncompatible and take the depth-one fallback. That collision pre-exists on the run path on main and is not introduced here; using the same helper keeps one convention rather than adding a second. Worth its own issue.

[ChaoWao]

All checks green now — 18/18, including all four st-sim jobs that round 2 turned red.

One job needed a re-run and I want the evidence on the record rather than an "it was flaky", because the failure was in host_build_graph and therefore had to be ruled out rather than assumed:

st-sim-a2a3 (ubuntu) failed at 12m08s with exit 124 — the pytest session exceeded its --pto-session-timeout 600. Inside it, an xdist worker crashed while blocked in task_interface.py::_wait_native_run on native_run_lifecycle::test_run, and paged_attention::test_run took 8m21s.

Ruled out as this branch:

• In the previous round on this same PR, those two tests passed in 8.3 s and 8.5 s. An 8.5 s test becoming 8m21s is not a behaviour change in a bind path; the whole runner was starved. The sim tests emulate AICPU/AICore threads on the host and this job runs -n 4 on a 4-CPU hosted runner.
• The macOS sibling of the same commit passed in 6m40s.
• The only delta between the two rounds is the error-code propagation, and it is unreachable on a passing run: every changed line is inside if (orch_error != PTO2_ERROR_NONE || rt->orchestrator.fatal), plus one return total_tasks that differs from return -1 only when it is negative. native_run_lifecycle and paged_attention latch no fatal, so they execute byte-identical code in both rounds.
• Re-run of that one job on the same commit: pass in 5m30s, less than half the failing run’s wall time.

So: hosted-runner capacity, not the diff. Worth noting that this job has little headroom against its own 600 s cap — 5m30s of a 10m budget on a good run, and the same corpus took 12m on a bad one.

[Crane-Liu]

Fix update pushed as 17115ed.

What changed:

• Folded in the TaskPayloadSpace prerequisite from Optimize: pack HBG Graph replay data into one arena block #1923 so variable-length Graph TaskArgs use exact live payload storage and 64-bit self-relative offsets.
• Planned the complete runtime image before allocation and staged the runtime header, compact SM, Graph Definitions, and submissions into one arena-owned H2D upload.
• Deferred runtime-arena allocation until exact sizes are known; arena bank owns and reuses capacity. Heap sizing remains exact and separate.
• Switched GraphNodeStorage to a full-object stride, eliminating overlapping placement construction. GraphSubmission remains in scope unchanged; its future removal is separate.

Observed result:

• DSV4 host-side HBG passed 6/6 rounds on 2 devices with SIMPLER_SKIP_DEVICE_RUN=1; this covers the variable TaskArgs failure. Device execution remains skipped because of the known Graph activation issue.
• Qwen3 passed 6/6 golden/device rounds. The final refreshed-binary run used one 367,336-byte arena H2D (704 runtime + 233,856 compact SM + 132,776 Graph; exact live payload occupancy 228,608 bytes) and completed device execution in 39.67 ms.
• C++ 113/113, A2/A3 and A5 builds, broad HBG simulation, final targeted simulation, and pre-commit all passed.

All four existing review threads remain resolved. In particular, the former GraphNodeStorage partial-stride concern is now removed structurally by using sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) for every entry.

Note: #1932 was opened by ChaoWao. The current Crane-Liu token can push the head fork branch but GitHub does not permit it to edit the PR description, so this comment records the final implementation and validation without reusing the canceled account credential.

CI follow-up: the first run found only clang-format 21.1.0 changes in the new compaction test. Those exact formatting changes were amended into the single commit; the local clang-format 21.1.0 gate now passes. The replacement CI build is green and replacement pre-commit is running.

CI rerun note: the previous A5 simulation run passed 6 of 7 HBG scenes, then one Python worker received a native segfault in _wait_run_handle during predicated_dispatch and the session hit its 600-second timeout. The same case passed alone, the 7-scene directory passed serially, and the exact 4-worker parallel run passed 7/7 remotely. With no upstream Actions rerun permission, the unchanged tree was amended and pushed as c08a9f6 solely to retrigger the matrix.

Second simulator rerun note: c08a9f6 passed A5 simulation, but the A2/A3 simulation later lost a worker in native_run_lifecycle and timed out. The same test passed alone, and the exact LoadFileScheduling -n 4 A2/A3 HBG group passed 11 tests with 8 expected skips. The source tree remains 2be1fc49; it was amended unchanged as 17115ed for one bounded rerun.

Final CI state at handoff: all 14 non-macOS checks are green on 17115ed, including A2/A3 and A5 simulation, onboard tests, both architecture UTs, packaging, profiling smoke, build, and pre-commit. Four macOS checks remain queued waiting for GitHub-hosted runners; no check is currently failed.

[ChaoWao]

Closing. Two things happened to this PR and both point the same way.

The content it carries is no longer mine, and the work it was opened for has landed separately. The branch was force-pushed on 2026-08-21 02:27, replacing my commit 0f84de55 with 17115ed1 ("Fix: pack HBG payloads into the runtime arena") — my commit is not an ancestor of the current head. That work went in on its own as #1947 (a5c6093d), intact: shipped_payload_stride, graph_node_stride, and SelfRelativePtr all landed and were verified in main.

What the current head still adds is now superseded by #1952 (1b637ef0, payload arguments into pools named by delta), and measured against main three of its changes have become reverts rather than trade-offs. On a2a3, qwen3-14b decode, head 17115ed1 vs main:

	main (now, post-#1952)	this head
shared_mem shipped	19,712	233,856
host_orch heap_used	80,405,504	127,673,344

The two gaps come from deleting shipped_payload_stride and from graph_node_stride(int32_t) being changed to ignore its parameter and always return sizeof(GraphNodeStorage) (with the layout function rejecting anything else) while the whole parameterised mechanism stayed in place. A third: PTO2RelativePtr is trivially copyable with an implicit operator T*() and default copy-assign, so dst.payload = src.payload compiles and silently retargets — the guard SelfRelativePtr has in main (deleted copy ops) is what prevents exactly that.

Its motivating requirement — a Graph boundary wider than MAX_TENSOR_ARGS (dsv4 has 118 tensors against a cap of 32) — is solved better by #1952: the variable-extent regions move out of the payload into pools instead of making the payload variable, so PTO2TaskPayload stays fixed-size and task_payloads[i] is indexable again.

Two things from this head were genuinely ahead of what I had, and both are worth recording:

• graph_upload's bytes= double-count — it counted the submission block that arena_h2d also reports as subs=. Fixed in main by Fix: charge graph_upload only the bytes it copies #1957.
• Folding the Definition copy into the single arena H2D, so graph_upload becomes planning only. This is still not in main — there is a separate 130,240-byte copy there today, and it is the largest single item left in bind-stage H2D. Worth its own PR.

Closing rather than rebasing: a rebase onto current main would render the three items above as explicit reverts, and the parts worth keeping are smaller than the PR.