build: target-cpu=native default + explicit v3 pin, and one pack<const L> for the 12 predicate tails - #313
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Every contiguous `*_to_mask` predicate carried its own hand-rolled
`if !tail.is_empty()` branch — the same four lines twelve times, each
re-deriving the word index, the shift, and the lane-validity mask, each
an independent chance to get one of the three wrong.
`pack<T, const L>` is the ungated sibling of the existing `pack_under`:
one `as_chunks::<L>()` body, one zero-padded tail run through the SAME
closure as the body, one `debug_assert` holding the closure contract
(bits above `live` are zero) that keeps a padding lane from ever
contributing a match. The 12 functions become a splat plus one call.
Two helpers join `live16` so each register width names its own validity
mask at one site: `live8` (8-lane u64 groups) and `live64` (a u8x64
group IS one whole mask word).
Scope: this retires the PREDICATE tails only. The 11 mask-algebra tails
(`mask_and`/`or`/`xor`/`andnot`(`_assign`), `mask_shift_morton`) are a
different kind — they copy lanes back out rather than packing bits in —
and are the target of the VL descent, not of this packer.
Gates, exit codes checked:
cargo test --lib simd_masking 74 passed
clippy --lib --examples --tests clean (-D warnings)
cargo test --no-run --no-default-features clean
masking-parity native avx512f=false, 12 groups bit-identical
masking-parity --config config-v4 avx512f=true, 12 groups bit-identical
codegen-witness avx2 PASS (packed ymm, 0 GPR on lane data)
codegen-witness avx512 (CARGO_ARGS=--config .cargo/config-v4.toml)
PASS (6 vpternlog in mask_ternlog_slice)
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A default that names a tier the host is NOT means every AVX-512 measurement
needs an incantation — and a forgotten incantation does not fail, it grades
the wrong tier in silence.
Measured, and this is what prompted the flip: `scripts/codegen-witness.sh
avx512` run WITHOUT `CARGO_ARGS='--config .cargo/config-v4.toml'` built v3 and
reported three `FAIL: ... has no vpternlog on an AVX-512 build` on probe
symbols the change under test never touched. The assertion was right; the
build was the wrong one; nothing in the output said so. After the flip the
same bare command PASSES with 6 vpternlog.
`native` cannot mis-grade that way — rustc resolves the host CPUID, so the
default arm is always one this machine can run, and it cannot SIGILL by
construction.
What did NOT change: v3 is still the portable distribution baseline. It moved
out of the unnamed default into `.cargo/config-v3.toml`, so a row depending on
it SAYS so. The pin is load-bearing in both directions, measured two-sided on
this AVX-512 host:
codegen-witness.sh avx2 bare -> FAIL "has no packed logic" (grading v4)
codegen-witness.sh avx2 +v3 -> PASS
Overlay semantics verified rather than assumed (`cargo build -p encryption -v`):
cargo JOINS `target.<cfg>.rustflags` across config files and the last
`-Ctarget-cpu` wins, so config-v3 carries the target-cpu only and the two
crypto-backend cfgs come through the join intact.
TWO REAL DEFECTS THIS SURFACED ON DAY ONE, both in code the v3 default never
compiled and therefore never linted:
src/simd_int_ops.rs `needless_return` in the runtime-VNNI block. The lint
is CONFIG-DEPENDENT: the trailing scalar fallback is
cfg'd out when avx512vnni/avxvnni is a compile feature,
making the second `return` trailing there and
load-bearing on v3. `allow` not `expect` — `expect`
would fail the v3 build for the lint not firing.
examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs
`print_literal`; the example is avx512f+avx512vl gated,
so the #311 clippy run never compiled it.
CI: the portable matrix row now pins v3 explicitly instead of inheriting it,
and a new non-gating `host-native` row reports what a GitHub runner actually
is (`lscpu` + the parity program's own `avx512f=` header). It is
`continue-on-error` on purpose — a row whose result is "whatever this runner
happens to be" must not gate a merge on pool scheduling.
Gates, exit codes checked:
cargo test --lib (native) 2375 passed
clippy --lib --examples --tests -D warnings native / v3 / v4 all clean
fmt --check clean
test --no-run --no-default-features clean
codegen-witness avx512 (bare) PASS
codegen-witness avx2 (+config-v3) PASS
masking-parity native / +config-v3 PASS, avx512f=true / false
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…abled Separate from the target-cpu change, and the more serious half. `ci.yaml` sets a workflow-global `RUSTFLAGS: "-D warnings"`. A RUSTFLAGS env REPLACES every cargo-config `rustflags` entry rather than joining it — so from the moment that variable was introduced, NOTHING in `.cargo/config.toml` has applied to any job in this workflow. Not the target-cpu, and not the two cfgs that compile out curve25519-dalek's AVX2 backend (57 raw `_mm*` intrinsics under 52 `unsafe`) and poly1305's (424 under 30). Those are second and third unaudited SIMD surfaces beside `ndarray::simd`, in the crypto path. `.cargo/config.toml` argues at length for keeping them out of the binary — the matryoshka rule. In CI they were in. Measured two-sided, same tree, same unit: no RUSTFLAGS env 65x -Ctarget-cpu, 65x poly1305_force_soft RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" ZERO of each RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings <the two cfgs>" both present, build clean Only the ARCH-NEUTRAL half is restored. `-Ctarget-cpu` stays out for the reason it was removed — i686 is 32-bit and s390x is not x86 — while both cfgs are read by their crates on every arch and are safe across the cross matrix. The generalizable rule, now in the file: a flag added to a RUSTFLAGS env does not ADD to the cargo config, it REPLACES it. A config that can be silently replaced is not a guarantee. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
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When cargo build --release runs on an AVX-512/VNNI host, this setting permits LLVM to emit those host-only instructions throughout the binary, so deploying that artifact to another supported x86-64-v3 machine can terminate with SIGILL before runtime SIMD dispatch helps. This is the repository's documented “Automatic SIMD detection” build (README.md:200-208), while .cargo/config-native.toml:10-11 explicitly warns that the identical setting is not portable; either keep v3 as the default or update every distribution-facing build command to pass --config .cargo/config-v3.toml.
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Correct, and it caught a real gap in my reasoning: I thought about measurement (which arm a probe grades) and never about distribution (what a plain release build yields). Fixed in 038e96d0 by taking your second option — naming the tier at every distribution-facing command rather than reverting the default.
README.md— the portable build is nowcargo --config .cargo/config-v3.toml build --release. The host-tuned build stays, labelled "portable nowhere". Your point about runtime dispatch is the load-bearing one and is now in the text:simd_caps()picks among code paths, it cannot un-emit host-only instructions the baseline codegen already placed..cargo/config.toml— carries the caveat, with its real scope stated rather than overstated: nothing ships from a default build today, because this is a[lib]with no bin targets and the published crate does not carry this file to consumers, who build under their own config. The caveat is for this workspace's own artifacts and images.README.md's AVX-512 line had the same shape (RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-v4") and is now--config .cargo/config-v4.toml, for the reason below.
Chasing this turned up two more instances of the defect the PR's third commit is about. Both Dockerfiles set ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-vN". A RUSTFLAGS env replaces every cargo-config rustflags entry rather than joining it, so that form sets the tier and silently drops .cargo/config.toml's two crypto-backend cfgs — meaning both images have been shipping curve25519-dalek's and poly1305's raw-intrinsic AVX2 backends, which is exactly what those cfgs exist to keep out. Converted both to --config, which joins. Measured two-sided on the exact commands:
| form | tier | poly1305_force_soft |
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ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-v3" |
v3 | absent |
cargo --config .cargo/config-v3.toml |
v3 | present |
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- Around line 142-144: Update the tier warning near the native arm documentation
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CI red on `realization/nightly × x86_64`, and it is a REAL pre-existing
defect the `target-cpu=native` flip surfaced rather than caused:
`cargo +nightly test --features nightly-simd` fails to compile on ANY host
where `avx512f` is a compile-time feature. Reproduced locally on the exact
rustc CI used (1.100.0-nightly 215a8af4b), 12 errors, identical set.
Mechanism: the failing call sites live in `#[cfg(all(test, target_feature =
"avx512f"))]` modules in `src/simd_avx512.rs`. Under the old v3 default that
predicate was false, the modules never compiled, and the gap was invisible.
It was never v3-specific — any AVX-512 developer machine hits it today.
The gap itself is a contract violation. Both polyfill files state it in
their own doc comments: "API mirrors `simd_avx512::<Type>` so consumer code
is backend-agnostic." Measured against the native types, four were short:
I8x64 zero add sub cmp_gt
I8x32 zero add sub cmp_gt
I16x32 zero add sub min max cmp_gt
I16x16 zero add sub min max cmp_gt
Semantics read off the native bodies, not guessed — `add`/`sub` are
`_mm512_add/sub_epi{8,16}`, i.e. WRAPPING, so the polyfill uses `+`/`-`
(core::simd integer ops wrap) and NOT the `saturating_*` methods that
already exist alongside and are a different operation. `min`/`max` are the
signed `_mm512_min/max_epi{8,16}` -> `simd_min`/`simd_max`. `cmp_gt`
delegates to each type's existing `cmpgt_mask` so the two spellings cannot
drift apart. `zero` is `splat(0)`.
Fixed the surface rather than pinning the nightly row to v3. Pinning would
have hidden a defect that bites developers outside CI, and would have
stopped that row from ever witnessing this combination again.
Evidence is a RUN, not a lint:
cargo +nightly test --lib --features nightly-simd 2534 passed, 0 failed
The number matters: the AVX-512 backend's OWN test vectors
(`i16x16_add_round_trip_and_min`, `i16x16_cmp_gt_bitmask`, the I8x64/I8x32
round trips) now execute against the core::simd polyfill and agree with the
native expectations — cross-backend parity, not merely a clean compile.
Gates, exit codes checked:
masking-parity.sh nightly (the exact failing CI step) PASS
cargo test --lib (native) PASS
clippy -D warnings, native and v3 PASS
fmt --check PASS
codegen-witness avx512 / avx2(+v3) PASS
masking-parity native PASS
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Two review findings, both correct, plus two more instances the first one
uncovered.
## codex P1 — portability of the documented release build
`cargo build --release` on an AVX-512 host now emits host-only instructions
throughout, and `README.md` advertised exactly that command as the
"Automatic SIMD detection" build. `.cargo/config-native.toml` has always
warned about this precise flag ("do NOT distribute artifacts built with this
config"); the flip made that warning apply to the DEFAULT, and the README
did not say so. Runtime `simd_caps()` dispatch does not rescue it — detection
picks among code paths, it cannot un-emit instructions the baseline codegen
already placed.
I reasoned about MEASUREMENT (which arm a probe grades) and never about
DISTRIBUTION (what a plain release build yields). That was the gap.
Fixed by naming the tier at every distribution-facing command rather than
reverting the default:
README portable build is `--config .cargo/config-v3.toml`, with the
host-tuned build kept and labelled "portable nowhere"
config.toml the caveat, with its real scope: nothing ships from a default
build today (this is a `[lib]` with no bin targets, and the
published crate does not carry this file to consumers, who
build under their own config)
## ...which uncovered two MORE instances of the RUSTFLAGS defect
Both Dockerfiles set `ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-vN"`. That sets the
tier AND silently drops `.cargo/config.toml`'s two crypto-backend cfgs — so
both images have been shipping curve25519-dalek's and poly1305's
raw-intrinsic AVX2 backends, the unaudited SIMD surfaces the matryoshka rule
exists to keep out. Same root cause as the ci.yaml commit in this PR; third
and fourth instance.
Converted both to `cargo --config .cargo/config-vN.toml`, which JOINS.
Measured two-sided on the exact commands:
ENV RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-v3" tier v3, poly1305_force_soft ABSENT
cargo --config config-v3.toml tier v3, both cfgs PRESENT
README's AVX-512 line had the same shape (`RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=x86-64-v4"`)
and is now `--config .cargo/config-v4.toml` for the same reason.
## coderabbit — CLAUDE.md asserted a tier
`CLAUDE.md:204` read "`native` is the AVX2 arm, not the AVX-512 one — it takes
`.cargo/config.toml` (v3)". False since the flip, and it is the SAME defect
class the surrounding section warns about: a doc asserting a tier instead of
reading the arm's own report. Superseded in place, with the pinned invocation
for anyone who wants AVX2 specifically.
Gates: fmt clean; clippy -D warnings clean (native); the new
`--config .cargo/config-v3.toml build --release` command builds clean.
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The informational row reported on its first run, and it beat the question it was added to ask. Within ONE workflow run (35148155422), two jobs — both `runs-on: ubuntu-latest`, both under the `target-cpu=native` default — reported DIFFERENT tiers: realization/nightly x x86_64 avx512f=TRUE realization/host-native x x86_64 avx512f=FALSE GitHub's ubuntu-latest pool is HETEROGENEOUS: the tier is decided per JOB, not per run and not per repo. So `native` in CI is a coin flip, and an ISA assertion on an unpinned row would pass or fail on scheduling — a green unpinned run would have proven only that the day's scheduling was lucky. That is the empirical vindication of pinning the portable row, and the reason `continue-on-error` on this row is correct rather than timid. Also corrects this session's own reasoning, recorded because the error is instructive. When the nightly row failed I inferred "the GitHub runner has AVX-512" from the failure's mechanism alone — the errors sat in `#[cfg(all(test, target_feature = "avx512f"))]` modules, so that predicate had to be true. Locally valid, wrongly generalized: true of THAT job, false of another job in the same run. A mechanism that proves a fact about one runner proves nothing about "the runner". The reporting row is what caught it, which is the whole reason a row that only reports is worth having. Blackboard 5b now carries what the nightly failure actually was (a real pre-existing polyfill gap, fixed in c1bd701) rather than the placeholder text describing the row itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DCfrD5y19cvFc4AoyydXYv
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the fallback tier description.
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RUSTFLAGSis set, Cargo drops all configuredrustflags. This removes bothconfig-v4.tomland.cargo/config.tomltarget CPU flags. The build then uses the compiler target default. It does not necessarily measure v3.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 89: Copy the .cargo directory, including config.toml and config-v3.toml,
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In `@Dockerfile.avx512`:
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In `@CLAUDE.md`:
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Copy the Cargo configuration before this build.
The builder stage never copies .cargo/, so .cargo/config-v3.toml does not exist at this command. The image build fails before compiling. Copy the .cargo directory, including config.toml and config-v3.toml, before the Cargo commands.
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| RUN cargo --config .cargo/config-v4.toml build --release 2>&1 && echo "=== AVX-512 BUILD OK ===" | ||
| RUN cargo --config .cargo/config-v4.toml build --release --features jit-native 2>&1 && echo "=== AVX-512 JIT BUILD OK ===" | ||
| RUN cargo --config .cargo/config-v4.toml test --release --lib -- hpc:: 2>&1 && echo "=== AVX-512 HPC TESTS OK ===" |
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Copy the Cargo configuration into the builder.
These commands read .cargo/config-v4.toml, but no prior instruction copies .cargo/ into /app. The first command fails because the config file does not exist in the image. Copy .cargo/ before these commands.
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Three separable commits. The first is the code fold that was already planned; the second and third came out of a landmine the first one stepped on.
1.
simd_masking_ops: fold the 12 predicate tails into onepack<const L>(ecf27aac)Every contiguous
*_to_maskpredicate carried its own hand-rolledif !tail.is_empty()branch — the same four lines twelve times, each re-deriving the word index, the shift, and the lane-validity mask, each an independent chance to get one of the three wrong.pack<T, const L>is the ungated sibling of the existingpack_under: oneas_chunks::<L>()body, one zero-padded tail run through the same closure as the body, onedebug_assertholding the closure contract (bits aboveliveare zero) that keeps a padding lane from ever contributing a match. The twelve functions become a splat plus one call. Net −128 lines.Two helpers join
live16so each register width names its validity mask at one site:live8(8-laneu64groups) andlive64(au8x64group is one whole mask word).Scope: this retires the PREDICATE tails only. The 11 mask-algebra tails (
mask_and/or/xor/andnot(_assign),mask_shift_morton) are a different kind — they copy lanes back out rather than packing bits in — and are the target of the VL descent, not of this packer.2. Default
target-cpubecomesnative; v3 moves to an explicit pin (ad7fb480)A default that names a tier the host is not means every AVX-512 measurement needs an incantation — and a forgotten incantation does not fail, it grades the wrong tier in silence.
That is not hypothetical; it is what prompted this. While gating commit 1,
scripts/codegen-witness.sh avx512was run withoutCARGO_ARGS='--config .cargo/config-v4.toml'. It built v3 and reported threeFAIL: … has no vpternlog on an AVX-512 buildon probe symbols the change under test never touched. The assertion was right, the build was the wrong one, and nothing in the output said so. After the flip the same bare command passes with 6vpternlog.nativecannot mis-grade that way: rustc resolves the host CPUID, so the default arm is always one the machine can run, and it cannot SIGILL by construction.What did not change: v3 is still the portable distribution baseline. It moved out of the unnamed default into
.cargo/config-v3.toml, so a row that depends on it says so. The pin is load-bearing in both directions, measured two-sided on an AVX-512 host:codegen-witness.sh avx2barehas no packed logic(grading v4 assembly)codegen-witness.sh avx2+config-v3Overlay semantics were verified rather than assumed (
cargo build -p encryption -v): cargo joinstarget.<cfg>.rustflagsacross config files and the last-Ctarget-cpuwins, soconfig-v3.tomlcarries the target-cpu only and the two crypto-backend cfgs come through the join intact.Two real defects this surfaced on day one
Both live in code the v3 default never compiled, and therefore never linted:
src/simd_int_ops.rs—needless_returnin the runtime-VNNI block. The lint is config-dependent: the trailing scalar fallback is cfg'd out whenavx512vnni/avxvnniis a compile feature, making the secondreturntrailing there while it stays load-bearing on v3.allow, notexpect—expectwould fail the v3 build for the lint not firing.examples/ternlogq_tail_descent_probe.rs—print_literal. The example isavx512f + avx512vlgated, so ternlogq tail: padded zmm vs zmm→ymm→xmm descent, measured (AVX-512) #311's clippy run never compiled it.CI
The portable matrix row now pins v3 instead of inheriting it. A new
host-nativerow reports what a GitHub runner actually is (lscpuplus the parity program's ownavx512f=header). It iscontinue-on-erroron purpose — a row whose result is "whatever this runner happens to be" must not gate a merge on pool scheduling. Promoting it means adding an explicit pin, not deleting the flag.3. Restore the crypto-backend cfgs the global RUSTFLAGS had disabled (
d2e62d0e)Separate from the target-cpu change, and the more serious half.
ci.yamlsets a workflow-globalRUSTFLAGS: "-D warnings". A RUSTFLAGS env replaces every cargo-configrustflagsentry rather than joining it — so from the moment that variable was introduced, nothing in.cargo/config.tomlhas applied to any job in this workflow. Not the target-cpu, and not the two cfgs that compile out curve25519-dalek's AVX2 backend (57 raw_mm*intrinsics under 52unsafe) and poly1305's (424 under 30).Those are second and third unaudited SIMD surfaces beside
ndarray::simd, in the crypto path..cargo/config.tomlargues at length for keeping them out of the binary. In CI they were in.-Ctarget-cpupoly1305_force_soft-D warnings-D warnings+ the two cfgsOnly the arch-neutral half is restored.
-Ctarget-cpustays out for the reason it was removed (i686 is 32-bit, s390x is not x86); both cfgs are read by their crates on every arch and are safe across the cross matrix.The generalizable rule, now recorded in the file: a flag added to a RUSTFLAGS env does not add to the cargo config, it replaces it. A config that can be silently replaced is not a guarantee.
Gates
All exit codes checked, never a piped tail.
cargo test --lib(native)--lib --examples --tests -D warningscargo fmt --checkcargo test --no-run --no-default-featurescodegen-witness avx512(bare)codegen-witness avx2(+config-v3)masking-paritynativeavx512f=truemasking-parity(+config-v3)avx512f=falseCommits 2 and 3 are deliberately separable so either can be reverted without the other.
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