Update: prewarm each chip with one internal TMR task

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Summary

• run one internal TMR prewarm task before the first activated run of each ChipWorker, so repeated benchmark rounds warm each chip exactly once
• exercise the normal prepare, launch, AICPU/AICore handshake, scheduler dispatch, completion, and finalize path without invoking user orchestration or executing a user kernel
• dispatch a zero function address during prewarm and exclude output copyback, acceptance publication, and pipeline-generation consumption
• support TMR on A2/A3 and A5 for simulator and onboard backends; unsupported runtimes such as HBG skip the internal prewarm
• emit the outer prewarm wall as chip.prewarm.run; benchmark round statistics accept only invocations whose depth-0 root is the official chip.run
• keep the implementation below PyPTO/scene APIs and retain prewarm visibility in non-round Host trace views

Validation

• rebased onto upstream main at 5d046b19
• staged pre-commit passed, including clang-format, clang-tidy, cpplint, ruff, and pyright
• test_strace_timing.py: 59/59 passed
• focused C++ tests test_chip_run_lane and test_native_run_acceptance: 2/2 passed
• editable package rebuild passed, compiling packaged A2/A3 and A5 simulator/onboard runtimes
• two-round TMR simulator smoke passed for A2/A3 and A5
• an existing single-card A5 level-4 swimlane log now parses as exactly one official round; no local hardware or multi-card test was run for this update

Notes

• final diff contains 25 files and one commit
• safe compression moved run-flag zero initialization into the descriptor and simplified the one-time lane state/error path
• no .claude, scene_test.py, HBG runtime, Qwen example, or PyPTO upper-layer changes are included

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds one-time per-chip prewarm dry runs. Runtime flags propagate through native-run preparation, tracing, scheduling, dispatch, validation, and timing analysis. Prewarm dispatches use protocol no-ops and do not count as official rounds.

Changes

Prewarm dry-run execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Run flags and trace naming src/common/worker/*, src/common/host_build_graph/*, src/common/platform/*, tests/ut/cpp/common/*	NativeRunDescriptor carries the prewarm flag. Runtime components propagate the flag and rename chip.run spans to chip.prewarm spans.
Lane prewarm lifecycle src/common/worker/chip_run_lane.cpp, src/common/worker/chip_worker.*, tests/ut/cpp/hierarchical/test_chip_run_lane.cpp	ChipRunLane performs one dry run before the first official run. Unsupported runs are skipped. Preparation and launch failures poison the lane.
Runtime dispatch and validation src/a2a3/*, src/a5/*, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Schedulers avoid callable resolution and emit zero function addresses during prewarm. Runtime validation skips tensor copy-back for prewarm runs.
Timing rules and documentation docs/testing.md, simpler_setup/tools/strace_timing.py, tests/ut/py/*	Documentation separates prewarm runs from official rounds. Timing tables exclude prewarm-only invocations and spans.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ee291

Prewarm-only traces can produce a misleading diagnostic that says no trace markers were found. This does not affect execution or timing calculations, but should be clarified for benchmark users.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChipRunLane
  participant ChipWorker
  participant Runtime
  participant SchedulerContext
  participant TraceRecorder
  ChipRunLane->>ChipWorker: prepare prewarm native run
  ChipWorker->>Runtime: pass NativeRunDescriptor.flags
  Runtime->>SchedulerContext: propagate prewarm run flags
  SchedulerContext->>SchedulerContext: emit zero-address protocol no-op
  Runtime->>TraceRecorder: emit chip.prewarm spans
  ChipRunLane->>ChipWorker: finalize dry run
  ChipRunLane->>ChipWorker: prepare official run

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Poem

A rabbit flags the warm-up run
Zeroed kernels hop past the sun
Traces bloom in prewarm hue
Round counts keep the real runs true
The lane stamps one soft pawprint
Then official work begins in mint

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 21.10% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 109 functions across 37 files. (1 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding one internal TMR prewarm task for each chip.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the per-chip prewarm behavior, execution scope, supported runtimes, tracing, and validation results.

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Docstring coverage is 21.10% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 109 functions across 37 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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