Refactor: make a Graph boundary scalar a formal parameter - #2160
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The non-const Arg::scalar() had no legal caller. A Graph body that wrote through it produced an INVALIDATED_BOUNDARY source, which marked the whole recording unsupported, and the only in-repo user was the unit test written for that rejection. Removing the entry removes the reason for everything behind it: scalar_sources_invalidated_, invalidated_scalar_source(), the INVALIDATED_BOUNDARY source kind, and the three branches that consumed it. Readers of scalar() resolve to the const overload unchanged. copy_scalars_from now accepts an Arg of any capacity. It was declared against its own instantiation, so forwarding a Graph boundary scalar into a task's CoreTaskArgs -- the idiom GRAPH_EXECUTION.md recommends -- has never compiled, which is why the repo holds no call site for it. A successful orchestration compile's stderr now reaches the reader through warnings.warn, which pytest reports with no flag given. It went to a DEBUG log line that nothing displays: pytest hides logger output below ERROR unless --log-cli-level is passed, and the resource scheduler's child processes do not inherit that option. The kernel toolchains stay on the quiet path, since they carry pre-existing warnings that would bury the ones this exists to show. GRAPH_EXECUTION.md drops the paragraphs describing the removed invalidation rule, and names GraphTaskArgs rather than CoreTaskArgs as the type a Graph function receives.
A body that read a boundary scalar and one that read a constant were the same thing in the type system: both a uint64_t in the same slot array. Recording recovered the difference by comparing the host address the caller happened to pass against the boundary's slot range, so a body that loaded a parameter into a local and forwarded the local recorded a constant instead, silently, and every later replay reused that stale value. A slot is now a ScalarSource -- a union of an origin pointer and a value, discriminated by Arg::scalar_inherited(i) -- and Arg::scalar(i) hands out an InheritableScalar naming that origin rather than the value. Forwarding one keeps the inheritance; reading its number goes through a deprecated conversion, so the point where a body drops a parameter is a compiler diagnostic. scalar(i) folds an already-inherited slot to its own origin, so a chain is one hop deep and recording resolves it with a single subtraction -- the same subtraction that proves the origin is a parameter of this boundary. An origin that is not such a parameter is recorded as a static value rather than rejected. A Definition's inheritance entries index its own boundary alone, so no other slot can be refreshed on replay, and the value the slot already resolved is what the image should carry. GraphScalarInheritance replaces the GraphScalarSourceKind and GraphScalarSourceRef pair. Recording knows two things about a slot -- whether it inherits, and which parameter it inherits -- so a bool and an index say both, and the constructor sits behind self_value() and from_boundary() so no wire entry can be assembled carrying an index that means nothing. TaskPayload::init resolves through pack_scalars() instead of a bulk memcpy of the slot array. An inherited slot's word is a host pointer, where the device's scalar pool is an array of values.
Arg was a struct whose storage was reachable from outside it. Nine members sat in public sections: the base-class using declarations for tensors_, tags_ and the two counts, has_error and error_msg, and the three codegen-author knobs that already had matching accessors. Neither array is readable without the discriminator that sits beside it -- a TensorRef's active union member is selected by tags_[i], a ScalarSource's by scalar_inherited_[i] -- so reading one raw is the same class of undefined behaviour that scalars_ was already held back to prevent. has_error and error_msg become has_error_ and error_msg_ behind has_error() and error_msg(). Every caller was already a read, and the using declarations in both arg_with_deps.h forward the accessor under the same name. launch_spec stays public: its call sites are the codegen contract and its generator lives in another repository. Arg is a class rather than a struct, so its base is spelled public explicitly and both friend declarations follow the tag. Functions and members sit in separate runs instead of alternating. copy_scalars_from is removed. Forwarding a boundary scalar is add_scalar(args.scalar(i)), and an InheritableScalar holds a bare origin pointer, so it crosses two Arg capacities without either naming the other -- which is what made the function a template over the source's capacities, and what made it need a friend declaration to read another instantiation's slots. Neither is left. pypto and pypto-lib hold no call site; of the two cases that used it, the chain-folding one forwards through add_scalar instead and the capacity-crossing one duplicated ForwardedScalarRetainsBoundarySource, which crosses the same two capacities.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces scalar source descriptors with inheritance metadata across graph arguments, recording, graph images, and execution. It updates callers and tests for the new API. It also adds opt-in compiler diagnostic warnings for orchestration shared-library builds. ChangesGraph scalar inheritance
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The Graph examples currently do not compile and may mislead users about scalar forwarding, but the implementation itself has no confirmed blocking defect. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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GraphTaskArgs->>Orchestrator: submit scalar arguments
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In `@src/common/host_build_graph/docs/GRAPH_EXECUTION.md`:
- Line 48: Update both Graph examples to use GraphTaskArgs for every Graph
boundary parameter, including the Graph body and rt_submit_graph wrapper, while
retaining CoreTaskArgs for in-graph task arguments. Preserve
add_scalar(args.scalar(0)) for replay-time inheritance and describe it as a
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static_cast<DataType>(args.scalar(i)) did not compile. A conversion to an enumeration does not accept a user-defined conversion on the way, so the operator that makes an ordinary integral read merely warn could not be reached at all. paged_attention_unroll is the one such site in the tree, and it failed the a2a3 onboard scene tests. InheritableScalar::to<T>() is that read, and Arg::static_scalar<T>(i) is gone with it. One entry point rather than two for a single idea: scalar(i) answers the parameter, .to<T>() answers its value, and the deprecated conversion is what an accidental read still lands on. The two spellings were equivalent anyway, since scalar(i) folds to an origin that holds its own value by invariant. GRAPH_EXECUTION.md drops the paragraph directing readers to add_static_scalar(v), which no code has ever defined, and records that to<T>() is the only spelling reaching an enum.
A public base is reachable by an implicit derived-to-base conversion, and its members are public through that reference however the derived class hides their names: static_cast<const Base &>(args).tags_ read the tag array the accessors exist to mediate, so closing Arg's own scope left the storage open. Nothing in the tree converts an Arg to its base, so the base is private now and its API re-exported one name at a time -- tensor, tensor_count, tensor_data, tag, tag_data, scalar_count. A static_assert on the non-convertibility holds it there. Three EXPECT_EQ calls read a parameter as a value -- the shape this work exists to make visible -- and produced no diagnostic. The conversion happens inside gtest's own header, and GCC suppresses a deprecation instantiated in a system header. So the warning is an inventory of the value reads written in this repo's own code, not of every value read: one reached through a system-header template stays silent. They read through to<T>() now, which also lets the float slot be compared as a float rather than as the bit pattern it stores. add_scalars(nullptr, 0) is gone from ZeroInitialisedSlotsReadAsStaticZero. It was a no-op that reached memcpy(dst, nullptr, 0), undefined however the length reads. Two comments described the file as it no longer is: the class banner named uint64_t as the slot type, and the private using block still credited the friend declaration that left with copy_scalars_from.
A private constructor kept the pair from being built inconsistently, but left both fields public afterwards, so `entry.inherited = true` on an entry that names no parameter was still a legal statement. The fields are private now, behind inherited() and boundary_index(), and every field shares one access level so the type stays standard-layout and safe to memcpy to the device. The index is still a claim about a boundary this entry cannot see, so what holds it in range is unchanged: the packer bounds it against the recording's own boundary, and materialize bounds it again against the invocation's. Making the type unable to hold a contradiction is not the same as making the number right, and only the second one needs those checks. reserved_ is named and set rather than left to implicit padding, so all four bytes an entry occupies in the image are written.
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Both examples declared their Graph boundary parameter as CoreTaskArgs, which no rt_submit_graph overload accepts: GraphFunction is void (*)(const GraphTaskArgs &), and the two Arg instantiations differ in capacity and are non-copyable, so neither example compiles as written. The in-graph task arguments stay CoreTaskArgs, and the opening line now names which type belongs on which side. The forwarding comment states what the slot is rather than what it held at record time: it names the boundary parameter every replay re-reads.
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What
Makes a Graph boundary scalar a formal parameter of the recorded body, and
tightens
Arg's surface to match.Six commits, each standalone:
Refactor: retire the writable scalar slot and its invalidation machineryThe non-const
Arg::scalar()had no legal caller — a Graph body that wrotethrough it marked the whole recording unsupported, and the only in-repo user
was the test written for that rejection. Removing the entry removes
scalar_sources_invalidated_,invalidated_scalar_source(), theINVALIDATED_BOUNDARYsource kind and its three consumers.Also:
copy_scalars_fromaccepted only its own instantiation, so theboundary-forwarding idiom
GRAPH_EXECUTION.mdrecommends had nevercompiled. And a successful orchestration compile's stderr now reaches the
reader through
warnings.warn, which pytest reports with no flag — it usedto go to a DEBUG log line nothing displays.
Refactor: make a Graph boundary scalar a formal parameterThe defect this PR exists for: a body that read a boundary scalar and one
that read a constant were the same thing in the type system. Recording
recovered the difference by comparing the host address the caller happened to
pass against the boundary's slot range, so a body that loaded a parameter
into a local and forwarded the local recorded a constant instead —
silently — and every later replay reused that stale value.
A slot is now a
ScalarSource(a union of an origin pointer and a value,discriminated by
Arg::scalar_inherited(i)), andArg::scalar(i)hands outan
InheritableScalarnaming that origin rather than the value. Forwardingone keeps the inheritance; reading its number goes through a deprecated
conversion, so the point where a body drops a parameter is now a compiler
diagnostic instead of a silent behaviour change.
Refactor: close Arg's public surface down to its APINine members sat in public sections.
tensors_/tags_are the same class ofhazard
scalars_was already held back for: aTensorRef's active unionmember is selected by
tags_[i], so a raw read is undefined behaviour whenthe tag says otherwise.
has_error/error_msgbecome accessors;Argbecomes a
class;copy_scalars_fromis removed.Fix: give a boundary parameter one spelling for reading its valuestatic_cast<DataType>(args.scalar(i))did not compile: a conversion to anenumeration does not accept a user-defined one on the way, so the operator
that makes an integral read merely warn could not be reached at all. That
is
InheritableScalar::to<T>()now, andArg::static_scalar<T>(i)is gonewith it — one entry point rather than two for a single idea.
Refactor: make Arg's storage base privateCommit 3 closed
Arg's own scope but not the storage: a public base isreachable by an implicit derived-to-base conversion, through which the
members are public again however the derived class hides their names. The
base is private now, its API re-exported one name at a time, with a
static_asserton the non-convertibility holding it there.Refactor: set a wire scalar-inheritance entry's two fields togetherA private constructor stopped inconsistent construction but left both
fields public afterwards. They are private now, behind accessors.
Why the deprecated conversion
InheritableScalar::operator uint64_t()is marked[[deprecated]]on purpose.-Wdeprecated-declarationsis on by default in GCC (not gated behind-Wall),so every site that reads a boundary parameter as a number now warns at the
exact line that freezes it. Forwarding stays silent, and
args.scalar(i).to<T>()is the spelling for a value read that is deliberate.This surfaces existing orchestration read sites. They are correct today (they
read parameters that genuinely are constants at that point) and migrate to
to<T>()separately — the warning is the inventory, not a regression.One limit on that inventory. GCC suppresses a deprecation diagnostic
instantiated inside a system header, so a value read whose conversion happens
in third-party template code stays silent.
EXPECT_EQ(args.scalar(i), v)is thecase found in this PR's own tests: gtest takes both operands by reference and
compares them inside its header, so the conversion never appears at a line in
repo code. The warning is therefore an inventory of the value reads written in
this repo, which is what the migration needs, but it is not a proof that no
value read exists. Making the conversion
explicitwould close that gap at thecost of breaking every existing read site at once; that is a separate decision.
Chain folding
scalar(i)returns an already-inherited slot's origin rather than the slot,so an inheritance chain is always exactly one link:
CinheritingBinheriting
ArecordsAdirectly. Recording resolves it with a singlesubtraction against the boundary's slot base — the same subtraction that proves
the origin belongs to this boundary.
An origin that is not a parameter of the recording's own boundary is recorded as
a static value rather than rejected: a Definition's inheritance entries index
its own boundary alone, so nothing else can be refreshed on replay, and the value
the slot already resolved is what the image should carry.
Wire format
GraphScalarInheritancereplaces theGraphScalarSourceKind+GraphScalarSourceRefpair. Recording knows two things about a slot — whether itinherits, and which parameter it inherits — so a
booland an index say both.Both fields are private behind
inherited()/boundary_index()and are setonly together, through
self_value()/from_boundary(), so an entry claimingto inherit while naming no parameter cannot be spelled.
That is a statement about the type, not about the number. The index is a claim
about a boundary the entry cannot see, so what keeps it in range is unchanged and
still necessary: the packer bounds it against the recording's own boundary, and
materialize bounds it again against the invocation's.
copy_scalars_fromremovalForwarding a boundary scalar is
add_scalar(args.scalar(i)). AnInheritableScalarholds a bare origin pointer, so it crosses twoArgcapacities without either naming the other — which is what made
copy_scalars_froma template over the source's capacities, and what made itneed a cross-instantiation
friend. Neither is left.pyptoandpypto-libhold no call site (checked ata18c4cf9/56c01e1).The
tensormap_and_ringbuffercopies are untouched.Test
cpput: 135/135tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graphona2a3sim: 12 passed, 7 skippedstatic_cast<DataType>failure; re-runpending
New cases in
test_hbg_graph_cache.cppcover the provenance rules: a forwardedscalar retains its boundary source, folding keeps a chain at one hop through an
intermediary, a value scalar holds its own value, and an origin outside the
boundary records as static. A
static_assertpins thatArgis not convertibleto its storage base.