Support: refine A5 HBG scheduler swimlane phases

[zhusy54]

Problem

The A5 host-build-graph profiling schema still reflected implementation-detail claim timing and per-worker AICPU lifecycle records. This made deferred Scheduler work hard to interpret, produced misleading lane identities, and did not match the final flat swimlane model.

The change

• Emit flat, non-overlapping per-task Scheduler phases: Completion, Resolve, StateProbe, and one publication phase: Dispatch, Worksteal, or Refill.
• Preserve the original StateProbe start for deferred tasks. StateProbe covers local Ready selection or stealing and ends before deferred waiting; the later publication is recorded independently.
• Label Scheduler lanes with the physical AIV ID, for example Scheduler 26, and label task phases with the actual task ID, for example StateProbe(t23).
• Collect AICPU Lifecycle directly per AICPU thread instead of duplicating it per Scheduler worker. The merged swimlane now shows AICPU Thread 0 through AICPU Thread 4.
• Remove obsolete claim timestamps plus unconsumed fanin, bootstrap-end, and Scheduler-tail profiling data and its aggregation work. Reserved fields retain the existing shared cache-line and structure layout where required.
• Use PLATFORM_MAX_AICPU_THREADS consistently for the new lifecycle buffer layout, invalidation, collection, and tests.
• Keep fanin and the former claim phases accepted only for old captures, and document that a stolen task published through a completed Slot remains Refill.
• Add A5 Bootstrap to the public phase taxonomy and update shared DFX consumers, documentation, and tests for the new schema.

Semantics

For a deferred task, StateProbe begins at the original scheduling decision and ends after Ready selection or stealing, before the task waits for publication capacity. Dispatch, Worksteal, or Refill starts only when the task is actually published. Completion and Resolve remain separate phases. A refill is classified by completed-Slot reuse, so a task with a stolen Ready source is still displayed as Refill when published through that path.

Correctness and scope

• Runtime changes are limited to A5 host-build-graph profiling.
• A2/A3 and TMR runtime behavior is unchanged.
• Shared DFX changes recognize and render the A5 records without changing TMR lane behavior.
• Scheduler shared structure sizes, alignment, and critical offsets remain guarded by compile-time tests.
• Test code remains compatible with the projects declared Python 3.9 baseline.

Reviewer guide

• Check StateProbe and deferred publication boundaries in scheduler_ready.h, scheduler_dispatch.h, and scheduler_completion.h.
• Check task and lifecycle serialization in runtime_maker.cpp.
• Check physical AIV lane naming, task labels, and AICPU thread lanes in swimlane_converter.py.
• Check reserved layout substitutions and retired profiling storage in scheduler_types.h.

Testing

Post-review cleanup validation on the current head:

• Focused A5 HBG Scheduler C++ unit tests: 3 passed
• Swimlane converter Python unit tests: 72 passed
• Clang-format, Ruff formatting/lint, and git diff --check: passed
• CI rerun: in progress

Original PR validation before the review cleanup:

• Editable package rebuild: pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
• Python DFX unit tests: 119 passed
• Full C++ non-hardware unit suite: 140 passed
• A5 simulator Level 4 scheduler-phase test: passed
• A5 hardware Level 4 scheduler-phase test on Ascend 950: passed
• Hardware trace audit: 5 AICPU thread records, physical Scheduler lane IDs, task-ID phase labels, zero dropped Scheduler records, and zero Scheduler/Lifecycle lane overlaps

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change updates A5 AICore Scheduler profiling from legacy nested records to flat, mutually exclusive phases. Runtime timing, record emission, analysis, swimlane rendering, documentation, and tests now support state_probe, dispatch, worksteal, and refill.

Changes

AICore Scheduler profiling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scheduler timing contracts src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/...	Adds timing fields and source values for state probes, deferred work, refill claims, and completion boundaries.
Scheduler record emission src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp	Emits flat state_probe, dispatch, worksteal, and refill records. Removes nested fanin emission.
Analysis and swimlane rendering simpler_setup/tools/...	Recognizes the new phases, assigns labels and colors, and keeps AICore resolve records on the scheduler lane.
Documentation and validation docs/..., src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/..., tests/...	Documents the phase model and verifies phase counts, task coverage, lane rendering, and non-overlapping records.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AICoreScheduler
  participant RuntimeMaker
  participant SwimlaneConverter
  participant Analysis
  AICoreScheduler->>RuntimeMaker: emit phase timing and source data
  RuntimeMaker->>SwimlaneConverter: provide flat scheduler records
  RuntimeMaker->>Analysis: provide phase records
  SwimlaneConverter->>SwimlaneConverter: render phases on one scheduler lane
  Analysis->>Analysis: classify and total scheduler phases

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7ff65

This changes A5 scheduler profiling into flat completion, resolve, probe, and publication phases. A2A3 remains inconsistent with the new behavior and documentation, while the scheduler integration test cannot run on supported Python 3.9; these issues should be corrected before merge to preserve reliable profiling output and validation.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md`:
- Around line 330-341: Add a `bootstrap` row to the scheduler phase taxonomy
alongside the existing A5 HBG AICore entries, identifying the AICore Scheduler
lane and describing its initialization work before initial task publication.

In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/docs/profiling_levels.md`:
- Line 458: Mirror the scheduler-phase documentation update from the A5
profiling guide in the corresponding A2A3 profiling_levels.md file, preserving
byte-for-byte parity between the corresponding host_build_graph documentation
files.

In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h`:
- Around line 669-671: Apply the corresponding A5 scheduler updates to A2A3: add
the new ready-source values and timing fields in scheduler_types.h, then update
runtime_maker.cpp to consume them consistently. Preserve scheduler phase-record
behavior so A2A3 matches A5.

In `@tests/st/a5/host_build_graph/dfx/chip_swimlane/test_scheduler_phases.py`:
- Line 141: Update the zip call in the loop over ordered intervals to remove the
unsupported strict keyword argument, preserving the existing pairwise iteration
and overlap assertion behavior for Python 3.9.

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• docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md
• simpler_setup/tools/README.md
• simpler_setup/tools/sched_overhead_analysis.py
• simpler_setup/tools/scheduler_phase_records.py
• simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py
• 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/scheduler/scheduler_completion.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_dispatch.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h
• tests/st/a5/host_build_graph/dfx/chip_swimlane/test_scheduler_phases.py
• tests/ut/py/test_sched_overhead_analysis.py
• tests/ut/py/test_swimlane_converter.py

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Review follow-up summary

1. Dead fanin_* writes — addressed. Removed the AICore writes and replaced the four shared-layout fields with fanin_timing_reserved[4]. The stale bootstrap ownership comment was removed.
2. Unused SchedulerWorkerContext::bootstrap_end_cycles — addressed. Removed its stats collection and publication. The wire-layout position is retained as reserved storage; Host profiling continues to use target_bootstrap_end_cycles.
3. Missing fanin compatibility note — addressed. The documentation now lists fanin with ready_claim, ready_steal, and direct_refill as legacy-capture input accepted by the converter but no longer emitted by the current runtime.
4. Mixed AICPU thread-capacity constants — scoped fix. The lifecycle buffer layout, invalidation/collection path, and contract test now consistently use PLATFORM_MAX_AICPU_THREADS. The pre-existing runtime alias MAX_AICPU_THREADS was not removed repository-wide because that cleanup is broader than this PR.
5. Unobservable SchedulerTailTrace aggregate semantics — removed instead of documented. Host does not consume this payload, so SchedulerTailTrace, its publisher, and the timing types/calculations used only to populate it were deleted. Equivalent reserved storage preserves SchedulerWorkerContext size and offsets.
6. STOLEN + REFILL display semantics — documented without redefining phases. Reusing a completed Slot remains Refill regardless of whether the Ready source was local or stolen. Worksteal denotes a stolen task on the non-refill publication path. Runtime and converter classification are unchanged.
7. Converter readability — addressed. Hoisted AICore Scheduler phase display names to a module-level constant and replaced the nested conditional expression with if/elif/else.
8. scheduler_metadata_reserved[4] clearing — not changed. The scheduler-state buffer is zero-initialized and this field is no longer written during Slot reuse, so there is no path that carries a previous-fill value.

Validation after the cleanup: the three focused A5 HBG Scheduler C++ unit tests and all 72 swimlane-converter Python unit tests pass; clang-format, Ruff, and git diff --check also pass.