frost(sdpa): order every execute-path tensor prep on the launch stream (Rule 5) - #614
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SDPA forward API now orders tensor preparation, initialization, metadata work, and copy-back operations on the resolved launch stream across SM100, MXFP8, FP8, and SM120 execution paths. SM120 handling also retains expanded THD arguments and updates FP8 setup. ChangesLaunch-stream ordering
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The FP8 execute paths can produce incorrect results when non-unit S scaling is provided, and invalid scale tensors may cause runtime allocation or device-pointer failures; an existing SM120 THD workspace concern also remains open. The current head should not merge until the correctness and runtime-safety issues are addressed. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Line 1487: Rename the ambiguous local variable O at both sites in the relevant
kernel-output logic to a clear, non-ambiguous name, and update every local
reference consistently without changing behavior.
- Around line 2479-2480: Update the THD execution path around carver.take so it
never calls torch.empty during execute. Require a caller-provided workspace or
provision reusable scratch before execute, then carve the metadata from that
workspace while preserving the existing tensor shape and dtype.
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| K = self._to_bshd(k_tensor) | ||
| V = self._to_bshd(v_tensor) | ||
| O_view, o_needs_copy_back, O_scratch = self._to_bshd_writable(o_tensor) | ||
| O = O_scratch if o_needs_copy_back else O_view |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Resolve Ruff E741.
Ruff reports O as an ambiguous variable name at both sites. Rename it to a non-ambiguous kernel-output variable and update its local uses.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` at line 1487, Rename the ambiguous local
variable O at both sites in the relevant kernel-output logic to a clear,
non-ambiguous name, and update every local reference consistently without
changing behavior.
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| with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, dev): | ||
| meta = carver.take(3 * b + 2, torch.int32) if carver is not None else torch.empty(3 * b + 2, dtype=torch.int32, device=dev) |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Remove the per-execute metadata allocation.
When workspace is None, Line 2480 calls torch.empty() on the execute path. This breaks the THD hot-path contract and can make direct API execution allocate during CUDA graph capture. Require caller workspace for THD execution, or provision reusable scratch before execute().
As per coding guidelines, "execute() is a zero-surprise hot path" and scratch must be carved from the caller workspace.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 2479 - 2480, Update the THD
execution path around carver.take so it never calls torch.empty during execute.
Require a caller-provided workspace or provision reusable scratch before
execute, then carve the metadata from that workspace while preserving the
existing tensor shape and dtype.
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474-490: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRequire
_scale_viewto return a device-local scalar view.Reject scale tensors when
t.device != device,t.numel() != 1, ornot t.is_contiguous(). Otherwise,reshape(-1)can allocate duringexecute(), and a scale from another CUDA device can pass an invalid pointer to the kernel.Proposed fix
self._value_error_if( - not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device.type != "cuda", - f"{name} must be a CUDA tensor; got {type(t).__name__}", + not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device != device, + f"{name} must be a torch.Tensor on {device}; got {type(t).__name__} on {getattr(t, 'device', None)}", ) self._value_error_if( - t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() < 1, - f"{name} must be a 1-element fp32 tensor; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()}", + t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() != 1 or not t.is_contiguous(), + f"{name} must be one contiguous fp32 element; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()} strides={tuple(t.stride())}", ) - return t.reshape(-1)[:1] + return t.view(-1)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 1596-1601: Propagate descale_s and scale_s through graph facts,
SdpaBinding, bound_tensors(), execute kwargs, and both FP8 execute paths,
including the paths around _scale_view and the referenced execution range.
Validate that both values are exactly 1.0 and reject any unsupported S scaling
before execution; do not substitute reciprocal values or discard the arguments.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 474-490: Update _scale_view to require t.device == device, exactly
one element, and contiguous storage before returning it; reject all violations
through the existing validation path. Preserve the None dummy behavior and
return the validated tensor as a device-local scalar view without allowing
reshape to allocate during execute().
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| # Rule 3: the scales stay on device — the kernel loads and folds | ||
| # descale_q*descale_k into the softmax scale and descale_v*scale_o | ||
| # into o_scale_fused; the scalar args carry only the bases. | ||
| # (descale_s/scale_s never reach this layer: the lowering does not | ||
| # forward them, and P is cast with the baked P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE bias.) | ||
| dq_t = self._scale_view(descale_q, "descale_q", device) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Propagate and validate descale_s and scale_s.
Both FP8 paths discard descale_s and scale_s. The execute signatures cannot receive the values, so the paths cannot reject unsupported S scaling. Reciprocal values are not equivalent because they change FP8 quantization rounding and underflow.
Propagate both values through graph facts, SdpaBinding, bound_tensors(), execute kwargs, and both FP8 execute paths. Until kernel support exists, accept only descale_s == 1.0 and scale_s == 1.0.
Based on learnings, SM100 and SM120 FP8 kernels require the exact unit S-scale pair because they cast S to E4M3 without S scaling.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1596 - 1601, Propagate
descale_s and scale_s through graph facts, SdpaBinding, bound_tensors(), execute
kwargs, and both FP8 execute paths, including the paths around _scale_view and
the referenced execution range. Validate that both values are exactly 1.0 and
reject any unsupported S scaling before execution; do not substitute reciprocal
values or discard the arguments.
Source: Learnings
…m (Rule 5) The execute paths resolved the launch stream but ran their tensor prep on torch's CURRENT stream: _to_bshd's gather copy (non-compact layouts), the cached dummies' first-use zero-fill, _reshape_sf's .contiguous(), and some O-scratch copy-backs / amax post-ops. With an explicit caller stream (the execute-time handle's), that work races the kernel launch — same class of bug as the PR NVIDIA#543 THD-upload race, and flagged by review on PR NVIDIA#608. Fix, uniformly across the five sites (SM100 dense f16 / mxfp8 / fp8, SM120 dense f16 / fp8): resolve current_stream FIRST, run the prep inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), and put the consumers (copy-backs, amax div) in the same context — matching what the THD paths and the amax resets already did. Rebased over NVIDIA#619's device scale-fold: the fp8 paths' _scale_view calls sit inside the wrap too — None binds a cached 1.0 dummy whose first-use torch.ones fill is itself a launch — and the post-kernel amax_o.div_(scale_o view) is a device op inside the consumer wrap. The PyTorch-integration path launches on torch's current stream, where the context is a no-op; only direct graph-API users with an explicit stream were exposed. Validated: SM100 (B200, 9.26) fwd dsl + fp8 + mxfp8 + stream-respect + stream-ordering + async/capture suites L0+L1: 546 passed, 0 failed. SM120 (RTX 5080, 9.24) fwd dsl + fp8 + the same stream suites L0+L1: 173 passed, 17 skipped, 0 failed.
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FROST SM100/SM120 SDPA forward execute paths (
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py)Summary
The dense/fp8/mxfp8 execute paths resolved the launch stream but ran their tensor prep on torch's current stream:
_to_bshd's gather copy (non-compact layouts), the cached dummies' first-use zero-fill,_reshape_sf's.contiguous(), and some O-scratch copy-backs / amax post-ops. With an explicit caller stream (the execute-time handle's), that work races the kernel launch — the same class of bug as the PR #543 THD-upload race, and flagged by review on #608.Fix, uniformly across the five sites (SM100 dense f16 / mxfp8 / fp8, SM120 dense f16 / fp8): resolve
current_streamFIRST, run the prep inside_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), and put the consumers (copy-backs,amax_o.div_()) in the same context — matching what the THD paths and the amax resets already did per AGENTS.md Rule 5.Rebased over #619's device scale-fold: the fp8 paths'
_scale_viewcalls are inside the wrap too —Nonebinds a cached 1.0 dummy whose first-usetorch.onesfill is itself a launch, so it needs the same ordering (and the post-kernelamax_o.div_(scale_o_view)is now a device op inside the consumer wrap).The PyTorch-integration path launches on torch's current stream, where the context is a no-op; only direct graph-API users with an explicit stream were exposed.
Validation
test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py+test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py+test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py+test_sdpa_stream_respect.py+test_sdpa_stream_ordering.py+test_sdpa_execute_is_async.py, L0+L1 — 546 passed, 0 failed.test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py+test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm120.py+ stream/async suites, L0+L1 — 173 passed, 17 skipped, 0 failed — the former "10 known head_dim_tail" failures are gone (they were stale direct-call-helper TypeErrors, fixed on develop via frost(sdpa): #608 follow-ups — stale THD docs; FP8 scales fold in-kernel (Rule 3, Scale_S gone below the graph); baked 2^4 P-cast bias #619).🤖 Generated with Claude Code