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Stacked on #606 — only the last commit (eb268cf4b) is new; the rest is #606's content and will fall out of the diff when it merges.

Port of #606's design to SdpaFwdDslSm120 (f16 + per-tensor FP8): THD execute with zero device-to-host reads, CUDA-graph capturable. This closes the last forward-THD leg of #552_thd_host_lens is deleted from the adapter entirely, and the AGENTS Rule 3 THD known-violation entry is fully RESOLVED.

What made SM120 easy

Its kernels already had the dead-tile contract SM100 needed a decode sentinel for: the grid is per-sequence rectangular (ceil(max_sq/q_tile), B, H), per-sequence lengths are read from device metadata, and a tile past its sequence's real length zeroes its KV work and drains — with the O store predicated per row (store_q_seq_idx < seqlen_q) and the LSE store likewise, so past-the-length tiles write nothing.

The port

  • Envelope grid: thd_max_sq was already a runtime launch argument; it is now fed the PLAN-TIME declared S_q instead of the host-computed max of the live lengths — nothing is read from the length tensors.
  • Device-built metadata: a meta-only setup kernel (the SM100 builder's meta phase, extracted into a shared write_thd_meta body — SM120 has no per-batch O TMA descriptors to build) writes [kv | cu_q | cu_k] from the caller's length tensors, both forms, cu prefixes normalized.
  • Capacity views: _thd_pack loses both .tolist() syncs and the H2D upload; every ragged view binds its buffer's capacity (a token-major LSE joins the Q/O floor — they share one dynamic token symbol); the zero-KV clamp re-keys on capacity; the head-major head_stride cover checks join the caller contract (Rule 3). One _thd_pack serves the f16 and FP8 THD paths alike.

Tests

Mirroring #606: lens-never-reach-host (structural + numerics in both length forms), sync-debug-mode zero-sync execute, CUDA-graph capture/replay with lengths rewritten in-place between replays, cu nonzero-base normalization.

Verified on an RTX 5080 (sm_120, cuDNN 9.24): all 27 THD tests green; full f16+fp8 L0+L1 suites show an empty failure diff against the parent commit (10 pre-existing box failures on both sides, unrelated head_dim_tail_direct fp8 cases). The SM100 suite (481 tests) stays green on a B200 — the shared setup-kernel refactor is covered.

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  • New Features

    • Improved packed (THD) attention on supported NVIDIA architectures, including SM100 and SM120.
    • Supports GPU-resident sequence lengths in per-sequence and cumulative-prefix formats.
    • Supports changing sequence lengths during CUDA Graph replay without rebuilding plans.
    • Added FP8 packed-attention support for GPU-resident length metadata.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of zero-capacity KV buffers and over-provisioned execution ranges.
    • Normalized nonzero-based cumulative sequence prefixes.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for synchronization-free execution, graph capture, dynamic lengths, and numerical correctness.

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THD execution on SM100 and SM120 now constructs sequence metadata on the device. Launch grids use plan-time envelopes, while runtime lengths remain device-resident. Tests cover synchronization, graph replay, normalization, dead units, zero-capacity KV storage, and supported shapes.

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Device-side THD metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Metadata contract and construction
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/thd_sm100.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py
THD accepts per-batch lengths or cu-prefix inputs. Device kernels normalize offsets, write KV lengths, and update per-batch output descriptors.
THD packing and execution contract
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py
Packed views use device length tensors, capacity floors, runtime form metadata, and plan-time query-length envelopes. Dense calls pass null THD metadata arguments.
SM120 execution and wiring
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_f16_sm120.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_fp8_sm120.py
FP16 and FP8 launchers build THD metadata on the CUDA stream and pass dynamic fake tensors and runtime arguments through compilation.
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test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py, python/cudnn/AGENTS.md
Tests cover device-only lengths, synchronization-free execution, graph replay, nonzero-base prefixes, dead units, zero-capacity KV buffers, and supported shapes. The known-violations entry is marked resolved.

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This change targets zero-host-read, CUDA-graph-capturable THD execution, but the current code still has an explicit-stream race and FP8 THD paths that can read values back to the host and accept unsupported scale inputs, risking incorrect asynchronous behavior and contract violations. These issues should be fixed before merge.

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  participant Caller
  participant SM120Launcher
  participant THDMetadataBuilder
  participant AttentionKernel
  Caller->>SM120Launcher: device Q/KV lengths and lens_form
  SM120Launcher->>THDMetadataBuilder: launch metadata setup on stream
  THDMetadataBuilder->>AttentionKernel: normalized THD metadata
  SM120Launcher->>AttentionKernel: launch with plan-time envelope
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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_f16_sm100.py (1)

2017-2039: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Stale n_thd_units grid comment in both SM100 THD setup launches. Both flavors carry the copied comment that describes n_thd_units as "the exact flat batch-outermost grid (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/CGA_TILE_M)*QH, host-computed)". The adapter now passes SdpaFwdDslSm100._thd_unit_envelope(), which is the plan-time upper bound B * ceil(S_q_declared/CGA_TILE_M) * QH; units past the live total decode to the batch == n_batch sentinel and are dead. The shared root cause is one outdated description of the launch contract.

  • python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_f16_sm100.py#L2017-L2039: replace "the exact flat batch-outermost grid ... host-computed" with the plan-time envelope description, and state that units past the live total are dead by kernel contract.
  • python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d192_d128_f16_sm100.py#L2112-L2130: apply the same wording change to the identical comment above _build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel.

The python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d256_f16_sm100.py and python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d512_f16_sm100.py setup launches keep only the ENVELOPE row-stride note, so they need no change.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_f16_sm100.py` around lines 2017 -
2039, Update the launch comments above _build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel in
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_f16_sm100.py#L2017-L2039 and
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* QH, with units beyond the live total decoding to the batch == n_batch sentinel
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python/cudnn/AGENTS.md (1)

96-99: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider moving the resolved item out of the "Known violations" list.

Lines 96-97 introduce the list as "Known violations, all pre-existing". The first bullet now begins with RESOLVED. The audit instruction at lines 132-134 tells a reader to grep this list for live violations. A resolved entry inside that list costs a reader one extra read to classify.

A separate "Resolved (reference implementations)" subsection would keep the violations list actionable and still preserve the porting reference.

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In `@python/cudnn/AGENTS.md` around lines 96 - 99, Move the resolved THD
cu_seqlens host cumsum entry out of the “Known violations” list into a separate
“Resolved (reference implementations)” subsection, preserving its reference
information while keeping the violations list limited to active issues.
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py (2)

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The first CUDA-graph replay assertion is satisfied by stale warm-up output in both graph-capture tests. Each test runs a warm-up execute with lengths [200, 150], which writes the correct output into o. torch.cuda.graph capture records the work without executing it and does not touch o. The first _check([200, 150]) after the first graph.replay() therefore passes even if the replay produced nothing. The shared root cause is one missing output-buffer reset between warm-up and first replay. The second phase in each test (lengths changed to [64, 33]) is load-bearing and does prove the replay honors device-resident lengths.

  • test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py#L1278-L1285: add o.zero_() after the capture block and before graph.replay().
  • test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py#L1152-L1159: add the same o.zero_() after the capture block and before graph.replay().
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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py` around lines 1278 - 1285,
Reset the output buffer after CUDA graph capture and before the first graph
replay so the assertion cannot pass using warm-up data: add o.zero_() in
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py at lines 1278-1285 and
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py at lines 1152-1159, between
the capture block and graph.replay(). The execute and subsequent length-change
validation flows require no other changes.

1188-1199: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Both cu-prefix normalization tests bind one prefix tensor to both Q and KV, which narrows what they can detect. Each test passes the same cu tensor as seq_q_lens and seq_kv_lens. The tests do catch a one-sided normalization bug, because an un-normalized KV prefix shifts the KV offsets. They cannot catch a cross-wired subtraction, such as normalizing the KV prefix with the Q prefix's element 0, because the two prefixes are identical. Two independent bases close the gap at no extra runtime cost. Based on learnings, build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel must normalize both the Q and the KV cu-prefix length tensors by subtracting element 0.

  • test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py#L1188-L1199: give _run separate base_q and base_kv parameters, build two cu tensors, and add an assertion with distinct bases.
  • test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py#L1181-L1192: apply the same separate-base change to this test's _run.
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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py` around lines 1188 - 1199,
Update the `_run` helper in
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py:1188-1199 and
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py:1181-1192 to accept separate
`base_q` and `base_kv` values, construct independent Q and KV prefix tensors,
and add an assertion using distinct bases. Keep the tests validating that both
prefixes are normalized independently for `SdpaFwdDslSm100` and the
corresponding SM120 API.

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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_fp8_sm120.py (1)

1313-1328: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the four THD launch parameters.

The docstring omits thd_max_sq, thd_q_lens, thd_kv_lens, and thd_lens_form. The f16 sibling documents all four at python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_f16_sm120.py lines 1314-1325. Add the same entries so both SM120 cells describe the identical launch contract.

📝 Proposed docstring addition
         :param o_scale_fused: ``descale_s * descale_v * scale_o``.
+        :param scale_s: cuDNN's Scale_S. Multiplies P before the e4m3 cast.
+        :param thd_max_sq: THD only: the PLAN-TIME declared S_q envelope (it
+            sizes the per-sequence grid without entering the compile cache
+            key; every runtime length is bounded by it, and tiles past a
+            sequence's real length drain without loads or stores); 0 /
+            ignored when dense.
+        :param thd_q_lens: THD only: the CALLER's Q length tensor — (B,)
+            per-batch lengths or (B+1,) cu prefix sums — consumed by the
+            setup kernel's device-side metadata build (issue `#552`). None
+            (folded out of the ABI) when dense.
+        :param thd_kv_lens: THD only: same for the KV side.
+        :param thd_lens_form: THD only: runtime bitmask — bit 0: Q is cu,
+            bit 1: KV is cu.
         :param stream: CUDA stream used for the launch.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_fp8_sm120.py` around lines 1313 - 1328,
Update the SM120 per-tensor FP8 FMHA kernel docstring to document thd_max_sq,
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_f16_sm100.py`:
- Around line 2017-2039: Update the launch comments above
_build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel in
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_f16_sm100.py#L2017-L2039 and
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d192_d128_f16_sm100.py#L2112-L2130 to
describe n_thd_units as the plan-time envelope B * ceil(S_q_declared/CGA_TILE_M)
* QH, with units beyond the live total decoding to the batch == n_batch sentinel
and treated as dead by the kernel contract. No direct change is needed in the
d256 or d512 files.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@python/cudnn/AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 96-99: Move the resolved THD cu_seqlens host cumsum entry out of
the “Known violations” list into a separate “Resolved (reference
implementations)” subsection, preserving its reference information while keeping
the violations list limited to active issues.

In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_fp8_sm120.py`:
- Around line 1313-1328: Update the SM120 per-tensor FP8 FMHA kernel docstring
to document thd_max_sq, thd_q_lens, thd_kv_lens, and thd_lens_form, matching the
corresponding entries in the f16 sibling’s launch contract.

In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py`:
- Around line 1278-1285: Reset the output buffer after CUDA graph capture and
before the first graph replay so the assertion cannot pass using warm-up data:
add o.zero_() in test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py at lines
1278-1285 and test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py at lines
1152-1159, between the capture block and graph.replay(). The execute and
subsequent length-change validation flows require no other changes.
- Around line 1188-1199: Update the `_run` helper in
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py:1188-1199 and
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm120.py:1181-1192 to accept separate
`base_q` and `base_kv` values, construct independent Q and KV prefix tensors,
and add an assertion using distinct bases. Keep the tests validating that both
prefixes are normalized independently for `SdpaFwdDslSm100` and the
corresponding SM120 API.

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…, declared-S_q envelope grid, CUDA-graph capturable (issue NVIDIA#552)

Port of the SM100 design to SdpaFwdDslSm120 (f16 + per-tensor FP8), whose
kernels made it easy: the grid was already per-sequence rectangular
(ceil(max_sq/q_tile), B, H) with tiles past a sequence's real length
draining without loads or stores — the dead-tile contract SM100 needed a
decode sentinel for was built in.

- thd_max_sq, already a runtime launch argument, is now fed the PLAN-TIME
  declared S_q envelope instead of the host-computed max of the live
  lengths — nothing is read from the length tensors.
- A meta-only setup kernel (the SM100 builder's meta phase, extracted into
  a shared write_thd_meta body; SM120 has no per-batch O TMA descriptors
  to build) writes [kv|cu_q|cu_k] device-side from the caller's length
  tensors, both forms, cu prefixes normalized.
- _thd_pack loses both tolists and the H2D upload; every ragged view binds
  its buffer's capacity (a token-major LSE joins the Q/O floor — they
  share one dynamic token symbol); the zero-KV clamp re-keys on capacity;
  the head-major head_stride cover checks join the caller contract
  (Rule 3). Serves the f16 and FP8 THD paths alike.
- _thd_host_lens is deleted — no forward THD engine reads lengths to the
  host anymore; the AGENTS Rule 3 THD entry is RESOLVED for all of them.

Tests (mirroring SM100): lens-never-reach-host (structural + numerics in
both length forms), sync-debug-mode zero-sync execute, CUDA-graph
capture/replay with lengths rewritten in-place between replays, and the
cu nonzero-base normalization check. Verified on an RTX 5080 (sm_120):
all 27 THD tests green.

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1330-1330: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve the Ruff E741 error.

Line 1330 uses the ambiguous identifier O. Rename it and its local uses to a non-ambiguous name such as o_view.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` at line 1330, Rename the ambiguous local
`O` created in the `_thd_view` call to a descriptive name such as `o_view`, and
update every use of that local within the surrounding method consistently.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 2248-2251: In python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py, update both
execution paths to resolve current_stream before any Torch tensor work: before
dense fallback length tensors near lines 2248-2251 and before FP8 fallback
allocation and Q/K/V conversion near lines 2370-2372. Ensure the resolved stream
is used for subsequent kernel launch ordering.
- Around line 2370-2372: Update the per-tensor FP8 THD path around the execute
arguments and _scalar() so execute() never reads device-resident scale values to
the host; pass supported scales through the device-side kernel ABI or reject
unsupported configurations before engine selection without execute-time
validation reads. Restrict descale_s and scale_s to the exact supported unit
values of 1.0 for SM100 and SM120 kernels.

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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Line 1330: Rename the ambiguous local `O` created in the `_thd_view` call to a
descriptive name such as `o_view`, and update every use of that local within the
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Resolve the launch stream before any Torch work. Both execution paths create or transform tensors before they resolve current_stream. An explicit caller stream can then launch the kernel before initialization on Torch's current stream completes.

  • python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py#L2248-L2251: resolve the stream before dense fallback length tensors are created.
  • python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py#L2370-L2372: resolve the stream before FP8 fallback allocation and Q/K/V conversion.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 2248 - 2251, In
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py, update both execution paths to resolve
current_stream before any Torch tensor work: before dense fallback length
tensors near lines 2248-2251 and before FP8 fallback allocation and Q/K/V
conversion near lines 2370-2372. Ensure the resolved stream is used for
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Split out deliberately to keep this PR scoped to the THD port: the Rule 5 fix (resolve the launch stream first, run the tensor prep — _to_bshd gather copies, the dummies' first-use zero-fill — and the copy-backs inside _torch_stream_context) ships as a follow-up PR covering both SM120 execute paths and the three SM100 sites with the identical pattern (dense f16, mxfp8, fp8), branch vagarwalla/frost-rule5-stream-order. The THD path this PR adds already resolves the stream before _thd_pack.

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@vedaanta, thanks for the scope clarification.

The THD path resolves the launch stream before _thd_pack. The dense SM120 and SM100 paths still need the Rule 5 stream-order update. I will keep this finding open because this PR does not include that update.

Would you like me to create a GitHub follow-up issue that links this PR and the review comment?

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…0 fp8 THD launch params (review)

Review follow-ups (CodeRabbit):
- Both CUDA-graph capture tests now clobber O before each replay — the
  warm-up had already produced the first expected answer, so the first
  assertion could be satisfied by stale output even if replay did nothing.
- Both cu-prefix normalization tests now bind DISTINCT Q/KV prefix tensors
  with different lengths and independently different bases (0/0 vs
  1000/7000) — a normalization that subtracts one side's base from the
  other could pass the shared-tensor version by accident.
- prefill_fp8_sm120.py: document the four THD launch parameters
  (thd_max_sq / thd_q_lens / thd_kv_lens / thd_lens_form), matching the
  f16 cell's docstring.

The execute-path stream-ordering comments (Rule 5) are deliberately NOT in
this PR — they touch the dense/fp8 paths beyond the THD port and ship
separately to keep this PR atomic.
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Review follow-ups landed in 847580f:

  • Both CUDA-graph capture tests now clobber O before each replay (the first assertion could previously be satisfied by stale warm-up output).
  • Both cu-prefix normalization tests now bind distinct Q/KV prefix tensors with different lengths and independently different bases (0/0 vs 1000/7000).
  • prefill_fp8_sm120.py: the four THD launch parameters are documented, matching the f16 cell.

Deferred, deliberately, to keep this PR scoped to the THD port:

  • Rule 5 stream-ordering of the dense/fp8 tensor prep → follow-up branch vagarwalla/frost-rule5-stream-order (covers both SM120 paths + the three SM100 sites with the same pattern).
  • fp8 _scalar descale readback → documented Rule 3 known violation; kernel-side device-fold is its own PR.
  • Stale n_thd_units grid comments in the SM100 setup launches + AGENTS.md known-violations bookkeeping → merged-code cosmetics, follow-up.

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Heads-up before this merges: #613 — the buf.numel() // ts token-extent heuristic (the SM120 _thd_pack site here, and the merged SM100 twin from #606) under-claims non-packed THD views (kv-interleaved / gap layouts: extent halves, silently wrong O — the #526 case class). Per the forced-extent matrix in #613, a corrected exact-addressable capacity is not sufficient either: the unit decode is extent-sensitive (ceil(t_q/CGA_TILE_M) must match the real total's), so the decode needs to read the device metadata rather than the extent. Full repro + data in the issue.

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…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.

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 nightly) fwd dsl + fp8 + stream-respect +
async/capture suites L0+L1: 518 passed. SM120 (RTX 5080, 9.24) fwd dsl +
fp8 + stream-respect L0+L1: 121 passed, failures identical to the box's
known pre-existing head_dim_tail set (10).
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
…ved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations

Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR NVIDIA#608 review:

- The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD
  grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH,
  host-computed)'. Since NVIDIA#606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q
  envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's
  live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length
  reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no
  such comment.)

- python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by
  NVIDIA#552/NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list —
  dropped; the list keeps only the live ones.

Comment/docs-only — no code change.
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
…ved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations

Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR NVIDIA#608 review:

- The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD
  grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH,
  host-computed)'. Since NVIDIA#606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q
  envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's
  live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length
  reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no
  such comment.)

- python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by
  NVIDIA#552/NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list —
  dropped; the list keeps only the live ones.

Comment/docs-only — no code change.
vedaanta added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 17, 2026
…FP8 SM100/SM107 kernels (#622)

* frost(sdpa): remove the legacy (pre-envelope) THD leg from the FP8/MXFP8 SM100/SM107 kernels

The SM100 per-tensor FP8 and MXFP8 kernels (and the SM107 FP8 sibling)
carried a THD/varlen leg from before the issue-#552 device-built-metadata +
plan-time-envelope design existed. It was never wired, three layers deep:
the engine specs declare thd=False for these cells, the adapter parked fp8
THD behind a 'thd-deferred' compile sentinel nothing unwired, and the
execute paths raise NotImplementedError for THD. When fp8/mxfp8 THD lands
on these arches it will follow the write_thd_meta envelope design the f16
kernels use (PRs #606/#608), not this leg.

Removed:
- All CFG.THD_VARLEN-gated branches in prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py,
  prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py (hunk-symmetric mirror), and
  prefill_d128_mxfp8_sm100.py: launch-side setup + grid, the per-batch
  O-descriptor store branch, the packed-LSE branch, the fake-tensor/compile
  ternaries (and the mxfp8 SF-tile THD kwargs no caller passes).
- build_o_descs_kernel from thd_sm100.py (these three kernels were its only
  importers; build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel and TENSOR_MAP_QWORDS stay — the
  f16 kernels use them).
- The 'thd-deferred' sentinel: SM100 check_support now declines fp8/mxfp8 +
  THD explicitly (the spec already gates the graph path; the gate covers
  direct construction), and the THD compile branch is f16-only.

Kept, deliberately:
- _host ABI slots (o_desc_words, n_thd_units, mxfp8 SF-tile counts) — the
  adapter passes them positionally and the #606 design still uses the
  names; annotated as unused.
- thd_tma_offsets/_thd_sf_tile_bases call sites — shared-module helpers that
  fold to dense identity at THD_VARLEN=0 (dense codegen byte-identical).
- A trace-time guard: CFG.THD_VARLEN=1 now raises at compile instead of
  silently mis-executing.

Validated on B200 (9.26 nightly): fp8+mxfp8 fwd sweeps 316 passed (FROST
routing served 52 graphs through the edited kernels); frost fp8 file 32
passed (L0+L1); f16 dsl + THD + async/capture suites 489 passed (L0+L1) —
the thd_sm100.py survivors' import path exercised end to end. sm107 file
parses and is hunk-symmetric with sm100.

* frost(sdpa): drop the freed THD ABI slots from the FP8/MXFP8 hosts

The legacy-THD-leg removal (previous commit) left three dead _host ABI
slots annotated as "Unused ABI slot" to avoid touching adapter call
sites. Delete them for real, updating the adapter in lockstep:

- prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py / prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py (hunk-symmetric):
  drop o_desc_words (legacy THD per-batch O-descriptor array) and
  n_thd_units (legacy THD flat-grid unit count) from _host, and the
  matching fake_o_desc / cutlass.Int32(0) fakes from compile().
- prefill_d128_mxfp8_sm100.py: same two, plus the mxfp8-only dead slots
  total_q_sf_tiles / total_kv_sf_tiles (unread since the THD branches
  that consumed them were removed) and their Int32 fakes.
- api_dsl.py (SdpaFwdDslSm100 only): _execute_fp8 / _execute_mxfp8 stop
  building o_desc_dummy and stop passing the o_desc_dummy /
  n_thd_units / total_*_sf_tiles arguments; the call argument lists now
  match the edited _host signatures position for position.

The dense f16 path and the f16 THD path keep their own o-desc
machinery (untouched), as do the SM120 class and engines.py.
scratch_workspace_bytes() needed no change: the dense FP8/MXFP8 branch
already returns 0 and the THD o_desc chunk belongs to the f16 THD path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
hxbai pushed a commit to hxbai/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
…FP8 SM100/SM107 kernels (NVIDIA#622)

* frost(sdpa): remove the legacy (pre-envelope) THD leg from the FP8/MXFP8 SM100/SM107 kernels

The SM100 per-tensor FP8 and MXFP8 kernels (and the SM107 FP8 sibling)
carried a THD/varlen leg from before the issue-NVIDIA#552 device-built-metadata +
plan-time-envelope design existed. It was never wired, three layers deep:
the engine specs declare thd=False for these cells, the adapter parked fp8
THD behind a 'thd-deferred' compile sentinel nothing unwired, and the
execute paths raise NotImplementedError for THD. When fp8/mxfp8 THD lands
on these arches it will follow the write_thd_meta envelope design the f16
kernels use (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608), not this leg.

Removed:
- All CFG.THD_VARLEN-gated branches in prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py,
  prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py (hunk-symmetric mirror), and
  prefill_d128_mxfp8_sm100.py: launch-side setup + grid, the per-batch
  O-descriptor store branch, the packed-LSE branch, the fake-tensor/compile
  ternaries (and the mxfp8 SF-tile THD kwargs no caller passes).
- build_o_descs_kernel from thd_sm100.py (these three kernels were its only
  importers; build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel and TENSOR_MAP_QWORDS stay — the
  f16 kernels use them).
- The 'thd-deferred' sentinel: SM100 check_support now declines fp8/mxfp8 +
  THD explicitly (the spec already gates the graph path; the gate covers
  direct construction), and the THD compile branch is f16-only.

Kept, deliberately:
- _host ABI slots (o_desc_words, n_thd_units, mxfp8 SF-tile counts) — the
  adapter passes them positionally and the NVIDIA#606 design still uses the
  names; annotated as unused.
- thd_tma_offsets/_thd_sf_tile_bases call sites — shared-module helpers that
  fold to dense identity at THD_VARLEN=0 (dense codegen byte-identical).
- A trace-time guard: CFG.THD_VARLEN=1 now raises at compile instead of
  silently mis-executing.

Validated on B200 (9.26 nightly): fp8+mxfp8 fwd sweeps 316 passed (FROST
routing served 52 graphs through the edited kernels); frost fp8 file 32
passed (L0+L1); f16 dsl + THD + async/capture suites 489 passed (L0+L1) —
the thd_sm100.py survivors' import path exercised end to end. sm107 file
parses and is hunk-symmetric with sm100.

* frost(sdpa): drop the freed THD ABI slots from the FP8/MXFP8 hosts

The legacy-THD-leg removal (previous commit) left three dead _host ABI
slots annotated as "Unused ABI slot" to avoid touching adapter call
sites. Delete them for real, updating the adapter in lockstep:

- prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py / prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py (hunk-symmetric):
  drop o_desc_words (legacy THD per-batch O-descriptor array) and
  n_thd_units (legacy THD flat-grid unit count) from _host, and the
  matching fake_o_desc / cutlass.Int32(0) fakes from compile().
- prefill_d128_mxfp8_sm100.py: same two, plus the mxfp8-only dead slots
  total_q_sf_tiles / total_kv_sf_tiles (unread since the THD branches
  that consumed them were removed) and their Int32 fakes.
- api_dsl.py (SdpaFwdDslSm100 only): _execute_fp8 / _execute_mxfp8 stop
  building o_desc_dummy and stop passing the o_desc_dummy /
  n_thd_units / total_*_sf_tiles arguments; the call argument lists now
  match the edited _host signatures position for position.

The dense f16 path and the f16 THD path keep their own o-desc
machinery (untouched), as do the SM120 class and engines.py.
scratch_workspace_bytes() needed no change: the dense FP8/MXFP8 branch
already returns 0 and the THD o_desc chunk belongs to the f16 THD path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
…ved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations

Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR NVIDIA#608 review:

- The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD
  grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH,
  host-computed)'. Since NVIDIA#606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q
  envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's
  live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length
  reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no
  such comment.)

- python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by
  NVIDIA#552/NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list —
  dropped; the list keeps only the live ones.

Comment/docs-only — no code change.
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
…ved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations

Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR NVIDIA#608 review:

- The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD
  grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH,
  host-computed)'. Since NVIDIA#606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q
  envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's
  live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length
  reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no
  such comment.)

- python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by
  NVIDIA#552/NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list —
  dropped; the list keeps only the live ones.

Comment/docs-only — no code change.
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
…ack, one compile form

The per-tensor FP8 execute paths (SM100/SM107 dense, SM120 dense+THD)
folded descale_q*descale_k into the softmax scale and descale_[s*]v*scale_o
into o_scale_fused via host .item() reads of the caller's device scale
tensors — a D2H sync on every graph execute and the last big hole in the
zero-host-read / CUDA-graph-capture story (AGENTS.md Rule 3).

Kernel side: the per-tensor kernels now take descale_q/k/v + scale_o as
UNCONDITIONAL 1-element fp32 tensor params — one compile form, no flag.
Every thread loads them (same address -> L2 broadcast) and folds exactly
like the old host path; the scalar args carry only attn_scale*log2(e) and
1.0.

Adapter side: execute binds the caller's tensors directly (None binds a
cached 1.0 — the direct-API identity), and amax_o divides by the DEVICE
scale_o (the same div_ as before, minus the readback; scale_o > 0 is
caller contract, matching the backend). _scalar and every .item() are
gone; the AGENTS.md known-violation entry is retired.

Scale_S/Descale_S are EXPUNGED from every layer below the graph: the
lowering no longer resolves or forwards them (the graph still binds the
op's tensors; they are simply never read), the binding drops them, the
execute()/_execute_fp8 signatures lost the parameters, and the kernels
never take them:
- SM100/SM107 always cast P unscaled; the execute-time reciprocal check
  was itself a Rule 3 readback — deleted with its rationale helper. The
  old declines test becomes test_fp8_sm100_s_scales_ignored (wild
  non-reciprocal pair -> bitwise-identical O).
- SM120's Scale_S machinery (scale_s kernel arg, log2_scale_s exp2 bias,
  inv_scale_s row_sum de-scale, descale_s in the output fold) is REMOVED;
  test_fp8_sm120_s_scales_are_actually_applied goes with it.

Also repairs test_fp8_sm120_head_dim_tail_direct's direct-call helper
(_run_template_tail) for the current kernel ABI. Those ten L1 tests had
been failing with a positional-arg TypeError since PR NVIDIA#608 grew the
kernel signature under them (NVIDIA#595's rewrite fixed it once; this ABI
change would have re-broken it) — they were never numeric failures. With
the helper repaired they pass 10/10.

Tests: sync-debug-pinned device-scale execute tests on both arches (the
graph execute now runs under torch.cuda.set_sync_debug_mode(2), which the
old .item() path cannot survive).
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…nel (Rule 3, Scale_S gone below the graph); baked 2^4 P-cast bias (#619)

* docs(sdpa): retire the pre-envelope THD grid comments; drop the resolved THD entry from AGENTS' known violations

Two merged-code leftovers flagged on the PR #608 review:

- The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments still described the OLD
  grid: 'exact flat batch-outermost (n_thd_units = Σ_b ceil(S_q_b/tile)*QH,
  host-computed)'. Since #606 the grid is the PLAN-TIME declared-S_q
  envelope (B * ceil(S_q_decl/CGA_TILE_M) * QH) and units past a sequence's
  live tiles drain via the batch == n_batch sentinel — no runtime length
  reaches the host. The comments now say so. (d256/d512 launches carry no
  such comment.)

- python/cudnn/AGENTS.md Rule 3: the THD cu_seqlens entry was RESOLVED by
  #552/#606/#608, so it no longer belongs in the 'Known violations' list —
  dropped; the list keeps only the live ones.

Comment/docs-only — no code change.

* frost(sdpa): fold the per-tensor FP8 scales in-kernel — no host readback, one compile form

The per-tensor FP8 execute paths (SM100/SM107 dense, SM120 dense+THD)
folded descale_q*descale_k into the softmax scale and descale_[s*]v*scale_o
into o_scale_fused via host .item() reads of the caller's device scale
tensors — a D2H sync on every graph execute and the last big hole in the
zero-host-read / CUDA-graph-capture story (AGENTS.md Rule 3).

Kernel side: the per-tensor kernels now take descale_q/k/v + scale_o as
UNCONDITIONAL 1-element fp32 tensor params — one compile form, no flag.
Every thread loads them (same address -> L2 broadcast) and folds exactly
like the old host path; the scalar args carry only attn_scale*log2(e) and
1.0.

Adapter side: execute binds the caller's tensors directly (None binds a
cached 1.0 — the direct-API identity), and amax_o divides by the DEVICE
scale_o (the same div_ as before, minus the readback; scale_o > 0 is
caller contract, matching the backend). _scalar and every .item() are
gone; the AGENTS.md known-violation entry is retired.

Scale_S/Descale_S are EXPUNGED from every layer below the graph: the
lowering no longer resolves or forwards them (the graph still binds the
op's tensors; they are simply never read), the binding drops them, the
execute()/_execute_fp8 signatures lost the parameters, and the kernels
never take them:
- SM100/SM107 always cast P unscaled; the execute-time reciprocal check
  was itself a Rule 3 readback — deleted with its rationale helper. The
  old declines test becomes test_fp8_sm100_s_scales_ignored (wild
  non-reciprocal pair -> bitwise-identical O).
- SM120's Scale_S machinery (scale_s kernel arg, log2_scale_s exp2 bias,
  inv_scale_s row_sum de-scale, descale_s in the output fold) is REMOVED;
  test_fp8_sm120_s_scales_are_actually_applied goes with it.

Also repairs test_fp8_sm120_head_dim_tail_direct's direct-call helper
(_run_template_tail) for the current kernel ABI. Those ten L1 tests had
been failing with a positional-arg TypeError since PR #608 grew the
kernel signature under them (#595's rewrite fixed it once; this ABI
change would have re-broken it) — they were never numeric failures. With
the helper repaired they pass 10/10.

Tests: sync-debug-pinned device-scale execute tests on both arches (the
graph execute now runs under torch.cuda.set_sync_debug_mode(2), which the
old .item() path cannot survive).

* frost(sdpa): bake a 2^4 P->fp8 cast bias into the FP8/MXFP8 prefill kernels

The fp8-family kernels quantized the softmax result P to fp8 at unit
scale. P after the online-softmax max subtraction is bounded by
2**RESCALE_THRESHOLD (4.0 for the fp8 dtypes — the lazy-rescale skip's
slack), so unit-scale casting used at most 2^4 of e4m3's 448 range while
flat-row entries (P ~ 1/S) sat near the format's subnormal cliff (~2^-9),
losing relative precision from S ~ 512 up.

Bake a constant P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE = 4.0 into each kernel (fp8 SM100/SM107/
SM120 and MXFP8 SM100 — MXFP8's block SFs cover Q/K/V, not P): P is cast
as P * 2^4, so the cast peaks at 2^(4+4) = 256 < 448 — no saturation —
and flat rows stay in e4m3's normal range out to S ~ 2^13. The invariant
RESCALE_THRESHOLD + P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE <= log2(448) is documented at each
constant. (This is NOT cuDNN's Scale_S — that knob no longer exists below
the graph; the bias is an internal quantization choice.)

The bias is numerically free everywhere except the improved quantization:
it rides the exp2 argument (EX2 is binade-shift-exact), scaling by 2^4
commutes exactly with fp accumulation, and each kernel's structure keeps
the bookkeeping exact —
- SM100/SM107/MXFP8: total_sum accumulates in the same 2^4 units, so the
  O normalization (O_acc / total_sum) cancels the bias outright; the LSE
  subtracts the constant, and the sink denominator term is lifted into
  the same units.
- SM120: row_sum is de-scaled by the EXACT 2^-4 before the finalize paths
  (sink mix, rcp, zero-row guards and LSE run on bit-identical true
  sums); the O leg's 2^4 cancels against a 2^-4 folded into
  o_scale_fused.

Validated non-regressing across the fp8/mxfp8 fwd+bwd sweeps and both
arch-specific fp8 files (the >128-head-dim tail accuracy tests pass
10/10 with margin at the tightened quantization).
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…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.

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 nightly) fwd dsl + fp8 + stream-respect +
async/capture suites L0+L1: 518 passed. SM120 (RTX 5080, 9.24) fwd dsl +
fp8 + stream-respect L0+L1: 121 passed, failures identical to the box's
known pre-existing head_dim_tail set (10).
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…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.
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue NVIDIA#552)

Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608)
into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling
(hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port NVIDIA#622
prescribed when it removed the legacy leg:

- Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile
  keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per
  -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the
  host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit
  sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length
  from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout
  (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch).
- MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded
  ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order,
  matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The
  packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read
  (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are
  exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else);
  the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents.
- Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120
  class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity
  clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8
  THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only
  (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No
  Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (NVIDIA#602/NVIDIA#619); the
  amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is
  unchanged under THD.
- Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the
  arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling.
- pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q /
  seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had
  them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes
  constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not
  declared).
- Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA,
  causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and
  mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks.

Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5
failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing
native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node,
cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this
backend and are green on CI's 9.26).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 19, 2026
…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue NVIDIA#552)

Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608)
into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling
(hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port NVIDIA#622
prescribed when it removed the legacy leg:

- Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile
  keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per
  -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the
  host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit
  sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length
  from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout
  (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch).
- MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded
  ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order,
  matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The
  packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read
  (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are
  exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else);
  the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents.
- Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120
  class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity
  clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8
  THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only
  (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No
  Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (NVIDIA#602/NVIDIA#619); the
  amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is
  unchanged under THD.
- Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the
  arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling.
- pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q /
  seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had
  them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes
  constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not
  declared).
- Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA,
  causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and
  mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks.

Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5
failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing
native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node,
cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this
backend and are green on CI's 9.26).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
vedaanta added a commit to vedaanta/cudnn-frontend that referenced this pull request Aug 21, 2026
…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue NVIDIA#552)

Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs NVIDIA#606/NVIDIA#608)
into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling
(hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port NVIDIA#622
prescribed when it removed the legacy leg:

- Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile
  keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per
  -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the
  host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit
  sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length
  from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout
  (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch).
- MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded
  ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order,
  matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The
  packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read
  (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are
  exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else);
  the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents.
- Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120
  class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity
  clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8
  THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only
  (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No
  Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (NVIDIA#602/NVIDIA#619); the
  amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is
  unchanged under THD.
- Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the
  arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling.
- pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q /
  seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had
  them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes
  constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not
  declared).
- Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA,
  causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and
  mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks.

Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5
failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing
native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node,
cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this
backend and are green on CI's 9.26).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue #552) (#648)

* frost(sdpa): THD/varlen on the FP8/MXFP8 SM100/SM107 forward engines via the write_thd_meta envelope design (issue #552)

Port the device-built-metadata + plan-time-envelope THD design (PRs #606/#608)
into the per-tensor FP8 SM100 kernel, its SM107 (Rubin) sibling
(hunk-symmetric), and the block-scale MXFP8 SM100 kernel — the port #622
prescribed when it removed the legacy leg:

- Kernels: dynamic packed token extents (cute.sym_int; plan-time-only compile
  keys), the shared build_thd_meta_o_descs_kernel setup launch (metadata + per
  -batch O TMA descriptors built device-side, no length ever reaches the
  host), the plan-time envelope grid with the batch == n_batch dead-unit
  sentinel (O-store skip; LSE/amax_o predicated on the per-sequence Q length
  from the device metadata), and ragged Stats in the caller's declared layout
  (token-major TH1 rank-2 or head-major rank-3, static-rank dispatch).
- MXFP8 THD scale factors travel PACKED per-sequence-TILE-padded
  ([1, H, Σ_b ceil(S_b/128), SF_SMEM] tile sequences in cu_seqlens order,
  matching the tile base the kernel derives via _thd_sf_tile_bases). The
  packed tile extent is a runtime value that must come without a device read
  (Rule 3), so it derives from the SF buffer's byte size — THD SF buffers are
  exactly the packed layout (its head stride could address nothing else);
  the SF descriptors use B=1 + dynamic tile extents.
- Adapter: factor the SM100 THD packing into _thd_pack (mirrors the SM120
  class): metadata/O-desc scratch, capacity token floors, zero-capacity
  clamps, envelope units — used by the f16 _execute_thd and the new FP8/MXFP8
  THD branches. FP8/MXFP8 serve the packed contract only
  (_thd_check_strides_packed; no stride keys in _thd_compile_kwargs). No
  Amax_S, no descale_s/scale_s — dropped on these kernels (#602/#619); the
  amax_o protocol (in-kernel atomicMax, device-side scale_o divide) is
  unchanged under THD.
- Engines: the SM100 FP8/MXFP8 rows declare thd=True + cu_seq_len=True; the
  arch RANGE (sm 100..119) already routes cc10.7 through the SM107 sibling.
- pygraph: sdpa_mxfp8 gains trailing use_padding_mask / seq_len_q /
  seq_len_kv / cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv kwargs (sdpa_fp8 already had
  them) — the THD length carriers, and dense mxfp8 + KV padding becomes
  constructible for the first time (tested; stats off — padded_stats is not
  declared).
- Tests: THD self-attention (masks x e4m3/e5m2), cross-attention + GQA,
  causal+sink, THD+ragged-TH1-stats, and cu_seq_len cases for both fp8 and
  mxfp8; dense mxfp8 KV-padding; sm107 module-level THD-leg load checks.

Verified on B200 (backend 9.23.01): test/python/sdpa/frost 669 passed, 5
failed — all five are cu_seq_len graphs hitting the pre-existing
native-lowering version gate (fp8-family cu_seq_len needs the unified node,
cuDNN >= 9.24/9.25; develop's own f16 cu tests fail identically on this
backend and are green on CI's 9.26).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* frost(sdpa): PR #648 review fixes — sdpa_mxfp8 cu_seq_len docstring; E741 renames in the new mxfp8 tests

- sdpa_mxfp8 docstring: document cu_seq_len_q / cu_seq_len_kv (prefix-sum
  semantics, mutual exclusion with seq_len_*, cuDNN 9.24+), matching the
  sdpa / sdpa_fp8 documentation.
- test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py: rename the six new call sites' O locals to
  o_out/o_ref (Ruff E741); pre-existing sites unchanged.

Not-applicable findings, verified: the dead-unit TMA-load concern is
unreachable (THD compiles always carry MASK_PADDED — _mask_flags_from forces
it for thd_varlen and _validate_knobs raises otherwise — so the loader's
masked-bounds branch resolves the dead unit's empty KV range from the device
metadata); test_fp8_thd_leg_loads is already L0 via the file's module-level
pytestmark.

Validated against the LATEST 9.26 backend (9.26.0.33, headers + libs):
fp8/mxfp8/sm107 suites 80 passed (including both cu_seq_len tests the local
9.23 backend gates), f16 THD suite 193 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* frost(sdpa): rebase follow-ups — #658 split-kv direct-call tests on the THD ABI; #661 d192 kernels join the shared FP8-family ABI; hoist _thd_lse_tokens_cap

- test_sdpa_fwd_split_kv_sm100: the fp8/mxfp8 legs drive the kernel hosts
  positionally and predate the THD ABI (o_desc_words + n_thd_units, both
  dense-folded) — pass the same dummies the f16 leg already does.
- prefill_d192_d128_{fp8,mxfp8}_sm100 (#661, dense-only): accept the same
  dense-folded THD ABI slots as their d128 siblings so the adapter's launch
  shape stays uniform across the SM100 FP8 family (the kernels never read
  them; CFG.THD_VARLEN=1 still fails at trace time — the engine rows and a
  check_support gate keep THD routed to d128/d128 only).
- api_dsl: the THD LSE token-capacity rule (token-major and COMPACT
  head-major join the packed-Q floor; head-major with a declared stride
  carries its own extent) was triplicated across the SM100 executes — one
  documented helper (_thd_lse_tokens_cap) now owns the subtlety.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* frost(sdpa): fix mhas fp8/mxfp8 ragged NaNs — clamp K/V TMA past the packed total; dead-row O := 0 on zero-length KV

Two bugs surfaced by the frost:rel:sdpa:sm100 CI mhas fp8 ragged sweeps
(gitlab job 404201758, 16 failures):

1. NaN-poisoned capacity tails: test_mhas_v2 NaN-fills the ragged
   capacity tail past the packed total, and the last sequence's KV
   envelope tile loads step into it. The padding mask kills those
   columns in S (NaN-safe select), but BMM2 still computes
   P(0) . V(NaN) = NaN. Fix: the THD setup kernel
   (build_thd_meta_o_kv_descs_kernel) now also emits runtime K/V TMA
   descriptors with GLOBAL_DIM clamped to the device-side packed total
   cu_k[B] — tail loads land as TMA OOB zero-fill, zero host reads. The
   fp8/mxfp8 mainloops read them from two extra o_desc_words slots.

2. Zero-length KV sequences (e.g. seq_len_kv=[0, 83, 77]): an empty
   mainloop never writes the O TMEM, and the epilogue's
   `o_chunk * inv_sum(=0)` cannot zero the garbage when it happens to be
   NaN (uninitialized TMEM on the sequence's first tile). Port the f16
   dead-row contract (O := 0, LSE := -inf) into the fp8 sm100/sm107 and
   mxfp8 epilogues: `row_dead = total_sum <= 0` hoisted above the sink
   branch, and the stored O elements (plus amax_o inputs) selected to 0
   explicitly.

Tests: frost fp8/mxfp8 suites get NaN-poisoned capacity tails in
_dense_buf (mhas parity) and new zero-length-KV THD regression tests;
mhas fp8 fwd+bwd ragged L0 sweeps now 46/46 x3 runs, frost
fp8/mxfp8/split-kv/sm107 suites 166/166 on cuDNN 9.26.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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* frost(sdpa): derive THD token capacity from the view's element span (#613)

The zero-host-read THD execute (#606/#608) derives the packed token extents
host-side as numel() // token_stride. That is wrong on both edges for the
buffers real integrations bind:

- A non-packed VIEW — a K/V slice of a kv-interleaved [T, 2, H, D] record,
  the layout torch.nn.attention.varlen users produce by slicing a fused KV
  projection — holds T tokens but only T*H*D of the record's elements, so
  the derived extent HALVES and the TMA descriptors cut off half the
  tokens: silently wrong O on every such call (issue #613; also 40
  upstream PyTorch test_varlen_attention failures through the python-API
  integration).
- Deriving from the untyped storage instead over-claims into ALLOCATOR
  SLACK, which is not benign: rows between the real packed total and the
  extent are masked but still multiplied (P == 0 times V), so they must be
  FINITE — TMA zero-fill only covers rows at or beyond the extent. A slack
  row carrying NaN bit patterns poisons whole sequences through 0 * NaN.

Fix: capacity = the largest T whose final token's ROW still fits in the
buffer's own element SPAN (1 + sum((size-1)*stride)). The span is exact on
both edges: flat capacity buffers give exactly their token capacity (no
slack), and interleaved/gapped views give exactly T. Every row below the
capacity lies in caller-provided finite elements; every row at or beyond
it TMA-clips to zeros. One shared helper serves the SM100 f16 path and the
SM120/FP8 _cap sites.

Verified on SM100 (isolated env): the #613 kv-interleave repro 41% -> 0
mismatches (frost-served); test_sdpa_random_fwd_ragged_L0 5-seed slice
84/84 (no regressions); fp8 THD ragged slice green; the new deterministic
regression test (fused-record K/V views vs packed binding, torch.equal)
fails on develop and passes with the fix; upstream PyTorch
test_varlen_attention returns from 100 pass / 69 fail to its 140 / 29
impl-identity baseline with the torch-ops stack applied on top.

Fixes #613.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(sdpa): actually fuzz ragged token gaps in the randomized sweeps

The seeded per-tensor token-gap draw (#516) lives in
ExecConfig.fill_derived_fields and only fills strides left None — but
RandomizationContext, which drives every test_sdpa_random_*_ragged
sweep, explicitly assigned packed bshd strides in its ragged branch.
Net effect: the randomized ragged fleet has NEVER bound a non-packed
THD stride, and for packed buffers the numel()//token_stride capacity
heuristic is exact — which is precisely why these sweeps stayed green
while issue #613 (interleaved K/V views halving the TMA extent) shipped
and had to be found through an external integration.

Fix: the ragged branch leaves Q/K/V/O strides None and __call__ ends
with fill_derived_fields() — one source of truth for the gap draw and
its auto-packed fallbacks (cu / offset-multiplier forms #538, 1-byte
dtypes #537). The head_major stats stride and the whole dense branch
are untouched.

Census over the fwd ragged L0 slice (84 configs): before, 0/84 drew a
gap although each config's own rng_geom_seed hand-draws nonzero gaps;
after, 84/84 draw gaps and ALL 84 would have failed under the old
capacity formula. Verified on SM100 (cuDNN 9.26.0.33,
CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1): with the #613 fix the gapped
fwd ragged L0 slice passes 84/84 (all frost-served) — with the pre-fix
adapter swapped in it fails 80/84, i.e. this wiring alone would have
caught #613 the day the heuristic merged. bwd ragged L0 slice 158/158,
identical to the unwired control on the same lib (the backend serves
every gapped gradient combination); ragged_unified_L1 24/24 and
offset_multiplier_unified_L1 24/24 (cu / mult forms stay packed via
the existing fallbacks — 20/20 each in the offline census); the
stride-override unit test still passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(sdpa): accept max_total_seq_len_q/kv on the forward SDPA node

`sdpa_backward` has taken `max_total_seq_len_q/kv` since cuDNN 9.6; the
forward node never did. That asymmetry is the root of a whole bug class.

A ragged (THD) graph declares `(B, H, S_max, D)` plus a device-side
ragged-offset tensor, so the packed token total is not expressible
anywhere in the forward graph — and reading `cu_seqlens[-1]` host-side is
exactly the D2H sync the zero-host-read THD execute (#552) exists to
eliminate. The FROST forward path therefore has to INFER an upper bound
on the token axis from the bound buffers' element span (#613/#706). That
bound is memory-safe but loose, and looseness is not benign: rows between
the real total and the extent are masked yet still multiplied
(`P == 0` times V), so they must be FINITE. A caller that over-allocates
and leaves the tail unwritten poisons whole tiles through `0 * NaN`
(#624).

Every framework already has this number — it is `q.shape[0]` in vLLM,
SGLang, TransformerEngine, Megatron-Core, PyTorch and FlashInfer alike —
and today it gets thrown away at the graph boundary. This lets callers
declare it.

- C++: `max_total_seq_len_q/kv` on `SDPA_attributes` with setters and
  serialization, mirroring `SDPA_backward_attributes`. Frontend-side
  only: like the backward twin it is never lowered to a backend
  attribute, so it cannot affect backend validation (#704).
- Forward node validation rejects it on a non-ragged layout, mirroring
  backward's "only supported with packed layout".
- pybind: `sdpa(..., max_total_seq_len_q=None, max_total_seq_len_kv=None)`.
- FROST forward consumes it: the declared total is min'd against the
  buffer-derived capacity, so it can only TIGHTEN the extent, never widen
  it. A stale or wrong value cannot make a launch address memory the
  caller does not own — it can only make it address less. Both the SM100
  f16 and the SM120/FP8 extent sites go through one helper.

Effect on #624, measured on SM100 (bf16, cuDNN 9.26.0.33, FROST forced),
`seq_lens=[200,150,47]` (total 397) bound into `(640, H, D)` buffers whose
`[397, 640)` tail is NaN — only the tail fill differs between runs:

  undeclared: 201,728 NaNs in O (49.6%)
  declared:   0 NaNs, bit-identical to the zero-tail run

Verified: new L0 regression test (asserts the clamp AND that the
undeclared path still reaches the tail, so it tests the clamp rather than
a benign shape); dense graph + attribute correctly rejected; the #613
interleaved-KV-views test and the gap-wired ragged L0 slice (84/84,
all FROST-served) unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(sdpa): expose max_total_seq_len_q/kv on sdpa_fp8 too

Review follow-up. `PyGraph::sdpa_fp8` routes through `sdpa_internal`, so it
already builds the same `SDPA_attributes` that now carries the packed
totals -- only the entry point was missing them, and it hard-coded
`py::none()` at the forwarding call. An FP8 THD caller therefore had no way
to declare its totals even though the adapter side (`_thd_declared_total`
at the SM100 f16 and SM120/FP8 extent sites) was already wired for them.

Adds the two optional arguments to the declaration, the definition, the
pybind binding and the docstring, and forwards them instead of `py::none()`.

`sdpa_mxfp8` is deliberately left out: it does not go through
`sdpa_internal` and builds `SDPA_fp8_attributes`, which has no such field,
so covering it means extending that struct as well.

Note the reviewer's stated motivation does not actually hold for FP8: the
FP8/MXFP8 kernels already clamp their K/V descriptor extents to `cu_k[B]`
device-side in `build_thd_meta_o_kv_descs_kernel`, so an unwritten K/V
capacity tail is already TMA-unreachable there, and Q is the parallel
dimension (a garbage Q row poisons only its own row, which is never
stored). The change is still worth making for API symmetry and for exact
rather than inferred extents.

Test: `test_fp8_thd_declared_totals` runs the THD FP8 path with and without
the declaration from the same seed and asserts O is bit-identical, plus the
usual accuracy check against the reference.

Verified: `test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py` 61 passed; f16 THD tests 195 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(sdpa): expose max_total_seq_len_q/kv on sdpa_mxfp8 too

Correcting my own note on the previous commit: I claimed `sdpa_mxfp8` was
out of scope because it "builds `SDPA_fp8_attributes`, which has no such
field". That is wrong — `SDPA_fp8_attributes` is a type ALIAS for
`SDPA_attributes` (graph_properties.h), so the field has been there all
along and the only gap was the pybind entry point.

`sdpa_mxfp8` does not route through `sdpa_internal`, so it needed its own
declaration, definition, attribute plumbing, binding and docstring — but no
struct change. The MXFP8 forward row serves THD (`thd_d_shapes` covers the
d128 kernel), and the adapter side (`_thd_declared_total`) was already
shared, so this completes the forward family: `sdpa`, `sdpa_fp8` and
`sdpa_mxfp8` all now accept the packed totals.

Still missing, and genuinely needing a struct change: the FP8/MXFP8
BACKWARD nodes. `SDPA_fp8_backward_attributes` is a distinct class (not an
alias) with no such field, so `sdpa_fp8_backward` / `sdpa_mxfp8_backward`
cannot take the totals while plain `sdpa_backward` has since cuDNN 9.6.
Tracked separately.

Test: `test_mxfp8_thd_declared_totals` runs the MXFP8 THD path with and
without the declaration from the same seed and asserts O is bit-identical,
plus the usual accuracy and amax checks.

Verified: `test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py` THD selection 10 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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