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
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR moves per-tensor FP8 scales to CUDA-resident tensors for SM100, SM107, and SM120 SDPA kernels. It updates kernel scaling, launch and compilation paths, tests, MXFP8 casting, and THD launch documentation. ChangesFP8 device-scale execution
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR moves FP8 scale folding to device tensors and removes S-scale application. At the current head, scale inputs are not fully validated, some post-launch operations may run on a different stream than the kernel, and unsupported S scales are silently accepted and ignored; this can cause incorrect results, stream races, or device-pointer failures, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 2348-2365: Update _execute_fp8 to resolve current_stream before
creating cached scale and sequence-length fallback tensors. Wrap the _dummy
factories, including torch.ones and torch.zeros allocations, in
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device) so cache-miss initialization runs
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- Around line 1660-1668: The copy-back and output-scale operations in the shown
forward path must execute on current_stream to avoid racing the launched kernel.
Wrap O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_() within
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), preserving the existing
o_needs_copy_back and amax_o/device_scales branching.
- Around line 498-509: The _checked_scale_view method must require each device
scale to be exactly one contiguous FP32 element located on Q’s device, rejecting
other CUDA devices and non-contiguous or incorrectly sized tensors. Update its
validation accordingly and return the validated tensor with view(1), avoiding
reshape or slicing.
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py`:
- Around line 767-770: Restrict the device_scales path in the engine
configuration so SM100 graphs are accepted only when both descale_s and scale_s
are exactly 1.0; reroute or decline other SM100 cases instead of enabling
unsupported S-scale semantics. Preserve device scales for supported
architectures and locate the change near the facts.is_fp8 assignment.
Apply the same fix in `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1586 -
1591: API acceptance must reject or reroute unsupported non-unit S-scale
requests.
Apply the same fix in `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py` around
lines 323 - 356: The test currently expects reciprocal non-unit S scales to be
exact and must reflect the required rejection or rerouting behavior.
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| def _checked_scale_view(self, t, name: str) -> torch.Tensor: | ||
| """Validate a device-resident per-tensor scale and return its | ||
| 1-element fp32 view (the ``device_scales`` execute contract).""" | ||
| self._value_error_if( | ||
| not isinstance(t, torch.Tensor) or t.device.type != "cuda", | ||
| f"device_scales: {name} must be a CUDA tensor; got {type(t).__name__}", | ||
| ) | ||
| self._value_error_if( | ||
| t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() < 1, | ||
| f"device_scales: {name} must be a 1-element fp32 tensor; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()}", | ||
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Reject invalid device scale tensors.
In device_scales mode, require each scale to be exactly one contiguous FP32 element on Q's device. The current reshape(-1)[:1] can allocate for non-contiguous tensors, and a scale on another CUDA device passes validation but gives the kernel an invalid pointer. Return t.view(1) after validation.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 498 - 509, The
_checked_scale_view method must require each device scale to be exactly one
contiguous FP32 element located on Q’s device, rejecting other CUDA devices and
non-contiguous or incorrectly sized tensors. Update its validation accordingly
and return the validated tensor with view(1), avoiding reshape or slicing.
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| if o_needs_copy_back: | ||
| O_view.copy_(O) | ||
| if amax_o is not None: | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(max(so, 1e-30)) | ||
| if self.device_scales: | ||
| # Device divisor: the same div the host path does, minus the | ||
| # readback. scale_o > 0 is the caller contract (backend parity). | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(so_t) | ||
| else: | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(max(so, 1e-30)) |
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Run post-launch consumers on current_stream.
When o_needs_copy_back is true or amax_o is provided, run O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_() inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device). These operations otherwise use PyTorch's current stream and can race the kernel launched on current_stream.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1660 - 1668, The copy-back and
output-scale operations in the shown forward path must execute on current_stream
to avoid racing the launched kernel. Wrap O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_()
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| if self.device_scales: | ||
| # Rule 3: the scales stay on device — the kernel loads and folds | ||
| # dq*dk into the softmax scale, ds*dv*so into o_scale_fused, and | ||
| # ss into scale_s. scale_o > 0 is the caller contract (amax div). | ||
| dq_t = self._checked_scale_view(descale_q, "descale_q") | ||
| dk_t = self._checked_scale_view(descale_k, "descale_k") | ||
| dv_t = self._checked_scale_view(descale_v, "descale_v") | ||
| so_t = self._checked_scale_view(scale_o, "scale_o") | ||
| ds_t = ( | ||
| self._checked_scale_view(descale_s, "descale_s") | ||
| if descale_s is not None | ||
| else self._dummy("one_f32", q_tensor.device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q_tensor.device)) | ||
| ) | ||
| ss_t = ( | ||
| self._checked_scale_view(scale_s, "scale_s") | ||
| if scale_s is not None | ||
| else self._dummy("one_f32", q_tensor.device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=q_tensor.device)) | ||
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Resolve the launch stream before creating fallback tensors.
_execute_fp8() creates cached scale and sequence-length dummies before resolving current_stream. On a cache miss, their torch.ones/torch.zeros factories allocate and initialize tensors on PyTorch’s current stream. Resolve current_stream first and run these allocations inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device).
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774-781: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPass the six device-scale tensors to the direct template call.
SM120FusedMultiHeadAttentionForward.__call__now requires six one-element FP32 CUDA tensors afterscale_s. This call passesthd_max_sqin thedescale_q_tslot and omits the remaining arguments. The tail tests fail before the kernel launches.Proposed fix
+ unit_scale = torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev) fn( q8, k8, v8, o, @@ cutlass.Float32(scale * math.log2(math.e)), cutlass.Float32(1.0), cutlass.Float32(1.0), + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, + unit_scale, cutlass.Int32(0),🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py`:
- Around line 8-12: Enforce the exact unit S-scale pair in the SM100 and SM107
prefill FP8 kernels: reject or route any request where descale_s or scale_s is
not exactly 1.0, without reading device values on the host. Update the
limitation documentation in
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py lines 8-12 and
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py lines 24-28; replace the
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In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm120.py`:
- Around line 774-781: Update the direct SM120 forward call around
SM120FusedMultiHeadAttentionForward.__call__ to pass six one-element FP32 CUDA
device-scale tensors immediately after scale_s, in the order required by the
signature, before thd_max_sq and the remaining dense-path arguments. Ensure
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| warps, persistent try_cancel scheduler). Per-tensor descales are LOADED | ||
| IN-KERNEL from 1-element device tensors and folded into scale_softmax_log2 / | ||
| o_scale_fused (Rule 3 — no host readback); o_scale_fused feeds the correction | ||
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Enforce the SM100 and SM107 S-scale contract.
Ignoring descale_s and scale_s accepts a requested operation that these kernels cannot implement. A non-unit pair can change FP8 P-cast rounding and underflow. Route non-unit controls to a supporting engine, or reject them before execution without reading device values on the host.
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py#L8-L12: remove the ignored-controls contract and document the enforced limitation.python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py#L24-L28: apply the same limitation.test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py#L323-L335: replace the equality assertion for non-reciprocal controls with rejection or fallback coverage.
Based on learnings: “accept only the exact unit pair (descale_s == 1.0 and scale_s == 1.0); reciprocal values are not equivalent because they alter quantization rounding and underflow behavior.”
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py` around lines 8 - 12,
Enforce the exact unit S-scale pair in the SM100 and SM107 prefill FP8 kernels:
reject or route any request where descale_s or scale_s is not exactly 1.0,
without reading device values on the host. Update the limitation documentation
in python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py lines 8-12 and
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test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py lines 323-335 with rejection
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…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.
…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).
…ernels 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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790-809: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReject unsupported
descale_s/scale_soperands before selecting the FP8 engine.
mismatch()does not gate these operands, and the SM100/SM107/SM120 kernels ignore them. Non-unit scaling factors are therefore accepted but not applied, producing incorrect FP8 output. Decline graphs that provide unsupported S scales or implement device-side S scaling.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Around line 1612-1618: Wrap the post-kernel operations in the execute path
with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), including O_view.copy_() and
amax_o_buf.div_(so_t), matching SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8. Ensure both
operations execute on and are ordered by the launch stream.
- Around line 460-477: Update _scale_view to require t.device == device, require
exactly one element, and reject non-contiguous tensors before returning a direct
view without reshape-based copying. In SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8, resolve
current_stream before calling _scale_view and create the cached scale_one dummy
within _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device); preserve the existing
behavior for valid tensors and both FP8 call sites.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py`:
- Around line 790-809: Before selecting the FP8 engine and constructing
SdpaBinding, validate any descale_s or scale_s operands and reject graphs when
they are provided with non-unit or otherwise unsupported scaling. Ensure
unsupported S scales cannot reach the SM100, SM107, or SM120 kernels unless
device-side S scaling is implemented.
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| def _scale_view(self, t, name: str, device: torch.device) -> torch.Tensor: | ||
| """A per-tensor scale as the kernel's 1-element fp32 device view. | ||
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| ``None`` binds a cached 1.0 dummy (identity fold) — the kernels take | ||
| the scale tensors unconditionally so there is exactly one compile | ||
| form and execute never reads a value back to the host (Rule 3).""" | ||
| if t is None: | ||
| return self._dummy("scale_one", device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)) | ||
| 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__}", | ||
| ) | ||
| 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()}", | ||
| ) | ||
| return t.reshape(-1)[:1] | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Fix _scale_view's device, contiguity, and element-count validation.
_scale_view still has the gaps flagged in a prior review on this method (then named _checked_scale_view):
t.device.type != "cuda"only checks the tensor is on some CUDA device. It does not checkt.device == device(the caller'sdeviceparameter,q_tensor.device). A scale tensor on a different GPU passes validation and hands the kernel an invalid pointer for that device context — a crash risk, not just a silent-wrongness risk.t.numel() < 1allows tensors with more than one element through, even though the error message says "must be a 1-element fp32 tensor".reshape(-1)[:1]then silently keeps only the first element instead of erroring.reshape(-1)[:1]can allocate a new contiguous copy whentis not contiguous (and has more than one element), becausereshape()falls back tocontiguous().view()when a view is not possible. That is an unexpected allocation on the execute hot path.
Downstream, this same method is used by both SdpaFwdDslSm100._execute_fp8 and SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8, so the fix applies to both call sites.
Also downstream: in SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8 (around L2281-2297), _scale_view is called (and, for None inputs, lazily allocates the cached scale_one dummy via torch.ones) BEFORE current_stream is resolved at L2296-2297. That dummy allocation and initialization therefore runs on whatever is PyTorch's current stream at first use, not on the resolved launch stream. Resolve current_stream first, then run the _dummy factory inside _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device).
🛡️ Proposed fix
- def _scale_view(self, t, name: str, device: torch.device) -> torch.Tensor:
+ def _scale_view(self, t, name: str, device: torch.device, current_stream=None) -> torch.Tensor:
"""A per-tensor scale as the kernel's 1-element fp32 device view.
``None`` binds a cached 1.0 dummy (identity fold) — the kernels take
the scale tensors unconditionally so there is exactly one compile
form and execute never reads a value back to the host (Rule 3)."""
if t is None:
- return self._dummy("scale_one", device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device))
+ with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device):
+ return self._dummy("scale_one", device, lambda: torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device))
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 CUDA tensor on {device}; got {getattr(t, 'device', type(t).__name__)}",
)
self._value_error_if(
- t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() < 1,
+ t.dtype != torch.float32 or t.numel() != 1,
f"{name} must be a 1-element fp32 tensor; got dtype={t.dtype} numel={t.numel()}",
)
- return t.reshape(-1)[:1]
+ try:
+ return t.view(1)
+ except RuntimeError as exc:
+ raise ValueError(f"{name} must be contiguous; got strides {tuple(t.stride())}") from excCallers pass current_stream through (it is already resolved before _execute_fp8 for SM100; SM120 needs the stream resolved before calling _scale_view).
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 460 - 477, Update _scale_view
to require t.device == device, require exactly one element, and reject
non-contiguous tensors before returning a direct view without reshape-based
copying. In SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8, resolve current_stream before calling
_scale_view and create the cached scale_one dummy within
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device); preserve the existing behavior
for valid tensors and both FP8 call sites.
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| if o_needs_copy_back: | ||
| O_view.copy_(O) | ||
| if amax_o is not None: | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(max(so, 1e-30)) | ||
| # Device divisor: the same div_ as before, minus the readback. | ||
| # scale_o > 0 is caller contract (backend parity); None bound a | ||
| # cached 1.0 above. | ||
| amax_o_buf.div_(so_t) |
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Run O_view.copy_() and amax_o_buf.div_() on the launch stream.
This block is not wrapped in _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device). Both operations run on PyTorch's current stream instead, which can race the kernel launched on current_stream when the two differ (e.g., an external stream or CUDA-graph capture). The amax_o_buf.div_(so_t) call is new in this PR (device-tensor division replacing the host-scalar division).
The sibling implementation in SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8 (L2398-2404) already wraps the equivalent block in _torch_stream_context. Apply the same wrap here for consistency with Rule 5 ("every torch operation on the execute path is ordered on the LAUNCH stream").
🔒 Proposed fix
- if o_needs_copy_back:
- O_view.copy_(O)
- if amax_o is not None:
- # Device divisor: the same div_ as before, minus the readback.
- # scale_o > 0 is caller contract (backend parity); None bound a
- # cached 1.0 above.
- amax_o_buf.div_(so_t)
+ with _torch_stream_context(current_stream, device):
+ if o_needs_copy_back:
+ O_view.copy_(O)
+ if amax_o is not None:
+ # Device divisor: the same div_ as before, minus the readback.
+ # scale_o > 0 is caller contract (backend parity); None bound a
+ # cached 1.0 above.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/api_dsl.py` around lines 1612 - 1618, Wrap the
post-kernel operations in the execute path with
_torch_stream_context(current_stream, device), including O_view.copy_() and
amax_o_buf.div_(so_t), matching SdpaFwdDslSm120._execute_fp8. Ensure both
operations execute on and are ordered by the launch stream.
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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.
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…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 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 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> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Per-tensor FP8 + MXFP8 kernels and adapter (SM100 / SM107 / SM120); the fp8 lowering; SM100 THD setup-launch comments;
python/cudnn/AGENTS.md.Summary — three commits (rebased over #585/#622/#642-era develop)
1. Docs cleanup
The d128/d192 SM100 THD setup-launch comments now describe the plan-time declared-S_q envelope (not the pre-#606 host-computed grid); the resolved THD
cu_seqlensentry is dropped from AGENTS.md's "Known violations".2. FP8 scales fold in-kernel; Scale_S/Descale_S expunged below the graph
Every fp8 graph execute paid a D2H sync: the adapter
.item()-read the caller's device scale tensors to folddescale_q·descale_k/descale_[s·]v·scale_ohost-side — the last big Rule 3 violation, and why fp8 execute was not CUDA-graph-capturable.Now the kernels take
descale_q/k/v+scale_oas unconditional 1-element fp32 tensor parameters and fold them in-kernel (1-elem loads → L2 broadcast); the scalar args carry only the bases. One compile form — no flag. The adapter binds the caller's tensors as-is (Nonebinds a cached 1.0),amax_odivides by the devicescale_o, and_scalarplus every execute-path.item()are deleted; the AGENTS.md violation entry is retired.Scale_S/Descale_S no longer exist below the graph. The lowering neither resolves nor forwards them (the op's tensors stay bound in the variant pack, simply never read — no framework produces a meaningful non-reciprocal pair: vLLM and FlashInfer have no S-scale surface, and TE's pair is reciprocal by construction); the execute signatures dropped the parameters; SM100's execute-time reciprocal check (itself a Rule 3 readback) is deleted, and SM120's Scale_S kernel machinery is removed.
test_fp8_sm100_s_scales_ignoredpins that wild pair values change nothing, bitwise.Also repairs the
_run_template_taildirect-call helper for the current kernel ABI — the tentest_fp8_sm120_head_dim_tail_directL1 tests had been failing with a positional-arg TypeError since #608 grew the kernel signature under them (never numeric failures); they now pass 10/10.3. Baked 2⁴ P→fp8 cast bias (fp8 SM100/SM107/SM120 + MXFP8 SM100)
P was quantized to fp8 at unit scale, using at most 2⁴ of e4m3's 448 range (the lazy-rescale skip bounds P by
2^RESCALE_THRESHOLD= 2⁴) while flat-row entries (P ≈ 1/S) sat near the subnormal cliff (~2⁻⁹). Each kernel now bakesP_CAST_LOG2_SCALE = 4.0: P enters BMM2 peaking at 2⁸ = 256 < 448 — no saturation — and flat rows stay in normal range out to S ≈ 2¹³. The invariantRESCALE_THRESHOLD + P_CAST_LOG2_SCALE ≤ log2(448)is documented at each constant. The bias is numerically free beyond the improved quantization: it rides the exp2 argument (EX2 is binade-shift-exact), the sums stay in the same 2⁴ units so the O normalization cancels it outright (SM120 de-scalesrow_sumby the exact 2⁻⁴ pre-finalize instead), and only the LSE subtracts the constant (sink denominator lifted to match). This is an internal quantization choice, not cuDNN's Scale_S — that knob no longer exists below the graph.Validation (per tree revision; final rebased-tree runs in the PR checks)
torch.cuda.set_sync_debug_mode(2)) + fp8 fwd/bwd + mxfp8 fwd/bwd sweeps + graph-analyzer probes — green at every step (349✓ descale, 293✓ P-cast fp8, full battery re-running post-rebase).🤖 Generated with Claude Code