test_mhas_v2: draw sink tokens in the ragged bwd suites - #630
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Backward + ragged + learnable sink was structurally untestable: the dense bwd
suite draws sink tokens but never ragged layout, and the ragged bwd suites
never drew sink tokens. This let a dSink corruption in the cuDNN backward
dot_do_o pre-kernel ship unnoticed for every ragged config with
d_v not in {64,128,256} (bf16/fp16) and all ragged fp8 configs
(TransformerEngine issue #3249; fixed in cuDNN backend).
Add the same sink-token draw the dense bwd suites use to
test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0 and test_sdpa_fp8_bwd_ragged_L0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe ragged backward attention tests now randomly enable or disable sink tokens in standard and FP8 configurations. ChangesRagged backward test coverage
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new test coverage enables sink-token ragged backward combinations that are known to fail for unsupported backend cases, but no blocking gate currently excludes them. The suites may therefore fail or provide unreliable CI results, so merge should wait for explicit gating or the corresponding backend fixes. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@test/python/test_mhas_v2.py`:
- Line 498: Add explicit skip conditions before the random cases in
test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0 and the FP8 test to exclude unsupported
sink-token combinations, including sink tokens with
ragged_stats_layout="head_major" and the FP8 sink-token case. Do not rely on the
empty blocked-test table; preserve all supported random combinations.
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| is_ragged_or_padded_or_full=RandomChoice({"ragged" : 1, "padded" : 0, "full" : 0}), | ||
| is_deterministic=RandomChoice({True : 3, False : 1}), | ||
| ragged_stats_layout=RandomChoice({"token_major" : 1, "head_major" : 1}), | ||
| with_sink_token=RandomChoice({True : 1, False : 3}), |
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# Map relevant functions without executing repository code.
ast-grep outline test/python/test_mhas_v2.py --items all --type function
# Verify sink-token support and backend/version gating.
rg -n -C 8 \
'with_sink_token|ragged_stats_layout|blocked_tests|fetch_blocked_tests|backend_version|get_device_capability|exec_sdpa(_fp8)?' \
--glob '*.py' .Repository: NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend
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🏁 Script executed:
#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# Inspect only the affected tests and their direct execution/blocking helpers.
rg -n -C 18 \
'def (test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0|test_sdpa_fp8_bwd_ragged_L0)|with_sink_token|ragged_stats_layout|exec_sdpa|exec_sdpa_fp8|blocked_tests|fetch_blocked_tests' \
test/python/test_mhas_v2.py test/python/sdpa
# Locate definitions and call sites for the blocking helpers without scanning unrelated files.
rg -n -C 12 \
'def (blocked_tests|fetch_blocked_tests)|blocked_tests\(|fetch_blocked_tests\(' \
test/pythonRepository: NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- affected FP16 and FP8 tests ---'
sed -n '475,510p;880,930p' test/python/test_mhas_v2.py
printf '%s\n' '--- blocked helper definition ---'
blocked_file=$(rg -l 'def fetch_blocked_tests' test/python/sdpa test/python)
printf '%s\n' "$blocked_file"
for f in $blocked_file; do
rg -n -C 35 'def fetch_blocked_tests|return .*blocked|sink|head_major|ragged|cudnn' "$f"
done
printf '%s\n' '--- SDPA execution helpers ---'
for f in test/python/sdpa/fp16.py test/python/sdpa/fp8.py; do
if [ -f "$f" ]; then
rg -n -C 30 'def exec_sdpa|def exec_sdpa_fp8|blocked|backend_version|get_device_capability|sink|ragged_stats_layout|head_major' "$f"
fi
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import ast
test_path = Path("test/python/test_mhas_v2.py")
blocked_path = Path("test/python/sdpa/blocked.py")
test_src = test_path.read_text()
blocked_src = blocked_path.read_text()
tree = ast.parse(test_src)
targets = {
"test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0",
"test_sdpa_fp8_bwd_ragged_L0",
}
found = {}
for node in ast.walk(tree):
if isinstance(node, ast.FunctionDef) and node.name in targets:
body = ast.get_source_segment(test_src, node)
found[node.name] = {
"sink_token_randomized": "with_sink_token=RandomChoice" in body,
"head_major_randomized": 'ragged_stats_layout=RandomChoice({"token_major" : 1, "head_major" : 1})' in body,
"blocked_name_check": "request.node.name in test.blocked_tests" in body,
"exec_call": "exec_sdpa_fp8(" in body or "exec_sdpa(" in body,
}
blocked_tree = ast.parse(blocked_src)
blocked_assignment = next(
node for node in blocked_tree.body
if isinstance(node, ast.Assign)
and any(isinstance(t, ast.Name) and t.id == "BLOCKED_TESTS" for t in node.targets)
)
blocked_value = ast.literal_eval(blocked_assignment.value)
print("affected_tests:", found)
print("blocked_tests_entry_count:", len(blocked_value))
print("has_sink_or_layout_specific_entry:", any(
"sink" in name.lower() or "head_major" in name.lower()
for name in blocked_value
))
print("has_explicit_capability_gate_in_blocked_helper:",
'"sms"' in blocked_src and bool(blocked_value))
PYRepository: NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend
Length of output: 588
Skip unsupported sink-token ragged backward combinations.
test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0 can select with_sink_token=True and ragged_stats_layout="head_major", while the FP8 test can select sink tokens. The blocked-test table is empty, so no architecture, dtype, layout, or cuDNN-version gate covers the known dSink defect. Add explicit blocking before these random cases run.
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In `@test/python/test_mhas_v2.py` at line 498, Add explicit skip conditions before
the random cases in test_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0 and the FP8 test to exclude
unsupported sink-token combinations, including sink tokens with
ragged_stats_layout="head_major" and the FP8 sink-token case. Do not rely on the
empty blocked-test table; preserve all supported random combinations.
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What
Add the same
with_sink_tokendraw the dense bwd suites already use totest_sdpa_random_bwd_ragged_L0andtest_sdpa_fp8_bwd_ragged_L0.Why
Backward x ragged x learnable-sink was structurally untestable: the dense bwd suite draws sink tokens but never ragged layout, and the ragged bwd suites never drew sink tokens. That empty cell let a dSink corruption in the cuDNN backward
dot_do_opre-kernel ship unnoticed for every THD config with d_v not in {64,128,256} (bf16/fp16) and all ragged fp8 configs - reported via TransformerEngine issue #3249, fixed in cuDNN backend MR !4223 (dev) / !4224 (9.26).Note: adding a drawn knob reshuffles downstream draws for every seed, so per-seed configs change (same property as #304's stats-stride draw).
Status: draft until remaining backend fixes land
On H100 with a cuDNN dev build that includes the dot_do_o fix, this coverage exposes two further pre-existing backend defects (64/256 fail; baseline without the knob is 256/256 green in the same environment):
-infwhere the no-sink kernel (and the test reference) produce0- a contract mismatch in the undefined region (2007/31872-element slack-only mismatches, valid rows and dQ/dK/dV all clean).dot_do_okernels derive the per-batch stats base asbatch_offset_o[b]/d, a token-major-only convention, so head-major THD stats produce corrupt dSink for all head dims. Proper fix is plumbing the Stats tensor's own ragged offsets into the kernel.Once those are fixed in the backend, this suite goes green and gates the whole class of bugs.
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