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Fix device crash - #635

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Incorporate #615 and clean up rest of the failures

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved detection of oversized shared-memory support across different driver versions and CUDA binding variations.
    • Capability checks now use a compatible fallback when the required enum is unavailable.
    • Binding-level attribute errors during capability checks safely report unsupported functionality instead of failing.
    • Driver query errors continue to be reported for visibility and troubleshooting.

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The PR updates oversized shared-memory detection. It skips unsupported drivers, uses attribute ordinal 150 when the binding lacks the enum, and returns zero for binding-level AttributeError failures while preserving driver query errors.

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CUDA device handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared-memory capability detection
python/cudnn/_device.py
Driver versions below CUDA 13.4 skip the query. Missing binding enums use ordinal 150. Binding-level AttributeError failures return zero. Driver query errors continue to propagate.

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Device handling can retain primary CUDA contexts for the lifetime of the process, potentially accumulating unreleased resources across worker threads and causing runtime failures. This bounded availability risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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In `@python/cudnn/_device.py`:
- Around line 62-68: Replace the functools.lru_cache decorator on
_primary_context with a lock-protected per-ordinal map so concurrent misses
cannot invoke cuDevicePrimaryCtxRetain more than once for the same ordinal. Add
the necessary shared lock and cache, check the map while holding the lock,
retain and store the context only on a miss, and return the cached context for
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The gate conflated two independent version axes. Whether the mode EXISTS is the
driver's answer; whether cuda-python's CUdevice_attribute carries the enum member
is only about how to ASK. Refusing on the second gives up the carveout on a live
combination -- driver 13.5 with a cuda-python 13.3.1 binding reports 0 although
the device really offers 327 KiB, which on SM 10.7 block-scale costs 3 AB stages
(8 -> 5) for nothing.

Keep the driver gate and drop the binding one: name the enum member when the
binding has it, else pass its ordinal, which that binding forwards fine. Only the
bindings old enough to reject a bare int (they read attrib.value) genuinely cannot
make the query, and those answer 0 through the narrow AttributeError arm. A real
driver failure still raises rather than being masked.

This supersedes NVIDIA#615, which fixed the same class of bug in frost/device.py before
NVIDIA#612 moved the query here.

Validated on SM 10.7 (driver 13050, cuda-python 13.3.1): the query goes 0 ->
334848, i.e. back to the real ceiling the part reports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### What

`DeviceInfo.oversized_shared_memory_per_block` gated the query on BOTH the driver
version and whether cuda-python's `CUdevice_attribute` carries
`CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_OVERSIZED_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK`. Those are independent
axes: the DRIVER decides whether the mode exists, the BINDING only decides how to ask.

Refusing on the second gives up the carveout on a live combination — driver 13.5 with
a cuda-python 13.3.1 binding reports 0 although the device really offers 327 KiB. On
SM 10.7 block-scale GEMM that costs 3 AB pipeline stages (8 → 5) for nothing.

### Change

Keep the driver gate, drop the binding one: name the enum member when the binding has
it, else pass its ordinal, which that binding forwards fine. Only bindings old enough
to reject a bare int (they read `attrib.value`) genuinely cannot make the query, and
those return 0 through a narrow `AttributeError` arm. A real driver failure still
raises rather than being masked.

### Test

SM 10.7, driver 13050, cuda-python 13.3.1:
- the query goes 0 → 334848, back to the ceiling the part reports
- `test_device_info` + `test_public_execute_flavors` + `test_build_device` +
  `test_stream_respect` + `test_tile_select_analytic`: 46 passed / 2 skipped
- sm107 block-scale kernels (`-k "sm107 and (128x128 or mixed_cga)"`): 42 passed

### Notes

- The `ensure_current_context` fix this branch originally carried landed upstream as
  NVIDIA#638; that commit was dropped from this PR.
- Supersedes NVIDIA#615, which fixed the same class of bug in `frost/device.py` before NVIDIA#612
  moved the query into `cudnn/_device.py` — NVIDIA#615 can be closed.
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