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test(mhas_v2): NaN-poison ragged capacity tails so capacity-vs-live-token bugs fail deterministically (#624) - #646

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Hardens test_mhas_v2.py against the #624 bug class (THD zero-host-read binding K/V views to buffer capacity instead of live token counts: NaN bits in the capacity tail x masked-P=0 poison whole output rows).

  • packed_token_capacity: capacity is now always strictly greater than the packed total (next multiple of 64). Previously an exact-multiple total had no tail, so the bug class structurally could not fire in tests.
  • f16/bf16 harness: NaN-fill the capacity tail of Q/K/V/dO after the random fill. This was the hole: the harness filled pad tokens with finite random data, which the padding mask turns into exact zeros (0 x finite = 0), while real recycled device memory holds NaN patterns (0 x NaN = NaN).
  • fp8 harness: already NaN-fills pads via convert_uniform_to_packed (why the only test able to catch frost(sdpa): THD zero-host-read execute loads uninitialized KV capacity rows — NaN poisons P@V on the f16/fp8 SM100/SM120 rows #624 in the wild was fp8 ragged, and only with a lucky seed); now shares packed_token_capacity so its tail is guaranteed non-empty.
  • mxfp8: the sdpa_mxfp8 API has no seq_len/padding arguments and the engines defer THD, so the class is not yet expressible there. This PR stops the mxfp8 fwd suite from drawing "padded" configs that silently ran dense-full (inflated coverage), and leaves pointers so the NaN-poison machinery applies automatically once seq-len support lands. The analogous fp8 dense-"padded"-runs-as-full gap is documented in place.

Validation (B200 / SM100)

routing old harness new harness
native backend baseline failure set bit-identical to develop (no collateral)
FROST engines (with the #606 zero-host-read path) 24/24 pass (bug invisible) 19/24 FAIL, o_gpu 24% NaN in valid rows — the exact #624 signature

mxfp8 suites: failure/skip sets identical to develop before/after (the draw change only remaps padded->full).

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Covers the test-coverage half of #624.

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  • Tests

    • Improved ragged FP16 and FP8 test coverage for packed buffers with unused capacity.
    • Updated capacity calculations to ensure adequate space beyond live token counts.
    • Added NaN initialization for unused FP16 capacity to help detect invalid reads.
    • Restricted MXFP8 validation to currently supported dense, full-sequence inputs.
    • Clarified FP8 and MXFP8 test behavior for padding and variable-length inputs.
  • Documentation

    • Documented current limitations around sequence lengths, padding, and ragged layouts in MXFP8 and FP8 testing.

vedaanta and others added 2 commits August 18, 2026 00:58
…oken bugs fail deterministically (GitHub NVIDIA#624)

The f16/bf16 harness filled the entire packed K/V/Q/dO capacity - pad
tokens included - with finite random data, so an engine that reads past
the last ragged offset (e.g. THD zero-host-read binding K/V views to
buffer capacity instead of live token counts) stayed green: the padding
mask turns finite garbage into exact zeros, while real recycled device
memory holds NaN bit patterns and 0 x NaN = NaN poisons whole output
rows. The fp8 harness already NaN-fills its pads via
convert_uniform_to_packed, which is why the only test able to catch
GitHub NVIDIA#624 in the wild was fp8 ragged - and only with a lucky seed.

- packed_token_capacity: capacity is now always strictly greater than
  the packed total (next multiple of 64), so every ragged buffer has a
  poisonable tail; previously an exact-multiple total had no tail and
  the bug class structurally could not fire.
- fp16 harness: NaN-fill the capacity tail of Q/K/V/dO after the random
  fill, matching the fp8 harness contract.
- fp16/fp8 harnesses: use the shared packed_token_capacity instead of
  three duplicated inline formulas.

Validation on SM100 (B200):
- native routing: failure set bit-identical to unmodified develop on
  MHAS_NUM_TESTS=16/32 ragged sweeps (no collateral).
- FROST routing (CUDNN_FRONTEND_ENABLE_FROST_ENGINES=1, checkout with
  the NVIDIA#606 zero-host-read path): old harness 24/24 ragged f16 fwd pass;
  new harness fails 19/24 with the exact NVIDIA#624 signature (o_gpu 24% NaN
  in valid rows).

mxfp8 note: the mxfp8 harness has no ragged/THD path (its random
configs never draw "ragged"), so this class is not yet exercisable
there; fp8 covers the 1-byte-dtype THD engines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sdpa_mxfp8 python API has no seq_len/padding arguments and
exec_sdpa_mxfp8 never reads cfg.seq_len_q/kv, so a "padded" draw ran
dense-full while the repro config claimed padding — inflated coverage.
Draw full-only with a pointer to re-add padded/ragged once the API
grows seq-len support (the shared packed_token_capacity /
convert_uniform_to_packed helpers then provide the NaN-poisoned
capacity tails from the previous commit automatically).

Also documents the analogous fp8 gap in-place: a dense "padded" draw
runs as full because exec_sdpa_fp8 binds seq_len tensors only on the
paged and ragged paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The SDPA test harness now uses packed capacities that exceed live token totals, poisons unused ragged regions with NaNs, and limits MXFP8 coverage to supported dense full-sequence inputs.

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SDPA test harness

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Packed capacity and NaN tails
test/python/sdpa/random_config.py, test/python/sdpa/fp16.py, test/python/sdpa/fp8.py
packed_token_capacity now returns the next 64-token capacity. Ragged FP16 and FP8 buffers use this capacity, and unused FP16 regions are filled with NaNs.
Layout coverage alignment
test/python/sdpa/mxfp8.py, test/python/test_mhas_v2.py
MXFP8 tests now use dense full-sequence layouts. Comments document the unsupported sequence-length and padding inputs in the FP8 and MXFP8 harnesses.

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Add a boundary regression test for packed_token_capacity.

Cover totals 0, 63, 64, and 65. Expected capacities are 64, 64, 128, and 128. This protects the exact-multiple behavior that creates the poisonable tail.

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Thanks! LGTM.

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@Anerudhan Anerudhan added this to the Frontend 1.28.0 milestone Aug 19, 2026
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Needs review, labels, etc.

Moving to 1.29

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