frost(sdpa): serve declared layouts natively in the SM120 backward — strided stats/io, TMA zero-fill head-dim envelope - #666
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSM120 SDPA backward now supports native strided BSHD and statistics tensors, aligned padded head dimensions, rectangular Q/K and V/O dimensions, and direct gradient outputs without staging copies. Capability validation, kernel compilation, execution paths, tests, and documentation were updated. ChangesSM120 native strided backward
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change expands SM120 backward support for declared layouts and head dimensions, but the current head still rejects a newly covered 96/8 configuration and contains test expectations that conflict with the matcher’s precision restrictions. The validation and test contract should be aligned before merging. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Native_strided_views->>bprop_f16_sm120_compile: provide logical dimensions and stride tuples
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SM120_backward_kernel->>Gradient_outputs: write guarded dQ, dK, and dV results
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python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py (1)
1449-1461: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winEnvelope safety in both compact fast paths rests on one unasserted invariant. Each fast path compares the runtime strides against a compact tuple built from the PADDED head dimension, while the corresponding fake tensor carries the ORIGINAL head dimension. An envelope tensor therefore never matches, always reports "strided", and always reaches the guarded branch. Neither site states that dependency, and each unguarded branch would read or write past the user tensor if the comparison tuple ever changed.
python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py#L1449-L1461: after computingio_strided, assert that a non-strided port is never an envelope port, for exampleassert io_strided or (o.shape[3] == d_v and do.shape[3] == d_v).python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py#L1679-L1717: document at the compact store thatposuses the padded widthd, and assertout_strided or d_out == dbefore that store. Also makeskva required keyword instead of defaulting to0, because the strided branch computesbs % skv.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/api_dsl.py`:
- Line 498: Correct the user-facing alignment error message in the relevant
validation logic by changing “requirment” to “requirement”; preserve the
existing ValueError behavior and all other wording.
- Around line 495-522: Update _native_view to compare each runtime tensor’s
strides with the corresponding compiled self._io_strides entry before calling
as_strided, raising ValueError on mismatch instead of reinterpreting the buffer.
Add equivalent validation for stats_tensor against self._lse_strides in both lse
branches, while preserving the existing view construction for matching layouts.
In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py`:
- Around line 2058-2062: Update the compact LSE fake tensor construction in the
branch using _fake so its assumed alignment is 4, matching the lse_strides
branch and the Float32 scalar alignment; leave the strided make_fake_tensor path
unchanged.
In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_bwd_dsl_sm120.py`:
- Around line 1195-1200: Update the docstring of
test_sdpa_bwd_dsl_sm120_rect_head_dims_graph to describe the 96/8 variant
actually defined and executed, replacing the incorrect 96/40 reference while
preserving the surrounding kernel-padding explanation.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py`:
- Around line 1449-1461: In python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py
lines 1449-1461, update the flow around io_strided to assert that either the
port is strided or both o.shape[3] and do.shape[3] equal d_v, preventing the
compact path from handling envelope tensors. In lines 1679-1717, document that
pos uses padded width d, assert out_strided or d_out == d before the compact
store, and make skv a required keyword because the strided path uses bs % skv.
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python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py (1)
498-513: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRemove the obsolete unequal-dimension restriction.
Line 510 rejects
d_qk=96, d_v=8after padding to(128, 32). The new test coverage documents this page-32 configuration as supported. The constructor raisesValueErrorbefore compilation.Remove the multiple-of-64 restriction. The existing fallback recomputes a valid dK/dV warp partition, and Line 545 selects the 32-element page.
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- # current MLA requires both to be multiples of 64 so one smem swizzle serves every tile. - if self.d_v != head_dim_qk and (head_dim_qk % 64 or self.d_v % 64): - raise ValueError(f"unequal head dims must both be multiples of 64; got d_qk={head_dim_qk}, d_v={self.d_v}") self.qk_envelope = self.d_qk_orig != self.d_qk🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/kernels/bprop_f16_sm120.py`:
- Around line 498-513: Remove the unequal-dimension multiple-of-64 validation in
the constructor after padded_head_dims assigns self.d_qk and self.d_v, allowing
configurations such as padded d_qk=128 and d_v=32 to proceed to compilation.
Preserve the existing padding, envelope tracking, fallback warp-partition logic,
and page-32 selection.
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188-191: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winAlign this test with the production matcher.
At Line 183, every test fact sets
is_fp8=True. The suppliedpython/cudnn/sdpa/bwd/engines.pymatcher returns"this engine serves only half (fp16/bf16) sdpa_backward graphs"before it evaluates sink-token compatibility. Therefore, the accepted assertions at Lines 188 and 189 fail with a non-Nonemismatch reason. Update the matcher and this test together if FP8 sink gating is the intended contract; otherwise, remove or revise this test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 188-191: Align the FP8 sink-token test cases with the production
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…VIDIA#514) Mirrors the merged forward port's contract: both bprop kernels gain scratch_bytes() and a workspace= param carving dQ_acc / dQ / dK_ws / dV_ws / GQA-reduced dK/dV / the deterministic-dQ semaphore / dBias+dSink accumulators / do_dot from the caller's buffer (cached 1-element dummies for absent operands); SdpabwdSm80 gains scratch_workspace_bytes(feature flags) covering pad/gather staging plus the kernel tail and a carve-aware execute(workspace=); lower_sm80_bwd builds the adapter at plan time from normalized descriptors and records the total as workspace_bytes. The row also declares strided_stats (NVIDIA#666's capability): the kernels read a packed LSE, so a stats input with any other declared strides is gathered into a carved contiguous chunk — without this, every stats-stride-randomized mhas draw (NVIDIA#304, active on cuDNN >= 9.26) declined to the backend. Adds the issue's no-alloc regression test: the CUDA allocator counter stays flat across re-executes of both SM80 engines, outputs bitwise-stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…VIDIA#514) Mirrors the merged forward port's contract: both bprop kernels gain scratch_bytes() and a workspace= param carving dQ_acc / dQ / dK_ws / dV_ws / GQA-reduced dK/dV / the deterministic-dQ semaphore / dBias+dSink accumulators / do_dot from the caller's buffer (cached 1-element dummies for absent operands); SdpabwdSm80 gains scratch_workspace_bytes(feature flags) covering pad/gather staging plus the kernel tail and a carve-aware execute(workspace=); lower_sm80_bwd builds the adapter at plan time from normalized descriptors and records the total as workspace_bytes. The row also declares strided_stats (NVIDIA#666's capability): the kernels read a packed LSE, so a stats input with any other declared strides is gathered into a carved contiguous chunk — without this, every stats-stride-randomized mhas draw (NVIDIA#304, active on cuDNN >= 9.26) declined to the backend. Adds the issue's no-alloc regression test: the CUDA allocator counter stays flat across re-executes of both SM80 engines, outputs bitwise-stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…-execute allocation on the engine paths (issue #514) (#716) * frost(sdpa): SM80 backward workspace carving + strided stats (issue #514) Mirrors the merged forward port's contract: both bprop kernels gain scratch_bytes() and a workspace= param carving dQ_acc / dQ / dK_ws / dV_ws / GQA-reduced dK/dV / the deterministic-dQ semaphore / dBias+dSink accumulators / do_dot from the caller's buffer (cached 1-element dummies for absent operands); SdpabwdSm80 gains scratch_workspace_bytes(feature flags) covering pad/gather staging plus the kernel tail and a carve-aware execute(workspace=); lower_sm80_bwd builds the adapter at plan time from normalized descriptors and records the total as workspace_bytes. The row also declares strided_stats (#666's capability): the kernels read a packed LSE, so a stats input with any other declared strides is gathered into a carved contiguous chunk — without this, every stats-stride-randomized mhas draw (#304, active on cuDNN >= 9.26) declined to the backend. Adds the issue's no-alloc regression test: the CUDA allocator counter stays flat across re-executes of both SM80 engines, outputs bitwise-stable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * frost(sdpa): SM80 forward scratch carving + strided-LSE staging (issue #514) Completes the forward half on the merged SdpaFwdDsl/TemplateParams architecture: SdpaFwdDslSm80.scratch_workspace_bytes() now sizes the dense_flex Q/K/V/O gathers, the GQA head expansion, the V head-dim pad (one carved buffer per operand — gather, expansion, and pad fused), strided-LSE staging, and the sinks log2 rescale; execute() carves them all from the caller's workspace through lower_dsl_prefill's existing plumbing (the standalone wrapper path keeps its allocating fallbacks). The 'LSE must be contiguous on SM80' build-time reject becomes carved staging + copy-back: with mhas randomizing dense stats strides on cuDNN >= 9.26 (#304), that reject was declining most stats-carrying forward graphs to the backend. Test updates: workspace passed at every SM80 graph execute; the no-alloc regression no longer requires a non-zero fwd workspace (a plain compact-BSHD MHA graph direct-binds everything and genuinely needs no scratch). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * review: IR-shaped input views in lower_sm80_bwd; harden the no-alloc test CodeRabbit round 1: - lower_sm80_bwd rebuilds IR-shaped views for the variant-pack INPUT buffers (q/k/v/o/dO/stats) before staging, mirroring the forward lowering's _ir_view — a flat or logically-reshaped caller buffer previously raised or mapped elements incorrectly in the rank-dependent staging paths. The gradient OUTPUTS deliberately keep the caller tensor's own view: output-port IR strides are provisional row-major unless user-assigned (the layout invariant in docs/python_graph_and_execution_backends.md), and re-striding the copy-back targets to the provisional layout scatters the writes (caught by test_bwd_engine_end_to_end, 83% dQ mismatch). - The no-alloc regression now exercises real staging on both directions: GQA (fwd K/V head expansion) plus a strided stats buffer (fwd LSE staging + bwd gather), asserts a non-zero fwd workspace, and clones/compares dK and dV alongside dQ and O across the re-executes. Verified on A100: SM80 suites all levels 118 passed; test_mhas_v2 bwd_L0 176/0, sdpa_bwd_sm80 serving all 176. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * review: L0 marker on the no-alloc regression test Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The SM120 SDPA backward used staged copies for non-compact io tensors and padded head
dims, and declined non-contiguous stats outright — against the
python/cudnn/AGENTS.mdRule 2 contract: serve the declared layout natively, or decline — never adapt.
Native non-packed io tensors (LSE included). Each port's declared strides bake
into the kernel as compile-time constants.
Head-dim padding via the TMA zero-fill envelope. The kernel computes on its
native sizes (32/64/128/192/256) while the TMA descriptors declare the tensors'
actual extents: reads past them zero-fill in hardware.
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