fix(cudagraph): retain custom-op capture resources

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Resulting behavior

Status: implemented.

CUDA graph managers retain Python objects that own device storage referenced by captured custom operations. The retention lifetime matches the captured graph lifetime for monolithic and breakable CUDA graphs. Profiling teardown releases retained objects together with temporary graph captures.

B12X multipath-hyperconnection bindings register themselves during capture because their scratch and output tensor pointers are embedded in the graph. Eager execution and custom operations that do not register an owner are unchanged.

Source contract

• Base: local-inference-lab/vllm:dev/jovian-judgement at c79f35ca00e8e93e0943a0d79b85b22b18aac939.
• Head: 67fb44369269b4a17eac521bece7d624c3e1bcc5.
• B12X bindings remain caller-scratch-owned. Retention preserves a binding object; it does not introduce a cached B12X workspace or arena.

Validation

• tests/v1/worker/test_workspace.py and tests/v1/cudagraph/test_breakable_cudagraph.py: 12 passed, 11 accelerator-dependent tests skipped.
• test_b12x_mhc_uses_public_plan_bind_run: 1 passed.
• Repository pre-commit hooks, including Ruff, mypy, SPDX, forbidden-import, and configuration checks: passed.
• git diff --check: passed.
• The composed GLM-5.3 target-plus-DFlash2 runtime captured target decode and 16 DFlash2 full-graph shapes on four RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and replayed the B12X multipath-hyperconnection bindings without storage reuse failures.

Duplicate-work check

Open upstream vLLM pull requests were searched for CUDA graph capture resource retention and custom-operation ownership. vllm-project/vllm#41834 changes breakable-graph enablement and compilation behavior for DeepSeek V4, but it does not retain Python owners for device pointers captured by custom operations. No open local-inference-lab/vllm pull request implements this ownership contract.

Review disclosure

OpenAI Codex assisted with implementation, tests, runtime qualification, and pull-request preparation. Human review of every changed line and the graph-lifetime contract is required before merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved CUDA graph resource tracking during graph capture.
  • Ensured captured resources remain available for breakable and full CUDA graphs.
  • Scoped retained resources correctly across nested capture contexts.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for resource retention in model bindings, breakable CUDA graphs, and workspace collectors.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Changes

The workspace now provides scoped CUDA graph capture resource collection. B12x bindings retain resources during capture. Breakable and full CUDA graph captures store collected resources, and profiling teardown clears them. Tests cover scoping, capture, and binding retention.

CUDA Graph Resource Retention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace resource collection vllm/v1/worker/workspace.py, tests/v1/worker/test_workspace.py	Adds scoped collection and retention helpers. Tests cover inactive, nested, and outer collector behavior.
Binding resource retention vllm/models/deepseek_v4/nvidia/b12x.py, tests/v1/attention/test_b12x_sparse_mla_api.py	Retains B12x MHC residual bindings and verifies the retention order.
CUDA graph capture storage vllm/compilation/breakable_cudagraph.py, vllm/v1/worker/gpu/cudagraph_utils.py, tests/v1/cudagraph/test_breakable_cudagraph.py	Stores resources collected during breakable and full graph capture. Profiling teardown clears full-graph resources. The breakable capture test verifies stored resources.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 67fb4

The change retains objects needed by captured custom operations and releases them with the associated graph, preventing replay failures from reclaimed storage. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness that specialized CUDA graph paths preserve correct cleanup and lifetime pairing.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant B12xMHCResidual
  participant Workspace
  participant CudaGraphManager
  participant CapturedGraph
  CudaGraphManager->>Workspace: enter resource collector
  CudaGraphManager->>B12xMHCResidual: run capture
  B12xMHCResidual->>Workspace: retain binding resource
  Workspace-->>CudaGraphManager: collected resource list
  CudaGraphManager->>CapturedGraph: store resources with graph descriptor

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🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 7 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: retaining custom-operation CUDA graph capture resources.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

vllm/v1/worker/workspace.py (1)

51-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a Google-style Returns: section.

collect_cuda_graph_capture_resources() returns an iterator that yields the capture resource list, but the new docstring describes this only in prose. Add a structured Returns: section.

Suggested docstring update

 def collect_cuda_graph_capture_resources() -> Iterator[list[Any]]:
     """Collect objects whose storage is referenced by one CUDA graph.
 
     A CUDA graph records device pointers, but it does not retain the Python
     objects that own those allocations. Callers that allocate custom-op output
     or scratch tensors during capture can register their owner with
     :func:`retain_cuda_graph_capture_resource`. The graph manager keeps the
     returned list alive for exactly as long as the captured graph.
+
+    Returns:
+        An iterator that yields the capture resource list.
     """

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In `@vllm/v1/worker/workspace.py` around lines 51 - 60, Update the docstring for
collect_cuda_graph_capture_resources to add a Google-style Returns: section
documenting that it yields the list of resources retained for the captured CUDA
graph.

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In `@vllm/v1/worker/workspace.py`:
- Around line 51-60: Update the docstring for
collect_cuda_graph_capture_resources to add a Google-style Returns: section
documenting that it yields the list of resources retained for the captured CUDA
graph.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• tests/v1/attention/test_b12x_sparse_mla_api.py
• tests/v1/cudagraph/test_breakable_cudagraph.py
• tests/v1/worker/test_workspace.py
• vllm/compilation/breakable_cudagraph.py
• vllm/models/deepseek_v4/nvidia/b12x.py
• vllm/v1/worker/gpu/cudagraph_utils.py
• vllm/v1/worker/workspace.py

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The docstring finding was verified against the implementation and repository style. collect_cuda_graph_capture_resources is a generator decorated with @contextmanager; the list is yielded inside the with statement rather than returned by the function contract, so a Google-style Returns: section would be inaccurate. The existing docstring already identifies the retained list and its graph-matched lifetime. I am leaving the source unchanged to preserve the exact composition proof against the qualified integration tree. The reported 27.27% coverage is computed across pre-existing functions in all seven touched files and is not a regression introduced by this pull request.