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Refactor: hbg carries no per-ring dimension, and no ring-set wrapper - #1965

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host_build_graph has one ring — PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH was 1 against tensormap_and_ringbuffer's 4 — yet the tree carried tmr's multi-ring shape throughout: 38 [PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH] array declarations and 21 loops that ran exactly once, with callers then indexing [0] anyway.

Every shared-memory operation existed twice: a scalar wrapper that filled a one-element array, and a _per_ring implementation that read task_window_sizes[0]. One of them (setup_pointers_per_ring) did not read the array at all — it cast it to void.

  • The macro is gone from this runtime, and each operation has one scalar form: calculate_size, init, init_header, setup_pointers, attach_populated, runtime_reserve_layout, runtime_init_data_from_layout.
  • PTO2RuntimeArenaLayout carries task_window_size / heap_size instead of one-element arrays (same 8 bytes each, so the uploaded header's size is unchanged).
  • sum_ring_heap_sizes — which summed one element and checked it for overflow against itself — is deleted, along with the two open-coded copies of the same loop in runtime_maker.cpp.
  • PTO2RingSet was a struct with a single member, PTO2TaskAllocator task_allocator, whose own doc comment claimed "PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH instances exist, one per scope depth". The allocator now sits on the orchestrator directly.
  • PTO2_DEP_POOL_SPIN_LIMIT is deleted: hbg has no dependency spill pool and nothing referenced it. Two struct summaries in pto_ring_buffer.h's file comment described FaninPool and DepListPool, which that file has not held since the pools were removed.

What deliberately did not change

  • The PTO2_RING_TASK_WINDOW / PTO2_RING_HEAP knobs accept exactly what they did before. The multi-ring parser required exactly one comma-separated value here, so it took a bare number and rejected a list — which is what the scalar parser does.
  • The RuntimeEnv ABI keeps its RUNTIME_ENV_RING_COUNT slots (it is shared with tmr) and this runtime still reads slot 0. The static_assert now states that, rather than comparing against a ring depth this runtime no longer has.
  • bind_callable_to_runtime_impl's extern "C" signature is untouched — it is a cross-runtime contract.
  • The [STALL] diagnostic grammar is byte-identical. Its per-ring loop is unwrapped with the ring= field kept and its value written as the 0 it always was, so existing triage greps still match.
  • tensormap_and_ringbuffer is untouched — it really has four rings.

Net −419 lines across 26 files.

Testing

  • C++ unit tests: 115/115 pass (4 hbg UT files updated for the removed wrapper)
  • Simulation tests pass — full examples tests/st on a2a3sim and a5sim, both runtimes green
  • clang-format clean
  • Hardware: locally inconclusive — see below. Relying on this PR's st-onboard-a2a3 / st-onboard-a5 jobs.

Why the hardware claim is deferred to CI

An a2a3 onboard sweep of this branch on my dev box produced finalize_native_run failed with code -100 (behind 507018 ACL_ERROR_RT_AICPU_EXCEPTION, errcode 21008) on a varying set of cases: 8 failures on one run, 1 on the next, 0 on a third. Every failing case passes when run alone. One sweep at the merge base produced 0 failures.

That looked like a signal against this branch, so I dug further, and found the comparison was not controlled: other concurrent sessions on that shared box were running their own onboard sweeps against other worktrees during these runs, so the background device load differed between the baseline run and the branch runs. The failure count also fell as the box quietened, which fits contention rather than a defect in the diff.

I am not claiming this is unrelated — I could not establish either way locally, and the same signature family is already recorded on that box for run_stream_reuse (which does reproduce at the merge base). CI's self-hosted runners are isolated, so their onboard result is the real gate here. If st-onboard-a2a3 or st-onboard-a5 reddens, treat it as this PR's problem and I will bisect against the merge base on a quiet box.

Follow-up from the same audit, deliberately not in this PR: hbg reports PTO2_ERROR_DEP_POOL_OVERFLOW when a task's fanin region is exhausted, in a runtime that has no dependency spill pool. That status code is externally visible and sits in the band #1960 just reorganised, so renaming it needs its own coordinated change.

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The host-build-graph runtime now uses one shared ring. Task-window and heap settings are scalar values. Shared-memory APIs, runtime initialization, orchestration, scheduling, diagnostics, and unit tests were updated accordingly.

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Single-ring host-build-graph runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Single-ring runtime contracts
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/*.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/*.h
Runtime layouts, shared-memory APIs, allocator state, and task capacity now use scalar task-window and heap values.
Runtime and shared-memory initialization
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/*, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/*, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/aicpu/aicpu_executor.cpp
Initialization, attachment, pointer setup, validation, and allocator setup now use the single-ring APIs.
Scalar configuration and host wiring
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp
Environment parsing rejects comma-separated ring values. Arena sizing, image compaction, logging, and host orchestration use scalar settings.
Orchestration and scheduler behavior
src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_cold_path.cpp
Task allocation, graph submission, fanin validation, completion reporting, diagnostics, and task counting now operate on ring 0.
Single-ring test fixtures and assertions
tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/*, tests/ut/cpp/a5/*, tests/ut/cpp/common/*
Tests use fixed heap sizes and access the direct task allocator.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 25798

The refactor can accept a producer ID with a nonzero ring field and bind it to an unrelated ring-0 task, potentially producing incorrect task dependencies and scheduling behavior on both supported targets. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main refactor: removing the per-ring dimension and the single-member ring-set wrapper from host_build_graph.
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- Around line 969-972: Update append_fanin_or_fail and its producer-validation
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lines 969-972, and apply the same change in
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  • src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_runtime2_init.cpp
  • src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_shared_memory.cpp
  • tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_submit_poison.cpp
  • tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_submit_poison.cpp
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Rebased onto main (0eedea7df, so #1959 is in) and re-verified on the rebased tree: 117/117 C++ UTs (two new ones from #1959 included), full a2a3sim and a5sim suites green on both runtimes, clang-format clean. Still one commit, force-pushed.

@coderabbitai your inline finding is answered on the thread — the mechanism is real but pre-existing (the old guard prod_ring >= PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH with that macro at 1 is the same test as != 0 for a uint8_t), so this PR states the invariant with a debug_assert and fixes the misleading comment rather than adding a fatal path without a repro test.

Note on the hardware checkbox in the description: st-onboard-a5 and st-network1-onboard-a2a3 were already green on the previous push, which is the isolated-runner evidence my dev box could not give. I will update the checkbox once st-onboard-a2a3 reports on this push.

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@ChaoWao: Verified. The prior guard and the new release-mode guard are equivalent because PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH was 1 and prod_ring is a uint8_t.

Both runtime variants now state the single-ring invariant with debug_assert(prod_ring == 0). mark_seen still returns false, so append_fanin_or_fail preserves the existing non-fatal behavior.

I withdraw the inline finding. The reported mechanism is pre-existing and this PR does not introduce a regression.


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Learning: In `src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp` and `src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp`, `PTO2FaninBuilder::mark_seen` is a deduplication helper. With the former `PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH == 1` and `uint8_t prod_ring`, the previous `prod_ring >= PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH` check was equivalent to `prod_ring != 0`. A nonzero producer ring returns `false`, which means “not seen” to `append_fanin_or_fail`; it does not create a fatal path. The host-build-graph runtime invariant is that all tasks use ring 0.

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Rebased onto main (8a54316a8, so #1963 is in). That renamed the files this PR touches — pto_runtime2_init.cppruntime_init.cpp and the headers it includes — so the conflict was in the include block: upstream's new header names, minus the <limits> this PR no longer needs once the heap-sum helper is gone. The PTO2_* identifiers being removed here were not renamed by #1963, so the removals apply unchanged; one stale filename in the commit message is corrected to ring_buffer.h.

#1963 also lands the follow-up noted at the bottom of this description — DEP_POOL_OVERFLOW is now SIMPLER_ERROR_FANIN_CAPACITY_EXCEEDED — so that item is closed and no longer outstanding against this PR.

Re-verified on the rebased tree: 117/117 C++ UTs, full a2a3sim and a5sim suites green on both runtimes, clang-format clean. Still one commit.

host_build_graph has one ring — `PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH` was 1 against tmr's 4 —
yet the tree carried tmr's multi-ring shape throughout: 38 `[PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH]`
array declarations, 21 loops that ran exactly once, and callers that then indexed
`[0]` anyway. Every shared-memory operation existed twice, as a scalar wrapper
that filled a one-element array and a `_per_ring` implementation that read
`task_window_sizes[0]` — one of which did not read the array at all and cast it
to void. The macro is gone and each operation has one scalar form:
`calculate_size`, `init`, `init_header`, `setup_pointers`, `attach_populated`,
`runtime_reserve_layout`, `runtime_init_data_from_layout`. `PTO2RuntimeArenaLayout`
carries `task_window_size` / `heap_size`, and `sum_ring_heap_sizes` — which summed
one element and checked it for overflow against itself — is deleted.

`PTO2RingSet` was a struct with one member, `PTO2TaskAllocator task_allocator`,
whose own comment claimed "PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH instances exist, one per scope
depth". The allocator now sits on the orchestrator directly.

The `PTO2_RING_TASK_WINDOW` / `PTO2_RING_HEAP` knobs are unchanged in what they
accept: the multi-ring parser required exactly one comma-separated value here, so
it took a bare number and rejected a list, which is what the scalar parser does.
The RuntimeEnv ABI keeps its RUNTIME_ENV_RING_COUNT slots — it is shared with tmr
— and this runtime still reads slot 0; the static_assert now says that rather than
comparing against a ring depth this runtime no longer has.

`PTO2_DEP_POOL_SPIN_LIMIT` is deleted: hbg has no dependency spill pool, and
nothing referenced it. Two struct summaries in ring_buffer.h's file comment
described `FaninPool` and `DepListPool`, which that file has not held since the
pools were removed.

The `[STALL]` stall-dump grammar is unchanged. Its per-ring loop is unwrapped
with the `ring=` field kept and its value written as the 0 it always was, so
existing triage greps still match.

tensormap_and_ringbuffer is untouched: it really has four rings.

`PTO2FaninBuilder::mark_seen`'s ring guard reads `prod_ring != 0` rather than
`prod_ring >= PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH`, which is the same test for a `uint8_t` when
that macro is 1. It is a dedup predicate, so a producer it cannot place is
reported as not-yet-seen and appended by the caller rather than refused; a
debug_assert now states the one-ring invariant that makes the distinction moot,
and the comment no longer implies a rejection the code does not perform.
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Rebased onto main (e52407faa, so #1966 and #1964 are in). One conflict, in the BindHostOrch attrs line of both runtime_maker.cpp copies: #1964 added the sm_mirror= field there while this PR dropped the .ring. indirection, so the resolution keeps both. #1966 renamed the task-id type, which this PR does not reference, and every identifier the commit message cites still resolves — the three names it removes (PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH, PTO2RingSet, PTO2_DEP_POOL_SPIN_LIMIT) are still absent after the rebase.

Re-verified: 117/117 C++ UTs, full a2a3sim and a5sim suites green on both runtimes, clang-format clean. Still one commit.

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`PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH` becomes `CHIP_MAX_RING_DEPTH` — not `MAX_RING_DEPTH`,
because that name is taken by a constant this one is deliberately equal to but
distinct from: `src/common/hierarchical/types.h` defines the host orchestrator's
`MAX_RING_DEPTH = 4` heap-slab count, which `python/bindings/worker_bind.h`
exports to Python. `docs/orchestrator.md` states the relationship outright —
the host slab count "matches L2's `PTO2_MAX_RING_DEPTH`" — so collapsing the two
spellings into one would have turned a documented coincidence into an apparent
identity.

`.claude/rules/codestyle.md` rule 13 assigns the bare name to the L3+ context and
the `Chip` prefix to the chip runtime, the same split this branch already applied
to `ChipTaskSlotState`.

484 occurrences across 55 files. After hw-native-sys#1965 the macro is defined only in the two
`tensormap_and_ringbuffer/runtime/runtime_types.h` copies — host_build_graph
carries no ring dimension at all — so this is now a single-runtime constant.

`PTO2_SCOPE_STATS_MAX_RING_DEPTH` in `src/common/platform/include/common/scope_stats.h`
is untouched: it is a separate identifier that bounds the scope-stats collector's
own per-ring arrays.

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