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[None][fix] Fix TMEM release ordering and cluster-scope mailbox waits in GLM-5.2 SM107 low-M split-K GEMMs - #21845
The source changes add a relaxed cluster-scope barrier poll followed by an acquire fence before split-K mailbox and amax reads. They also add a phase-0 wait before the MMA warp’s second TMEM barrier arrival. These ordering changes address peer-payload visibility and prevent TMEM deallocation from racing with epilogue accumulator loads. Arithmetic and public APIs do not change.
The author reports that all nine launcher variants compile for sm_107a. No behavioral test result is available for these kernels, and the author reports that no sm_107 device was available to run them. Current CI status is not available.
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The new source-level test adds four test functions, with one parametrized across four cross-CTA wait sites. It checks TMEM barrier ordering, the epilogue’s fenced accumulator load, the cluster-wait helper’s wait-and-fence sequence, and mailbox or amax reads after the helper wait. The test does not appear in the searched integration test-db/ or manual-QA lists. Those lists do not establish whether another workflow runs this unit test.
Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The source checks cover the intended ordering, but do not verify runtime behavior. A behavioral test on supported hardware remains necessary.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk.py: Adds the cluster-scope wait helper and uses it before reading peer mailbox data. The MMA warp also waits for phase 0 before its second barrier arrival; verify both orderings at runtime.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk_fused.py: Uses the shared helper for fused reduction, indexer Q-tail reduction, and amax reads. Verify peer-write visibility in each path.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/gemm/test_modeling_v2_cute_dsl_low_m_splitk_sync.py: Adds AST-based source checks, including four parametrized cross-CTA wait-site cases. No entry for this test appears in the searched integration test lists; the checks do not cover runtime behavior.
Description
Two synchronization fixes in the GLM-5.2 low-latency (sm_107) split-K GEMMs, tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk.py and _low_m_splitk_fused.py. Neither changes the arithmetic; both close ordering gaps the PTX ISA does not cover. The base kernel is adapted from FlashInfer's dense_bf16_gemm_sm100_splitk.py, which received both fixes in flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443; this port predates them.
1. TMEM release can pass before the epilogue has read the accumulator (_low_m_splitk.py, MMA warp tail; inherited by every kernel in _low_m_splitk_fused.py).
bar_tmem_alloc is initialised with 160 arrivals (32 MMA-warp threads plus 128 epilogue threads). The MMA warp arrives once after alloc_tmem without waiting, runs the mainloop, arrives again, waits for parity 1 and issues dealloc_tmem. The epilogue warps arrive, wait for parity 0, load the accumulator with tcgen05.ld, fence with tcgen05.wait::ld and arrive a second time. Nothing guarantees that phase 0 has completed when the MMA warp reaches its parity-1 wait. If its second arrival lands while fewer than four epilogue warps have made their first arrival, phase 0 is still open, and mbarrier.try_wait.parity with parity 1 tests the immediately preceding phase (PTX ISA, mbarrier.test_wait/mbarrier.try_wait: "the current or the immediately preceding phase"), so it returns at once and tcgen05.dealloc is issued before any epilogue load. Here the mainloop is never empty (the host checks K divisibility) and the epilogue warps first wait for the PDL predecessor, so the window is the epilogue's lag against "dependency wait plus a short K loop": narrow, but legal. tcgen05.dealloc does not clear TMEM, so the output is wrong only when another allocation takes the freed columns before the load; relinquish_tmem_alloc_permit right after the allocation exists so the next CTA can.
This is the protocol of FlashInfer issue flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#6786 (reproduced there with wrong results on GB300 when two epilogue warps are delayed), fixed in flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443 by having the MMA warp wait for phase 0 before its release arrival. The same one-line change here: the arrival then lands in phase 1 and the parity-1 wait cannot return before every epilogue warp has finished reading. The added wait is already satisfied in the common case.
2. Mailbox and amax waits acquire at CTA scope on barriers released at cluster scope (_low_m_splitk.py reduction, _low_m_splitk_fused.py reductions in SplitKFusedEpilogueGemmKernel and SplitKIndexerQTailGemmKernel, and the q-tail bar_amax pair exchange).
Peer CTAs publish their FP32 partials into rank 0's mailbox (and, in the q-tail kernel, their row amaxes into the pair CTA's sAmaxPeer) with _store_shared_remote_v4, an st.async.shared::cluster.mbarrier::complete_tx::bytes.v4.b32, and the receiver waits with cute.arch.mbarrier_wait(bar, 0), which lowers to mbarrier.try_wait.parity with the defaults .acquire and .cta. The completing operation is a release at .cluster scope performed by the peer CTA's thread (PTX ISA, st.async: the complete-tx operation has .release semantics at .cluster scope). Under the memory consistency model (chapter 8, "Morally strong operations", "Release and acquire patterns") a release and an acquire synchronize only if each specifies a scope that includes the thread executing the other; a .cta-scope acquire does not include a thread of another CTA, so the reads of mailbox[...] and sAmaxPeer[...] after the wait have no happens-before edge to the peers' stores. The ISA's own example pairs a remote mbarrier.arrive.release.cluster with mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster.
Change: a _mbarrier_wait_acquire_cluster helper in _low_m_splitk.py, used at the four waits. It polls the barrier with mbarrier.try_wait.parity.relaxed.cluster and then issues one fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster, both through cutlass.experimental.primitives of the pinned DSL, no inline PTX. A relaxed wait that observes the completion followed by an acquire fence is the ISA's acquire pattern for shared memory, and this pairing is the ISA's own example for the restricted fence. The alternative, a .acquire.cluster wait, makes ptxas insert an L1 invalidate after every poll of the loop; the relaxed wait plus the restricted fence orders the peers' payload the same way, without the invalidate, and the fence adds no instruction. The other waits in these kernels are on barriers completed by this CTA's own threads or its async proxy and are unchanged.
Why latent today. No wrong result has been observed in production. For (1) the window needs a stalled epilogue warp plus another CTA re-allocating the freed TMEM columns in time (the same protocol in two sibling kernels of this repository produced wrong output on hardware once two epilogue warps were held back, see below); for (2) payload and complete-tx travel together on the DSMEM path on current parts, and FlashInfer made the same change without a reported failure. Both are outside what the ISA promises. Cost: one satisfied try_wait on the MMA warp per CTA, and a cluster-scope poll plus one restricted acquire fence instead of a CTA-scope acquire on one wait per reduction (no L1 invalidate, no additional instruction).
Hardware verification
These kernels target sm_107 and were not run (no sm_107 device was available); they compile with the change. The TMEM release protocol of (1) is the one of the GLM-5.2 TEP4 TGV GEMM and the MiniMax M3 low-M split-K GEMM in this repository, which were run with the same stall on a B300 PCIe (compute capability 10.3) and a B200 (compute capability 10.0): holding two epilogue warps for 5-10 us before their first arrive made the MMA warp free the accumulator before the epilogue's tcgen05.ld in every CTA (1920/1920 and 3840/3840), and with another allocator on the SM the output was wrong in 19-20 of 20 launches; with the phase-0 wait 0 early frees and 0 wrong launches at every stall, and a bitwise identical output unperturbed. The mailbox waits of (2) are the same conformance change as in those two kernels, where 100-200 launches per tree were correct and bitwise identical between the patched and the unpatched kernel.
Test Coverage
A CPU-only source-level test, tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/gemm/test_modeling_v2_cute_dsl_low_m_splitk_sync.py, pins both orderings: the MMA warp's phase-0 wait between its two arrivals before the parity-1 wait and the TMEM dealloc, the epilogue's fenced accumulator load before its release arrival, and the four cross-CTA waits going through the shared helper (relaxed cluster-scope try-wait, then the restricted acquire fence, no CTA-scope wait) after the scatter and before the payload reads. Its eight checks pass on this branch; on main seven of them fail. A behavioural test is not provided: (1) needs an injected stall of two epilogue warps plus a concurrent TMEM allocation to fail, and (2) is a memory-model conformance fix with no deterministic failure to assert on. The kernels are exercised by tests/integration/defs/accuracy/modeling_v2/test_glm_moe_dsa.py (GLM-5.2 NVFP4 low-latency sm_107 path). Every launcher variant compiles for sm_107a with the change (run_splitk_dense, _hidden_half, _publish, the plain bmm and the split_k 1 tactic, the fused epilogue kernels and the indexer q-tail kernel), and the generated code differs from the original only by the added wait and by the .relaxed.cluster poll plus the fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster of the mailbox waits (compiled with the pinned nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0 for every launcher variant); a standalone kernel with the same helper assembled for sm_100a shows no L1 invalidate and no memory barrier in the SASS.
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… in GLM-5.2 SM107 low-M split-K GEMMs
_low_m_splitk.py released its accumulator TMEM through a parity-1 wait on
the allocation barrier that the MMA warp reached without ever observing
phase 0. If the MMA warp's second arrival lands before all epilogue warps
have made their first arrival, phase 0 is still open, the parity-1 wait
names the preceding phase and returns at once, and the tcgen05.dealloc
races the epilogue warps' tcgen05.ld. The MMA warp now waits for phase 0
before its release arrival, the shape FlashInfer adopted in
flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443 for the kernel this file is adapted from.
The split-K mailbox waits in _low_m_splitk.py and _low_m_splitk_fused.py,
and the amax pair exchange of the indexer q-tail epilogue, used the default
CTA-scope acquire while the barriers are completed by peer CTAs' st.async
complete-tx, a release at cluster scope. Under the PTX memory consistency
model those pairs do not synchronize, so the reads after the wait were
unordered against the peers' stores. A small inline-PTX helper now performs
the wait with mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster, as the FlashInfer
original does since NVIDIA#7443.
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GEMM split-K paths now use cluster-scope acquire waits before consuming peer data. The mma_warp path adds a phase-0 wait on the TMEM allocation barrier. AST tests check the synchronization ordering.
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Synchronization primitives and TMEM ordering .../ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk.py, tests/unittest/.../test_modeling_v2_cute_dsl_low_m_splitk_sync.py
Adds a cluster-scope acquire wait and a phase-0 wait in mma_warp. AST tests check the helper behavior, barrier ordering, and accumulator-load fence ordering.
Uses the cluster-scope acquire wait before split-K paths read peer mailbox partials, fused epilogue results, indexer Q-tail data, and half-head amax data. AST tests check the helper import and ordering at the cross-CTA wait sites.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21843: Uses cluster-scope barrier polling followed by an acquire fence before reading peer CTA results.
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The synchronization changes have source-level coverage, but have not been exercised on an sm_107 device.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 24453
The reviewed changes strengthen synchronization without adding exposed interfaces or privileges. No introduced security issue was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns target-device execution and recovery after interrupted execution.
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No architecture-level concerns identified.
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inferred — The directly affected outcomes are accumulator lifetime and peer-data visibility feeding dense and fused tensor outputs. The inspected changes establish no new attacker-controlled production entrypoint or expanded destination authority; cross-tenant or driver-level exploitability is not established by this evidence.
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proposed — Validate the generated cluster poll/acquire sequence and delayed-warp behavior on the target GPU. Include interrupted and repeated launches to address the remaining resource-recovery uncertainty; this is validation work, not an observed vulnerability.
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Yes, now also on Rubin (a pre-production board). Both files at the PR base and at the current head, compiled with the pinned nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0 for sm_107a, ran through every entry point of the two files with the certified unit tests' inputs, references and tolerances: 16 configurations, 20 launches each. All launches pass the tests' comparisons, all are bitwise identical launch to launch, and the patched output is bitwise identical to the unpatched output in every configuration. Perf: median time per launch, patched over unpatched, 0.996 to 1.005 over 30 interleaved rounds of 100 launches on the seven production split-K entries, within noise. Not covered: the race itself was not provoked on this board (the B200/B300 runs of the same protocol in the sibling kernels mentioned in the description cover that), and the kernels ran without the PDL attribute.
… restricted fence
The mailbox and amax waits acquired with mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster,
for which ptxas emits an L1 invalidate after every poll of the wait loop. The
wait now polls with .relaxed.cluster and is followed by one
fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster. The peers' st.async
complete-tx is a cluster-scope release in the generic proxy, and a relaxed wait
that observes the completion followed by an acquire fence is the PTX ISA's
acquire pattern for shared memory, the pairing the ISA itself gives as the
example for this fence. The ordering of the peers' payload before the reads
that follow the wait is unchanged; the invalidate is gone and the fence adds no
instruction. Both forms are native in nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0
(cutlass.experimental.primitives), so the helper no longer needs inline PTX.
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Update: commit 3dce345086 changes the cluster-scope acquire mailbox waits this PR introduced into a relaxed cluster-scope wait followed by fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster, through the DSL's native primitives (cutlass.experimental.primitives), so the inline-PTX helper is gone; the TMEM phase-0 wait part of the PR is unchanged. The ordering guarantee is the same: this is the PTX ISA's acquire pattern (memory consistency model, "Release and Acquire Patterns"), and the ISA's own example for acquiring shared memory written by a peer CTA through the generic proxy is exactly this pair. The difference is in what ptxas emits: an acquire-cluster try_wait is followed by an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL) on every poll, while the relaxed wait plus the restricted fence emits none and the fence adds no instruction. A reviewer raised this on the same fix in another codebase, so all copies of the fix are being aligned. Checked: all nine launcher variants compile for sm_107a with the pinned nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0, the PTX shows exactly the relaxed wait and the fence at the mailbox and amax waits and nothing else changed, and there is no numerical change. Since the head changed, CI needs to run again; approvals given on the previous head would need to be refreshed. Sorry for the churn.
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Minor · Add a regression test for TMEM release ordering. · _low_m_splitk.py:1247
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk.py:1247 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Add a regression test for TMEM release ordering.
The existing SM107 GEMM test compares against a reference, but it does not force delayed epilogue arrivals. It can miss an early TMEM release.
Add a source-level test beside the GEMM unit tests that checks mma_warp waits for phase 0 between its two arrivals, before the phase-1 wait and TMEM deallocation. This would fail without the new wait.
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Add a source-level regression test beside the GEMM unit tests that verifies
`mma_warp` waits on phase 0 between its two arrivals, before the phase-1 wait
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…it orderings
A CPU-only source-level test for the two orderings this PR fixes, which an
accuracy test cannot observe: the MMA warp's phase-0 wait between its two
arrivals on bar_tmem_alloc before the parity-1 wait and the TMEM dealloc, the
epilogue's fenced accumulator load before its release arrival, and the four
cross-CTA mailbox and amax waits, which must go through the shared helper
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Weak assertion style lets a regression crash instead of fail clearly.
call.args[1] raises IndexError if a cute.arch.mbarrier_wait call on the barrier has fewer than two positional arguments. A keyword phase= argument causes the same error. The test then fails with an unclear error. It does not fail with the intended ordering message. Check len(call.args) > 1 first and assert with a clear message.
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around lines 119 - 120:
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The source changes add a relaxed cluster-scope barrier poll followed by an acquire fence before split-K mailbox and amax reads. They also add a phase-0 wait before the MMA warp’s second TMEM barrier arrival. These ordering changes address peer-payload visibility and prevent TMEM deallocation from racing with epilogue accumulator loads. Arithmetic and public APIs do not change.
The author reports that all nine launcher variants compile for
sm_107a. No behavioral test result is available for these kernels, and the author reports that nosm_107device was available to run them. Current CI status is not available.QA Engineer Review
The new source-level test adds four test functions, with one parametrized across four cross-CTA wait sites. It checks TMEM barrier ordering, the epilogue’s fenced accumulator load, the cluster-wait helper’s wait-and-fence sequence, and mailbox or amax reads after the helper wait. The test does not appear in the searched integration
test-db/or manual-QA lists. Those lists do not establish whether another workflow runs this unit test.Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The source checks cover the intended ordering, but do not verify runtime behavior. A behavioral test on supported hardware remains necessary.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk.py: Adds the cluster-scope wait helper and uses it before reading peer mailbox data. The MMA warp also waits for phase 0 before its second barrier arrival; verify both orderings at runtime.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk_fused.py: Uses the shared helper for fused reduction, indexer Q-tail reduction, and amax reads. Verify peer-write visibility in each path.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/gemm/test_modeling_v2_cute_dsl_low_m_splitk_sync.py: Adds AST-based source checks, including four parametrized cross-CTA wait-site cases. No entry for this test appears in the searched integration test lists; the checks do not cover runtime behavior.Description
Two synchronization fixes in the GLM-5.2 low-latency (sm_107) split-K GEMMs,
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/ops/gemm/_low_m_splitk.pyand_low_m_splitk_fused.py. Neither changes the arithmetic; both close ordering gaps the PTX ISA does not cover. The base kernel is adapted from FlashInfer'sdense_bf16_gemm_sm100_splitk.py, which received both fixes in flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443; this port predates them.1. TMEM release can pass before the epilogue has read the accumulator (
_low_m_splitk.py, MMA warp tail; inherited by every kernel in_low_m_splitk_fused.py).bar_tmem_allocis initialised with 160 arrivals (32 MMA-warp threads plus 128 epilogue threads). The MMA warp arrives once afteralloc_tmemwithout waiting, runs the mainloop, arrives again, waits for parity 1 and issuesdealloc_tmem. The epilogue warps arrive, wait for parity 0, load the accumulator withtcgen05.ld, fence withtcgen05.wait::ldand arrive a second time. Nothing guarantees that phase 0 has completed when the MMA warp reaches its parity-1 wait. If its second arrival lands while fewer than four epilogue warps have made their first arrival, phase 0 is still open, andmbarrier.try_wait.paritywith parity 1 tests the immediately preceding phase (PTX ISA,mbarrier.test_wait/mbarrier.try_wait: "the current or the immediately preceding phase"), so it returns at once andtcgen05.deallocis issued before any epilogue load. Here the mainloop is never empty (the host checks K divisibility) and the epilogue warps first wait for the PDL predecessor, so the window is the epilogue's lag against "dependency wait plus a short K loop": narrow, but legal.tcgen05.deallocdoes not clear TMEM, so the output is wrong only when another allocation takes the freed columns before the load;relinquish_tmem_alloc_permitright after the allocation exists so the next CTA can.This is the protocol of FlashInfer issue flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#6786 (reproduced there with wrong results on GB300 when two epilogue warps are delayed), fixed in flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443 by having the MMA warp wait for phase 0 before its release arrival. The same one-line change here: the arrival then lands in phase 1 and the parity-1 wait cannot return before every epilogue warp has finished reading. The added wait is already satisfied in the common case.
2. Mailbox and amax waits acquire at CTA scope on barriers released at cluster scope (
_low_m_splitk.pyreduction,_low_m_splitk_fused.pyreductions inSplitKFusedEpilogueGemmKernelandSplitKIndexerQTailGemmKernel, and the q-tailbar_amaxpair exchange).Peer CTAs publish their FP32 partials into rank 0's mailbox (and, in the q-tail kernel, their row amaxes into the pair CTA's
sAmaxPeer) with_store_shared_remote_v4, anst.async.shared::cluster.mbarrier::complete_tx::bytes.v4.b32, and the receiver waits withcute.arch.mbarrier_wait(bar, 0), which lowers tombarrier.try_wait.paritywith the defaults.acquireand.cta. The completing operation is a release at.clusterscope performed by the peer CTA's thread (PTX ISA,st.async: the complete-tx operation has.releasesemantics at.clusterscope). Under the memory consistency model (chapter 8, "Morally strong operations", "Release and acquire patterns") a release and an acquire synchronize only if each specifies a scope that includes the thread executing the other; a.cta-scope acquire does not include a thread of another CTA, so the reads ofmailbox[...]andsAmaxPeer[...]after the wait have no happens-before edge to the peers' stores. The ISA's own example pairs a remotembarrier.arrive.release.clusterwithmbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster.Change: a
_mbarrier_wait_acquire_clusterhelper in_low_m_splitk.py, used at the four waits. It polls the barrier withmbarrier.try_wait.parity.relaxed.clusterand then issues onefence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster, both throughcutlass.experimental.primitivesof the pinned DSL, no inline PTX. A relaxed wait that observes the completion followed by an acquire fence is the ISA's acquire pattern for shared memory, and this pairing is the ISA's own example for the restricted fence. The alternative, a.acquire.clusterwait, makes ptxas insert an L1 invalidate after every poll of the loop; the relaxed wait plus the restricted fence orders the peers' payload the same way, without the invalidate, and the fence adds no instruction. The other waits in these kernels are on barriers completed by this CTA's own threads or its async proxy and are unchanged.Why latent today. No wrong result has been observed in production. For (1) the window needs a stalled epilogue warp plus another CTA re-allocating the freed TMEM columns in time (the same protocol in two sibling kernels of this repository produced wrong output on hardware once two epilogue warps were held back, see below); for (2) payload and complete-tx travel together on the DSMEM path on current parts, and FlashInfer made the same change without a reported failure. Both are outside what the ISA promises. Cost: one satisfied
try_waiton the MMA warp per CTA, and a cluster-scope poll plus one restricted acquire fence instead of a CTA-scope acquire on one wait per reduction (no L1 invalidate, no additional instruction).Hardware verification
These kernels target sm_107 and were not run (no sm_107 device was available); they compile with the change. The TMEM release protocol of (1) is the one of the GLM-5.2 TEP4 TGV GEMM and the MiniMax M3 low-M split-K GEMM in this repository, which were run with the same stall on a B300 PCIe (compute capability 10.3) and a B200 (compute capability 10.0): holding two epilogue warps for 5-10 us before their first arrive made the MMA warp free the accumulator before the epilogue's
tcgen05.ldin every CTA (1920/1920 and 3840/3840), and with another allocator on the SM the output was wrong in 19-20 of 20 launches; with the phase-0 wait 0 early frees and 0 wrong launches at every stall, and a bitwise identical output unperturbed. The mailbox waits of (2) are the same conformance change as in those two kernels, where 100-200 launches per tree were correct and bitwise identical between the patched and the unpatched kernel.Test Coverage
A CPU-only source-level test,
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/glm_moe_dsa/glm_5_2_nvfp4__sm_107__low_latency/gemm/test_modeling_v2_cute_dsl_low_m_splitk_sync.py, pins both orderings: the MMA warp's phase-0 wait between its two arrivals before the parity-1 wait and the TMEM dealloc, the epilogue's fenced accumulator load before its release arrival, and the four cross-CTA waits going through the shared helper (relaxed cluster-scope try-wait, then the restricted acquire fence, no CTA-scope wait) after the scatter and before the payload reads. Its eight checks pass on this branch; onmainseven of them fail. A behavioural test is not provided: (1) needs an injected stall of two epilogue warps plus a concurrent TMEM allocation to fail, and (2) is a memory-model conformance fix with no deterministic failure to assert on. The kernels are exercised bytests/integration/defs/accuracy/modeling_v2/test_glm_moe_dsa.py(GLM-5.2 NVFP4 low-latency sm_107 path). Every launcher variant compiles forsm_107awith the change (run_splitk_dense,_hidden_half,_publish, the plain bmm and the split_k 1 tactic, the fused epilogue kernels and the indexer q-tail kernel), and the generated code differs from the original only by the added wait and by the.relaxed.clusterpoll plus thefence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.clusterof the mailbox waits (compiled with the pinned nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0 for every launcher variant); a standalone kernel with the same helper assembled for sm_100a shows no L1 invalidate and no memory barrier in the SASS.PR Checklist
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