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[None][fix] Acquire at cluster scope on the mailbox waits of the Qwen4 mid-rows GEMM and HC decode kernels - #21853
Both kernels now use a relaxed cluster-scope mbarrier_try_wait_parity followed by an acquire fence for mailbox data. This replaces the prior CTA-scope wait pattern and targets synchronization with peer CTAs. The GEMM change affects split-K mailbox reductions; its ks == 1 path remains unaffected. The HC kernel applies the pattern to the block-row handoff and cluster partial reduction. Hardware correctness and performance results are not available from the inspected diff.
QA Engineer Review
Two CPU-only source-level test files were added. Their four test functions check wait scope and ordering of scatter, wait, fence, and mailbox reads for the GEMM and HC decode kernels. Neither test file appears in the inspected tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ CI or tests/integration/test_lists/qa/ manual-QA lists. The tests cover synchronization-source regressions, but do not establish runtime correctness or performance. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/gemm/mid_rows_mm.py: Verify split-K mailbox synchronization when ks > 1. The ks == 1 path does not use this mailbox wait.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/hc/qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py: Verify the cluster partial-reduction wait and, when split folding is enabled, the block-row handoff wait. Both paths now use cluster-scope waits followed by acquire fences.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/gemm/test_modeling_v2_mid_rows_mm_sync.py: Adds tests for wait scope and the scatter/wait/fence/read ordering in the split-K GEMM source. It is not listed in the inspected integration CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/hc/test_modeling_v2_qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc_sync.py: Adds tests for wait scope and the scatter/wait/fence/read ordering for both HC mailboxes. It is not listed in the inspected integration CI or manual-QA lists.
Description
Two Qwen4 kernels receive data from peer CTAs of the cluster through shared-memory mailboxes credited with st.async.shared::cluster.mbarrier::complete_tx::bytes on mapa'd addresses, and wait on them with an inline mbarrier.try_wait.parity.shared::cta.b64 spin, which the PTX ISA defines as .acquire at .cta scope. The completing operation is a release at .cluster scope performed by a thread of another CTA (ISA, st.async: the complete-tx operation on the mbarrier has .release semantics at .cluster scope). Under the PTX memory consistency model (chapter 8, morally strong operations and release/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 mailbox reads after the wait have no happens-before edge to the peers' stores. The ISA's own example for a remote arrive pairs mbarrier.arrive.release.cluster with mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster. (TMA loads into this CTA are different: there the async proxy acts for the issuing thread, which is in the waiting CTA, and .acquire.cta suffices.)
Both waits are now the CuTe DSL's own primitives: prims.mbarrier_try_wait_parity(bar, 0, scope=prims.MBarrierScope.CLUSTER, order=prims.MemOrder.RELAXED) in a retry loop, followed once by prims.fence_sync_restrict(prims.MemOrder.ACQUIRE) (cutlass.experimental.primitives, available in the pinned nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0). They lower to mbarrier.try_wait.parity.relaxed.cluster.shared::cta.b64 and fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster. A relaxed wait that observes the peers' complete-tx followed by an acquire fence restricted to shared::cluster is the ISA's acquire pattern for this case (chapter 8, acquire patterns; the ISA's own example for acquiring local shared memory through the generic proxy is exactly this pair). This form was chosen over mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster (FlashInfer's _mbarrier_wait_acquire_cluster, flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443) because on sm_100a with ptxas 13.0 a cluster-scope acquire on the wait makes ptxas emit an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL) after every try_wait, two per spin loop: such an acquire must also make the peers' global writes visible and global lines may be stale in this SM's L1, while the mailboxes here are shared memory only, which never lives in L1. The relaxed wait plus restricted fence emits no CCTL and no MEMBAR, and the fence itself costs no SASS instruction. The two inline-PTX wait helpers (_mbar_wait, _mbar_wait0) are removed; the waits take the barriers' existing pointer forms (storage.red_mbar.ptr, sBar.iterator). No other wait changes.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/gemm/mid_rows_mm.py (_MidMm): for plans with ks > 1 the ranks that do not own a unit push their FP32 partials into the owner's mailbox with _st_async_v4f, crediting the owner's red_bar; the owner arms the barrier with _mbar_expect_tx, waits with _mbar_wait(red_bar, 0) and sums the ks partials with _lds_v4f. _mbar_wait has a single caller, the mailbox wait. Plans with ks == 1 have no mailbox traffic and are unaffected.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/hc/qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py (_First2, pointed out in review): the four stream CTAs of a K half push the block rows into each other's sBlk with _st_async_v4 on mapa'd bbar, and all cluster CTAs push the row partials of the rows a rank owns with _st_async_f32 on mapa'd rbar; the receiver waits with _mbar_wait0(bbar) and _mbar_wait0(rbar) and then reads the mailboxes. _mbar_wait0 has these two callers, both mailbox waits.
No wrong result has been observed, and none is expected on current parts: payload and complete-tx travel together on the DSMEM path, and FlashInfer saw no failure when making this change. The ISA does not promise that ordering, which is why #7443 made it (and flashinfer#8853 / #8856 propose it for the remaining FlashInfer split-K kernels). Cost: none measurable; the relaxed wait replaces the acquire wait and the fence adds no SASS instruction.
Hardware verification
A static review found the first site; the kernel was then run on a B300 PCIe (compute capability 10.3) in the shipped table plan for (N 2560, K 6144, fp8): cluster ks 6, 4 k-blocks per stage, 6 stages, 128 rows (MMA N 128), per-row weight scale, PDL on; bf16 output compared with an fp32 torch reference (wrong = |err| > 0.02 |ref| + 0.5), 200 launches per tree on the same inputs.
Unpatched: 0/200 wrong launches, max abs err 1.0 (bf16 output of an fp8 x fp8 product), every launch bitwise identical to the first.
Patched: 0/200 wrong, the same max err, deterministic, bitwise identical to the unpatched output in every launch.
Nothing injectable makes current hardware deliver the mailbox payload after its complete-tx, so the race is not observable; the change is a conformance fix with no measurable cost. (That run used the first version of the wait, .acquire.cluster; the relaxed wait plus restricted fence orders the same accesses with fewer SASS instructions.)
The HC decode kernel (second site) was compile-checked for sm_103a in its decode (first) and finalize-fold (first_fold) configurations: the generated code differs from the unpatched kernel only in the qualifier of the _mbar_wait0 asm string, and both configurations compile to the same number of lines and inline-asm sites as before (one changed wait in first, two in first_fold, where both callers are compiled). It was not run on hardware; the change is the same single qualifier as in the GEMM.
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/gemm/test_modeling_v2_mid_rows_mm.py exercises the GEMM, including the split-K plans, and tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/hc/test_modeling_v2_qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py the HC decode kernel; both pass unchanged (the ordering fix has no observable effect on current hardware). Two new CPU-only tests pin the fix itself: gemm/test_modeling_v2_mid_rows_mm_sync.py and hc/test_modeling_v2_qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc_sync.py parse the kernel sources and assert, for each mailbox barrier, exactly one relaxed cluster-scope prims.mbarrier_try_wait_parity on the barrier pointer followed by prims.fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE), no CTA-scope or inline-PTX wait on those barriers, and the source order pushes, wait, fence, first mailbox read. They fail against the previous versions of the kernels and need no GPU, CUDA or cutlass import. The patched GEMM compiles and runs correctly (hardware verification above) for the attention o-proj entry (Plan(ks=6, ...), cluster (6, 1, 1)).
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[None][fix] Acquire at cluster scope on the split-K mailbox wait of the Qwen4 mid-rows GEMM
[None][fix] Acquire at cluster scope on the mailbox waits of the Qwen4 mid-rows GEMM and HC decode kernels
Nov 9, 2026
…he Qwen4 mid-rows GEMM
For plans with ks > 1 the peer ranks of mid_rows_mm.py push their FP32
partials into the owner's mailbox with st.async ... mbarrier::complete_tx, a
release at cluster scope by a thread of another CTA. The owner waited with an
inline mbarrier.try_wait.parity at the default CTA scope, which does not
synchronize with that release, so the mailbox reads were not ordered after the
peers' stores. The wait helper (single caller: the mailbox wait) now spins on
mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster. Plans with ks == 1 are unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Hagedorn <bhagedorn@nvidia.com>
…4 HC decode kernel
qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py receives the K half's block rows (bbar) and the
cluster's row partials (rbar) from peer CTAs through mailboxes credited with
st.async ... mbarrier::complete_tx, a release at cluster scope by a thread of
another CTA. Both were waited on with the inline helper _mbar_wait0, an
mbarrier.try_wait.parity at the default CTA scope, which does not synchronize
with that release, so the mailbox reads were not ordered after the peers'
stores. _mbar_wait0 (two callers, both mailbox waits) now spins on
mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster, the same change as for the mid-rows
GEMM's wait helper.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Hagedorn <bhagedorn@nvidia.com>
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Two Qwen4 experimental kernels now use relaxed cluster-scope barrier waits followed by acquire fences at split-K and decode mailbox handoffs. New source-level AST tests check the wait scope and ordering.
The kernels replace CTA-scoped barrier polling with relaxed cluster-scope waits followed by acquire fences. They retain barrier pointers for the waits. The decode kernel applies this pattern to the split-fold block-row and partial-reduction handoffs.
AST tests check the cluster-scope waits, acquire fences, and source order of mailbox scatter, wait, fence, and reads. They also reject CTA-scope waits and inline-PTX mailbox waits.
The mailbox behavior is not shown to be broken, but the new HC test can miss a regression in read ordering. This is a bounded test-coverage gap to fix or accept before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 8474e
The change strengthens synchronization between cooperating GPU blocks without expanding access or changing public interfaces. Residual risk centers on confirming the generated synchronization instructions and their behavior on supported hardware.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — Concrete production reachability includes the existing Qwen4 model module invoking the operation wrappers. The available relationships do not establish additional service or tenant exposure, and the originating high-fanout edge list could not be reconstructed.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The replacement waits preserve parity-zero polling without a timeout or partial-result fallback. Barriers remain per-invocation shared state. A missing producer can still prevent completion; the PR does not introduce a new recovery protocol or persistent partial state.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Close the remaining synchronization validation gap by checking emitted instructions for the pinned DSL and exercising both HC mailbox paths on supported hardware. Confirm remote completion visibility before consumption, rather than relying solely on source ordering.
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…e for the Qwen4 mailbox waits
The two mailbox wait helpers (_mbar_wait in mid_rows_mm.py, _mbar_wait0 in
qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py) spun on mbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster.
That is correct, but on sm_100a ptxas 13.0 emits an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL)
after every try_wait of a cluster-scope acquire, because such an acquire must
also make the peers' global writes visible and global lines may be stale in L1.
The mailboxes are shared memory only, which never lives in L1.
Both helpers now spin on mbarrier.try_wait.parity.relaxed.cluster and execute
fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster once after the loop. A
relaxed wait that observes the peers' complete-tx followed by an acquire fence
restricted to shared::cluster is the ISA's acquire pattern for this case (the
ISA's own example for acquiring local shared memory through the generic proxy
is this pair). ptxas emits no CCTL and no MEMBAR for it and the fence costs no
instruction. The pinned CuTe DSL (4.8.0) exposes neither a relaxed or
cluster-scoped mbarrier wait nor the sync_restrict fence, so the helpers stay
inline PTX.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Hagedorn <bhagedorn@nvidia.com>
… fence for the Qwen4 mailbox waits
The relaxed cluster-scope wait plus fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster
is available as primitives in the pinned CuTe DSL (4.8.0), so the two inline-PTX wait
helpers (_mbar_wait in mid_rows_mm.py, _mbar_wait0 in qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py)
are replaced at their three call sites by
while not prims.mbarrier_try_wait_parity(bar, 0, scope=CLUSTER, order=RELAXED): pass
prims.fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE)
on the barriers' existing pointer forms (storage.red_mbar.ptr, sBar.iterator and
sBar.iterator + 1). The emitted PTX is the same mbarrier.try_wait.parity.relaxed.cluster
and fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster as before. Compared with the
.acquire.cluster wait, ptxas 13.0 for sm_103a emits two CCTL.IVALL fewer per wait site
at the same total instruction count in all three shipped configurations.
Signed-off-by: Bastian Hagedorn <bhagedorn@nvidia.com>
Update: commit 7e24f54 changes the cluster-scope acquire waits this PR introduced in both Qwen4 kernels (the split-K mailbox wait in mid_rows_mm.py and the two mailbox waits in qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py) into a relaxed cluster-scope wait followed by fence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster, through the DSL's native primitives (prims.mbarrier_try_wait_parity(..., scope=CLUSTER, order=RELAXED) and prims.fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE)); the inline-PTX wait helpers are removed. 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 three launch variants (the cluster-6 GEMM plan, the HC decode first and first_fold configurations) compile with the pinned DSL for sm_103a, the PTX and SASS are as expected, two fewer invalidates per wait site at identical instruction counts, and no numerical change. Since the head changed, CI needs to run again, and the approval given on the previous head will need to be refreshed. Sorry for the churn.
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- Line 1010: Add a regression assertion to the existing ks = 6 test case that
inspects the cached kernel’s __ptx__ and verifies the relaxed cluster-scope
parity wait is followed by the shared-cluster acquire fence. Keep the assertion
focused on this synchronization ordering so the test fails if the wait-scope fix
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folded cell and a non-folded cell. Assert that each folded handoff and the
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a CTA-scope wait at either decode mailbox wait cannot pass unnoticed.
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Two CPU-only tests parse mid_rows_mm.py and qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py and
assert, for each mailbox barrier, exactly one relaxed cluster-scope
prims.mbarrier_try_wait_parity on the barrier pointer followed by
prims.fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE), no CTA-scope or inline-PTX wait on those
barriers, and the source order pushes < wait < fence < first mailbox read. An
accuracy test cannot pin this ordering down on current hardware; these fail if
either wait is changed back. No GPU, CUDA or cutlass import needed.
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Both kernels now use a relaxed cluster-scope
mbarrier_try_wait_parityfollowed by an acquire fence for mailbox data. This replaces the prior CTA-scope wait pattern and targets synchronization with peer CTAs. The GEMM change affects split-K mailbox reductions; itsks == 1path remains unaffected. The HC kernel applies the pattern to the block-row handoff and cluster partial reduction. Hardware correctness and performance results are not available from the inspected diff.QA Engineer Review
Two CPU-only source-level test files were added. Their four test functions check wait scope and ordering of scatter, wait, fence, and mailbox reads for the GEMM and HC decode kernels. Neither test file appears in the inspected
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/CI ortests/integration/test_lists/qa/manual-QA lists. The tests cover synchronization-source regressions, but do not establish runtime correctness or performance. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/gemm/mid_rows_mm.py: Verify split-K mailbox synchronization whenks > 1. Theks == 1path does not use this mailbox wait.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/hc/qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py: Verify the cluster partial-reduction wait and, when split folding is enabled, the block-row handoff wait. Both paths now use cluster-scope waits followed by acquire fences.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/gemm/test_modeling_v2_mid_rows_mm_sync.py: Adds tests for wait scope and the scatter/wait/fence/read ordering in the split-K GEMM source. It is not listed in the inspected integration CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/hc/test_modeling_v2_qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc_sync.py: Adds tests for wait scope and the scatter/wait/fence/read ordering for both HC mailboxes. It is not listed in the inspected integration CI or manual-QA lists.Description
Two Qwen4 kernels receive data from peer CTAs of the cluster through shared-memory mailboxes credited with
st.async.shared::cluster.mbarrier::complete_tx::bytesonmapa'd addresses, and wait on them with an inlinembarrier.try_wait.parity.shared::cta.b64spin, which the PTX ISA defines as.acquireat.ctascope. The completing operation is a release at.clusterscope performed by a thread of another CTA (ISA,st.async: the complete-tx operation on the mbarrier has.releasesemantics at.clusterscope). Under the PTX memory consistency model (chapter 8, morally strong operations and release/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 mailbox reads after the wait have no happens-before edge to the peers' stores. The ISA's own example for a remote arrive pairsmbarrier.arrive.release.clusterwithmbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster. (TMA loads into this CTA are different: there the async proxy acts for the issuing thread, which is in the waiting CTA, and.acquire.ctasuffices.)Both waits are now the CuTe DSL's own primitives:
prims.mbarrier_try_wait_parity(bar, 0, scope=prims.MBarrierScope.CLUSTER, order=prims.MemOrder.RELAXED)in a retry loop, followed once byprims.fence_sync_restrict(prims.MemOrder.ACQUIRE)(cutlass.experimental.primitives, available in the pinned nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0). They lower tombarrier.try_wait.parity.relaxed.cluster.shared::cta.b64andfence.acquire.sync_restrict::shared::cluster.cluster. A relaxed wait that observes the peers' complete-tx followed by an acquire fence restricted toshared::clusteris the ISA's acquire pattern for this case (chapter 8, acquire patterns; the ISA's own example for acquiring local shared memory through the generic proxy is exactly this pair). This form was chosen overmbarrier.try_wait.parity.acquire.cluster(FlashInfer's_mbarrier_wait_acquire_cluster, flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7443) because on sm_100a with ptxas 13.0 a cluster-scope acquire on the wait makes ptxas emit an L1 invalidate (CCTL.IVALL) after every try_wait, two per spin loop: such an acquire must also make the peers' global writes visible and global lines may be stale in this SM's L1, while the mailboxes here are shared memory only, which never lives in L1. The relaxed wait plus restricted fence emits no CCTL and no MEMBAR, and the fence itself costs no SASS instruction. The two inline-PTX wait helpers (_mbar_wait,_mbar_wait0) are removed; the waits take the barriers' existing pointer forms (storage.red_mbar.ptr,sBar.iterator). No other wait changes.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/gemm/mid_rows_mm.py(_MidMm): for plans withks > 1the ranks that do not own a unit push their FP32 partials into the owner's mailbox with_st_async_v4f, crediting the owner'sred_bar; the owner arms the barrier with_mbar_expect_tx, waits with_mbar_wait(red_bar, 0)and sums thekspartials with_lds_v4f._mbar_waithas a single caller, the mailbox wait. Plans withks == 1have no mailbox traffic and are unaffected.tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/ops/hc/qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.py(_First2, pointed out in review): the four stream CTAs of a K half push the block rows into each other'ssBlkwith_st_async_v4onmapa'dbbar, and all cluster CTAs push the row partials of the rows a rank owns with_st_async_f32onmapa'drbar; the receiver waits with_mbar_wait0(bbar)and_mbar_wait0(rbar)and then reads the mailboxes._mbar_wait0has these two callers, both mailbox waits.No wrong result has been observed, and none is expected on current parts: payload and complete-tx travel together on the DSMEM path, and FlashInfer saw no failure when making this change. The ISA does not promise that ordering, which is why #7443 made it (and flashinfer#8853 / #8856 propose it for the remaining FlashInfer split-K kernels). Cost: none measurable; the relaxed wait replaces the acquire wait and the fence adds no SASS instruction.
Hardware verification
A static review found the first site; the kernel was then run on a B300 PCIe (compute capability 10.3) in the shipped table plan for (N 2560, K 6144, fp8): cluster
ks6, 4 k-blocks per stage, 6 stages, 128 rows (MMA N 128), per-row weight scale, PDL on; bf16 output compared with an fp32 torch reference (wrong = |err| > 0.02 |ref| + 0.5), 200 launches per tree on the same inputs.Nothing injectable makes current hardware deliver the mailbox payload after its complete-tx, so the race is not observable; the change is a conformance fix with no measurable cost. (That run used the first version of the wait,
.acquire.cluster; the relaxed wait plus restricted fence orders the same accesses with fewer SASS instructions.)The HC decode kernel (second site) was compile-checked for
sm_103ain its decode (first) and finalize-fold (first_fold) configurations: the generated code differs from the unpatched kernel only in the qualifier of the_mbar_wait0asm string, and both configurations compile to the same number of lines and inline-asm sites as before (one changed wait infirst, two infirst_fold, where both callers are compiled). It was not run on hardware; the change is the same single qualifier as in the GEMM.Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/gemm/test_modeling_v2_mid_rows_mm.pyexercises the GEMM, including the split-K plans, andtests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/hc/test_modeling_v2_qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc.pythe HC decode kernel; both pass unchanged (the ordering fix has no observable effect on current hardware). Two new CPU-only tests pin the fix itself:gemm/test_modeling_v2_mid_rows_mm_sync.pyandhc/test_modeling_v2_qwen4_exp_hc_decode_rows_tc_sync.pyparse the kernel sources and assert, for each mailbox barrier, exactly one relaxed cluster-scopeprims.mbarrier_try_wait_parityon the barrier pointer followed byprims.fence_sync_restrict(ACQUIRE), no CTA-scope or inline-PTX wait on those barriers, and the source order pushes, wait, fence, first mailbox read. They fail against the previous versions of the kernels and need no GPU, CUDA or cutlass import. The patched GEMM compiles and runs correctly (hardware verification above) for the attention o-proj entry (Plan(ks=6, ...), cluster(6, 1, 1)).PR Checklist
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