Give each runtime its own TaskId encoding

[ChaoWao]

Summary

TaskId declared its layout as (ring_id << 32) | local_id and named the accessor ring(), but only tensormap_and_ringbuffer encodes a ring index there. host_build_graph has no ring at all since #2004, and uses the high bits as an id space: graph_execution.cpp minted TaskId::make(1, synthetic_local) for a node materialized inside a Graph, which lives in GraphNodeStorage and has no entry in the task table.

So every hbg guard reading ring() != 0 read as a bounds check on a dimension the runtime does not have, while actually asking "is this a graph-node id".

The bug that vocabulary produced

FaninBuilder::mark_seen answered that question inside its dedup return value, and append_fanin_or_fail read its false as "not deduplicated yet":

debug_assert(producer_task_id.ring() == 0 && "hbg places every task on ring 0");
const int32_t prod_local = static_cast<int32_t>(producer_task_id.local());
if (producer_task_id.ring() != 0 || prod_local < 0) {
    return false;          // the caller reads this as "append it"
}

A GRAPH_NODE producer id, whose low bits are a packed (outer task, node index) pair, therefore indexed the task table with that pair and produced a fanin edge to an unrelated task, silently. (Originally raised by CodeRabbit on #1965.)

#2004 dropped the ring and the append_fanin_or_fail parameters derivable from the id, but kept the space check folded into the dedup result — so the defect survived it unchanged, and after the ring removal it is more direct: a local id is now the task-table index outright, with no masking in between.

What this does

TaskId becomes an opaque 64-bit handle — raw, invalid(), is_valid(), equality, and the 8-byte shared-memory static_assert. Each runtime owns its layout in one arch-shared header:

header	namespace	API
src/common/host_build_graph/task_id_encoding.h	simpler::hbg	TaskIdSpace{RING, GRAPH_NODE}, make_ring_task, make_graph_node(outer_local_id, node_index), task_id_space, is_ring_task, task_local_id
src/common/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/task_id_encoding.h	simpler::tmr	make_task_id(ring_id, local_id), task_ring, task_local_id

The graph-node packing (outer_local << 10 | index) moves out of graph_execution.cpp into the hbg header, and graph_execution.h now asserts GRAPH_MAX_NODES fits that index field.

With the space named, the fix falls out: mark_seen deduplicates and nothing else, and append_fanin_or_fail rejects a non-RING producer up front with report_fatal(SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS, ...) — the same treatment runtime_core.cpp already gave a non-ring tensor producer.

That check also has to precede the table lookup, which is the second half of the same defect (thanks @coderabbitai):

// shared_memory.h — no bound, and #2004 removed the mask along with the ring
ChipTaskSlotState &get_slot_state_by_task_id(int32_t local_id) { return slot_states[local_id]; }

All three callers resolved slot_states[task_local_id(id)] and passed the result in, so a GRAPH_NODE id formed &slot_states[(outer_local << 10) | index] — an out-of-bounds address — before the guard could reject it. The lookup therefore moves into append_fanin_or_fail and the prod_state parameter is gone; orch->sm_header->tasks was already reachable there, so callers collapse to passing just the id and have no way to form that reference at all.

No ABI change (sizeof(TaskId) == 8 holds), no binding change, no examples/ change — examples/ never decodes a TaskId.

Docs and comments

Comments repeating the ring layout as if it were universal are corrected where they cover both runtimes: dep_gen.h, chip_swimlane_profiling.h, hbg's runtime_types.h and profiling_levels.md, docs/dfx/dep-gen.md, docs/dfx/chip-swimlane-profiling.md, and the two host tools that already decoded the hbg id space while calling it a ring (swimlane_converter.py::_decode_graph_node_task_id, deps_viewer.py).

Each now states what the high field means per runtime and its range, rather than implying a nonzero value is unusual — a tmr task on ring 2 is as ordinary as one on ring 0. Tool behavior and output keys are unchanged. MULTI_RING.md keeps its layout — it is true for tmr — and moves to the new function names.

Testing

New scene-test case graph_node_dependency in tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/ declares a make_graph_node id as an explicit dependency and expects code -5.

Per discipline.md §3, verified it fails first: with the new guard removed and a2a3sim rebuilt, DID NOT RAISE <class 'RuntimeError'> — the run completes successfully, having built the bogus edge.

• Full product build — both arches, sim and onboard, all four runtimes
• ctest cpput — 119/119
• pytest tests/ut/py — 1936 passed, 14 skipped
• Per-PR sim gate --manual exclude — green on a2a3sim and a5sim
• a2a3 onboard gate on silicon via task-submit — both the -m 'not sdma' and -m sdma jobs exit=0, zero failures

Two failures showed up in the wider daily-mode sweep (--manual include, which per-PR CI does not run). Both confirmed pre-existing, not caused by this change:

• TestAllreduceIbingNranksError — run_class_cases wraps every case exception in RuntimeError (added by Fix: report failing SceneTest case context #1927), so the test's pytest.raises(ValueError) can never match. Pure Python, no build involved.
• TestSpmdPagedAttentionHighPerf::b4_h32_kv8_s512_bs128_fp16 — max_diff=0.0625 vs atol=0.02. Reproduced identically after rebuilding the whole product at the branch point 83598a39b.

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Changes

The change makes TaskId an opaque handle with runtime-specific encodings. It adds hbg and tmr helper APIs, migrates runtime and test call sites, validates graph-node dependencies, and updates related documentation.

TaskId contracts and documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Encoding contracts src/common/task_interface/task_id.h, src/common/*/task_id_encoding.h, docs/*, simpler_setup/tools/*	Runtime-specific TaskId layouts and helper functions are documented. Shared TaskId::make, ring, and local methods are removed.
hbg migration and validation src/common/host_build_graph/*, src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/*, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/*, tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/*, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_*	hbg constructs ring and graph-node IDs through encoding helpers. Non-ring dependencies now produce SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS.
tmr migration src/a2a3/runtime/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/*, src/a5/runtime/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/*, tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_*, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_*	tmr runtime code and tests use make_task_id, task_ring, and task_local_id. Existing ring and TensorMap behavior remains unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 29e74

The change is merge-ready after normal review; one minor documentation clarification remains to avoid misleading descriptions of ring-task identifiers, with no identified runtime or production impact.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Runtime
  participant Orchestrator
  participant TaskIdEncoding
  participant TensorMap
  Runtime->>TaskIdEncoding: construct or decode TaskId
  Runtime->>Orchestrator: submit task and dependencies
  Orchestrator->>TaskIdEncoding: resolve task space and local id
  Orchestrator->>TensorMap: access task slot
  TensorMap-->>Orchestrator: task entry or completion state

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A rabbit packs IDs in a neat little row

Ring bits above, local bits below
Graph nodes hop through a named space
Helpers decode each runtime place
Tests follow the trail with a bright carrot glow

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In `@docs/dfx/dep-gen.md`:
- Around line 181-190: Correct the zero-field wording: in docs/dfx/dep-gen.md
lines 181-190, state that zero high fields apply only to hbg RING and tmr ring-0
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simpler_setup/tools/deps_viewer.py lines 127-128, remove the claim that ordinary
ring tasks always have high field 0; in lines 141-146, restrict the short
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simpler_setup/tools/swimlane_converter.py lines 107-112, refer to ring-0 or hbg
RING instead of ordinary-ring zero fields.

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[ChaoWao]

@coderabbitai the one actionable finding is fixed and its thread resolved — the "0 for an ordinary ring task" wording was wrong for tensormap_and_ringbuffer, where ring 2 is as ordinary as ring 0. Details in the thread.

Two things also changed in this push, both worth a re-read:

Rebased onto #2004 ("drop the ring design from host_build_graph"), which landed after the first push and made this PR conflicting. Worth noting for anyone comparing the two: #2004 independently dropped append_fanin_or_fail's prod_ring / prod_slot parameters as derivable from the id, and re-keyed mark_seen on the TaskId — but it kept the id-space check inside mark_seen's dedup return value:

debug_assert(producer_task_id.ring() == 0 && "hbg places every task on ring 0");
const int32_t prod_local = static_cast<int32_t>(producer_task_id.local());
if (producer_task_id.ring() != 0 || prod_local < 0) {
    return false;          // the caller reads this as "not deduplicated yet"
}

So the defect this PR fixes survived #2004 unchanged, and after the ring removal it is if anything more direct: a local id is now the task-table index outright, with no masking in between.

Verification re-run from scratch on the new base — full product build (both arches, sim and onboard, all four runtimes), cpput 119/119, pyut 1936 passed / 14 skipped, per-PR sim gate green on a2a3sim and a5sim, and the a2a3 onboard gate green on silicon through task-submit (both the -m 'not sdma' and -m sdma jobs, exit=0).

The graph_node_dependency repro was re-confirmed on the new base too: with the guard removed it reports DID NOT RAISE, i.e. the run completes having silently built an edge to an unrelated task.

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@ChaoWao, I re-read the rebased code and used the prior TaskId guidance.

The documentation fix is correct. tensormap_and_ringbuffer now treats every valid ring index as ordinary. The prior finding is addressed.

I found one remaining issue.

append_fanin_or_fail checks is_ring_task() before it reads prod_state. However, its callers already resolve slot_states[task_local_id(...)].

SharedMemoryTaskHeader::get_slot_state_by_task_id() has no bounds check. A GRAPH_NODE ID has a packed local field. That field is not a task-table index. An explicit dependency can therefore form an out-of-bounds slot reference before append_fanin_or_fail reports SIMPLER_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS.

This occurs in both architectures:

• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp: Line 1525, Line 1539, and Line 1869.
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp: Line 1525, Line 1539, and Line 1869.

Validate is_ring_task(producer_task_id) before each slot lookup, or move the lookup into append_fanin_or_fail after its id-space check. The latter keeps the invariant in one place.

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Learnt from: ChaoWao
Repo: hw-native-sys/simpler PR: 2012
File: docs/dfx/dep-gen.md:181-191
Timestamp: 2026-08-25T11:13:42.050Z
Learning: For TaskId documentation and tooling, `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` uses the high 32-bit field as a ring index, where tasks on nonzero rings are ordinary tasks. `host_build_graph` uses the high 32-bit field as an id space, with `RING = 0` and `GRAPH_NODE = 1`. Documentation must not characterize a zero high field as the general definition of an ordinary ring task.

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Fixed — you're right, and it's the sharper version of the same defect. Verified before changing anything:

// src/{a2a3,a5}/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared_memory.h:133
ChipTaskSlotState &get_slot_state_by_task_id(int32_t local_id) { return slot_states[local_id]; }

No bound, no mask (#2004 removed the mask along with the ring), so &slot_states[(outer_local << 10) | index] is an out-of-bounds address formed at the call site — UB regardless of whether it is later dereferenced, and for a large outer_local it is a wild pointer, not a near-miss.

Took your second option: the lookup moves into append_fanin_or_fail, after the id-space check, and the prod_state parameter is gone. All three callers collapse to just passing the id:

auto runtime_emit = [&](TaskId producer_task_id) -> bool {
    return append_fanin_or_fail(orch, producer_task_id, &fanin_builder);
};

orch->sm_header->tasks was already reachable inside the callee, so this needed no new parameter — and it means a caller now has no way to form the reference at all, rather than being trusted not to. Landed in both arches; the comment above the check records why the lookup lives there.

Re-verified after the change: full product build, cpput 119/119, the host_build_graph_validation suite (5/5, including graph_node_dependency), per-PR sim gate green on a2a3sim and a5sim, and the a2a3 onboard gate green on silicon via task-submit (-m 'not sdma' and -m sdma, both exit=0).