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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHost logging now uses bounded asynchronous delivery with shared process state, stderr fallback, drop accounting, and fork-aware lifecycle controls. Simulated AICPU logging delegates to HostLogger. Python workers coordinate writer startup and shutdown. Worker copies now validate canonical buffer identities and offsets. ChangesHost logging architecture
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change moves host and simulated logging onto an asynchronous queue and changes writer lifecycle around process forks and worker shutdown. At the current head, a flush failure can interrupt worker cleanup and cause a later close to retry native finalization, while the forked logging tests can fail because inherited writers are not quiesced and restarted. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PythonWorker
participant HostLogger
participant AICPUAdapter
participant ForkedChild
PythonWorker->>HostLogger: initialize with deferred writer
PythonWorker->>HostLogger: prepare_to_fork
PythonWorker->>ForkedChild: create child workers
ForkedChild->>HostLogger: start writer after setup
AICPUAdapter->>HostLogger: bind state and emit records
HostLogger-->>PythonWorker: flush accepted records
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1401-1408: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winGuard
_flush_host_log()inChipWorker.finalize().
HostLogger::flush()can reachHostLogAsyncSink::wait_until_empty(), whose uncaught synchronization exceptions can cross the binding. If that occurs afterself._impl.finalize()succeeds, the registry cleanup is skipped andWorker._finalize_chip()does not clearself._chip_worker, so a later close attempt can retryChipWorker.finalize(). SuppressBaseExceptionaround_flush_host_log(), matching the other call sites.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_sim_device_log.cpp`:
- Around line 296-301: Update the high-volume child flush calls in the affected
pipe tests, including the A5 test, to pass an explicit timeout longer than the
default 1000 ms to HostLogger::flush(). Keep the one- or two-record child tests
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In `@python/simpler/task_interface.py`:
- Around line 1401-1408: Update ChipWorker.finalize() to suppress BaseException
raised by _flush_host_log(), while preserving the finally block’s registry
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1408-1409: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRecord the suppressed flush failure.
contextlib.suppress(BaseException)discards every flush error without a trace. A repeated drop or a blocked sink then leaves no signal at all, andfinalize()is the last point where this process can report it.Keep the suppression so registry cleanup always runs, and write one short diagnostic line before it is discarded.
Based on learnings, silent exception swallowing in this codebase is treated as a diagnostic-consistency and observability concern rather than a lint violation.
♻️ Proposed diagnostic on the suppressed path
try: self._impl.finalize() finally: - with contextlib.suppress(BaseException): - _flush_host_log() + try: + _flush_host_log() + except BaseException as flush_error: # noqa: BLE001 -- cleanup must always continue + with contextlib.suppress(BaseException): + sys.stderr.write( + f"[chip_worker pid={os.getpid()}] WARN: host-log flush failed during " + f"finalize: {flush_error}\n" + ) with self._registry_lock:This requires
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_sim_device_log.cpp`:
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ForkedProcessesEmitWholeRecords at lines 233-233 and
WritersOutrunASmallPipeWithoutDeadlocking at lines 282-282: call
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In `@python/simpler/task_interface.py`:
- Around line 1408-1409: Update the suppressed error path around _flush_host_log
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Follow-up review: issue #1792 items 5 and 6I reviewed the current PR head against the detailed discussion in #1792 and the implementation introduced by #1945. The code now satisfies the functional requirements of items 5 and 6. The remaining points are review and verification follow-ups rather than known correctness blockers. Item 5: fold simulated device logging into HostLogger
Conclusion: item 5 is implemented. Item 6: never block a log producer
Conclusion: item 6 is implemented. Relationship to #1945 and measurement#1945 introduced the per-process buffered file sink and removed the largest shared-stderr cost, but its producer path could still synchronously write or flush and it did not provide a bounded queue or loss accounting. This PR adds the bounded asynchronous stage needed to complete item 6. The #1792 discussion requested remeasurement after #1945 before adding another queue. Direct production
The exact multi-rank profiling scenario used during #1945 has not been reproduced in this verification. It should be rerun if reviewers require that specific comparison. ABI and compatibility
ABI v3 adds process/sink ownership, an opaque sink context and enqueue callback, dropped/pending counters, and producer lifecycle state. These fields are needed so private Bindings validate the exact ABI version, minimum structure size, and threshold range. The sim loader propagates rejection as a startup failure. The supported contract remains that host and simulated AICPU components come from the same build. Arbitrary mixing with an older binary is not guaranteed; in particular, the old Observable behavior and validationOrdinary host and sim records longer than 512 bytes are deliberately truncated to one Current CI passes on the PR head, including Linux/macOS unit tests and packaging, a2a3sim/a5sim system tests, a2a3/a5 onboard tests, pre-commit, and profiling-flags smoke tests. Targeted coverage includes blocked/full sinks, hard write failure accounting, bounded fork preparation, concurrent producer quiesce/restart, cross-DSO forwarding, parent/child output, live sim thresholds, record integrity, incompatible ABI rejection, and Python worker startup/teardown cleanup. The PTO ISA pin and referenced PTO ISA headers are unchanged, so no pin update is required. This PR addresses only items 5 and 6; it does not by itself close the remaining items in #1792. |
Rebase and post-rebase verificationRebased the PR onto current
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The targeted logging coverage passed within those runs, including bounded/full sink behavior, drop accounting, bounded fork preparation, cross-DSO forwarding, sim HostLogger binding and live thresholds, record integrity, ABI rejection, worker startup rollback, and teardown drain. Conclusion after rebase and testing: the implementation continues to satisfy issue #1792 items 5 and 6. No remaining correctness defect was found for those two items. The ABI v3 evolution still requires normal maintainer review, and the exact multi-rank performance scenario from #1945 remains an optional reviewer-requested comparison rather than a functional blocker. The new-head GitHub CI is now running; a5 onboard validation is provided by that architecture-specific CI runner because this local host is a2a3. |
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Final verification after rebasing onto current upstream/main:\n\n- PR head: e831ab0\n- Full GitHub CI run 33048482947: all jobs passed, including Linux/macOS unit and simulation jobs, a2a3/a5 onboard jobs, network1, and DeepSeek a2a3 smoke.\n- Local verification details and the item 5/6 assessment are recorded in the previous comment: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/2029#issuecomment-5435569983\n\nConclusion: no test failure or remaining correctness blocker was found for issue #1792 items 5 and 6 on the rebased head. The internal SimplerHostLogState ABI v3 change still needs the normal maintainer/API-owner review noted earlier. |
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Reviewed at e831ab046 against 80dd3cd96. CI is green everywhere including both onboard pools, and the lifecycle work is careful — the writer is created only after the last local fork, quiesced before every fork, flushed before os._exit and before close(), and restored after a startup rollback (worker.py:7602), which is the easy one to miss and would otherwise let one failed Worker silently mute logging for unrelated Workers in the same parent. Item 5 in particular I think is done cleanly.
Four things below. The first is a request about shape rather than code.
1. Please split this into two PRs — item 5 first
The two halves are almost file-disjoint, and I checked each changed file:
PR A = item 5 (one writer) — 10 files, mostly deletion:
platform/include/aicpu/device_log.h · platform/sim/aicpu/device_log.cpp (118 → 84) · platform/onboard/aicpu/device_log.cpp · platform/shared/aicpu/unified_log_device.cpp · a2a3|a5/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp · a2a3|a5/platform/sim/aicpu/CMakeLists.txt · test_sim_device_log.cpp · part of tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
PR B = item 6 (drop and count) — everything else: host_log.cpp, the v3 ABI, host_log.h, the bindings, task_interface.py, worker.py, the four new/changed cpp log tests, the three py tests, and the two scene tests (which only need _flush_host_log because the writer became asynchronous).
The dependency is one-directional and argues for A first:
- A does not need B. Routing sim's device log through
HostLoggeronly usesis_enabled()andbind_state(), both of which have existed since #1845. It lands against today's synchronous logger. - B does not need A either, but B alone leaves a hole: sim keeps a second independent writer that can still block — on the platform CI exercises most. After A there is genuinely one writer in the process, so "there is one writer" and "that writer does not block" become two independently verifiable claims instead of one compound one.
Cost of splitting, stated honestly: test_sim_device_log.cpp currently uses B's API in nine places (start_writer() ×2, flush() ×5, prepare_to_fork() ×2). In A alone that test goes back to asserting the record appears on stderr with the host envelope and needs none of them; the writer choreography comes back in B, which has to touch that file anyway because its fork semantics change. So it is "write the simple version first", not wasted work.
Why it is worth it beyond review size: A is a pure convergence with very low risk and can merge immediately, while B carries an ABI bump, a new thread, and a whole fork lifecycle. Both must-fix findings below are entirely in B, and so is the one governance question — A has no reason to wait behind any of them.
2. Must fix (B): records emitted before the writer starts are lost, and the counter that should record that is then zeroed
Three lines establish the mechanism:
emit()counts and returns when there is no sink —host_log.cpp:684-697.- There is no synchronous fallback:
write_record_now()is defined athost_log.cpp:274and its only caller in the file is:431, inside the writer thread'srun(). No producer-side path can reach the destination. - That window is entered deliberately:
worker.py:7811seeds withdefer_writer=True, andworker.py:8000starts the writer only after_await_children_ready().
And host_log.cpp:556-564 resets the counters when sink_process_pid != pid. The comment explains this for a fork child, but sink_process_pid starts at 0, so it also fires on the first start_writer() in any process — immediately after the window where loss is guaranteed.
Verified by probe on this branch:
emit one ERROR while the writer is deferred
dropped-count delta ....... 2
occurrences on stderr ..... 0 <- nothing at all
start the writer, emit again
occurrences on stderr ..... 1 <- positive control: the path works
read the counter
dropped total ............. 0 <- the two drops are gone from the record
Failure scenario: an L3 Worker.init() that fails while bringing up its subtree loses every C++ LOG_ERROR/LOG_WARN emitted in that window, and _host_log_dropped_records() afterwards reports 0, so nothing indicates anything was lost. That is precisely the accounting item 6 exists to provide, missing exactly where it matters most.
Two small fixes, and I would do both:
- Fall back synchronously while there is no sink — call
write_record_now()whensink_enqueue == nullptr. This does not conflict withcodestyle.md§5: that rule explicitly exempts initialization and teardown paths, and this window is by construction init. Loss in the window becomes zero rather than counted. - Narrow the reset to an actual pid change —
sink_process_pid != 0 && sink_process_pid != pid. Otherwise pre-writer drops are always swallowed.
3. Must fix (B): two scene tests now have a wall-clock verdict
tests/st/runtime_fatal_codes/test_runtime_fatal_codes.py:311—assert _flush_host_log(1000)tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/test_host_build_graph_validation.py:103— same
flush() returns false for exactly one reason: the deadline (host_log.cpp:338). So the assertion means "the queue drained within one second". This repo runs 16-way sim locally and in CI, so under load that budget becomes the test's verdict, and the failure is a bare assert False that points at no real defect. It is the shape #1913 and #1914 just removed from the unit suite.
Suggestion: assert on the content, not on the timeout's boolean. Give the wait a generous outer bound and poll readouterr() until the marker appears, or assert _host_log_dropped_records() == 0, which is the property actually being claimed. A slow machine then waits longer instead of going red.
4. Please answer #1792's explicit instruction about staging (B)
Item 6 is staged: add the drop counter for the failure paths that already exist → measure whether a write ever actually blocks → build a bounded queue only if a number justifies it. The issue also says, in so many words:
Whoever closes this item should not add the bounded queue on top of #1945 without re-measuring. The staging below was written when the shared fd was assumed; a private buffered file changes what the remaining cost is.
This PR delivers the most expensive stage, and I could not find a number in the body, the commit message, or the comments. I do not think the design is wrong — #1945 measured that blocking is real and dominant (runner-to-validate p95/max 0.150/0.538 → 0.051/0.164 ms). But #1945 changed the premise the staging was written against, so "is a queue still needed, and how big" is the question that reopened rather than closed. Either attach the measurement (same profiled workload, p95/max with and without the queue, plus observed drop counts), or amend #1792 to record why re-measuring is moot now.
Consider (none blocking)
- The record cap moved from 2048 to 512 and no doc says so.
kRecordCapacity = _POSIX_PIPE_BUF; longer records get~\nand are truncated (host_log.cpp:673-679), where the old path had a 2048-byte stack buffer plus an unboundedstd::vector<char>. This is the right resolution of item 5's twice-derived invariant, butdocs/logging.mdchanges by 123 lines without mentioning that records truncate at 512 bytes. - A dlopened module can become the sink owner, and it can be unloaded.
set_level(level, defer_writer = false)starts a writer, and sim's AICPU SO callsset_log_level→set_levelafter binding, whilesim/host/device_runner.cpp:769dlcloses that handle. Today_task_interfacealways wins the race (ChipWorker.initseeds before_impl.initloads the SO), so this is latent rather than live — but nothing enforces the ordering, and after such adlclosebothsink_enqueueand the writer thread's code are unmapped. Refusingstart_writer()from a module that is not the state's owner would make it structural. _flush_host_logdefaults disagree: 100 ms intask_interface.py:1281, 1000 ms inhost_log.h:67.Worker.close()andChipWorker.finalize()take the 100 ms default and discard the result undercontextlib.suppress, so a slow destination silently loses records that were already accepted — and those count aspending, notdropped, so afterwards they are indistinguishable from records that were never emitted.std::this_thread::yield()in the writer thread (host_log.cpp:428) is off the dispatch path, socodestyle.md§5 does not strictly bite — but it is an unbounded spin waiting for an earlier MPSC producer to publish its slot, and it burns a core whenever that producer is preempted. The writer still holds its semaphore token there, so it could return tosem_waitor bound the spin.
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@indigo1973 I pushed a rebase to this branch ( Three things happened here. Only the third is a change of substance, and all three are yours to reject. 1. Rebase — this branch was carrying item 5 twice#2061 merged, so this PR still held an older copy of the same work. Against
Result: 28 files / +1619−331 → 24 files / +1485−237. Now rebased onto Most hunks were mechanical. Three were not: Your raw-append fd retires the destructor I added in #2061. git auto-merged
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A is fine — prepare_to_fork() returns early at owner == 0 and never sets the flag. That early return is why this can't be settled by inspection.
B is reachable in production. _initialize_host_log(level, defer_writer=True) calls prepare_to_fork() and then skips start_writer(). In worker.py, :8097 starts a writer and :7901 re-seeds with defer_writer=True — so a process initializing a second Worker enters B, as does the :7692 rollback-restore path followed by another :7901. The whole second initialization window is silently lost, which is the accounting item 6 exists to provide.
Fix is one line: clear the flag last, after sink_owner_pid = 0 and delete sink. There is no queue left to admit anyone into at that point, and emit()'s fallback condition is exactly satisfied. A producer that observes the pre-clear state still drops, as it must; one that observes the post-clear state re-reads sink_enqueue, finds it null, and takes the fallback rather than a freed sink.
Regression test QuiescingALiveWriterKeepsTheSynchronousFallback in your test_host_log_nonblocking.cpp. I verified it fails without the fix (dropped 1 instead of 0) and passes with it.
3. The ABI version is deleted, not bumped
You asked for maintainer confirmation of SimplerHostLogState v2 → v3. The answer is that this struct should not carry a version word at all, and abi_version / struct_size are both gone.
The project rule is that an internal format whose producer and consumer both live in this repository gets no version or schema number — only a cross-machine protocol or a contract compiled by another repository earns one. I checked that this qualifies rather than assuming it:
- Every consumer is in-repo.
git grep -l SimplerHostLogStatelands only insrc/,tests/,docs/; zero hits inbuild/pyptoorbuild/pto-isa. - The run-time-compiled orchestration SO cannot go stale either.
compile_artifact_keybuilds its key from_source_closure— a transitive#includeclosure with a per-file digest — andhost_log.cpp → host_log.h → common/host_log_state.his inside it. Editing this header invalidates every cached orchestration SO. The mixed-build the handshake guards against has no reachable path here.
set_host_log_state's int return stays: it now reports a null pointer or an out-of-ladder threshold, so a sim AICPU SO that cannot bind still fails device init instead of running with an unbound logger that drops everything. The two assertions that tested the version words (bad_version, bad_size) were repointed at what is actually still checked.
SimplerHostSpan in host_span.h carries the identical pair and the same argument applies, but it is untouched by this PR and I left it alone — that belongs in its own change.
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Everything below ran locally on the final tree, on top of 1f3995c6d; onboard work through task-submit.
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| pyut | 2099 passed, 18 skipped |
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| st a2a3 onboard | 67, no failures — includes the 10 runtime_fatal_codes cases and host_build_graph_validation |
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2/2, including test_sdma_worker_aicore_fault_teardown_is_bounded |
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One thing the build caught that the unit tests did not: I briefly collapsed the state initializers to a single field and the build failed under -Werror=missing-field-initializers. Restored to explicit lists. cpput does not carry that flag, so only the full platform build sees it.
What is actually mine
Relative to your 33af895e2, I touched three files. Everything else is the rebase:
src/common/log/host_log.cpp | 31 +++++-----
src/common/log/include/common/host_log_state.h | 4 ---
tests/ut/cpp/common/test_host_log_nonblocking.cpp | 26 +++++++
The commit is still authored by you; I added a Co-Authored-By trailer and folded the changes in rather than appending, per the repo's one-commit convention. Revert any of the three and I will not re-add it — say which and why.
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Follow-up push ( A bound directory is now the destination, not a preference
if (directory != nullptr && write_log_file(directory, record, size)) return true;
return write_stderr(record, size);so a record the file could not take was relocated to stderr and reported as written. That predates this PR — it came in with #1945 ( The failure mode: a bound directory that cannot be opened sends every record to stderr while
Now: const char *directory = bound_log_directory(state);
if (directory != nullptr) return write_log_file(directory, record, size);
return write_stderr(record, size);One destination, chosen by whether a directory is bound. A failure on either is a counted drop. stderr is the destination only while nothing is bound — which is still how a process starts, before New test @high-cloud — this changes behaviour you introduced in #1945, so flagging you directly. If the fallback was load-bearing for a case I have not thought of, say so and I will revert it. Re-verified on the final tree
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The log file did not exist at all. That test is the one I added in #2061, and it was written against a synchronous logger: it does I had spotted exactly this in Fixed by flushing after the I also rewrote the file's header comment, because its premise no longer holds. It said:
With your raw-append fd there is no private buffer to lose. What the test still pins is a different and better property: One thing I want to be straight about: I could not reproduce the failure locally, including 40 repeats with four CPU burners running. The fix is correct by construction — the writer is asynchronous, Local re-run on the amended tree: cpput 130/130, linters clean. |
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Which meant the burst behaviour this PR's own measurement records — a median 2,789 records dropped out of 10,000 under saturation — produced a log that looks complete. Two changes1. Attribute the total.
Four causes, four different fixes — which is why the total alone was not actionable. Every drop increments the total and exactly one bucket, so the breakdown always sums to the total, and a test asserts that invariant. Exposed as 2. Write it into the log. A growth, not a running total, so a process quiescing at several fork boundaries does not restate the same losses each time. ERROR rather than WARN because a run whose threshold is ERROR is exactly the one whose dropped records mattered most.
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Emitting a host-log record used to make the calling thread do the output. That is the wrong side of the boundary: hw-native-sys#1851 fixed a deadlock where writers filled a capture pipe and blocked in `write(2)` while the only reader waited for them, so any consumer that captures our stderr through a pipe and does not drain it promptly stalls the dispatch path. Move the output to a dedicated writer thread behind a fixed 4096-slot MPSC queue (~2 MiB per process), and give a producer three bounded exits and no unbounded one: it wins a slot, or the queue is full and it returns immediately, or a 1024-attempt claim budget runs out. A lock-free CAS loop is itself a latent unbounded wait, so the budget is what makes "never blocks" a worst-case statement rather than a description of the happy path. Records are copied by value into the slot, so a producer's storage — or its whole DSO — can go away before the record is written. The writer sleeps on a semaphore rather than spinning, including for the gap a producer leaves between claiming a position and publishing it. Loss is accounted, not just avoided: - Every drop increments the total and exactly one of `queue_full`, `claim_exhausted`, `output_failed`, `not_admitted`. The four want four different fixes, so a total alone is not actionable. A contention probe puts every loss in `queue_full` and none in `claim_exhausted` at 4, 16 and 64 producer threads, which says the queue's drain rate is the constraint and 1024 is not — structurally so, since a full queue returns before spending any of the budget. - The counters die with the process, so a quiescent boundary writes the breakdown into the log as `[HOSTLOG_DROPS]` when it has grown. Without it a reader holding only `host.<pid>.log` cannot tell records are missing: a truncated record leaves a header behind, a dropped one leaves nothing. `strace_timing.py` warns from those records before printing any timing. - A bound log directory is the destination, not a preference. A record the file cannot take is dropped and counted rather than relocated to stderr, so "the log is complete" and "the drop count is zero" stay the same statement. The previous two-level fallback let a bound-but-unopenable directory send every record to stderr while the counter still read zero. Records are bounded to 512 bytes (`_POSIX_PIPE_BUF`) and end in `~\n` when truncated, replacing a 2048-byte stack buffer plus an unbounded heap path. That is what makes a fixed slot possible, and it keeps one record to one atomic write when forked processes share captured stderr. Lifecycle, since the writer is a thread and the process forks: - A hierarchical worker defers its writer until after its final local fork, and that window keeps the synchronous path so startup diagnostics survive. The window is entered from a fresh process and from a quiesce of a live writer, so `prepare_to_fork()` clears its producer stop flag once the sink is gone — otherwise every record between it and the next `start_writer()` is a silent drop, which is exactly the second Worker's whole initialization in a process that already ran one. - Only the owner of the process state creates a sink. A logger bound from another DSO is a consumer that can submit but not own, so `dlclose()` cannot strand a callback or a thread. - `set_host_log_state` reports its bind result, so a sim AICPU SO that cannot bind fails device init instead of running with an unbound logger that discards everything. - Shutdown, `Worker.close()` and `os._exit()` drains are bounded and report pending and dropped counts on timeout rather than discarding the result. The shared state gains the queue callback, the lifecycle fields and the loss breakdown, and loses its `abi_version` / `struct_size` handshake. Every module that binds it is compiled from this repository in the same build, and an orchestration SO compiled at run time hashes this header's whole include closure into its scene-test cache key, so no stale layout can reach a binding. Binding is rejected for a null pointer or an out-of-ladder threshold, which is what the bind result above reports. Two scene tests waited on a one-second flush deadline, making a wall clock the verdict under load; they now poll for the expected diagnostic content and an unchanged drop count. `test_host_log_dso_unload` read the log file with no flush, which raced the writer, and its premise — a private buffered stream per DSO — no longer holds now that the sink is a raw append fd; it pins the property that still matters, that a consumer's submitted records survive its unload. Closes item 6 of hw-native-sys#1792. Item 5 landed separately as hw-native-sys#2061; what remains here on the sim path is the bind-result propagation above, not the routing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rewrote the commit message and PR title ( "Addresses items 5 and 6" was true of and all of it is one change:
Two other things the old message got wrong, both for the same reason:
The body is prose rather than a bullet list now, because the bullets had stopped explaining why each piece is there — the claim budget existing because a CAS loop is a latent unbounded wait, the 512-byte cap being what makes a fixed slot possible, the stop-flag clear being what keeps a second Worker's initialization from vanishing. Those are the parts worth reading in six months. No code changed, so CI has nothing new to check. |
…ike (#2108) `kProducerClaimAttempts = 1024` is the most knob-shaped constant in the host-log queue, so a run reporting drops invites reaching for it first. It is the wrong lever, and the reason takes a measurement to establish rather than an argument. A producer wins its MPSC slot on the first attempt 57–78% of the time, and the worst count across every workload shape tried is 86 — twelve times under the bound. A bound of 16, the alternative considered, would have turned 787 successful writes at 64 threads into drops to save a worst case of ~100 µs that never occurs. Every loss lands in `queue_full` instead, and that is structural: a full queue exits before spending any attempt, so the two causes are nearly mutually exclusive. The entry also records the first conclusion, which was wrong. A saturating benchmark reports `claim_exhausted == 0` and looks like an answer, but saturation routes producers through the queue-full early exit and barely visits the claim loop, so it says nothing about the attempt distribution below the bound. Pacing the producers is what puts that path under test — and only the per-cause breakdown #2029 added makes either reading possible, since a single total cannot separate a queue that is too small from a budget that is too tight from a destination that is broken. Two properties of the implementation go in alongside, neither required by #1792 item 6 and neither covered by a test: a producer preempted between claiming a position and publishing it parks the writer on that position, so later published records cannot drain and other producers begin dropping; and the losses under contention fall on the slowest producers, which is the opposite of the useful bias for diagnostics.
A `SimplerHostSpan` is a stack temporary handed to `unified_log_host_span`, which is a link-time symbol whose implementation is compiled into the same DSO as the caller. The struct crosses no boundary at all, so the handshake it carried could not detect anything: the two producers are inline in this repository's headers, they set `abi_version` to the constant the validator compares against and `struct_size` to the `sizeof` the validator compares against, and all three come from the same header in the same build. Both comparisons are tautologies within one translation-unit set. This is a weaker boundary than the one `SimplerHostLogState` had, where two independently built DSOs could at least in principle bind the same allocation — and that word came out for the same reason in #2029. `log_host_span` keeps the check that can actually fail: a null span or a null name. `reserved` stays, since it is padding the layout wants rather than a protocol field.
…#2118) A `[STRACE]` record reaches captured stderr through the process writer thread since #2029, so a bare `capfd.readouterr()` races it and can return before the last records are written. The failure then reads as a missing span rather than a timing problem: `native_run_lifecycle` asserted `4 == 5` in CI with the captured tail showing the fifth invocation's spans still arriving. #2029 fixed this shape in `runtime_fatal_codes` and `host_build_graph_validation` and missed three files that read spans the same way — `native_run_lifecycle`, `concurrent_prepare_stress` and `task_timing_slots`. All three are fixed here rather than only the one CI happened to catch, since the mechanism is identical and a drain cannot make a passing test fail. `drain_host_log` is a `tests/st/conftest.py` fixture rather than a fourth private copy of the poll loop. The wait is bounded but it is not the verdict: producers are quiescent by the time a test reads, so `pending_record_count` reaching zero is a real drain rather than a deadline standing in for correctness, and the caller's own assertion still decides. Exhausting the bound means the writer is stuck, and the message reports the drop counter so a queue loss is not read as a slow drain. The clearing reads in `concurrent_prepare_stress` drain too. Discarding an undrained buffer leaves the previous arm's tail to be written afterwards, where it lands in the next arm's verdict.
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host records share one threshold, envelope, queue, and destination.
accounting, and no steady-state producer-side output I/O.
their failure count across the first writer startup, including after a live
writer is quiesced:
prepare_to_fork()clears its producer stop flag oncethe sink is gone, so the window it opens keeps the synchronous fallback
instead of silently dropping every record until the next
start_writer().leave a callback or writer thread behind after dlclose.
fork, shutdown, and os._exit drains bounded and observable.
fields, and drop its
abi_version/struct_sizehandshake: every modulethat binds it is compiled from this repository in the same build, and a
run-time orchestration SO hashes the header's whole include closure into its
scene-test cache key, so no stale layout can reach a binding. Binding is
rejected for a null pointer or an out-of-ladder threshold, and
set_host_log_statereports that so a sim AICPU SO cannot run unbound.the file cannot take is dropped and counted, not relocated to stderr, so "the
log is complete" and "
dropped_record_countis zero" stay the same statement.The two-level fallback #1945
introduced left a bound-but-unopenable directory sending every record to
stderr while the counter still read zero. stderr is the destination only while
no directory is bound.
queue_full/claim_exhausted/output_failed/not_admitted, and write that breakdown into the log as[HOSTLOG_DROPS]at each quiescent boundary whose total has grown. Thecounters die with the process, so a reader holding only
host.<pid>.logotherwise cannot tell records are missing — a truncated record leaves a header
behind, a dropped one leaves nothing.
strace_timing.pywarns from thoserecords before printing any timing.
instead of treating a one-second flush deadline as correctness.
waiting, DSO ownership, sim output, and teardown reporting.
Closes item 6 of #1792. Item 5 landed separately as #2061, so it is no longer in this diff — the routing, the second writer's removal and the sim CMake changes are all on
main. What remains on the sim path here isset_host_log_statepropagating its bind result (4 files, 20 lines), which is bind hardening for the shared state, not item 5.Scope after the rebase
Item 5 landed separately as #2061, so this branch was carrying an older copy of work already on
main— 18 of 28 files overlapped it, 4 byte-identical, 7 conflicting. Rebased onto1f3995c6d: 28 files / +1619−331 → 24 files / +1485−237.Two consequences worth calling out, since neither is visible in the diff alone:
destructor that Fix: fold simulated device logs into HostLogger #2061 added — with
write(2)there is no userspace bufferfor a
dlcloseto discard.test_host_log_dso_unloadstill passes (60/60repeats).
BoundLogDirectoryTakesSimRecordsInsteadOfStderrassumed an ERRORrecord was on disk by the time it read the file. The writer, not the
record's level, now decides that, so the case takes a
flush().Testing
Local, on the final tree; onboard through
task-submit.runtime_fatal_codes,host_build_graph_validation)-m sdmatest_sdma_worker_aicore_fault_teardown_is_boundedNew coverage:
QuiescingALiveWriterKeepsTheSynchronousFallbackpins the quiescewindow against the stop-flag regression and was verified to fail without the fix;
OutputFailureIsAttributedToTheOutputBucketpins that the breakdown sums to thetotal;
QuiesceWritesTheLossBreakdownIntoTheLogpins the log record and that itis not restated when nothing new was lost.
A contention probe (N threads × 100k records to
/dev/null) puts every loss inqueue_fulland zero inclaim_exhaustedat 4, 16 and 64 threads, so the1024-attempt claim budget is not the binding constraint — the queue's drain rate
is. Structural rather than incidental: a full queue returns before spending any
of the budget.