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Fix: reject failed simulation device bindings before execution - #2826
Sim Context ignored pthread_key_create and pthread_setspecific failures. A failed key creation could be followed by a write through an invalid key; a failed binding could still report a successful attach or invoke a child task with an unbound/stale device ID.
Return binding errors before publishing the runner device or invoking the child body. Hold AICore and AICPU executors until the entire thread cohort is created and device-bound. A partial startup is cancelled and joined before its failure returns.
Related to #2767 and #2871. This delivers the Sim Context portion of the agreed split after #2778 and #2788; it does not complete the issue.
Design and compatibility
Add pto_cpu_sim_bind_device_checked, returning pthread error codes. Preserve void pto_cpu_sim_bind_device(int) for existing consumers; it aborts on failure because the old ABI cannot report an error safely. New host runtimes require the matching sim-context library with the checked symbol.
Keep the scalar device-binding key in the existing process-resident Sim Context. Runtime unload must not delete a key shared by other runtimes; no new application pthread keys or thread-exit callbacks are introduced.
Make create_thread wait for binding, join a failed child, and throw without running its body. Attach initializes the device key before publishing the runner device ID, so child binding bypasses the key-initialization mutex. The wait deliberately has no deadline: timing out cannot safely detach a child that still references the runner/module. This does not establish arbitrary post-fork initialization safety. The per-thread promise/future and cohort gate add startup work, with no task-dispatch work.
Reset the startup gate through its thread owner, with Debug assertions that neither thread vector contains joinable threads. Released workers finish their task count once; startup cancellation joins created workers and abandons completion, without requiring cancelled or uncreated workers to decrement the count.
Roll back a partially started collector by joining its created threads before rethrowing. Retry must see an empty thread set, with no missing or duplicated shards. Both thread vectors reserve capacity before spawning.
Keep launch rollback in a scope guard: only successful gate release dismisses cancel/join/abandon cleanup.
On caller-thread attach failure, simpler_wait_run and simpler_finalize_run preserve the carrier and execution claim for retry, rather than declaring an undrained run complete or destroying it. Failed child bindings also log the device, thread name and original pthread error before runtime error normalization.
Return SIMPLER_NATIVE_RUN_WAIT_INCOMPLETE (-1008) when sim wait cannot attach before drain. Both ChipWorker wait consumers retain the launched phase and permit retry; finalize stops before teardown on this result. Other returned results are cached as observations; physical completion is established separately through poll or wait-completion, preserving Update: separate native completion from result observation #2829. Rebuild host consumers and runtime modules together for this return contract.
Include the device-binding cohort gate in this PR: handshake alone can leave an earlier AICore executing and waiting for an AICPU whose creation failed, so join would hang. Cancellation precedes join; completion retains the first startup error. Existing conservative Partial/poisoned-run handling remains.
AICore/AICPU module-owned keys and core-identity initialization remain subsequent work, as do recorder scratch and capture/prepare ownership. This gate establishes device binding, not successful initialization of every executor-local TLS value.
Build dependency discovery
The A2/A3 CI jobs fail during installation before tests run: pip sees nanobind 2.12.0 in the runner's user site-packages, but CMake cannot find its package configuration (#2871). If normal CMake package discovery fails, query the selected Python interpreter with -m nanobind --cmake_dir and retry using that directory. Successful existing discovery, including an explicit nanobind_DIR, stays authoritative. A failed query identifies the selected interpreter in the error.
This follows nanobind's documented Python-package discovery mechanism and avoids relying on the build backend to add every Python-visible package location to CMake's prefixes. The isolated regression reproduces Python import succeeding while the unmodified project configure fails; it does not establish why the affected runner's package location stopped being discoverable.
No CI workflow changes are included.
Validation
Current head:
Three configure regressions use the real project CMakeLists and an isolated Python environment: external Python package path (including spaces), explicit CMake package directory without Python importability, and missing-package diagnostics. Before the fix, external-path configure fails while explicit-directory configure succeeds; all three pass after the fix.
The editable simulation package builds and installs successfully at the final commit.
All 77 packaging discovery/compiler identity, lint-build selection, and actual a2a3/a5 startup fault/legacy ABI cases passed (95.99s).
Applicable pre-commit hooks pass. Author review-pr skill self-review completed; this is not independent reviewer approval.
Earlier TLS validation, not claimed as rerun on this head:
At d97aa98b6: 442/442 non-hardware CTest targets and 26 actual-runtime startup/legacy ABI cases passed.
At aba715a4b: both full default simulator sweeps passed. Consumer regressions cover incomplete ordinary wait, incomplete finalize-internal wait and completed execution errors; reverting the consumer fix makes the retry tests fail.
Targeted ASan/LSan regressions passed. Full legacy profiler/native-run sanitizer suites have previously reproduced retained allocations; they are not claimed clean.
Local macOS validation remains deferred. No current-head onboard validation is claimed. Installing the exact CI dependency versions locally was blocked by the package proxy (HTTP 403), so the successful local build uses nanobind 2.15.0 / scikit-build-core 1.0.3 rather than the failing runner's complete toolchain. Remote CI on the new head must verify the runner-specific recovery.
Scope
26 files, +1131/-57. Core production source: 12 files, +265/-55; additional build configuration: one file, +17/-1. Total churn 1188 lines is mainly fault-path tests. Review order: binder, startup gate, collector rollback, C API/ChipWorker retry, nanobind discovery, regressions.
Subsequent AICore/AICPU module-owned TLS, recorder scratch and capture/prepare work remain outside this PR. The separate A5 URMA S3 failure (#2854) is not declared fixed here.
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The change adds checked simulated-device binding and updates thread creation to report binding failures. Simulated AICore and AICPU workers now wait for a cohort-wide startup decision. Failed binding or launch cancels startup, joins created threads, and records the launch error.
Changes: Simulated device binding and startup
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Summary
Checked device-binding API src/common/platform/sim/sim_context/cpu_sim_context.*, tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/*, tests/ut/py/test_sim_context_legacy_abi.py
The new checked binder validates device IDs and returns key-creation or binding errors. The legacy binder aborts on failure. Tests cover binding failures, retries, legacy ABI use, and Linux error injection.
Thread binding and startup gate src/common/platform/sim/host/device_runner_base.*, src/common/platform/sim/host/sim_thread_start_gate.h, tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/test_sim_callable_pool.cpp
create_thread waits for child binding and joins and throws on failure without running the child body. attach_current_thread reports binding errors. The startup gate supports wait, release, and cancellation.
Cohort launch and completion src/a2a3/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp, src/a5/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp, src/common/platform/sim/host/sim_run_completion.h, tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/test_sim_run_completion.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/test_sim_callable_pool.cpp, docs/dynamic-linking.md
Both device runners hold AICore and AICPU workers until launch succeeds. On failure, they cancel the gate, join created threads, and abandon completion with the launch error. Documentation describes binding ownership and startup behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant DeviceRunner
participant DeviceRunnerBase
participant pto_cpu_sim_bind_device_checked
participant SimThreadStartGate
participant SimulatedWorkers
DeviceRunner->>SimThreadStartGate: reset before launch
DeviceRunner->>DeviceRunnerBase: create_thread for worker
DeviceRunnerBase->>pto_cpu_sim_bind_device_checked: bind child device
pto_cpu_sim_bind_device_checked-->>DeviceRunnerBase: return binding result
SimulatedWorkers->>SimThreadStartGate: wait before executing
alt launch succeeds
DeviceRunner->>SimThreadStartGate: release
SimThreadStartGate-->>SimulatedWorkers: allow execution
else binding or launch fails
DeviceRunner->>SimThreadStartGate: cancel
SimThreadStartGate-->>SimulatedWorkers: stop without executing
DeviceRunner->>SimulatedWorkers: join created threads
end
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Possibly related issues
hw-native-sys/simpler#2767 — The changes cover simulated context binding failures and simulated worker startup, which the issue summary identifies as part of its TLS lifetime scope.
hw-native-sys/simpler#2716 — The changes cover AICPU worker startup, cancellation, joining, and error propagation described in the issue summary.
Possibly related PRs
hw-native-sys/simpler#2788 — Both changes address pthread state ownership and lifetime across dynamic-library unload.
hw-native-sys/simpler#2778 — Both changes define resident ownership for pthread-key state across module boundaries.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 0efd8
Roll back partial collector startup before merging. If a worker binding fails, a subsequent simulation run can reuse incomplete collector state and hang or fail. The checked binding and cohort gate otherwise address the intended failure handling.
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Make the cancellation test drive the runner's failed-launch path.
FailedAicpuBindingCancelsAlreadyReadyAicoreAndAicpuThreads (tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/test_sim_callable_pool.cpp:719-745) calls startup.cancel() itself and never calls DeviceRunner::launch_execution_impl. Removing the run->startup.cancel(); run->join(); block at src/a2a3/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp:733 or src/a5/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp:757 would leave this test passing. No test in tests/ut/cpp drives the a2a3 or a5 sim launch_execution_impl.
Add a test that runs the a2a3 and a5 sim launch into its failed-launch branch with an injected child binding failure. Assert that already-ready AICore and AICPU threads do not run their bodies. Renaming the test does not add this coverage.
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Review comment at @tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/test_sim_callable_pool.cpp
around lines 734 - 742:
Extend coverage beyond
FailedAicpuBindingCancelsAlreadyReadyAicoreAndAicpuThreads, which cancels
startup directly: add tests that exercise the a2a3 and a5 sim
DeviceRunner::launch_execution_impl failed-launch paths using an injected child
binding failure. Verify that already-ready AICore and AICPU thread bodies do not
run, so the tests fail if launch_execution_impl no longer cancels startup and
joins the threads.
Added committed Linux integration tests in tests/ut/py/test_sim_startup_failure.py and its preload fault-injection helper. They run the actual installed a2a3/a5 runtimes with host_build_graph and tensormap_and_ringbuffer: three binding-failure positions and two partial pthread_create-failure positions per combination (20 failure cases), plus four normal-start controls. Assertions check the injection marker, expected launch failure, post-join drain diagnostic and bounded process exit; timeout cleanup kills the child process group. These exercise the runner failure path rather than manually cancelling the gate. The C++ gate tests retain direct assertions that worker bodies do not execute after cancellation; the integration tests do not separately instrument body entry.
All 24 startup integration cases plus the legacy ABI test passed locally. These fault-injection cases are Linux-only; no local macOS validation is claimed. The two inline findings have also been fixed and replied to individually. Threads are left open for reviewer confirmation.
@zxx0288 Please respond to the unresolved thread from @ChaoZheng109 on the ChipWorker contract: after attach failure, wait_native_run / finalize_native_run_epoch currently accept any integer as completion and poll can return true before the backend run is drained. State whether this PR will fix it or whether it is a separate follow-up. CI is green and this is the only open thread.
@zxx0288pre-commit is failing on the new head 71478b5, and the ChipWorker wait/poll thread is still unresolved. Please fix pre-commit and respond to the thread before the green-CI review.
Return checked pthread binding errors before publishing a runner device
or invoking a child thread body. Preserve the legacy void entry point,
which aborts when it cannot bind safely.
Hold simulated AICore and AICPU executors behind a run-owned startup
gate until every thread is bound. Cancel and join partial cohorts on
failure and retain the launch error in completion state. Roll back
partially started collectors before rethrowing so retries are complete.
Cover binding and pthread creation failures through the actual runtimes,
collector retry, legacy ABI, and startup error propagation. Initialize
the diagnostic rollback test runner before spawning bound threads.
Related to hw-native-sys#2767
Document unbounded binding handshake ownership and cancelled task accounting.
Assert joined thread cohorts before resetting either simulation startup gate.
Retain undrained simulation run carriers and execution claims when caller
attachment fails during wait/finalize; allow safe finalization retry. Guard
partial startup cleanup with RAII and log child binding errno before runtime
normalization. Isolate creation fault injection by parent thread and verify
post-join diagnostics and C API retention, including sanitizer checks.
Keep binding, gate and real-runner tests focused on their own contracts;
combine key-failure checks and avoid repeating validation in the legacy DSO test.
Distinguish incomplete waits from observed execution results. Preserve
ChipWorker observation retry and finalize reservation rollback when sim
attachment fails before drain. Keep physical completion separate from
result observation and cover both consumers with regressions.
Resolve Python-visible nanobind packages when CMake prefix discovery fails.
Query the selected Python interpreter without overriding successful native
package discovery. Cover external Python paths, explicit CMake locations,
and missing-package diagnostics with isolated configure regressions.
Related to hw-native-sys#2871
Reclaim A2/A3 AICore keys on module unload and preserve the existing
A5 key owner. Bind wrapper-owned TLS cells and checked core identity
before releasing the execution cohort, so initialization failures
cancel and join peers before they enter executor barriers.
Use module-owned affinity keys with borrowed index cells and reject
an entire affinity cohort if any binding fails. Cover key budgets,
unload, partial initialization, startup cancellation and graph reloads.
Related to hw-native-sys#2767; depends on hw-native-sys#2826. Recorder and capture lifetime
changes remain separate.
Skip simulator-only reload checks before hardware fixture setup, while
retaining scheduler-mode verification for actual simulated execution.
Bind and release the borrowed affinity cell in direct executor tests
so they obey the same initialization contract as production wrappers.
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Problem and result
Sim Context ignored
pthread_key_createandpthread_setspecificfailures. A failed key creation could be followed by a write through an invalid key; a failed binding could still report a successful attach or invoke a child task with an unbound/stale device ID.Return binding errors before publishing the runner device or invoking the child body. Hold AICore and AICPU executors until the entire thread cohort is created and device-bound. A partial startup is cancelled and joined before its failure returns.
Related to #2767 and #2871. This delivers the Sim Context portion of the agreed split after #2778 and #2788; it does not complete the issue.
Design and compatibility
pto_cpu_sim_bind_device_checked, returning pthread error codes. Preservevoid pto_cpu_sim_bind_device(int)for existing consumers; it aborts on failure because the old ABI cannot report an error safely. New host runtimes require the matching sim-context library with the checked symbol.create_threadwait for binding, join a failed child, and throw without running its body. Attach initializes the device key before publishing the runner device ID, so child binding bypasses the key-initialization mutex. The wait deliberately has no deadline: timing out cannot safely detach a child that still references the runner/module. This does not establish arbitrary post-fork initialization safety. The per-thread promise/future and cohort gate add startup work, with no task-dispatch work.simpler_wait_runandsimpler_finalize_runpreserve the carrier and execution claim for retry, rather than declaring an undrained run complete or destroying it. Failed child bindings also log the device, thread name and original pthread error before runtime error normalization.SIMPLER_NATIVE_RUN_WAIT_INCOMPLETE(-1008) when sim wait cannot attach before drain. Both ChipWorker wait consumers retain the launched phase and permit retry; finalize stops before teardown on this result. Other returned results are cached as observations; physical completion is established separately through poll or wait-completion, preserving Update: separate native completion from result observation #2829. Rebuild host consumers and runtime modules together for this return contract.AICore/AICPU module-owned keys and core-identity initialization remain subsequent work, as do recorder scratch and capture/prepare ownership. This gate establishes device binding, not successful initialization of every executor-local TLS value.
Build dependency discovery
The A2/A3 CI jobs fail during installation before tests run: pip sees nanobind 2.12.0 in the runner's user site-packages, but CMake cannot find its package configuration (#2871). If normal CMake package discovery fails, query the selected Python interpreter with
-m nanobind --cmake_dirand retry using that directory. Successful existing discovery, including an explicitnanobind_DIR, stays authoritative. A failed query identifies the selected interpreter in the error.This follows nanobind's documented Python-package discovery mechanism and avoids relying on the build backend to add every Python-visible package location to CMake's prefixes. The isolated regression reproduces Python import succeeding while the unmodified project configure fails; it does not establish why the affected runner's package location stopped being discoverable.
No CI workflow changes are included.
Validation
Current head:
review-prskill self-review completed; this is not independent reviewer approval.Earlier TLS validation, not claimed as rerun on this head:
d97aa98b6: 442/442 non-hardware CTest targets and 26 actual-runtime startup/legacy ABI cases passed.aba715a4b: both full default simulator sweeps passed. Consumer regressions cover incomplete ordinary wait, incomplete finalize-internal wait and completed execution errors; reverting the consumer fix makes the retry tests fail.Local macOS validation remains deferred. No current-head onboard validation is claimed. Installing the exact CI dependency versions locally was blocked by the package proxy (HTTP 403), so the successful local build uses nanobind 2.15.0 / scikit-build-core 1.0.3 rather than the failing runner's complete toolchain. Remote CI on the new head must verify the runner-specific recovery.
Scope
26 files, +1131/-57. Core production source: 12 files, +265/-55; additional build configuration: one file, +17/-1. Total churn 1188 lines is mainly fault-path tests. Review order: binder, startup gate, collector rollback, C API/ChipWorker retry, nanobind discovery, regressions.
Subsequent AICore/AICPU module-owned TLS, recorder scratch and capture/prepare work remain outside this PR. The separate A5 URMA S3 failure (#2854) is not declared fixed here.