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Four changes to host_build_graph, each independent enough to review on its own.

1. Drop the FaninBuilder struct

FaninBuilder had shrunk to four fields and one method. Two of those fields, count
and slots, were copies of payload.fanin_count and payload.fanin_data(), and
STEP 6 copied the count back to the payload at the end of every submit.

append_fanin_or_fail now takes the consumer payload's fanin region and its count
directly, so the count accumulates in place and the copy-back is gone. mark_seen
becomes the free function fanin_mark_seen, and next_fanin_seen_epoch drops its
return value now that the epoch it advances to is read from
orch.fanin_seen_current_epoch. The region is still resolved once per task, not per
producer: it is named by a SelfRelativePtr delta.

2. Fix a heap out-of-bounds write in the Graph recording hazard map

The recording's hazard map holds GRAPH_MAX_NODES task chains and indexes them by a
producer's low id field directly, but a recorded node was minted in the RING space as
start_local_task_id + node_index. Any Graph that begins after the run's first
GRAPH_MAX_NODES tasks — the ordinary shape for a decode workload — registered its
nodes past the last chain and wrote outside task_entry_heads.

Confirmed under ASAN, full stack:

heap-buffer-overflow, 8192-byte region
  ChipTensorMap::link_entry      tensormap.h
  ChipTensorMap::insert          tensormap.h
  register_task_outputs          dep_compute.h
  graph_record_submit_node       orchestrator.cpp
allocated by graph_recording_init_tensor_map   <- max_tasks = GRAPH_MAX_NODES = 1024

A recorded node now takes a GRAPH_NODE id whose low field is the node index alone,
so the key is in range however far into a run the Graph begins. The recording baseline
that existed only to tell a node from a pre-Graph task by numeric range is gone: the
two now differ by id space, decided at the mint rather than derived by subtraction.

Two consequences beyond the out-of-bounds write:

  • A ring id the main thread allocates while a recorder thread runs can no longer land
    inside a node's index range and be wired as an internal fanin. That
    misclassification was unreachable in practice, but only because of what a body can
    hold — not by construction.
  • A node id that escapes its Graph and is later declared as an explicit dependency now
    trips append_fanin_or_fail's id-space guard instead of resolving to an unrelated
    task slot and wiring a wrong edge.

An over-cap body skips hazard-map registration: its node index has run past the field
make_graph_node packs it into, and the Definition is abandoned already.
link_entry and remove_from_task carry a debug_assert on the chain index, so a
future caller inserting under the wrong id space is caught where it happens rather
than corrupting the heap.

test_hbg_tensormap's slot-aliasing case rested on a mask hbg does not have — its own
inserts ran one chain past the fixture's dimension. It now pins the invariant that
holds: a local id is its own chain index, so distinct producers never share a chain.

The new test_hbg_graph_recording_bounds runs against both arch trees, matching every
other hbg case under tests/ut/cpp/common/ — the fix is mirrored in a5, so its test
has to be too.

3. Name the task id spaces by Graph membership

TaskIdSpace::RING dated from a ring design host_build_graph no longer has — the
header's own comment had to apologize for the name. And there is no separate "node"
concept to name: everything the runtime schedules is a task, and the only question the
high bits answer is whether a task belongs to a Graph task or stands on its own.

TaskIdSpace::RING       -> TaskIdSpace::GLOBAL
TaskIdSpace::GRAPH_NODE -> TaskIdSpace::IN_GRAPH
make_ring_task          -> make_global_task
is_ring_task            -> is_global_task
make_graph_node         -> make_in_graph_task
GRAPH_NODE_INDEX_BITS   -> IN_GRAPH_TASK_INDEX_BITS

TaskIdSpace keeps its name: the field holds which id namespace an id belongs to,
which is what "space" says, and "type" would collide conceptually with TaskKind.
is_global_task gains a comment naming what its callers actually depend on — that the
id resolves to a shared-memory task table slot — since the old name carried that by
implication and the new one does not.

The deeper node vocabulary is untouched: GraphNodeStorage, GraphNodeDefinition,
graph_node_index, GRAPH_MAX_NODES, node_count and node_at are ~350 occurrences
across host, device and the Definition wire structs. TaskKind::GRAPH_NODE is not a
rename at all — it conflates task kind with Graph membership while also serving as the
discriminator for what graph_context points at, so retiring it changes scheduler
dispatch and needs its own review.

4. Retire the ring vocabulary from comments and docs

host_build_graph has no ring, which is why #3 renames TaskIdSpace::RING. That
settled the identifiers, but the surrounding prose still described tasks as living on
a ring — so the concept stayed spelled two ways.

Six of those comments described mechanisms the runtime does not have, which is the
part worth reviewing: a reader who trusted them would go looking for absent code.

  • TaskPayload's layout comment promised large fanins "spill into a per-ring ring
    buffer slice". Fanin is always inline and hard-capped at CHIP_MAX_FANIN —
    append_fanin_or_fail's own fatal says exactly that.
  • reserve_layout and wire_arena_pointers claimed to declare and wire per-ring
    dep_pool regions. Polling has no dep_pool, as a comment 700 lines above them
    already states.
  • TaskDescriptor placed itself in a "ring buffer"; it lives in the task table.
  • TaskPayload::init and the predicate write in submit_task_common attributed
    uninitialized payload storage to slot reuse. hbg never reuses a slot: the storage is
    raw because shared memory is not zero-filled, and that is what the surrounding
    code depends on.

The rest is vocabulary. per-ring completed_watermark drops a modifier that
distinguishes nothing, there being one watermark. the ring path becomes the ordinary path, which is what GRAPH_EXECUTION.md and eight existing comments already call it —
one of them the line directly below a ring path mention.

Untouched, because each is accurate or externally consumed: the ring names describing
tensormap_and_ringbuffer, the mailbox and ready-queue ring buffers, the doorbell verb
(ring_one_doorbell, maybe_rendezvous_ring, ...), the runtime_env.ring_* knobs, and
the TASK ring=%d stall-log field.

dep_compute.h also takes #pragma once: its guard macro named
tensormap_and_ringbuffer and carried the retired PTO prefix, and the a5 copy was
already converted.

Comments and docs only. The a2a3 and a5 trees stay line-for-line identical wherever
they already were.

Testing

  • ctest on tests/ut/cpp: 121/121 (120 + the new a5 target).
  • ASAN build of tests/ut/cpp: the two link_entry overflows reported before the
    fix (one from the new recording test, one the pre-existing test_hbg_tensormap
    aliasing case triggered on itself) are both gone. This is the only thing that proves
    the write is actually gone, and CI does not cover it — sanitizers.yml runs sim
    scene tests, not cpput.
  • Scene tests on a2a3sim and a5sim with --manual include.
  • pre-commit over every changed file, including check-retired-names, clang-tidy,
    cpplint and markdownlint.
  • host_build_graph_validation including graph_node_dependency, which is the
    standing regression barrier for "a Graph-internal id used as an explicit dependency
    is a fatal".

FaninBuilder had shrunk to four fields and a single method. Two of those
fields, count and slots, were copies of payload.fanin_count and
payload.fanin_data(), and STEP 6 copied the count back to the payload at
the end of every submit. The append logic itself was never a member: it
sat outside the struct as append_fanin_or_fail.

append_fanin_or_fail now takes the consumer payload's fanin region and
its count directly, so the count accumulates in place and the copy-back
is gone. mark_seen becomes the free function fanin_mark_seen, and
next_fanin_seen_epoch drops its return value now that the epoch it
advances to is read from orch.fanin_seen_current_epoch. The region is
still resolved once per task, not per producer: it is named by a
SelfRelativePtr delta.

submit_task_common zeroes payload.fanin_count before the appends. hbg
does not zero-fill the shared-memory task table, so that write is this
device-read field's init-on-write point, and payload.init() runs after
the appends and must leave it alone. graph_submit_outer needs no zeroing
because graph_reset_outer_payload already does it.

No functional change. Verified with the 119 non-hardware cpput tests,
including the submit-poison contract tests that cover every device-read
field, plus the host_build_graph scene tests on a2a3sim and a5sim.
The recording's hazard map holds GRAPH_MAX_NODES task chains and indexes
them by a producer's low id field directly, but a recorded node was minted
in the RING space as `start_local_task_id + node_index`. Any Graph that
begins after the run's first GRAPH_MAX_NODES tasks — the ordinary shape for
a decode workload — therefore registered its nodes past the last chain and
wrote outside `task_entry_heads`.

A recorded node now takes a GRAPH_NODE id whose low field is the node index
alone, so the key is in range however far into a run the Graph begins. The
recording baseline that existed only to tell a node from a pre-Graph task by
numeric range is gone: the two now differ by id space, which is decided at
the mint rather than derived by subtraction.

Two consequences beyond the out-of-bounds write:

- A ring id the main thread allocates while a recorder thread runs can no
  longer land inside a node's index range and be wired as an internal
  fanin. That misclassification was unreachable in practice but only
  because of what a body can hold, not by construction.
- A node id that escapes its Graph and is later declared as an explicit
  dependency now trips append_fanin_or_fail's id-space guard instead of
  resolving to an unrelated task slot and wiring a wrong edge.

An over-cap body skips hazard-map registration: its node index has run past
the field make_graph_node packs it into, and the Definition is abandoned
already. link_entry and remove_from_task carry a debug_assert on the chain
index, so a future caller inserting under the wrong id space is caught where
it happens rather than corrupting the heap.

test_hbg_tensormap's slot-aliasing case rested on a mask hbg does not have —
its own inserts ran one chain past the fixture's dimension. It now pins the
invariant that holds: a local id is its own chain index, so distinct
producers never share a chain.
TaskIdSpace::RING dated from a ring design host_build_graph no longer has —
the header's own comment had to apologize for the name, explaining that the
high bits mean storage rather than a ring index. And there is no separate
"node" concept to name: everything the runtime schedules is a task, and the
only question the high bits answer is whether a task belongs to a Graph task
or stands on its own.

  TaskIdSpace::RING       -> TaskIdSpace::GLOBAL
  TaskIdSpace::GRAPH_NODE -> TaskIdSpace::IN_GRAPH
  make_ring_task          -> make_global_task
  is_ring_task            -> is_global_task
  make_graph_node         -> make_in_graph_task
  GRAPH_NODE_INDEX_BITS   -> IN_GRAPH_TASK_INDEX_BITS

TaskIdSpace keeps its name: the field holds which id namespace an id belongs
to, which is what "space" says, and "type" would collide conceptually with
TaskKind. is_global_task gains a comment naming what its callers actually
depend on — that the id resolves to a shared-memory task table slot — since
the old name carried that by implication and the new one does not.

The two fatal messages that named RING now name GLOBAL. They are diagnostic
text, not a contract.

The deeper node vocabulary is untouched: GraphNodeStorage,
GraphNodeDefinition, graph_node_index, GRAPH_MAX_NODES, node_count and node_at
are ~350 occurrences across host, device and the Definition wire structs, and
TaskKind::GRAPH_NODE is not a rename at all — it conflates task kind with
Graph membership while also serving as the discriminator for what
graph_context points at, so retiring it changes scheduler dispatch and needs
its own review.
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The change renames task-ID spaces to GLOBAL and IN_GRAPH, removes FaninBuilder, writes fanin data directly into payload regions, and updates Graph recording dependency handling, validation, assertions, documentation, and tests.

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Task ID, fanin, and Graph recording update

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Task ID contract and materialization
src/common/host_build_graph/task_id_encoding.h, src/common/host_build_graph/graph_execution.*, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_cache.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_sm_compaction.cpp, tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/kernels/orchestration/validation_orch.cpp
Task IDs now use GLOBAL for shared task-table entries and IN_GRAPH for graph-owned tasks. Materialization and related tests use the renamed constructors and fields.
Direct fanin construction and validation
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/..., src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/..., tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_tensormap.cpp
Submission paths remove FaninBuilder, deduplicate producers through the epoch table, write directly to payload fanin regions, require GLOBAL producers, and validate TensorMap task bounds.
Graph recording identity and dependencies
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/common/test_hbg_graph_recording_bounds.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
Recorded nodes use graph-local IN_GRAPH IDs without a task-ID baseline. Recording validates boundary producers, prior internal nodes, forward references, and published Graph contents.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 39dda

The PR fixes the recorded-node indexing issue and adds regression coverage, but one tensor-map test does not fully verify distinct chain ownership, leaving a bounded validation gap. The change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to strengthen that assertion.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TaskIdEncoding
  participant Orchestrator
  participant TaskPayload
  participant GraphDefinition
  TaskIdEncoding->>Orchestrator: create GLOBAL task IDs
  Orchestrator->>TaskPayload: append deduplicated fanin entries
  Orchestrator->>GraphDefinition: create IN_GRAPH nodes and validate dependencies
  GraphDefinition-->>Orchestrator: publish recorded tasks and roots
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A rabbit checks the task IDs bright
GLOBAL hops left, IN_GRAPH right
Fanin slips into payload space
Old builders vanish without a trace
Graph roots bloom in ordered rows

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Comment thread tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_tensormap.cpp Outdated
The recording hazard-map keying fix landed identically in both arch trees, but
test_hbg_graph_recording_bounds was registered only for a2a3, so nothing
reached the a5 copy. Every other hbg case under tests/ut/cpp/common/ carries
both an a2a3 and an a5 target; this one now does too.
host_build_graph has no ring: the host builds a whole-graph-resident task table
and the device runs it once without reclaim. Renaming TaskIdSpace::RING to
GLOBAL settled that for the identifiers, but the surrounding prose still
described tasks as living on a ring, leaving one concept spelled two ways.

Six of these comments were not stale wording but descriptions of mechanisms the
runtime does not have, so a reader who trusted them would go looking for code
that is not there:

  - TaskPayload's layout comment promised that large fanins "spill into a
    per-ring ring buffer slice". Fanin is always inline and hard-capped at
    CHIP_MAX_FANIN, which append_fanin_or_fail's own fatal states.
  - reserve_layout and wire_arena_pointers claimed to declare and wire per-ring
    dep_pool regions. Polling has no dep_pool, as a comment 700 lines above
    them already says.
  - TaskDescriptor placed itself in a "ring buffer"; it lives in the task table.
  - TaskPayload::init and the predicate write in submit_task_common attributed
    uninitialized payload storage to slot reuse. hbg never reuses a slot: the
    storage is raw because shared memory is not zero-filled, and that is what
    the surrounding code depends on.

The rest is vocabulary. "per-ring completed_watermark" drops a modifier that
distinguishes nothing, there being one watermark. "the ring path" becomes "the
ordinary path", which is what GRAPH_EXECUTION.md and eight existing comments
already call it, one of them the line directly below a "ring path" mention. A
recorded task's id space, the SM header, the shared task table and the AICore
profiling token are each named for what they are. The ring names that describe
tensormap_and_ringbuffer, the mailbox and ready-queue ring buffers, the
doorbell verb, and the runtime_env ring_* knobs are untouched, since each is
accurate or externally consumed.

dep_compute.h also takes #pragma once: its guard macro named
tensormap_and_ringbuffer and carried the retired PTO prefix, and the a5 copy
was already converted.

Comments and docs only. The a2a3 and a5 trees remain line-for-line identical
wherever they already were. 121/121 cpput.
valid_count() counts live entries and says nothing about chain structure, so
removing either of two entries takes it from 2 to 1 whether the producers hold
one chain each or share one. The case was named for an invariant its assertions
could not observe.

It now reads task_entry_heads directly: before the removal each producer's chain
head is its own entry, which is the point a shared chain would fail, since
task_entry_heads[LAST_TASK] is never written when a lower index absorbs it. The
removal then shows that unlinking is local to one chain.
deps_viewer and swimlane_converter document the high field of a TaskId, and both
still spelled hbg's two id spaces RING and GRAPH_NODE. The numeric encoding is
unchanged and neither tool's parsing moved, so nothing misbehaves -- but the
docstrings now disagree with task_id_encoding.h, and a reader who trusts them
concludes either that hbg still has a ring or that space 1 is TaskKind::GRAPH_NODE,
which is a different field with a different meaning.

_decode_graph_node_task_id's packing formula named outer_local and node_index; the
constructor it describes takes graph_local_id and task_index. Its own name and the
Graph-node vocabulary around it are left alone, per the id-space rename that kept
GraphNodeDefinition, graph_node_index and TaskKind::GRAPH_NODE.
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poursoul merged commit d90c574 into hw-native-sys:main Aug 27, 2026
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