Fix A5 HBG Ready scheduler correctness contracts

[zhusy54]

Problem

#2063 introduced the A5 HBG dependency-to-Ready layer. Review of that layer
found several contracts that should be closed before the single-lane
dispatch/completion work in #2072 builds further on Ready routing: resolver
bounds were wider than the allocated Ready directory, owner state was optional
on owner-only operations, and malformed task shapes could reach metadata arrays
before validation.

Changes

Harden Ready ownership and bounds

• Bound inbox, directory, claim, and bootstrap operations by Resolver capacity,
  and reject zero or oversized Resolver counts.
• Require Resolver-local owner state for Ready publication, claims, and
  completion wakeups; only the owner can promote its pending bank.
• Add the bootstrap publication barrier and keep the victim cursor under one
  writer after each steal attempt.
• Remove the unreachable unpublished-link wait protocol. Bounded CAS contention
  is reported as a give-up statistic while preserving the scheduler worker wire
  layout.

Reject malformed scheduler metadata early

• Return an invalid sentinel for zero- or multi-bit single-subtask masks and
  validate it before indexing kernel metadata.
• Reject unknown dispatch target core types, core-type mismatches, invalid
  callables, and generation-zero wraparound through stable scheduler errors.
• Reject malformed completion waiter shapes before indexing Ready batches and
  report the dedicated completion error site.
• Compile the Ready helpers through the A5 AICore executor so device-side
  compilation covers the header used by the production A5 path.

Correctness and scope

• The effective diff is confined to src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph and its
  A5 C++ unit test.
• Shared HBG predicate validation and the A2/A3 regression tests remain
  unchanged from main.
• Scheduler worker layout size and offsets remain unchanged.
• This PR does not switch the production scheduler entry path or add Gang
  scheduling; those remain outside this corrective change.

Reviewer guide

• Verify the mandatory owner-state path preserves published-before-pending FIFO
  order and that only the owner promotes its pending bank.
• Check every Resolver index against SCHEDULER_RESOLVER_CAPACITY, especially
  bootstrap publication and shard traversal.
• Check dispatch/completion shape validation occurs before metadata indexing
  and that all failure paths avoid partial publication.
• Confirm the effective diff contains no common or A2/A3 changes.

Testing

• Changed-file pre-commit: all hooks passed.
• Full non-hardware C++ build and CTest: 126/126 passed.
• Targeted A5 HBG Ready unit test: 31/31 passed.
• Shared HBG submit-poison unit test: 3/3 passed.
• Editable package/CCEC build completed successfully.
• A5 simulator HBG scenes: 12 passed, 279 deselected.
• Scope audit: exactly four A5 files differ from main.
• GitHub CI: all required checks passed, including A5 onboard.
• A5 onboard hardware testing was not run locally.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR changes scheduler ready-queue capacity handling, requires owner-state inputs, bounds contention retries, updates stealing, and adds shape validation. It also initializes ordinary task predicates inline and expands scheduler tests for these behaviors.

Changes

Scheduler ready-queue changes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolver capacity and scheduler contracts src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/aicore/aicore_executor.cpp	The scheduler adds resolver-capacity contracts, updates ready-owner layout sizing and statistics, adds COMPLETION_INVALID_SHAPE, validates single-subtask masks, and includes the ready-queue header.
Owner-queue publication and contention src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Ready publication now requires initialized owner state, validates resolver-local indices, always uses the owner queue, and records bounded CAS contention. Tests use layout-backed owner states and cover invalid owner and capacity inputs.
Claim and shard stealing src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Claim validation now checks resolver and core-type bounds. Shard stealing no longer updates a victim cursor internally. Shard, FIFO, and concurrency tests pass the required owner states.
Dispatch and completion shape validation src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Dispatch and completion reject invalid subtask shapes before metadata indexing or ready-batch insertion. Tests cover invalid shapes, core-type mismatch, generation wrap, invalid callables, and completion handling.

Ordinary predicate setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inline predicate payload initialization src/common/host_build_graph/shared/orchestrator.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp	Ordinary submission now computes valid predicate payload fields inline and clears invalid or absent predicates. Predicate tests cover six operators and four element sizes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 7896c

Malformed predicate metadata can still produce out-of-bounds reads, and unknown target core types can be routed to an invalid dispatch target. These are high-impact correctness risks, so the PR is not merge-ready until both validations are enforced before publication or dispatch.

Poem

A rabbit checks the ready queue bright
Owner states guide each task in flight
Bounds keep resolver paths in line
Shapes reject the masks that misalign
Predicates hop through fields just right
And tests glow softly through the night

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 5.66% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 53 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: correcting A5 HBG Ready scheduler correctness contracts.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset and explains the scheduler ownership, bounds, validation, testing, and scope changes.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h`:
- Around line 929-931: Update the dispatch validation around
scheduler_core_type_index to first verify that target->core_type is
CoreType::AIC or CoreType::AIV; reject all other enum values and record
DISPATCH_INVALID_SHAPE before normalizing or comparing the core-type index.

In `@src/common/host_build_graph/shared/orchestrator.cpp`:
- Around line 1723-1724: Validate predicate metadata in submit_task_common
before computing payload.predicate.addr or publishing the task: accept only
supported PredicateOp values, verify rank and indices, ensure elem_size is
valid, and confirm the computed offset stays within the operand tensor extent
and buffer bounds. Reject invalid predicates before prepare_task/task
publication, while preserving valid predicate dispatch through
DispatchPredicate::pass().

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• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/aicore/aicore_executor.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_ready.h
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_types.h
• src/common/host_build_graph/shared/orchestrator.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_submit_poison.cpp
• tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_hbg_scheduler_ready.cpp

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@coderabbitai Addressed both actionable findings:

• Unknown dispatch target core types are rejected before normalization and covered by an A5 regression test.
• The common predicate validator and A2/A3 regression tests remain unchanged from main; this PR now has an A5-only effective diff.

The docstring coverage warning is not addressed because these C++ helpers follow the repository invariant-only comment policy, and all required documentation and pre-commit checks pass.

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echo '== Effective diff: shared predicate validator and A2/A3 poison tests =='
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  tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_submit_poison.cpp
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  src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler

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@zhusy54 Confirmed.

• scheduler_fill_dispatch_slot rejects an unknown target->core_type before scheduler_core_type_index can normalize it.
• SchedulerDispatch.RejectsUnknownTargetCoreType covers the rejection path.
• src/common/host_build_graph/shared/orchestrator.cpp and tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_submit_poison.cpp have no effective diff from main. This preserves the shared predicate-validation contract described in the retrieved repository learning.
• I accept the invariant-only comment policy for these C++ helpers. No documentation change is required for this warning.

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Timestamp: 2026-08-31T08:50:05.043Z
Learning: For `src/common/host_build_graph/shared/orchestrator.cpp`, shared dispatch-predicate validation must remain in the ordinary submission path before task allocation and publication. The validation rejects invalid predicate operators, operand metadata, element sizes, indices, and buffer bounds. The A2/A3 predicate regression tests protect this contract.

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