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Fixes #1720

What

host_build_graph inherited tensormap_and_ringbuffer's mid-run reclamation
subsystem, driven by PTO2RingFlowControl::last_task_alive. In T&R the on-device
scheduler advancing that field is what frees task slots and heap bytes. hbg is
whole-graph-resident and reclaims nothing during a run
, so the scheduler
deliberately never advances it (pto_scheduler.h:26) and it is pinned at 0 —
while the host orchestrator read it on every submit and drove a chain of provable
no-ops:

site with a permanently-zero watermark
sync_tensormap() per submit sync_validity(0) + a cleanup_retired(0, 0) gate that can free nothing
entry_valid() per TensorMap chain step producer_local >= 0 — unconditionally true
retired-producer fanin shortcut dep_local < dep_last_alive unreachable, so every declared dep pays full fanin wiring
allocator alloc() spun on a reclaim that cannot arrive, until a 500 ms backstop latched Task Allocator Deadlock - Heap Exhausted

This removes the field and the reclaim halves it drove. Both rings become
forward-only bump allocators: heap_tail_, last_alive_seen_, the heap rebase
anchor, update_heap_tail() and try_bump_heap()'s wrap branches are all
unreachable without reclaim, as are the scope_stats heap-wrap reports and the
descriptors_ / slot_states_ pointers only the reclaim path read.

Behavior change — this is the point

A graph that does not fit the configured task window, heap or TensorMap pool can
never become satisfiable by waiting. Allocation now fails on the spot and names
the exhausted resource, instead of reporting a deadlock 500 ms later. Verified
onboard with PTO2_RING_TASK_WINDOW=64:

FATAL: Task Window Exhausted!
The whole graph must fit the configured ring; nothing is reclaimed mid-run.
  Task window: used=63/64
  Graph heap:  used=10481664/268435456, available=257953792
  Requested:   8192 bytes + 1 task slot
Solution:
  Increase task window (current: 64); env PTO2_RING_TASK_WINDOW=<pow2> (e.g. 128)

No No reclaim progress / Provable head-of-line / Allocator Deadlock wording
remains on this path.

Two scoping calls worth a reviewer's eye

Numeric error codes are unchanged. PTO2_ERROR_HEAP_RING_DEADLOCK /
FLOW_CONTROL_DEADLOCK now read oddly for hbg, but the names live in
src/common/runtime_status/error_names.h, shared with T&R where the deadlock
reading is still accurate. Renaming them needs a coordinated cross-runtime change.
orch_mark_fatal is first-writer-wins, so the resource-specific code the
allocator latches survives prepare_task's generic follow-up — the surfaced code
is correct, only its name is now imprecise for hbg.

initial_local_task_id is gone from PTO2TaskAllocator::init. The old window
check was local_task_id_ - last_alive + 1 < window_size_. Without a watermark
the choices were to keep a local base_task_id_ (last_task_alive under another
name) or to fix the ring's origin at 0. Fixed at 0: with no reclaim,
local_task_id_ < window_size_ is a hard invariant, so ids provably cannot
approach INT32_MAX and the seeded corner case has no meaning for this runtime.

Tests

tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_task_allocator.cpp is compiled twice — against T&R as
test_task_allocator and against hbg as test_hbg_task_allocator — and drives
last_alive in 27 places including the init() call, so it cannot serve both
after this change. The hbg target moves to a new
tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_task_allocator.cpp covering the forward-only contract
and immediate capacity failure. test_hbg_tensormap.cpp swaps its
cleanup_retired cases for entry-lifetime and pool-occupancy ones. The T&R
source and target are untouched
, and test_task_allocator still passes.

Verification

result
a2a3 + a5 hbg aicpu/host builds clean; the shifted SM-layout static_asserts check the new offsets
cpput 97/97 pass, including T&R test_task_allocator
a2a3sim / a5sim scene tests exit 0, zero FAILED/ERROR
a2a3 onboard sweep (CI args, 4 dies) exit 0, 31 + 57 passed, 1 skipped, zero FAILED
a2a3 onboard host_build_graph/qwen3_14b_decode (level 4, golden on) 1 passed, 125 s
capacity failure path immediate, named resource (above)
pre-commit all hooks pass

Perf: qwen3-14B decode, die 6, 100 rounds each, warmup dropped, 1.5×IQR
filtered — before vs after. No regression, and no claimable win: this workload
records one decoder layer as a Graph and replays it 39 times, so it submits only
47 tasks per round and a per-submit saving cannot clear the noise floor.

span (ms) before after Δ
simpler_run 2042.9 2027.4 −15.5
simpler_run.bind 1281.3 1273.4 −7.9
runner_run 45.63 45.55 −0.09
device_wall 44.17 44.18 +0.01

Run-to-run sd on bind is 24–34 ms, so both deltas are noise. The value here is
code health plus the corrected failure diagnosis, not throughput.

Sequencing

Land before #1721 (multi-ring collapse) — it touches pto_runtime2_init.cpp,
pto_shared_memory.cpp and runtime_maker.cpp broadly enough to conflict.
#1719 is independent of both. Both arch trees move together per #1706.

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HBG now uses whole-graph-resident, forward-only task, heap, and TensorMap allocation. Reclamation, back-pressure waits, last_task_alive, and related profiling paths were removed in both architecture trees. Capacity failures now report immediately with resource diagnostics.

Changes

HBG forward-only runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Forward-only allocation and capacity errors
src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_ring_buffer.h, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_runtime2_init.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/*, docs/troubleshooting/device-error-codes/capacity.md
Task and heap allocation use monotonic counters and immediate capacity checks. Failures latch resource-specific errors and preserve allocator state.
Persistent TensorMap and dependency handling
src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/shared/pto_tensormap.cpp, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp, tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_tensormap.cpp
TensorMap entries remain visible for the full run. Reclamation APIs and synchronization are removed. Dependency edges are captured without retired-producer filtering.
Shared-memory, scheduler, and profiling wiring
src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/*, src/*/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_orchestrator.h, src/*/docs/*
The last_task_alive channel and related state are removed. Shared-memory layout assertions, initialization, profiling output, and runtime documentation match forward-only execution.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f3d91

The change makes host build graph allocation forward-only and reports capacity failures immediately, but the current implementation rejects the final task slot in both architecture copies and its preflight path, reducing usable capacity and rejecting graphs that should fit. This concrete correctness issue should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HostOrchestrator
  participant TaskAllocator
  participant TensorMap
  participant ErrorState
  HostOrchestrator->>TaskAllocator: allocate task and heap storage
  TaskAllocator-->>HostOrchestrator: return storage or capacity failure
  HostOrchestrator->>TensorMap: register output
  TensorMap-->>HostOrchestrator: return registration status
  HostOrchestrator->>ErrorState: latch capacity error when registration fails
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Poem

A rabbit hops where reclaim once spun,
Forward-only paths now greet the sun.
TensorMaps stay, task heaps grow,
Capacity errors clearly show.
No stale tails disturb the run—
HBG’s cleaner race is won.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies removal of last_task_alive and the obsolete reclamation path.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the reclamation removal, forward-only allocation behavior, capacity failures, tests, and sequencing.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies [#1720] by removing HBG reclamation consumers in both architecture trees while preserving dependency lookup and allocation.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, documentation, layout, profiling, and test changes support the linked issue objectives and contain no unrelated scope.

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src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h (1)

332-338: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Both shared-memory headers keep a comment about the removed deadlock detector. This PR removes allocator deadlock detection, so the ring_slot_states_addr comment describes logic that no longer exists.

  • src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h#L332-L338: drop the deadlock-detector sentence and describe the helper as the slot-state segment address.
  • src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h#L332-L338: apply the identical wording so the two trees stay in parity.
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In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h` around lines 332
- 338, Update the comment above ring_slot_states_addr in
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h lines 332-338 to
describe the slot-state segment address without mentioning deadlock detection;
apply the identical comment wording above ring_slot_states_addr in
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h lines 332-338 to
keep both headers in parity.

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tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_task_allocator.cpp (1)

199-207: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Also assert that current_index does not advance on a failed alloc.

The test checks heap_top() and active_count(). It does not check current_index, which line 96 documents as the head published to shared memory. The scheduler reads that head. An advanced head after a failed alloc would expose a slot that was never populated.

♻️ Proposed addition
 TEST_F(HbgTaskAllocatorTest, FailedHeapAllocLeavesStateUnchanged) {
     ASSERT_FALSE(allocator.alloc(1024).failed());
     uint64_t top_before = allocator.heap_top();
     int32_t count_before = allocator.active_count();
+    int32_t published_before = current_index.load();
 
     EXPECT_TRUE(allocator.alloc(HEAP_SIZE).failed());
     EXPECT_EQ(allocator.heap_top(), top_before) << "Heap pointer must not move on failure";
     EXPECT_EQ(allocator.active_count(), count_before) << "No task slot is consumed on failure";
+    EXPECT_EQ(current_index.load(), published_before) << "The published head must not advance on failure";
 }
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_task_allocator.cpp` around lines 199 - 207, Extend
FailedHeapAllocLeavesStateUnchanged to capture allocator.current_index() before
the deliberately failing alloc(HEAP_SIZE), then assert it remains unchanged
afterward alongside heap_top() and active_count().
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h (1)

21-23: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Stale reclamation comments remain in both pto_tensormap.h copies. The header doc at line 21 now states that entries live for the whole run, but the surrounding comments still describe lazy invalidation, bucket cleanup, stale-entry overwrite, and pool wrap-around. The two trees hold byte-identical text, so the same rewording applies to both.

  • src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h#L21-L23: reword line 359 ("lazy invalidation"), line 373 ("for efficient bucket cleanup"), line 541 ("may overwrite stale entries"), and line 608 ("Called during pool wrap-around to unlink reused entries") to match the forward-only model.
  • src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h#L21-L23: apply the identical edits at the same lines to keep the two trees byte-for-byte identical.

Based on learnings, maintain byte-for-byte parity between src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/ and src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/ for corresponding files, including documentation.

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h` around lines 21 -
23, Reword the stale reclamation comments at lines 359, 373, 541, and 608 in
both src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h (anchor lines
21-23) and src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h (sibling
lines 21-23) so they describe the forward-only, whole-run entry lifetime rather
than lazy invalidation, bucket cleanup, stale overwrites, or pool wrap-around
unlinking; keep both headers byte-for-byte identical.

Source: Learnings

src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h (1)

123-123: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unused HBG dependency-pool cleanup macro.

PTO2_TENSORMAP_CLEANUP_INTERVAL remains used by the A2A3 and A5 TensorMap implementations. PTO2_DEP_POOL_CLEANUP_INTERVAL has no HBG consumer; remove its definitions from both HBG headers.

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In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h` at line 123,
Remove the unused PTO2_DEP_POOL_CLEANUP_INTERVAL macro from both HBG
dependency-pool headers, while preserving PTO2_TENSORMAP_CLEANUP_INTERVAL and
all other cleanup behavior.

Apply the same fix in
`@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h` at line 122.
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Inline comments:
In @.claude/rules/running-onboard.md:
- Around line 177-178: Update the HBG diagnostics table to document the
PTO2_ERROR_DEP_POOL_OVERFLOW error-detail signature for fanin overflow, stating
that PTO2_MAX_FANIN is the HBG fanin limit of 128. Do not recommend
PTO2_RING_DEP_POOL for this HBG condition.

In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_ring_buffer.h`:
- Around line 118-122: Update the capacity guards in graph_submit_definition and
both Pto ring-buffer copies so exhaustion is checked with local_task_id_ >=
window_size_, allowing the final valid task slot. Apply the identical change in
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_ring_buffer.h lines 118-122 and
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_ring_buffer.h lines 118-122,
including the matching preflight logic in graph_submit_definition.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_task_allocator.cpp` around
lines 110 - 119.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_tensormap.cpp`:
- Around line 97-109: Update SlotAliasingTasksBothKeepTheirEntries to collect
the producer_task_id values from result.entries and assert that both
PTO2TaskId::make(0, 0) and PTO2TaskId::make(0, WINDOW_SIZE) are present, while
retaining the existing count assertion.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h`:
- Around line 332-338: Update the comment above ring_slot_states_addr in
src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h lines 332-338 to
describe the slot-state segment address without mentioning deadlock detection;
apply the identical comment wording above ring_slot_states_addr in
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_shared_memory.h lines 332-338 to
keep both headers in parity.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h`:
- Line 123: Remove the unused PTO2_DEP_POOL_CLEANUP_INTERVAL macro from both HBG
dependency-pool headers, while preserving PTO2_TENSORMAP_CLEANUP_INTERVAL and
all other cleanup behavior.

Apply the same fix in
`@src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_runtime2_types.h` at line 122.

In `@src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h`:
- Around line 21-23: Reword the stale reclamation comments at lines 359, 373,
541, and 608 in both src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h
(anchor lines 21-23) and src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/pto_tensormap.h
(sibling lines 21-23) so they describe the forward-only, whole-run entry
lifetime rather than lazy invalidation, bucket cleanup, stale overwrites, or
pool wrap-around unlinking; keep both headers byte-for-byte identical.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/a2a3/test_hbg_task_allocator.cpp`:
- Around line 199-207: Extend FailedHeapAllocLeavesStateUnchanged to capture
allocator.current_index() before the deliberately failing alloc(HEAP_SIZE), then
assert it remains unchanged afterward alongside heap_top() and active_count().
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I reviewed this against the full scope of #1720 and the merge-base diff. The overall direction is sound, but I do not think it is ready to merge yet.

Blocking issues

  1. The final task-window slot is rejected.

    PTO2TaskAllocator::alloc() checks local_task_id_ + 1 >= window_size_, so a window of 64 only admits task IDs 0..62. The new TaskWindowSaturates test encodes the same WINDOW_SIZE - 1 expectation, which is why CI stays green.

    This needs to be fixed consistently in both arch trees and all admission paths:

    • pto_ring_buffer.h: allow allocation while local_task_id_ < window_size_
    • graph_submit_definition: fix the matching preflight
    • check_scope_can_accept_task: it still rejects at window_size - 1 and reports Scope Deadlock, so changing only the allocator will not make the last slot usable

    The regression test should prove that the first N allocations succeed, allocation N+1 fails immediately, and current_index remains unchanged on failure.

  2. The fanin-capacity part of [Code Health] hbg: Retire last_task_alive and the dead mid-run reclamation path #1720 is missing.

    The issue explicitly requires immediate, resource-specific capacity diagnostics for task window, heap, fanin, and TensorMap. The PR body and implementation cover only task window, heap, and TensorMap.

    append_fanin_or_fail() still only latches PTO2_ERROR_DEP_POOL_OVERFLOW at PTO2_MAX_FANIN, with no fanin limit/requested diagnostic. The shared hint then recommends PTO2_RING_DEP_POOL, even though HBG has no dependency spill pool. Please add the HBG fanin-capacity diagnostic and a regression test.

  3. The surfaced error descriptions still contradict the new behavior.

    src/common/runtime_status/error_names.h still says:

    • code 2 means task slots and heap are both exhausted, while the new allocator uses it for heap-only exhaustion;
    • code 3 is a nested flow-control deadlock, while the new allocator uses it for task-window capacity;
    • code 4 is a dependency spill-pool overflow, which is not the HBG fanin model;
    • code 11 is a TensorMap pool wedged by last_task_alive, even though this PR removes that field.

    The code 11 description update is an explicit [Code Health] hbg: Retire last_task_alive and the dead mid-run reclamation path #1720 requirement, and its current hint says capacity tuning will not help while the new runtime message says to increase the TensorMap pool. Numeric codes can remain shared, but the description/hint path must not give HBG users contradictory advice.

Follow-ups

Please also clean up the stale reclamation comments in both pto_tensormap.h copies, the deadlock-detector comment above ring_slot_states_addr, and the now-unused HBG PTO2_DEP_POOL_CLEANUP_INTERVAL. The TensorMap slot-alias test should assert both producer IDs, not only the result count.

All CI checks currently pass, but the window-boundary UT currently asserts the buggy N-1 capacity, so green CI does not cover the blocking issue above. The branch is also 25 commits behind current main; after fixing/rebasing, the full matrix should be rerun.

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Addressed the review blockers in e7e6b96:

  • allow all N configured task-window slots in both architectures and cached Graph submission; remove the obsolete HBG scope-reclaim admission check;
  • add immediate HBG inline-fanin diagnostics with PTO2_MAX_FANIN=128 and no PTO2_RING_DEP_POOL recommendation;
  • make shared error descriptions/hints consistent with HBG task-window, heap, fanin, and TensorMap capacity failures;
  • clean stale reclamation comments/constants and assert both TensorMap alias producer IDs;
  • rebase the PR onto current upstream/main and keep it as one commit.

Validation:

  • pre-commit: all hooks passed;
  • C++ UT: 101/101 passed (the socket test was rerun outside the restricted sandbox);
  • a2a3sim HBG: 26 passed, 7 skipped;
  • a5sim HBG: 18 passed.

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zmnobug force-pushed the refactor/issue-1720-hbg-drop-last-task-alive branch from e7e6b96 to fe504d4 Compare August 18, 2026 12:11
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Rebased the consolidated fix onto main and force-pushed fe504d4 (supersedes e7e6b96). The new main Graph Definition sharing path is preserved, including definition_hash/submission-only images, while the HBG final-slot preflight and forward-only capacity model remain intact.

Post-rebase validation:

  • pre-commit: all hooks passed
  • targeted C++ tests: 7/7 passed (allocator, TensorMap, Graph submission/cache on a2a3+a5, error names)
  • a2a3sim Graph execution: 3/3 passed
  • a5sim Graph execution: 3/3 passed (with the repository simulator libstdc++ preload; the first environment-only GLIBCXX mismatch was rerun successfully)

GitHub reports the PR mergeable; CI has been retriggered on fe504d4.

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zmnobug force-pushed the refactor/issue-1720-hbg-drop-last-task-alive branch from fe504d4 to 6cdef3d Compare August 19, 2026 01:43
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Follow-up CI fix pushed as 6cdef3d (supersedes fe504d4). profiling-flags-smoke exposed two stale host-side profiling references to the removed HBG sync_cycle and alloc_wait_cycle fields; both a2a3 and a5 runtime_maker tables now omit those retired metrics.

Local verification after the fix:

  • pre-commit on both changed files: passed
  • profiling orch build: a2a3sim + a5sim, HBG + T&R all passed
  • profiling all-on build: a2a3sim + a5sim, HBG + T&R all passed

The prior CI run had all other jobs green, including both onboard architectures, simulator matrices, unit tests, packaging, and pre-commit.

Fixes hw-native-sys#1720

HBG builds the complete graph on the host before device scheduling starts,
so the scheduler cannot advance a reclaim watermark while allocation runs.
Remove last_task_alive and the reclaim, polling, and cleanup paths that it
drove in HBG while leaving the reclaiming T&R runtime unchanged.

- Make task slots, graph heap, and TensorMap capacity forward-only and fail
  immediately with resource-specific diagnostics.
- Use every configured task-window slot and cover the final slot in ordinary
  allocation and cached Graph submission tests.
- Report HBG's inline fanin cap explicitly without suggesting the T&R-only
  PTO2_RING_DEP_POOL setting.
- Keep TensorMap producers visible across completion while still permitting
  synchronous removal when dependency coverage makes an entry redundant.
- Update shared error hints and troubleshooting docs for the differing HBG
  and T&R capacity models.
- Keep the a2a3 and a5 runtime implementations in lockstep.
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Rebased again onto current main (7fa3f54) to resolve conflicts from the new HBG Graph execution-storage changes; pushed a0342a2 (supersedes 6cdef3d).

Conflict resolution keeps both behaviors:

Post-rebase validation:

  • 9/9 targeted C++ tests passed, including Graph cache/activation/submission on a2a3+a5.
  • all-on profiling builds passed for a2a3sim+a5sim, HBG+T&R.
  • full HBG simulation passed: a2a3sim 13 passed/7 skipped; a5sim 9 passed.
  • full PR-range pre-commit passed.

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ChaoZheng109 merged commit f74ad5e into hw-native-sys:main Aug 19, 2026
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ChaoWao added a commit to ChaoWao/simpler-fork that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
Three kinds of stale documentation, all of it naming something the tree does not
contain. `doc-consistency.md` §3: when a referent is gone, the reference goes too.

**`problems.md`, deleted.** A personal working audit of `host_build_graph` —
findings, their status, and notes on what to look at next. It was never meant to be
here. It arrived in hw-native-sys#1974 through a `git add -A` that swept it up with that
change's 958 files, and hw-native-sys#2012 then updated it rather than noticing it. Nothing
references it (`git grep problems.md` is empty), it is absent from `mkdocs.yml`,
and `wheel.packages` is `["simpler_setup", "python/simpler"]` so it never shipped.
Its closed items name the PRs that closed them, each of which carries the
reasoning in its own commit message.

**`last_task_alive`, in hbg's `RUNTIME_LOGIC.md`.** The paragraph gives four
reasons `SchedulerState` holds no per-run content, and the third was "hbg never
advances `last_task_alive`". That was accurate when written — hbg inherited the
field from `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` and did not advance it — but hw-native-sys#1837 deleted
the field with the rest of the reclamation paths, for exactly the reason the
sentence gives, and hw-native-sys#2004 then removed the ring that held it. The clause now names
the one thing in that list that does not exist. It is replaced by the live fact
from the same runtime: polling reserves no wiring or dependency pool, because
readiness comes from the task table's `completion_flags`.

**`ring 0`, in hbg's `SCALAR_DATA_ACCESS.md`.** Ownership validation was described
as checking that "the task ID ... carries ring 0, the only ring HBG places tasks
on". hbg has had no ring since hw-native-sys#2004 (`git grep 'rings\['` over its tree is
empty), and since hw-native-sys#2012 the check is on the id *space*, not a ring index. The
bullet now says what the code does and why a `GRAPH_NODE` id fails it.

**`pto_runtime2_init`, in three `scheduler.h` files.** A comment credited it with
reserving and wiring the early-dispatch queues. `git grep pto_runtime2_init`
returned only those three comments — the symbol exists nowhere. The work is done by
`SchedulerState::init_data_from_layout`, which the comment now names. Only three of
the four runtime trees carried the line; `src/a5/runtime/tensormap_and_ringbuffer`
words that member differently.

**`run_from_blob`, in `docs/buffer-abi.md`.** A present-tense table row told the
chip leaf to "hand the POD blob to `run_from_blob`", a name that has never existed
(introduced with the row in hw-native-sys#1599). The row now names the three functions that do
the work — `read_args_from_blob`, `ImportRegistry.materialize_args`,
`_submit_chip_run_materialized` — matching `worker.py`'s `submit_frame`.

Deliberately untouched: `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`'s ring documentation.
`current_task_index`, `task_window_mask`, `advance_lock` and `last_task_alive` are
all live there (162 uses across 20 non-doc files); hw-native-sys#2004 dropped the ring from
`host_build_graph` only, and said so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ChaoWao added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 26, 2026
Three kinds of stale documentation, all of it naming something the tree does not
contain. `doc-consistency.md` §3: when a referent is gone, the reference goes too.

**`problems.md`, deleted.** A personal working audit of `host_build_graph` —
findings, their status, and notes on what to look at next. It was never meant to be
here. It arrived in #1974 through a `git add -A` that swept it up with that
change's 958 files, and #2012 then updated it rather than noticing it. Nothing
references it (`git grep problems.md` is empty), it is absent from `mkdocs.yml`,
and `wheel.packages` is `["simpler_setup", "python/simpler"]` so it never shipped.
Its closed items name the PRs that closed them, each of which carries the
reasoning in its own commit message.

**`last_task_alive`, in hbg's `RUNTIME_LOGIC.md`.** The paragraph gives four
reasons `SchedulerState` holds no per-run content, and the third was "hbg never
advances `last_task_alive`". That was accurate when written — hbg inherited the
field from `tensormap_and_ringbuffer` and did not advance it — but #1837 deleted
the field with the rest of the reclamation paths, for exactly the reason the
sentence gives, and #2004 then removed the ring that held it. The clause now names
the one thing in that list that does not exist. It is replaced by the live fact
from the same runtime: polling reserves no wiring or dependency pool, because
readiness comes from the task table's `completion_flags`.

**`ring 0`, in hbg's `SCALAR_DATA_ACCESS.md`.** Ownership validation was described
as checking that "the task ID ... carries ring 0, the only ring HBG places tasks
on". hbg has had no ring since #2004 (`git grep 'rings\['` over its tree is
empty), and since #2012 the check is on the id *space*, not a ring index. The
bullet now says what the code does and why a `GRAPH_NODE` id fails it.

**`pto_runtime2_init`, in three `scheduler.h` files.** A comment credited it with
reserving and wiring the early-dispatch queues. `git grep pto_runtime2_init`
returned only those three comments — the symbol exists nowhere. The work is done by
`SchedulerState::init_data_from_layout`, which the comment now names. Only three of
the four runtime trees carried the line; `src/a5/runtime/tensormap_and_ringbuffer`
words that member differently.

**`run_from_blob`, in `docs/buffer-abi.md`.** A present-tense table row told the
chip leaf to "hand the POD blob to `run_from_blob`", a name that has never existed
(introduced with the row in #1599). The row now names the three functions that do
the work — `read_args_from_blob`, `ImportRegistry.materialize_args`,
`_submit_chip_run_materialized` — matching `worker.py`'s `submit_frame`.

Deliberately untouched: `tensormap_and_ringbuffer`'s ring documentation.
`current_task_index`, `task_window_mask`, `advance_lock` and `last_task_alive` are
all live there (162 uses across 20 non-doc files); #2004 dropped the ring from
`host_build_graph` only, and said so.
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[Code Health] hbg: Retire last_task_alive and the dead mid-run reclamation path

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