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An hbg scope no longer bounds any lifetime, so this reduces it to the one thing it still decides — depth — and deletes the machinery built to feed a stub.

SchedulerState::on_scope_end was an empty function. The ring is whole-graph-resident, so no task slot and no heap byte is reclaimed before the run ends, and MAX_RING_DEPTH is 1, so scope depth selects nothing. What a scope still decides is whether a submit takes its fanin from TensorMap discovery or from CoreTaskArgs::set_dependencies, plus the submit_task precondition that one be open — and both need only scope_stack_top and manual_begin_depth. Everything else goes:

  • scope_tasks / scope_begins, their size and capacity fields, and scope_stack_capacity, whose only remaining use was an assert bound MAX_SCOPE_DEPTH states directly. OrchestratorState::init stops allocating 131,072 + 256 bytes per orchestrator.
  • scope_tasks_push, called from every prepare_task and every graph_submit_outer: one bounds check and one store per submitted task, for a buffer whose only consumer was the stub.
  • on_scope_end itself, and the end_scope arithmetic that computed the range to hand it.
  • SCOPE_TASKS_CAP. Its other user, the boot-time total_tasks_ garbage filter in scheduler_cold_path.cpp, now bounds against TASK_WINDOW_SIZE — the same value at MAX_RING_DEPTH == 1, and the honest name for "a ring cannot hold more than its task window".
  • scope_end_cycle and the [ORCH_PROFILING] scope_end row that reported it. scope_end_atomic_count goes with them; nothing ever incremented it.

SIMPLER_ERROR_SCOPE_TASKS_OVERFLOW keeps its number and its name: nothing in hbg raises it now, but error_names.h is shared with tensormap_and_ringbuffer, which still does, and test_error_code_names.cpp requires the tables to stay complete. untested.md records that hbg has no raise site rather than leaving the reader with tmr's multi-ring argument.

Comments and docs that described the old model

These were asserting a scope-refcount design the runtime does not have, which is the kind of documentation that misleads for years because it reads as authoritative:

  • rt_scope_begin / rt_scope_end state the submit precondition, the MANUAL bypass, and that nothing is reclaimed mid-run, instead of promising a scope-bounded task lifetime and a refcount that releases buffers.
  • TaskOutputTensors's LIFETIME contract binds to the orchestration pass rather than the enclosing scope, and names its real backing storage: the region TaskPayload::tensors points at, or the GraphRecording node's tensors inside a Graph body. The old text named an inline payload array in a reusable ring slot; neither is still true. The rule it gives callers is unchanged in strength — only its stated mechanism was wrong.
  • TaskState documents the transition it has, PENDING -> COMPLETED, and marks that state terminal. Nothing stores TASK_CONSUMED: no slot is recycled before the run ends, and consumer retirement is observed through the per-ring completed_watermark.
  • The hidden-alloc note in alloc_tensors says why the generic slot initialization is required — a consumer reads the slot's task_attrs and completion mirror — instead of crediting a scope_end release and a CONSUMED flip that hbg never performs.
  • docs/manual-scope.md keeps manual_begin_depth as the only manual-scope-specific state and marks the scope task list as generic bookkeeping whose scope_end consumer differs per runtime: live in tensormap_and_ringbuffer, absent in host_build_graph.

a2a3's types.h also moves to #pragma once per codestyle.md §12: its #ifndef guard was spelled SRC_A2A3_RUNTIME_TENSORMAP_AND_RINGBUFFER_RUNTIME_PTO_TYPES_H_, naming a runtime the file does not belong to, and no source referenced the macro. Its a5 sibling already used #pragma once, so the two files are now identical.

Both architecture trees move together.

Testing

  • clang-format --dry-run -Werror clean on all 20 changed C++ files; markdownlint-cli2 clean on all 4 changed docs
  • -fsyntax-only with -DSIMPLER_DFX=1 -DSIMPLER_ORCH_PROFILING=1 on orchestrator.cpp and runtime_maker.cpp, both arches — the profiling struct change is invisible to a default build, so it needs its own check
  • pytest tests/ut -m "not requires_hardware" — 1886 passed, 7 skipped
  • ctest --test-dir tests/ut/cpp/build -LE requires_hardware — 117/117
  • Simulation tests pass — pytest examples tests/st --platform a2a3sim --device 0-15 and --platform a5sim, both 0 failures
  • Hardware tests pass — pytest examples tests/st -m "not sdma" --platform a2a3 --exclude-level 4 and the separate -m sdma arm
  • a5 onboard not run: this box is a2a3 silicon (onboard-arch-precheck refuses); covered by a5sim

On the async-endpoint / FIFO scene tests

Across eight full a2a3 onboard runs on a shared box, four different cases failed at least once, never the same set twice, all as 507018 / sched_error_code=100 SCHEDULER_TIMEOUT or RunHandle.wait() timed out. An unmodified base at this PR's merge-base reproduces it — that control run failed worker_async_fifo::TestWorkerAsyncWholeRunFifoTmr::test_run. Two of the affected cases are runtime="tensormap_and_ringbuffer", which this hbg-only diff cannot reach. These tests park a run at a SubTask fence and poll from Python with wall-clock deadlines, and the failing runs pin a single chip.run at ~46.05 s (the ~45 s op-execute timeout), so they are load-sensitive by construction; failures clustered while 12/16 devices were held by other users. worker_async_endpoint passes 6/6 standalone on both the branch and the base. Flagging rather than filing, since it wants a maintainer's read on whether to quarantine or raise the deadlines.

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The host-build-graph runtime removes per-scope task tracking, scope-end cleanup, and related profiling fields. Scope state retains nesting depth and manual dependency mode. Task completion, initialization limits, output lifetimes, error-code comments, and runtime documentation now reflect graph-resident execution.

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Host-build-graph scope lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope state and control flow
src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator*, src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator*, src/*/runtime_core.h
Scope state now stores nesting depth and manual-scope mode. Scope termination no longer tracks task ranges, rewinds task storage, or invokes scheduler cleanup.
Task lifecycle and initialization
src/*/runtime/runtime_types.h, src/*/runtime/scheduler/*, src/*/runtime/shared/runtime_init.cpp
The scope-task capacity is removed. Boot validation uses the task window. Completed tasks remain terminal, with retirement tracked by completed_watermark.
Profiling and runtime contracts
src/*/runtime/orchestrator.h, src/*/runtime/orchestrator_core/orchestrator.cpp, src/*/host/runtime_maker.cpp, src/*/runtime/types.h
Scope-end profiling fields are removed. Tensor output lifetime is defined by one orchestration entry and pass.
Documentation and error compatibility
docs/*, src/*/docs/RUNTIME_LOGIC.md, src/*/common/runtime_status.h
Documentation describes backend-specific scope behavior and records that scope-task overflow remains reserved but is not raised by host-build-graph.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1bcd0

The refactor removes HBG scope-task storage and scope-end processing, but one documentation section still refers to those obsolete mechanisms. This has no runtime impact and is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to correct the documentation.

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I’m a rabbit with a tidy scope,
No task-list tangles, plenty of hope.
Depth marks the nest, graphs stay near,
Completed tasks end crystal-clear.
Hop, hop—the runtime docs now cheer!

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In `@docs/manual-scope.md`:
- Around line 99-103: Update the scope_end documentation to remove the obsolete
host_build_graph scope_tasks and on_scope_end references; limit the lifecycle
description to tensormap_and_ringbuffer, or explicitly state that HBG has
neither a scope-task list nor a scope-end hook.
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ChaoWao force-pushed the refactor/reduce-the-hbg-scope-to-its-depth branch from 1bcd026 to 31a7c52 Compare August 24, 2026 01:59
An hbg scope no longer bounds any lifetime. The scheduler's `on_scope_end` was
an empty stub, the ring is whole-graph-resident so no task slot and no heap byte
is reclaimed before the run ends, and `MAX_RING_DEPTH` is 1 so scope depth
selects nothing. What a scope still decides is whether a submit takes its fanin
from TensorMap discovery or from `CoreTaskArgs::set_dependencies`, plus the
`submit_task` precondition that one be open — and both of those need only the
depth. So `scope_stack_top` and `manual_begin_depth` stay and everything built to
feed `on_scope_end` goes:

- `scope_tasks` and `scope_begins`, their size/capacity fields, and
  `scope_stack_capacity`, whose only remaining use was an assert bound that
  `MAX_SCOPE_DEPTH` states directly. `OrchestratorState::init` stops allocating
  131,072 + 256 bytes per orchestrator.
- `scope_tasks_push`, called on every `prepare_task` and every
  `graph_submit_outer`: one bounds check and one store per submitted task, for a
  buffer whose only consumer was the stub.
- `on_scope_end` itself, and the `end_scope` arithmetic that computed the range to
  hand it.
- `SCOPE_TASKS_CAP`. Its other user, the boot-time `total_tasks_` garbage filter
  in `scheduler_cold_path.cpp`, now bounds against `TASK_WINDOW_SIZE` — the same
  value at `MAX_RING_DEPTH == 1`, and the honest name for "a ring cannot hold more
  than its task window".
- `scope_end_cycle` and the `[ORCH_PROFILING]` `scope_end` row that reported it.
  `scope_end_atomic_count` goes with them; nothing ever incremented it.

`SIMPLER_ERROR_SCOPE_TASKS_OVERFLOW` keeps its number and its name. Nothing in
hbg raises it now, but `error_names.h` is shared with
`tensormap_and_ringbuffer`, which still does, and `test_error_code_names.cpp`
requires the tables to stay complete. `untested.md` records that hbg has no raise
site rather than leaving the reader with tmr's multi-ring argument.

The comments and docs that described the old scope-refcount model move to what
the code does now:

- `rt_scope_begin` / `rt_scope_end` state the submit precondition, the MANUAL
  bypass, and that nothing is reclaimed mid-run, instead of promising a
  scope-bounded task lifetime and a refcount that releases buffers.
- `TaskOutputTensors`'s LIFETIME contract binds to the orchestration pass rather
  than the enclosing scope, and names its real backing storage: the region
  `TaskPayload::tensors` points at, or the `GraphRecording` node's tensors inside
  a Graph body. The old text named an inline payload array in a reusable ring
  slot, and neither is still true. The rule it gives callers is unchanged in
  strength.
- `TaskState` documents the transition it has, `PENDING -> COMPLETED`, and marks
  that state terminal. Nothing stores `TASK_CONSUMED`: no slot is recycled before
  the run ends, and consumer retirement is observed through the per-ring
  `completed_watermark`.
- The hidden-alloc note in `alloc_tensors` says why the generic slot
  initialization is required — a consumer reads the slot's `task_attrs` and
  completion mirror — instead of crediting a `scope_end` release and a CONSUMED
  flip that hbg never performs.
- `docs/manual-scope.md` keeps `manual_begin_depth` as the only
  manual-scope-specific state, and makes the scope task list a runtime-specific
  thing rather than a shared one: tmr keeps it so `scope_end` can release each
  producer reference, hbg keeps neither the list nor a scope-end hook.

a2a3's `types.h` also moves to `#pragma once` per codestyle rule 12: its
`#ifndef` guard named `TENSORMAP_AND_RINGBUFFER`, a runtime the file does not
belong to, and no source referenced the macro. Its a5 sibling already used
`#pragma once`, so the two files are now identical.

Both architecture trees move together.
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@coderabbitai Addressed:

  • docs/manual-scope.md obsolete on_scope_end reference — fixed, see the inline thread. It was my own regression: that paragraph was written before this PR deleted scope_tasks and the stub, and I did not revisit it.
  • Also rebased onto 3069f1aff (#1965, hbg carries no per-ring dimension), which the previous head conflicted with. That rebase needed two resolutions worth calling out for review:
    • runtime_types.h — #1965 had already collapsed SCOPE_TASKS_CAP to (TASK_WINDOW_SIZE); this PR deletes the macro entirely.
    • scheduler_cold_path.cpp — #1965 collapsed the per-ring loop to a single int32_t read but left the comment describing an int64 sum over rings. Since this PR was already editing that bound, the comment now matches the code.

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printf '%s\n' '== Candidate files =='
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printf '%s\n' '== File outlines =='
ast-grep outline docs/manual-scope.md 2>/dev/null || true
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printf '%s\n' '== Manual-scope scope-end references =='
rg -n -i -C 3 'on_scope_end|scope_tasks|host_build_graph|scope end' docs/manual-scope.md || true

printf '%s\n' '== Removed macro references in HBG trees =='
rg -n -C 2 '\bPTO2_SCOPE_TASKS_CAP\b' src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph || true

printf '%s\n' '== Scheduler task-count checks and comments =='
rg -n -C 8 'TASK_WINDOW_SIZE|task_count|int64|ring|sum' \
  src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_cold_path.cpp \
  src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_cold_path.cpp || true

printf '%s\n' '== Relevant current diff =='
git diff --check
git diff -- \
  docs/manual-scope.md \
  src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/runtime_types.h \
  src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/runtime_types.h \
  src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_cold_path.cpp \
  src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/scheduler/scheduler_cold_path.cpp

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@ChaoWao: Verified.

  • docs/manual-scope.md now correctly states that host_build_graph has no scope-end hook.
  • Neither host-build-graph tree retains PTO2_SCOPE_TASKS_CAP.
  • Both scheduler_cold_path.cpp files use one int32_t ring_tasks value and validate it against PTO2_TASK_WINDOW_SIZE.
  • The comments now describe the single-ring behavior.
  • git diff --check completed without errors.

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