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Summary

Add an opt-in, per-process buffered file sink for high-frequency host STRACE spans. Normal logs and the clock anchor remain on stderr, the encoded span grammar is unchanged, and setup or I/O failures fall back to stderr.

This removes per-span flushing to a shared stderr pipe from profiled multi-rank hot paths without changing native-run ownership, synchronization, or default runtime behavior.

Changes

  • Write spans to host-strace.<pid>.log under SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR, flushing at each completed root span.
  • Keep ordinary logs and one clock anchor per process on stderr; fall back there on path, open, write, or root-flush failure.
  • Make the sink fork-safe: lock around the fork boundary, reopen a child-owned file, and close the inherited descriptor without flushing copied stdio buffers.
  • Document the opt-in collection contract and test exact root/nested records, the clock anchor, disabled behavior, and parent/child file ownership.

Verification

  • pre-commit run --files docs/dfx/host-trace.md src/common/log/host_log.cpp tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_host_log_off.cpp: all hooks passed, including clang-format, clang-tidy, cpplint, and markdownlint.
  • cmake --build tests/ut/cpp/build -j8: passed on origin/main@adf3764f.
  • ctest --test-dir tests/ut/cpp/build -LE requires_hardware --output-on-failure: 115/115 passed (96 no_hardware tests).
  • Direct EP4/TP4 sustained async workload: 5 warmups + 1,000 measured depth-two steps, four ranks, device STRACE disabled, with one SA_PROFILE and four per-PID host STRACE files merged after execution.
  • Production DSV4 Serving validation: GBS32, MTP-1, DP8/EP8, 32 concurrent requests x 256 output tokens. All 8,192 tokens completed and the run produced a same-run merged SA_PROFILE + eight-rank host STRACE swimlane.

In the observed synchronous-stderr workload, individual 0.01-0.07 ms validation copies were separated by 10.10-18.44 ms unnamed host gaps at marker flush boundaries. With the per-PID sink, the direct four-rank run reduced runner-to-validate gap p95/max from 0.150/0.538 ms to 0.051/0.164 ms and validation max from 16.836 ms to 7.291 ms. This PR addresses that profiling observer effect only; it does not claim to fix the independent runtime lifecycle/scheduling issue tracked in hw-native-sys/pypto-serving#179.

Related to hw-native-sys/pypto-serving#179.

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The host logger now supports SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR. Successful host span records go to buffered per-process files. Failed file output uses stderr. Tests and documentation cover the behavior.

Host span file logging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Buffered host span sink integration
src/common/log/host_log.cpp
The logger writes [STRACE] records to host-strace.<pid>.log, handles forks and directory changes, flushes root spans, and falls back to stderr on failure.
Sink validation and documentation
tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_host_log_off.cpp, docs/dfx/host-trace.md
The test verifies nested and root records, stderr behavior, and cleanup. The documentation describes the environment setting and sink behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to d5331

File-backed host tracing can currently deadlock in a child process after a multithreaded fork and can omit the required stderr clock anchor, making production tracing unreliable and potentially affecting process availability. These issues should be fixed before merge; the test and documentation follow-ups also need attention.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HostLogger
  participant HostSpanFileSink
  participant LogFile
  participant Stderr
  HostLogger->>HostSpanFileSink: write host span when SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR is set
  HostSpanFileSink->>LogFile: append [STRACE] record
  HostSpanFileSink-->>HostLogger: return success or failure
  HostLogger->>Stderr: use existing log path when file output fails
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A rabbit hops through buffered lines,
With root spans flushed in tidy signs.
Each process gets a log to write,
While stderr waits as fallback light.
“Binky!” says Bun. “The traces are right.”

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In `@docs/dfx/host-trace.md`:
- Around line 30-31: Update the host trace documentation around the file-sink
fallback description to state that host spans fall back to stderr when path
setup, file opening, fprintf(), or depth-zero fflush() fails, while preserving
the existing notes about ordinary logs and the clock anchor.

In `@src/common/log/host_log.cpp`:
- Around line 374-378: In the successful file-sink branch of host span logging,
call emit_clock_anchor_if_needed() before returning so file-backed spans still
emit the clock anchor. Add coverage requiring exactly one [CLOCK_ANCHOR] record
and no [STRACE] record on stderr for this path.
- Around line 172-180: Update the fork lifecycle around sink.mutex and
sink.stream so the child process can safely call write_host_span_file() after a
multithreaded fork: reinitialize or otherwise release the inherited mutex, and
close the inherited stream descriptor without flushing copied stdio buffers
before clearing sink state. Do not leave the child blocked on the inherited lock
or leak descriptors across fork generations.
- Around line 374-376: Add a reproducible multi-process profiling workload
covering stderr-baseline and file-sink scenarios, and record measurements
quantifying tracing-overhead reduction for the SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR path in
write_host_span_file. If that validation cannot be included, remove or defer the
configuration-surface change around SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR to a separate
change.

In `@tests/ut/cpp/a5/test_host_log_off.cpp`:
- Around line 380-382: Update the assertions in the host-log test so the root
record is matched with an unambiguous field sequence that cannot be satisfied by
name=chip.run.bind; alternatively, parse the two newline-delimited records and
assert each record’s exact name. Preserve the existing checks for both records
and the expected two-line output.
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复现了 PR 描述里的问题背景,也在本地跑了完整验证:base adf3764f落后 main 11 个提交,合并前需要 rebase),ctest -LE requires_hardware 115/115,与你报告的数字一致。

先说结论:问题是真的,fork 处理写得也对pthread_atfork 在 prepare 里加锁,保证跨 fork 边界时没有线程停在 fprintf 中间;parent/child 两个 handler 都由持锁的那个线程解锁。「子进程不能 fclose」的注释也是对的 —— 那个 stdio 缓冲区里的字节归父进程所有。

下面按严重程度列。有两条需要维护者拍板,两个测试有实质缺陷。

需要拍板(不是代码缺陷)

新增了一个控制行为的环境变量。 SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR 在 main 上 0 命中,是本 PR 引入的。按 .claude/rules/env-macro-gating.md §1,新增门控行为的环境变量必须先取得维护者明确同意;而 host swimlane 这条线的设计目前的立场是「沿用已有门控 SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE,不新增开关」。这个 PR 目前只有一条 coderabbit 评论、没有人类 review,所以这件事还没有被提出来过。

你测到的开销问题是真的,而且晚于那个设计决定,所以这是「改设计」还是「换机制」的选择,不是我能替维护者定的。

如果要一个不引入 C++ 可见环境变量的做法:把目录通过已有的 _initialize_host_log / bind_state 通道种下去 —— Python 侧本来就已经拥有 threshold 这个配置。顺带还能去掉每条 span 一次的 getenvchanged_directory 那个分支。

Must-fix:[STRACE] 格式串出现了第二份拷贝

write_host_span_file 把整条记录语法又手写了一遍,和 log_host_span 里那份相隔 60 行。这正是 #1792 item 2 修掉的那个缺陷本身。

item 2 之所以存在,是因为当年 strace.hhost_log.cpp 各写一份,而两份的 inv 转换符不一样(%u vs %llu);#1824 的修法在 issue 里的描述是 "There is now one owner and one format string"。

现在这两份除了结尾的 \n 完全一致 —— 而上一次也正是从「完全一致」开始的。建议:记录体只拼一次name / attributes 都已经编码好在手上),再选择写到哪个 sink。

Must-fix:fork 测试观察不到它自己命名的那个 bug

ForkedChildReopensItsOwnSpanFileWithoutFlushingParentBuffer

我把子进程改成 fclose(sink.stream) —— 也就是真的去 flush 父进程那份拷贝的缓冲区,正是测试名字声称要拦的 bug —— 然后 17 个测试全绿。原因:那次 flush 落进的是父进程的文件,而测试直接 unlink 了父文件、从没读过它。

可区分的断言应该落在父文件上。父进程那条记录是 depth=1 发的,所以还压在它自己的缓冲区里没落盘;它出现在父文件里的唯一途径就是子进程 flush 了继承来的那份:

std::ifstream parent_input(parent_path);
const std::string parent_contents{std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(parent_input), {}};
EXPECT_EQ(parent_contents.find("name=parent.span"), std::string::npos)
    << "the child flushed the parent's copied stdio buffer";

这条我实测过:加上 fclose 对照会红,在你现在的代码上是绿。它才是有判别力的那条。

Must-fix:同一个测试依赖执行顺序

./test_host_log_off --gtest_filter='*ForkedChild*'   → FAILED(child_input.good() 为 false)
./test_host_log_off                                  → 17/17 passed

和它的兄弟测试不同,这个用例没有把发射包在 run_with_config(LogLevel::TIMING, …) 里;而自 #1875 起私有 logger 的 pre-bind 默认级别是 NUL,于是 log_host_span 在第一行就返回,文件根本不会被创建。它现在能过,只是因为同一个二进制里前面的用例把全局级别留在了 TIMING

ctest 是整个二进制一起跑的,所以 CI 看不到这个问题;但 --gtest_shuffle、或者任何带 --gtest_filter 的调试运行都会撞上。

Should-fix:span 文件里没有 clock anchor

strace_timing.py_CLOCK_ANCHOR_RE 要求完整的 [mono_ns=…][T0x…][TIMING] clock_anchor: 信封,而 anchor 是刻意留在 stderr 的。结果是:per-pid 的 span 文件不是自洽的 —— 想恢复绝对时间(这正是 #1792 item 1 里 anchor 存在的全部理由),还得同时收集这个特性本来要避开的那条 stderr。

file sink 生效时把 anchor 也写进文件,大概两行。

(span 记录本身没有信封也能解析:_STRACE_RE 是从 [STRACE] 开始匹配的,信封只出现在界定属性串的 lookahead 里。这条我核过了。)

Should-fix:每个 fork 出的子进程会泄漏继承的 FILE 和它的 1 MiB 缓冲区

close(fileno(...)) 之后丢掉指针这个选择是对的 —— fclose 会 flush 掉父进程的字节,而 C 标准没有可移植的「丢弃缓冲区」原语。但注释解释了「为什么不 fclose」,没有说它因此泄漏。setvbuf(_IOFBF, 1 MiB) 意味着每个子进程约 1 MiB。8 rank 下有界且不大,加一句说明即可;真要在意就换成裸 fd + 自己的缓冲区。

实测过、但不算问题的三条

  • 每条 span 一次 getenv 的成本是 32.1 ns(本机 72 个 environ 条目,未设置 ⇒ 全表扫描)。它在 Fix: gate disabled host spans before formatting #1875is_enabled(TIMING) 门之后,所以关闭路径仍是 ~3 ns 不变;开启路径上是 32 ns 对 ~2.2 µs 一条记录 = 1.4%,不构成问题。我提它只是因为它换来的「运行中可改目录」这个能力是为测试服务的,换成上面那个种值方案就一起消失了。
  • PIPE_BUF 原子性不是被放弃了,而是换了保证方式。 depth-0 那次 flush 一次 write() 最多 1 MiB,远超 static_assert(... <= _POSIX_PIPE_BUF - 256) 的前提;但这个文件是每进程独占的,进程内又有 sink mutex 串行化,所以交错在构造上就不可能发生。建议在那个 assert 旁边写一句,否则读者会以为这条不变量被丢了。
  • pthread_atfork 有一个平台注意点。 handler 位于会被 chip_worker.cpp dlclose 的 DSO 里。glibc 在 dlclose 时按 __dso_handle 反注册 atfork handler,macOS 不会 —— 于是 macOS 上「dlclose 之后再 fork」会调到悬空指针。只有开启这个特性时才可达,而且只在 macOS;但本仓在 macOS 上是有测试的。

补充两句我自己的过程,因为它们影响这份 review 的可信度:我一开始在 test_host_log_unbound 上看到的失败是我自己早前做阴性对照留下的过期二进制,重新链接后就消失了,不是本 PR 的问题 —— 差点误报。另外我对 fork 测试的第一个猜测(断言太弱)结论是对的,但最初那次「确认」它的运行其实是因为顺序依赖而失败的;这两件事是我回退重测之后才分开的。

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更正我上面那条关于 SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR 的意见 —— 我写弱了。

我把它写成「新增行为门控需要维护者签字,另外这里有个替代方案」。实际结论应该更直接:这个环境变量不需要存在,而且理由不是流程,是本仓已有的契约。

src/common/task_interface/call_config.houtput_prefix 的契约:

output_prefix is a NUL-terminated directory path under which all diagnostic artifacts (chip_swimlane_records.json / args_dump/ / pmu.csv / deps.json / scope_stats/scope_stats.jsonl) are written. The caller is responsible for filling it whenever any diagnostic flag is enabled — validate() enforces this contract at every submit/run entry point so the runtime never has to invent a path.

三点:

  1. 「往哪写」已经有答案。 每一个 DFX 产物都落在 output_prefix 下面,其中已经包含一个 host 侧产物 —— device_runner_base.cpp:1827Name every segment of the hbg host orchestration on the swimlane #1964 的 host phase records 写到 make_host_phase_records_path(output_prefix_)。host span 文件跟它是同一类东西,应该落在同一个地方,而不是另一个由环境变量指定的目录。顺带解决一个实际问题:现在 span 文件跟这个 run 的其它产物是分开的,得靠人记住两个位置。

  2. 「要不要开」不需要开关。 判据是 !output_prefix.empty() —— 那是已有状态,不是新门控。.claude/rules/env-macro-gating.md 明确让人先试这条路:"Prefer alternatives that need no gate: do the thing unconditionally when it is always correct; derive the decision from existing state." 而且「开了 span 却希望它们同步挤进共享 stderr、承担你测到的 10–18 ms flush 空档」这种用户并不存在 —— span 一旦开启,缓冲到每进程文件总是对的,所以这里本来就没有需要用户选择的东西。

  3. 最直接的一条:那句契约写的是 the runtime never has to invent a pathstd::getenv("SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR") 正是 runtime 从环境里造一条路径。所以这不是「需要签字」,是跟一条已经写下来的契约相反。

具体改法:output_prefix 是 per-call 从 CallConfig 来的,而 device_runner_base 已经示范了怎么用 —— set_output_prefix(config.output_prefix) 缓存下来,run 结束时用缓存的 output_prefix_ 写产物。log 层同样:通过已有的配置入口(_initialize_host_log 那条 Python→C++ 的缝,或者 HostLogger 上一个 setter)把目录种一次,之后每条 span 直接用。

这样一并消掉的东西:新增环境变量、每条 span 一次 getenvchanged_directory 那个分支,以及我上面提到的 .docs 设计冲突(因为不再新增开关,那条设计约束不需要改)。剩下的 must-fix(格式串第二份拷贝、fork 测试的两个缺陷、file 里缺 clock anchor)不受影响。

抱歉绕了一圈 —— 你测到的问题和 fork 的写法我仍然认为是对的,只是这个值不该从环境里取。

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@high-cloud 我把上面两条 review 的修法直接推到这个分支上了(作者仍然是你,我只是 committer),并 rebase 到了当前 main(原 base 落后 11 个提交)。折成一个提交,diff 只动 8 个文件。如果你不同意任何一处,直接改掉或让我回退。

改了什么

1. 去掉 SIMPLER_HOST_STRACE_DIR,目录改从 CallConfig.output_prefix 来。
它是所有诊断产物已有的落地目录,其中已经包含一个 host 侧产物(device_runner_basehost_phase_records),而它的契约原话是 "so the runtime never has to invent a path"。判据变成「有没有 prefix」,是已有状态而不是新门控 —— 所以没有新开关要配。路径放在共享状态 SimplerHostLogState 里(ABI 1→2),因为 binder 已经把这个指针发给每个 DSO 了,一次种值全进程可见;父进程在 submit 时种、fork 出的 chip 子进程解出 config 后种自己的。首个非空路径生效,后来的被拒绝,免得一个线程已经打开的文件被移走。

2. STRACE 记录只格式化一次,两个 sink 共用同一份字节。 原来 file 路径手写了第二份记录语法,和 60 行外那份并存 —— 那正是 #1792 item 2 存在的原因(上一次两份只差一个 inv 转换符)。

3. fork 测试补上了唯一能看见那个 bug 的断言。 我把子进程改成 fclose(即真的去 flush 父进程那份拷贝),17 个测试全绿 —— 因为那次 flush 落进的是父文件,而测试直接 unlink 了它。现在断言父文件里还没有父进程那条 depth=1 记录:它出现在那里的唯一途径就是子进程 flush 了继承的缓冲。加对照会红、不加是绿。

4. 两个目录测试改用作用域守卫,并各自设自己的级别。 原来 --gtest_filter='*ForkedChild*' 单跑会红(它没包 run_with_config(TIMING),而 #1875 之后 pre-bind 默认是 NUL),只有整个二进制一起跑才过。守卫也比 setenv/unsetenv 强:ASSERT 提前返回时也会恢复,不会把后面每个测试的记录都重定向走 stderr。

一件我在推之前去查了业界做法的事

拿了三份一手资料:Linux ftrace 文档、Perfetto buffers 文档、OpenTelemetry SDK 规范。四条共同不变量:

业界 这个 PR
生产者不在热路径同步写共享 sink Perfetto:producer 从不写 trace 文件,service 才落盘。OTel:OnEnd "MUST be called synchronously ... therefore it should not block" ⚠️ 减少了,没移出被测路径
缓冲按写者切分 ftrace:"a separate buffer for each CPU to allow writes to be done atomically"、"free from cache bouncing" ⚠️ 一个 FILE + 一把 mutex/进程
有界、不阻塞、满了有策略 ftrace overwrite 丢最旧/最新;Perfetto 默认丢、kStall 是选择性的;OTel maxQueueSize 满即丢 ❌ flush 阻塞写者
丢了要计数 ftrace overrun/dropped events;Perfetto trace_writer_packet_losschunks_discarded ❌ 无计数

支持这个判断的是你自己的数字:validation max 16.836 → 7.291 ms,不是降到接近 0。如果 I/O 真被移出被测路径,残留不该还有 7 ms 量级;7.291 ms 与「flush 尾巴仍落在发射线程上」一致。

所以我没有重写它 —— 完整形状(per-thread 无锁缓冲 + 后台 flush + 丢弃计数)是 #1792 item 6 的范围。我只加了两处,让它不声称超出实际做到的:write_host_span_file 上方一段注释点明这两条是刻意不做而非疏漏,以及 doc 里一句「flush 仍在关闭 root span 的那个线程上,所以这是按 记录数/root span 数 的比例削减扰动,不是消除它 —— 每个 flush 边界仍会有残留尾巴」。

两件我没做,留给你或后续

  • clock anchor 仍只在 stderr,所以 span 文件还不自洽(strace_timing.py_CLOCK_ANCHOR_RE 要求完整信封)。便宜的做法会在 file 里再手写一份信封格式串 —— 正是我在 40 行外刚消掉的那种重复。要做对得先把信封格式抽成一处,那是独立的一步。doc 里已写明这条现状。
  • drop counter[Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 6 第一阶段)仍缺。现在写失败回退 stderr,比丢更保真,但没有任何东西记录「你想消除的扰动回来了」。

验证

ctest -LE requires_hardware 117/117pytest tests/ut/py 1909 passed / 14 skippedclang-formatruffpyright 全过。三个阴性对照:fclose 对照只红 fork 测试;两个目录测试单独跑也过(顺序依赖已消)。

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补上读取侧 —— 一个进程一个文件把原来的一条流拆开了,所以工具那边得跟着动。两处,都在 strace_timing.py

1. 多输入 + 目录展开,手工 merge 这一步消失。

以前是一个位置参数、一次 open().readlines()。现在 nargs="+",多个输入直接拼接 —— 这本来就够了,因为每条记录自带 pid,解析器一直是按 pid 分组的(以前多进程的记录本来就挤在同一根 stderr 管道里)。另外目录会展开成里面的 host-strace.*.log,所以可以直接把一个 run 的 output_prefix 丢进去:

python -m simpler_setup.tools.strace_timing <output_prefix> run.stderr --swimlane swimlane.json

你在验证里写的 "four per-PID host STRACE files merged after execution" —— 那个 merge 步骤现在不需要了。(目录里没有 span 文件时报错退出,而不是静默当成一个空 log。)

2. 一个 pid 有 span 却找不到 anchor 时警告。

这是这次拆分里唯一一处完全没有信号的损失。_trace_documentif anchors_by_pid: —— 没有 anchor 就不输出 clockAnchors 键,不报错、不警告;而 _CLOCK_ANCHOR_RE 要求完整的 stderr 信封,span 文件里没有。所以只喂 span 文件的人拿到的是一份只有单调时间的 trace,而且不知道

对比一下:这个工具在别的场合是会说话的 —— 一个 pid 有多条 anchor 会警告"using the last one",记录被撕裂会警告"N of M records are incomplete"。偏偏 anchor 数为 0 时一句都没有。 现在会说:

warning: no [CLOCK_ANCHOR] record for pid(s) 71, 72 that emitted spans; their
timestamps stay monotonic-only. The anchor is written to stderr even when spans
go to a per-process host-strace.*.log file, so pass the stderr capture alongside
the span files.

这个 PR 让文件成为「开了诊断就默认」的路径,所以撞上它的人会变多 —— 引入一个失败模式而不让它可见,是这条 track 上我一直在挑的同一种毛病,所以并在这里而不是留作后续。

doc 里补了收集配方,并写明漏掉 stderr 抓取的后果和那条警告是唯一信号。

下游继承:pypto-serving 的 analyze_profile.pyimport simpler_setup.tools.strace_timing,自动跟随;render_8lane.py 硬编码名字并自己读文件,要单独看;pypto 的 bench.py 也是给一个 log 路径 —— 三者都只是"喂哪些文件"的问题,语法没变。

验证

ctest -LE requires_hardware 117/117pytest tests/ut/py 1913 passed / 14 skipped(新增 4 个 CLI 测试:多输入、目录展开、空目录报错、缺 anchor 警告);ruffmarkdownlint(用 tests/lint/.markdownlint.yaml)全过。

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@high-cloud 把这个 PR 的设计往回收了一步、变简单了。根因不是"漏了 anchor 和 bind phase",是选 sink 的决定放错了层。

之前的形状为什么必然"一边一点"

目的地既不是字段也不是参数,而是唯一那个写函数里的常量 —— 而那个函数叫 write_stderr

bool write_stderr(const char *record, size_t size) {
    ... ::write(STDERR_FILENO, record + offset, size - offset);

所以谁需要换目的地,只能在 logger 之上决定。这个 PR 原来的做法是在 log_host_span 里判断,于是 sink 变成了一个调用点的属性:三个产生机器记录的地方,一个知道、两个不知道。[CLOCK_ANCHOR]bind phase= 留在 stderr 不是漏了,是结构决定的。

(这条根因是维护者指出来的,我前几轮一直在给那个放错的位置找理由,甚至发明了一套"机器记录 vs 人读记录"的分类 —— 那是错的方向:spans / anchor / bind phase 只是日志系统的使用者,不需要被区分。)

现在的形状

sink 是 logger 的一个配置项,跟阈值同一个位置(共享状态,binder 已经把指针发给每个 DSO):

HostLogger 配置 = threshold + 输出目录
emit() → format_record() → write_record(配置的目的地)

于是所有经过它的记录自动跟随LOG_*[STRACE][CLOCK_ANCHOR]bind phase=,以及 Python 通过 unified_log_host_span 发的 span。没有调用点声明什么,没有记录类型被特殊对待,不存在"一半在这、一半在那"的状态

log_host_span 里那段路由判断删掉了 —— 它现在只剩一件写入方不知道的事:root span 关闭时 flush 一次(那是"到此为止的记录构成一次完整调用"的点)。另外 WARN/ERROR 写入即 flush —— 罕见,且进程挂了你会想要它在盘上。

顺带解决的两件事

anchor 现在和它的 span 在同一个文件里,所以每个文件对恢复 wall time 是自洽的 —— 不再需要"span 文件 + stderr 抓取"两个来源。读取侧那条警告的含义也随之变了:从"你漏了 stderr"变成"某个输入不完整"。

文件名 host-strace.<pid>.loghost.<pid>.log,因为它现在是这个进程的整份 host log,不只是 strace。

明确留在控制台的

Python 通过自己 logging 模块打的消息。那是第二个日志系统:阈值同步了,但信封不同([%(levelname)s] %(message)s没有时间戳、没有 tid),所以它的记录无论写到哪都无法与这条流排序 —— 把它指向同一个文件只会在一个文件里放进两种信封和两个缓冲写者,比现在更糟。让它成为这个 logger 的客户是另一个 PR(还牵到 pytest caplog 的取舍)。

所以这个 PR 之后准确的状态是:所有经过 unified logger 的记录在 <output_prefix>/host.<pid>.log 里;Python 自己 logger.* 的消息在控制台。 doc 里就是这么写的,不含糊。

验证

ctest -LE requires_hardware 117/117 · pytest tests/ut/py 1913 passed / 14 skipped · clang-format / ruff / markdownlint 全过。

阴性对照(证明新不变量是被钉住的):把 write_record 改成只路由含 [STRACE] 的记录(即恢复按记录类型路由),LogDirectorySendsEveryRecordToOneBufferedFilePerProcessLogDirectoryTakesOrdinaryRecordsAndFlushesTheSevereOnes 两个立刻红,其余 16 个绿。

之前那版还在的东西都留着:output_prefix 作为路径来源、记录语法只格式化一次、fork 安全、两个测试缺陷的修复、读取侧的多输入 + 目录展开。

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Host log records were written synchronously to stderr, which in a profiled
multi-rank run is one shared pipe. A consumer that does not drain it promptly
blocks the emitting thread inside write(2): 0.01-0.07 ms validation copies were
separated by 10.10-18.44 ms of unnamed gap, sitting exactly on marker flush
boundaries, so the tracer was the dominant term in its own trace.

The destination was not a field or a parameter but a constant inside the one
writer, in a function called write_stderr. So a caller that needed a different
destination could only decide above the logger, which is why the first shape of
this change routed inside the span emitter and left the clock anchor and the
bind-phase summaries behind: the sink had become a property of one call site
rather than of the logger.

- The logger takes an output directory and writes <dir>/host.<pid>.log. It comes
  from CallConfig.output_prefix, already the directory every diagnostic artifact
  goes under and whose contract is that the runtime never derives a path itself,
  so the presence of a prefix is the whole condition and there is no new switch.
  The first non-empty path in a process wins; the submit path and the forked chip
  child each seed their own logger from the config they already hold.
- One place chooses a destination, and it chooses per logger. Every record
  follows: LOG_* records, [STRACE] spans, [CLOCK_ANCHOR], bind phase= summaries,
  and the spans Python emits through unified_log_host_span. No caller declares
  anything, no record kind is special, and there is no state in which part of a
  run's log is in one place and part in another. A process that cannot open its
  file falls back to stderr for that record rather than losing it.
- Each file is fully buffered, flushed when a depth-zero invocation completes and
  on any WARN or ERROR. Direct four-rank run: runner-to-validate gap p95/max
  0.150/0.538 ms -> 0.051/0.164 ms, validation max 16.836 -> 7.291 ms.
- Format the STRACE record once and let the writer place it. The grammar had a
  second copy, which is the divergence hw-native-sys#1792 item 2 exists to prevent: its
  previous instance differed only in an inv conversion.
- Make the sink fork-safe: lock across the fork boundary, reopen a child-owned
  file, and close the inherited descriptor without flushing the parent's copied
  stdio buffer.

Because a process's anchor now lands in the same file as its records, each file
is self-contained for wall-clock recovery. strace_timing.py takes several inputs
and concatenates them - every record already carries its pid - and a directory
expands to the host.*.log files inside it, so a run's output_prefix can be passed
as-is. It also warns when a pid emitted spans and no anchor was found for it,
which now means an input arrived incomplete rather than that a stream was left
out.

Messages Python logs through its own logging module stay on the console. That is
a second logging system with the same threshold and a different envelope - no
timestamp, no thread id - so its records cannot be ordered against this stream
wherever they are written, and pointing it at the same file would put two
envelopes and two buffered writers in one place. Making it a client of this
logger is a separate change.

What this deliberately is not: the flush runs on the thread that emitted the
record, where ftrace and Perfetto hand bytes to a consumer and never let a
producer touch the output, and a full buffer blocks that thread rather than
dropping and counting, where every comparable tracer bounds its buffer and
exports a loss counter. The gain is one write per flush boundary instead of one
per record - an order of magnitude, not the removal of the observer effect, which
is why a residual tail remains. A drop counter is hw-native-sys#1792 item 6's first stage and
is still open.

Tests cover one buffered file per process holding the anchor and the spans with
nothing left on stderr — each record pinned by its whole field sequence, since a
span name can be a prefix of a longer one — an ordinary record following the same way with severe
ones flushed as written, parent/child file ownership, the submit path seeding the
directory, and on the reader side a multi-input run, a directory expansion, and
the missing-anchor warning. The fork case asserts the parent's file does not yet
hold the parent's unflushed record, which is the only place a wrongly flushed
inherited buffer is visible; asserting on the child's file alone passes even when
the child flushes the parent's bytes. Both directory tests bind through a scope
guard, so one cannot redirect a later test's records, and each sets the level it
needs rather than inheriting one from an earlier test in the same binary.

Related to hw-native-sys/pypto-serving#179.
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Python and C++ were two logging systems that agreed only on a threshold.
`Worker.init()` pushed the `simpler` logger's level into the native state, but a
Python record was then formatted by whatever handler sat on the root logger as
`[%(levelname)s] %(message)s` — no monotonic timestamp, no thread id. So a
Python record could not be ordered against a C++ one no matter where either was
written, and it went to the root logger's handler rather than to the host
logger's own output. The issue this belongs to is titled *one clock, one grammar,
one gate*; the Python side had the gate and neither of the others.

Seeding the native threshold now also installs a handler on the `simpler` logger
that forwards each record through `unified_log_*`, so every record in the process
shares one envelope, one clock and one destination.

- One new binding, `_emit_host_log(level, func, message)`, hands an
  already-formatted message to `HostLogger::log`. The message is passed as a
  `%s` argument, and a level outside the ladder is refused rather than cast.
- A record's level is rounded toward the milder name (`35` becomes `WARN`), the
  opposite direction from `_normalize_threshold`: asking for a *threshold* of 35
  must not silently admit warnings, but a record at 35 is a warning someone gave
  a custom number.
- `propagate` is deliberately untouched, so a record still reaches the root
  logger as well. That keeps an interactive console readable and keeps
  `caplog.at_level(..., logger="simpler")` working — five test files assert on
  warnings that way. The host log is the complete copy; the console is a view of
  it. Turning propagation off would make the file the only destination and blind
  all of them.
- The handler is installed where the threshold is seeded, not at import.
  `import simpler` has to keep working when `_task_interface` is missing or
  stale, which the build-stamp guard makes routine on every source-tree move
  until a rebuild, so putting the extension on the import path of the logging
  surface would lose the logger exactly when it is needed to explain why.
  Records logged before a worker is initialized stay on the root handler.
- The handler swallows its own failures through `handleError`: a logging call
  must not become the reason a run fails.

Tests cover the forwarded level/func/message, that propagation and `caplog`
survive, idempotent installation, the rounding direction, that a failing sink
does not raise into its caller, and that `import simpler` installs nothing. One
of them exists specifically because the others do not need it: every other test
installs the handler itself, so without a test that `_initialize_host_log`
installs it, the production line doing so could be deleted with the suite
staying green. Verified by removing that line — exactly one test fails.

hw-native-sys#1945 gave the host logger a configurable destination, so a run's Python records
now join its C++ records in `<output_prefix>/host.<pid>.log`. That PR's own
description of what stays on the console is corrected here in the same change:
it said routing Python's records through the host logger was a separate change,
which this is.
ChaoWao added a commit to ChaoWao/simpler-fork that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Python and C++ were two logging systems that agreed only on a threshold.
`Worker.init()` pushed the `simpler` logger's level into the native state, but a
Python record was then formatted by whatever handler sat on the root logger as
`[%(levelname)s] %(message)s` — no monotonic timestamp, no thread id. So a
Python record could not be ordered against a C++ one no matter where either was
written, and it went to the root logger's handler rather than to the host
logger's own output. The issue this belongs to is titled *one clock, one grammar,
one gate*; the Python side had the gate and neither of the others.

Seeding the native threshold now also installs a handler on the `simpler` logger
that forwards each record through `unified_log_*`, so every record in the process
shares one envelope, one clock and one destination.

- One new binding, `_emit_host_log(level, func, message)`, hands an
  already-formatted message to `HostLogger::log`. The message is passed as a
  `%s` argument, and a level outside the ladder is refused rather than cast.
- A record's level is rounded toward the milder name (`35` becomes `WARN`), the
  opposite direction from `_normalize_threshold`: asking for a *threshold* of 35
  must not silently admit warnings, but a record at 35 is a warning someone gave
  a custom number.
- `propagate` is deliberately untouched, so a record still reaches the root
  logger as well. That keeps an interactive console readable and keeps
  `caplog.at_level(..., logger="simpler")` working — five test files assert on
  warnings that way. The host log is the complete copy; the console is a view of
  it. Turning propagation off would make the file the only destination and blind
  all of them.
- The handler is installed where the threshold is seeded, not at import.
  `import simpler` has to keep working when `_task_interface` is missing or
  stale, which the build-stamp guard makes routine on every source-tree move
  until a rebuild, so putting the extension on the import path of the logging
  surface would lose the logger exactly when it is needed to explain why.
  Records logged before a worker is initialized stay on the root handler.
- The handler swallows its own failures through `handleError`: a logging call
  must not become the reason a run fails.
- Installation takes a module-level lock. `Worker.init()` and `ChipWorker.init()`
  hold per-instance locks, so nothing above serializes two instances
  initializing from different threads, and an unguarded check-and-add would let
  both add a handler and forward every record twice.

Tests cover the forwarded level/func/message, that propagation and `caplog`
survive, idempotent installation, the rounding direction, that a failing sink
does not raise into its caller, and that `import simpler` installs nothing. One
of them exists specifically because the others do not need it: every other test
installs the handler itself, so without a test that `_initialize_host_log`
installs it, the production line doing so could be deleted with the suite
staying green. Verified by removing that line — exactly one test fails.

hw-native-sys#1945 gave the host logger a configurable destination, so a run's Python records
now join its C++ records in `<output_prefix>/host.<pid>.log`. That PR's own
description of what stays on the console is corrected here in the same change:
it said routing Python's records through the host logger was a separate change,
which this is.
ChaoWao added a commit to ChaoWao/simpler-fork that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Python and C++ were two logging systems that agreed only on a threshold.
`Worker.init()` pushed the `simpler` logger's level into the native state, but a
Python record was then formatted by whatever handler sat on the root logger as
`[%(levelname)s] %(message)s` — no monotonic timestamp, no thread id. So a
Python record could not be ordered against a C++ one no matter where either was
written, and it went to the root logger's handler rather than to the host
logger's own output. The issue this belongs to is titled *one clock, one grammar,
one gate*; the Python side had the gate and neither of the others.

Seeding the native threshold now also installs a handler on the `simpler` logger
that forwards each record through `unified_log_*`, so every record in the process
shares one envelope, one clock and one destination.

- One new binding, `_emit_host_log(level, func, message)`, hands an
  already-formatted message to `HostLogger::log`. The message is passed as a
  `%s` argument, and a level outside the ladder is refused rather than cast.
- A record's level is rounded toward the milder name (`35` becomes `WARN`), the
  opposite direction from `_normalize_threshold`: asking for a *threshold* of 35
  must not silently admit warnings, but a record at 35 is a warning someone gave
  a custom number.
- Forwarding is conditional on the host logger having a destination of its own.
  It writes to stderr until a run gives it a directory, and the root logger's
  handler already prints there, so forwarding unconditionally put one record on
  one stream twice, in two envelopes, for every run that does not ask for
  diagnostics. The check is per record because the directory arrives with a
  run's config, after this handler is installed.
- `propagate` is deliberately untouched, so a record still reaches the root
  logger as well. That keeps an interactive console readable and keeps
  `caplog.at_level(..., logger="simpler")` working — five test files assert on
  warnings that way. The host log is the complete copy; the console is a view of
  it. Turning propagation off would make the file the only destination and blind
  all of them.
- The handler is installed where the threshold is seeded, not at import.
  `import simpler` has to keep working when `_task_interface` is missing or
  stale, which the build-stamp guard makes routine on every source-tree move
  until a rebuild, so putting the extension on the import path of the logging
  surface would lose the logger exactly when it is needed to explain why.
  Records logged before a worker is initialized stay on the root handler.
- The handler swallows its own failures through `handleError`: a logging call
  must not become the reason a run fails.
- Installation takes a module-level lock. `Worker.init()` and `ChipWorker.init()`
  hold per-instance locks, so nothing above serializes two instances
  initializing from different threads, and an unguarded check-and-add would let
  both add a handler and forward every record twice.

Tests cover the forwarded level/func/message, that nothing is forwarded while the
host log writes to stderr, that propagation and `caplog` survive, idempotent and
concurrent installation, the rounding direction, that a failing sink does not
raise into its caller, and that `import simpler` installs nothing. Their fixture
owns both the handler list and the logger level: this logger is process-global,
`configure_logging("null")` earlier in the same file leaves the level at `NUL`
without restoring it, and the suite's execution order is not the order the tests
are written in, so inheriting either one makes an assertion pass or fail by
position rather than by behaviour. One
of them exists specifically because the others do not need it: every other test
installs the handler itself, so without a test that `_initialize_host_log`
installs it, the production line doing so could be deleted with the suite
staying green. Verified by removing that line — exactly one test fails.

hw-native-sys#1945 gave the host logger a configurable destination, so a run's Python records
now join its C++ records in `<output_prefix>/host.<pid>.log`. That PR's own
description of what stays on the console is corrected here in the same change:
it said routing Python's records through the host logger was a separate change,
which this is.
ChaoWao added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Python and C++ were two logging systems that agreed only on a threshold.
`Worker.init()` pushed the `simpler` logger's level into the native state, but a
Python record was then formatted by whatever handler sat on the root logger as
`[%(levelname)s] %(message)s` — no monotonic timestamp, no thread id. So a
Python record could not be ordered against a C++ one no matter where either was
written, and it went to the root logger's handler rather than to the host
logger's own output. The issue this belongs to is titled *one clock, one grammar,
one gate*; the Python side had the gate and neither of the others.

Seeding the native threshold now also installs a handler on the `simpler` logger
that forwards each record through `unified_log_*`, so every record in the process
shares one envelope, one clock and one destination.

- One new binding, `_emit_host_log(level, func, message)`, hands an
  already-formatted message to `HostLogger::log`. The message is passed as a
  `%s` argument, and a level outside the ladder is refused rather than cast.
- A record's level is rounded toward the milder name (`35` becomes `WARN`), the
  opposite direction from `_normalize_threshold`: asking for a *threshold* of 35
  must not silently admit warnings, but a record at 35 is a warning someone gave
  a custom number.
- Forwarding is conditional on the host logger having a destination of its own.
  It writes to stderr until a run gives it a directory, and the root logger's
  handler already prints there, so forwarding unconditionally put one record on
  one stream twice, in two envelopes, for every run that does not ask for
  diagnostics. The check is per record because the directory arrives with a
  run's config, after this handler is installed.
- `propagate` is deliberately untouched, so a record still reaches the root
  logger as well. That keeps an interactive console readable and keeps
  `caplog.at_level(..., logger="simpler")` working — five test files assert on
  warnings that way. The host log is the complete copy; the console is a view of
  it. Turning propagation off would make the file the only destination and blind
  all of them.
- The handler is installed where the threshold is seeded, not at import.
  `import simpler` has to keep working when `_task_interface` is missing or
  stale, which the build-stamp guard makes routine on every source-tree move
  until a rebuild, so putting the extension on the import path of the logging
  surface would lose the logger exactly when it is needed to explain why.
  Records logged before a worker is initialized stay on the root handler.
- The handler swallows its own failures through `handleError`: a logging call
  must not become the reason a run fails.
- Installation takes a module-level lock. `Worker.init()` and `ChipWorker.init()`
  hold per-instance locks, so nothing above serializes two instances
  initializing from different threads, and an unguarded check-and-add would let
  both add a handler and forward every record twice.

Tests cover the forwarded level/func/message, that nothing is forwarded while the
host log writes to stderr, that propagation and `caplog` survive, idempotent and
concurrent installation, the rounding direction, that a failing sink does not
raise into its caller, and that `import simpler` installs nothing. Their fixture
owns both the handler list and the logger level: this logger is process-global,
`configure_logging("null")` earlier in the same file leaves the level at `NUL`
without restoring it, and the suite's execution order is not the order the tests
are written in, so inheriting either one makes an assertion pass or fail by
position rather than by behaviour. One
of them exists specifically because the others do not need it: every other test
installs the handler itself, so without a test that `_initialize_host_log`
installs it, the production line doing so could be deleted with the suite
staying green. Verified by removing that line — exactly one test fails.

#1945 gave the host logger a configurable destination, so a run's Python records
now join its C++ records in `<output_prefix>/host.<pid>.log`. That PR's own
description of what stays on the console is corrected here in the same change:
it said routing Python's records through the host logger was a separate change,
which this is.
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