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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughRemote tensor views now preserve full backing geometry and non-zero offsets. Buffer materialization uses adapter capabilities and canonical identities. Host/device copies now support independent offsets and validated byte spans across Python, C++, mailbox, and L3 paths. ChangesRemote buffer and copy behavior
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR changes device allocation lookup to canonical buffer identity and adds bounded copy offsets with protocol version 4. Remaining issues are localized lint, documentation, and code-maintenance cleanups; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains, so the PR is merge-ready after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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python/simpler/remote_l3_session.py (1)
635-640: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winValidate the parallel lengths before
zip.Ruff reports B905 for this
zipcall. Do not addstrict=: the repository supports Python 3.9, where that keyword does not exist. Check thatshapesandstrideshave the same length first, as_materialize_task_argsalready does for tensors and descriptors at line 596.♻️ Proposed length check
def _tensor_extent_bytes(tensor) -> int: """Return the validated Tensor view extent, including gaps from explicit strides.""" + if len(tensor.shapes) != len(tensor.strides): + raise ValueError("remote TASK tensor shape and stride counts disagree") last_element = 0 - for shape, stride in zip(tensor.shapes, tensor.strides): + for shape, stride in zip(tensor.shapes, tensor.strides): # noqa: B905 - Python 3.9 has no strict= last_element += (int(shape) - 1) * int(stride) return (last_element + 1) * int(get_element_size(tensor.dtype))Based on learnings: "This repository supports Python 3.9 ... Do not use the
strictkeyword argument tozip()... explicitly validate that their lengths match before callingzip()."🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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python/simpler/remote_l3_protocol.py (1)
29-32: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe v4 version comment is duplicated on both ends and describes the v3 rationale. Both constants moved from 3 to 4, but the accompanying comment still explains the self-describing wire
Tensorrecord. The change in this PR does not alter the per-argument byte layout; it changes field meaning, becauseBufferDescriptor.nbytesis now the whole backing and a non-zerobyte_offsetis accepted. A v3 peer would readnbytesas the view length and reject the offset, which is the reason the bump is needed.
python/simpler/remote_l3_protocol.py#L29-L32: replace the comment with the v4 meaning change (nbytes = whole backing, non-zerobyte_offsetvalid, layout unchanged).src/common/hierarchical/remote_wire.h#L26-L29: apply the same corrected text so both ends state one reason.Based on learnings: "If a change ... does not change the emitted wire bytes ... then do NOT bump PROTOCOL_VERSION ... If the byte sequence/length changes, a PROTOCOL_VERSION bump is required." This bump encodes a semantic change instead, so the comment should say so.
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10173-10226: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider a private name for this authorization method.
requireis a public method on the user-facingWorkerclass, but it is an internal authorization step. Every other member of this guard uses a leading underscore (_require_freeable,_device_worker_for,_record_device_alloc). A publicWorker.requirealso invites confusion withImportRegistry.requireinpython/simpler/buffer.py, which has a different signature and contract. Rename it to_require_device_capability(or similar) and update the call sites incopy_to,copy_from, and the tests.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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_Worker.copy_tonow receives(worker_id, dst_descriptor, src_descriptor, nbytes, dst_offset, src_offset). The nearby assertions already index positions 1 and 3 of the six-argument call.🧹 Proposed fix
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In `@docs/user/reference/python-api.md`:
- Around line 65-73: Move the partial-update paragraph beginning “A partial
update names” to after the final Memory table row for
create_buffer/Buffer.close, keeping all Memory table rows contiguous under their
header.
In `@tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_child_addr_guard.py`:
- Around line 370-371: Update the pytest.raises match pattern in the w.copy_to
test to use a raw string literal, preserving the existing regex and expected
error message.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@python/simpler/remote_l3_protocol.py`:
- Around line 29-32: The protocol-version comments at
python/simpler/remote_l3_protocol.py lines 29-32 and
src/common/hierarchical/remote_wire.h lines 26-29 both require the same
correction: state that v4 changes field meaning, with BufferDescriptor.nbytes
representing the whole backing and non-zero byte_offset being valid, while the
wire layout remains unchanged. Update both comments consistently; no protocol or
implementation changes are requested.
In `@python/simpler/remote_l3_session.py`:
- Around line 635-640: Update _tensor_extent_bytes to validate that
tensor.shapes and tensor.strides have equal lengths before the zip call,
following the existing validation pattern in _materialize_task_args; preserve
the current extent calculation after validation and do not use zip(strict=...)
for Python 3.9 compatibility.
In `@python/simpler/worker.py`:
- Around line 10173-10226: Rename Worker.require to a private authorization
method such as _require_device_capability, preserving its existing validation
and return behavior. Update all call sites in copy_to, copy_from, and related
tests to use the renamed method, avoiding changes to ImportRegistry.require or
unrelated APIs.
In `@tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_child_addr_guard.py`:
- Around line 319-322: Update the call-signature comment near
nw.copy_to.assert_called_once() to list all six arguments in _Worker.copy_to
order: worker_id, dst_descriptor, src_descriptor, nbytes, dst_offset, and
src_offset; leave the existing assertions unchanged.
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Whether an endpoint may reach a backing, and by which mechanism, was one
question answered in two vocabularies, and a device allocation was named by
an address. Both are replaced here.
**One judgment for reach.** Region planning named its answers (AdapterKind x
AdapterProfile, refusals tagged with a RegionAccessReasonCode) and covered the
two backings a region can have; materialization answered the same question for
five wire backends through an unnamed `backend_kind` switch, with the endpoint
check in a separate block sharing no data with it. `select_adapter(desc,
context)` is now that judgment for both, and resolvers dispatch on the profile
alone.
The two moments disagreed about one relation, and both were live: for a device
backing at a host endpoint, planning answered `OWNER_DELEGATED_COPY` /
`HOST_VMM_COPY` -- and `comm_region._validate_consumer_attachment` accepts
nothing else -- while materialization refused it as `UNSUPPORTED_ENDPOINT_RELATION`.
That refusal was not a verdict about capability: `_select_adapter` fed a resolver
that must return a local base, so it could only ever name a mechanism producing
one, and "I cannot map this" came out as "there is no relation here". It also
keyed on `address_space` rather than on whether the backend is mappable at this
endpoint, so a device backend a host *can* map would be refused before the
mechanism table was consulted.
Being unable to map a backing is not being unable to touch it. What separates
the two host endpoints is a delegation channel, not the address space: a Worker
owns chip children and can ask one to copy, a SUB child owns nothing and
genuinely cannot reach a device backing. `ImportContext.device_owner_instance_id`
carries which Worker's device memory an endpoint relates to, and
`is_host_endpoint` says whether it *is* one of that Worker's chips or *owns*
them. `materialize` keeps its contract by narrowing the judgment to the
mechanisms that produce an address, and its refusal names the one that does
reach the backing.
**Identity, not address.** A device allocation was tracked by a
`(worker_id, device_ptr)` key with a byte extent, so an address was what an
operand presented and what the guard resolved. An address cannot say which
allocation it currently belongs to: a handle whose backing was freed, and whose
address the allocator then handed to a new allocation, passed every check. The
table is now keyed on the canonical identity of the `Buffer` the Worker minted,
and every decision is read off that registered Buffer -- `owner_worker_id` for
which chip, `nbytes` for how far it extends, `access` for what may be done,
`backend_kind` for whether `free` or a domain release reclaims it. `buffer_id`
never repeats within an owner incarnation, so a stale handle resolves to nothing.
This is mostly a deletion. `_ChildProvEntry` existed only because one address
could be both a malloc base and a domain pointer -- a consequence of pointer
aliasing, not of anything real. The domain `max(prior, extent)` merge existed
only because a window and a buffer carved at its offset 0 are indistinguishable
by address; they are separate identities with separate extents now, which is
strictly tighter -- an over-long copy into the small one used to be admitted at
the large one's extent. The interior-pointer range scan answered "which
allocation does this address fall inside", a question identity does not raise.
**A sub-range is named, not addressed.** With the above, an address built at
`base + offset` names no allocation, so `copy_to` / `copy_from` gained the
offsets that express one: `copy_to(dst, src, *, dst_offset=0, src_offset=0,
nbytes=None)` names the whole allocation plus a range inside it. `nbytes`
defaults to the rest of the host side after its offset, so existing calls
transfer the whole host backing as before. On the wire, `ControlCopyRequest`
carries a `CopySpan{nbytes, dst_offset, src_offset}` -- one value per copy
rather than three parallel scalars, so a call site cannot pair a length with the
wrong offsets.
The offset is applied where the base was resolved, never before: at L2 the
Worker advances the address it resolved in this process, at L3+ the chip child
advances the base its own ImportRegistry resolved, both through one helper. The
parent never hands the child an address, which would mean nothing there. Three
bounds, each where the extent it checks is known -- the host end when the length
is resolved, the device end by `_require_device_capability` against the
*registered* allocation, and the child re-bounding both spans against the
descriptors that arrived with them. Every bound subtracts rather than comparing
`offset + nbytes`.
**A remote TASK tensor carries its whole backing.** A Tensor means one thing
everywhere: the descriptor spans the whole backing and `byte_offset` is the
view's origin. The remote path had its own reading -- the record spanned exactly
the view and a non-zero `byte_offset` was rejected on both ends -- so an
interior view of a remote allocation could not be expressed. The placeholder now
follows the local ABI, and the session validates the wire offset against the
sidecar's entry-relative range rather than letting the sidecar zero it.
`decode_tensor` already ran `validate_tensor`, which rejects an offset or extent
that does not fit the backing, so the remote-only rule stood in front of a check
that already held. Shape and stride counts are now also required to match before
the backing extent is computed, instead of allowing `zip` to truncate a malformed
descriptor. Protocol version moves to 4 on both ends.
Testing: `python -m pytest tests/ut` 1923 passed / 7 skipped; `ctest -LE
requires_hardware` 118/118; pre-commit on all changed files passed.
Region planning and Tensor materialization asked the same physical question through two mechanisms. Planning enumerated candidates in `BackendResolver._adapter_candidates`, which covered `VMM_WINDOW` and `POSIX_SHM` and returned `()` for the other four `BackendKind` values; an empty enumeration never reached `RegionAccessService`, so those four backings' access decisions were never asked of it. The default service in turn judged only `HOST_VMM_COPY` and passed every other candidate's `unsupported_reason` straight through, so injecting a service could loosen nothing. `buffer_adapter_candidates(BufferAccessQuery)` is now the one enumeration and `RegionAccessService.evaluate_buffer_access` the one verdict. All six backends produce a candidate, including combinations whose only candidate is unimplemented -- those carry an `unsupported_reason` and are refused by the service, so a refusal is structured rather than an absence. `buffer.py` keeps no backend->profile table of its own; `select_adapter` builds a query and consumes the same answer, and `materialize` narrows it to the mechanisms that produce a local address. Availability is a service verdict, never an assertion carried by a candidate: a caller cannot rebuild a candidate without its diagnostic reason and have it admitted. The converse also holds -- the service admits only mechanisms something implements, either a resolver in `_RESOLVERS` or the owner's control-plane copy. `DEVICE_VMM_PEER_IMPORT` has neither, so it is offered and refused; admitting it would name an attachment no materializer can carry out, moving the refusal out of planning, where it is structured and lists what was tried. One verdict does change for the default service, because it now judges rather than declines: a same-node host consumer of a `POSIX_SHM` backing resolves to `HOST_SHM_MAP`, which `_resolve_host_shm_map` implements. Region materialization still accepts only `VMM_WINDOW` parts, so no shipped region shape reaches it -- `create_worker_chip_region` names its own members and plans the unchanged `HOST_VMM_COPY` edge. `ImportContext` carries the consumer's `EndpointDeployment` and the Worker nonce its device memory belongs to, replacing a host/device boolean. Being unable to map a backing is not being unable to touch it: a Worker that owns a chip reaches that chip's memory by asking it to copy, so a device backing at a host endpoint resolves to `OWNER_DELEGATED_COPY` when a delegation channel exists and is refused only when none does. `_ADAPTER_PROFILE_IDS` numbers the profiles a `GlobalDomainCommand` can carry; three of the new ones are unreachable from region planning and are deliberately absent. Nothing tied the two together, so an import-time check drives `_backend_kind_for_provider` and the enumeration, and fails the import if planning can name a profile the wire cannot encode. Tests: one parameterized matrix over backend x deployment x connectivity x locality replaces the per-path copies, plus a guard that every admitted profile has an implementation, and a region-plan case pinning that an off-node host consumer keeps both copy candidates whatever the backend is. `examples/workers/l3/device_copy_offset` covers `copy_to` / `copy_from` offsets across the fork boundary. The chip child applies the offset to the base its own `ImportRegistry` resolved, which no parent-side test can reach; the example asserts the untouched neighbours of the written window, so an offset applied twice, on the wrong side, or in the wrong process fails it.
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…ping `_view` handed out the whole POSIX shm mapping, and every bound below it was written against `NBYTES`. A shm mapping is page-rounded, so the two are the same length only where the request happens to be a page multiple: 4096 bytes is exactly one page on x86-64 and aarch64 Linux, and a quarter of one on Apple silicon's 16 KiB pages. There the mapping is 16384 bytes and the first whole-view assignment raises `memoryview assignment: lvalue and rvalue have different structures`, which is what macOS sim CI hit. Slicing to `handle.nbytes` makes every window, neighbour and comparison below relative to the backing the Buffer names rather than to the host's page size. The copies were never affected -- `_host_side_of_copy` takes a Buffer's length from `nbytes` -- and the other examples already bound their views the same way, `child_memory` through `torch.frombuffer(..., count=SIZE)`.
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Whether an endpoint may reach a backing, and by which mechanism, was one question answered in two vocabularies; and a device allocation was named by an address. Both are replaced.
select_adapter(desc, context)names the(AdapterKind, AdapterProfile)that reaches a backing from an endpoint, replacingmaterialize()'s unnamedbackend_kindswitch. Resolvers dispatch on the profile alone. (AR1)OWNER_DELEGATED_COPY/HOST_VMM_COPY— andcomm_region._validate_consumer_attachmentaccepts nothing else — while materialization refused it asUNSUPPORTED_ENDPOINT_RELATION. That refusal was a consequence of the return type, not a verdict about capability:_select_adapterfed a resolver that must return a local base, so "I cannot map this" came out as "there is no relation here".materializenow narrows the judgment to the mechanisms that produce an address, and its refusal names the one that does reach the backing.Bufferthe Worker minted; every decision is read off that registered Buffer. A freed handle whose address the allocator reused resolves to nothing. Mostly a deletion —_ChildProvEntry, the domainmax(prior, extent)merge and the interior-pointer range scan all existed only to cope with pointer aliasing. (AR8)copy_to/copy_fromgaineddst_offset/src_offset/nbytes; the wire carries aCopySpan. The offset is applied where the base was resolved — at L2 by the Worker, at L3+ by the chip child — so the parent never hands the child an address that means nothing there.Full reasoning is in the commit message.
Testing
pytest tests/ut/py— 1703 passed / 6 skippedctest --test-dir tests/ut/cpp/build -LE requires_hardware— 115/115, including a newtest_control_copy_requestcovering the wire span bounds and the overflow-wrap caseexamples/workers/l3/child_memorypasses ona2a3sim; a sim probe confirms the forked chip child applies both offsets in both directions and writes only the named window