Stop creating, and stop coalescing, divergent L0C accumulator chains - #2472
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…loop AutoTileMatmulL0 built the K-loop body for a plain `tile.matmul` as an `if ko == 0` phi between a fresh `tile.matmul` and an in-place `tile.matmul_acc`. That gives one logical value two producers on two L0C buffers, so every pass downstream has to agree on which buffer the phi lives in — and there is no Acc->Acc copy to reconcile them when they disagree. Emit a single `tile.matmul_acc` predicated on `init_cond=(ko == 0)` instead. The op has carried that operand since the split-K idiom landed, and the backend expands it into the pto.tmatmul / pto.tmatmul.acc pair, with a literal predicate picking one arm outright — so the selection costs no IR-level control flow. A predicated accumulate is in place on both paths, so the chain cannot leave the accumulator buffer and no phi is materialized on the Acc tile at all. `tile.matmul_bias` keeps the branch: it has no `init_cond` operand, and its first K step must apply the bias exactly once.
MemoryReuse repaired an accumulator if-phi whose arms landed on different L0C buffers by retargeting the seed producer onto the accumulator's buffer, bypassing the dead-at-assign liveness check on a branch- exclusivity argument. That argument does not cover a post-if read of the accumulator that does not go through the phi: on the seed path the accumulator is overwritten before that read, and the read returns the seed's data with no diagnostic at any layer. The same code resolved each phi against pre-coalesce types, so an unrolled K-chain fragmented into one live L0C allocation per block, leaving mad_accs whose declared output no longer aliased the accumulator they read. Drop the coalescing and report the divergence, naming both buffers. Nothing reads L0C except the FIXPIPE drain, whose destinations are L1 and GM, so no Acc-to-Acc copy exists on any target and the author has to resolve which buffer the accumulator lives in. The guard is now a CHECK — a user-facing ValueError — rather than an INTERNAL_CHECK. YieldFixupMutator now reads IfStmt branch arms with AsVarLike. `As<Var>` never matches an IterArg, so a phi that merely forwards an enclosing loop's carry was skipped and left on a buffer the reuse step had already retargeted away, which would otherwise be reported as a divergence that is not in fact one. Its Vec counterpart now emits the copy that pto codegen relies on this pass having made, instead of leaving the phi buffer unwritten on the else path.
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| /// ``tile.matmul_bias`` has no ``init_cond`` operand, so the bias form keeps the | ||
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When tile.matmul_bias requires K tiling into a stage-2 pipeline, retaining this IfStmt still creates a fresh-Acc bias seed in one arm and an in-place tile.matmul_acc on the carried L0C buffer in the other. LowerPipelineLoops clones/peels that divergent shape, but this commit removes accumulator-phi coalescing from both the PYPTO and DSA-RP paths, so yield fixup now attempts an Acc-to-Acc reconciliation and raises the new ValueError; valid K-split biased matmuls that previously compiled therefore fail during default lowering. Emit a single-buffer initialization form for the bias case or preserve safe coalescing for this generated branch shape.
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In `@src/ir/transforms/memory_reuse_pass.cpp`:
- Around line 2603-2612: Update the ForStmt carry fixup paths in
MaterializeSemanticAliases to use AsVarLike for both yield_var and init_var
casts, including reachable IterArg values. Preserve the existing carry alignment
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| // Arms are read as Var-*like*: `As<Var>` never matches an `IterArg` | ||
| // (ir-kind-traits.md), so a phi that merely forwards an enclosing loop's carry | ||
| // used to be skipped entirely — leaving its return_var on the buffer Step 3's | ||
| // reuse had already retargeted away, and making the ForStmt half below report a | ||
| // divergent Acc carry that is not in fact divergent. | ||
| for (size_t i = 0; i < new_return_vars.size(); ++i) { | ||
| VarPtr then_var = | ||
| (then_yield && i < then_yield->value_.size()) ? As<Var>(then_yield->value_[i]) : nullptr; | ||
| (then_yield && i < then_yield->value_.size()) ? AsVarLike(then_yield->value_[i]) : nullptr; | ||
| VarPtr else_var = | ||
| (else_yield && i < else_yield->value_.size()) ? As<Var>(else_yield->value_[i]) : nullptr; | ||
| (else_yield && i < else_yield->value_.size()) ? AsVarLike(else_yield->value_[i]) : nullptr; |
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Use AsVarLike for ForStmt carry values. MaterializeSemanticAliases calls YieldFixupMutator without AlignLoopCarriesToInitMutator, so As<Var> skips reachable IterArg init and yield values. Replace both yield_var and init_var casts in the ForStmt fixup paths with AsVarLike.
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In `@src/ir/transforms/memory_reuse_pass.cpp` around lines 2603 - 2612, Update the
ForStmt carry fixup paths in MaterializeSemanticAliases to use AsVarLike for
both yield_var and init_var casts, including reachable IterArg values. Preserve
the existing carry alignment and fixup behavior while replacing the
As<Var>-based checks.
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Summary
An L0C accumulator whose value reaches a control-flow merge on two different
buffers cannot be reconciled: nothing reads L0C except the FIXPIPE drain, whose
destinations are L1 and GM, so no
Acc->Acccopy exists on any target.MemoryReuse used to paper over that by retargeting one branch's producer onto
the other's buffer; when it could not, it aborted with an internal error.
This stops creating the shape and stops trying to repair it.
AutoTileMatmulL0emits a predicated
tile.matmul_accinstead of anif ko == 0phi over a freshtile.matmuland an in-place accumulate, so the auto-tiled K-loop can no longerproduce a divergent chain. MemoryReuse drops the coalescing and reports the
divergence with both buffer identities, as a user-facing
ValueErrorratherthan an
InternalError.Two silent defects go away with the coalescing: a post-if read of the
accumulator that does not go through the phi was clobbered on the seed path,
and an unrolled K-chain fragmented into one live L0C allocation per block with
mad_accs whose declared output no longer aliased the accumulator they read.Changes
src/ir/transforms/auto_tile_matmul_l0_pass.cpp:BuildMatmulBodyemits onetile.matmul_accpredicated oninit_cond=(ko == 0)for a plaintile.matmul. The backend expands the predicate into thepto.tmatmul/pto.tmatmul.accpair and a literal predicate picks one arm outright, so theselection costs no IR-level control flow and the body stays in place — and
therefore on one buffer — on both paths.
tile.matmul_biaskeeps the branch:it has no
init_condoperand and its first K step must apply the bias once.src/ir/transforms/memory_reuse_pass.cpp: removesCoalesceAccumulatorIfPhis,TryCoalesceAccIfPhi,IsInplaceAccumulatorProducer, both call sites (MemoryReuse step 3.75 and theDSA-RP path), and the two escape hatches that existed only for them
(
RetargetAssign'scheck_liveness,IsTargetDeadAtAssign'sstop_at). TheAcc guard becomes a
CHECKwhose message names the source variable and bothMemRefs.
YieldFixupMutatorreads IfStmt branch arms withAsVarLike:As<Var>never matches anIterArg, so a phi forwarding an enclosing loop'scarry was skipped and left on a buffer the reuse step had already retargeted
away.
tests/ut/ir/transforms/: expectations updated to the predicated form; thecoalescing tests become diagnostic tests; the pipelined-K-loop test now writes
its kernel with
init_condand keeps its one-buffer / no-tile.moveassertions.
docs/{en,zh}/dev/:ir/05-operators.md,passes/15-auto_tile_matmul_l0.md,and
passes/33-memory_reuse.md(coalescing step removed, remaining stepsrenumbered).
Behavior change
A hand-written
if k == 0: pl.matmul / else: pl.matmul_accpeel whose arms endup on different L0C buffers is now reported instead of coalesced:
The common spelling of that idiom — the peel inside a loop that carries the
accumulator — is unaffected:
MaterializeSemanticAliasesalready propagates thecarry's buffer through the phi, and that path is unchanged.
Verification
python -m pytest tests/ut -q -n 8: 10119 passed, 3 skipped.pre-commithooks on both commits: all passed (headers, en/zh doc parity, docnav, emitter CHECK classification, op-name literals, clang-format, cpplint,
markdownlint, ruff, pyright).
2cd5f82: 52 kernel scripts that use the peeledif k == 0matmul/matmul_acc idiom (95 sites), each compiledcompile_onlyin its own process against this branch — 51 compiled, 0 hit the new
diagnostic. The one failure,
models/qwen3_14b/decode_tq_draft.py, is apypto-lib-side
AttributeError: 'Qwen3DynamicDims' object has no attribute 'user_batch'raised at import, before any compilation.tests/st, and any on-device execution.