dfx: capture outer Graph tasks in host dep-gen

[Crane-Liu]

Summary

• capture host-build-graph outer GRAPH ring tasks in deps.json
• record Graph boundaries with invalid kernel IDs and their boundary args, preserving the dependency-only runtime role without treating invalid IDs alone as a Graph discriminator
• reuse the normal fan-in annotation path so creator and tensormap edges into Graph boundaries keep the standard schema
• cover both a2a3 and a5 host-build-graph runtimes
• cover mixed fallback and Graph-only async record/replay outputs, selecting only artifacts created or updated by the current run

Context

After async Graph recording landed in #1897, Graph bodies may either replay through an outer GRAPH task or fall back to ordinary tasks for a different cache key. The ordinary fallback tasks were visible to host dep-gen, but the outer Graph tasks and their incoming boundary edges were omitted. A Graph-only run therefore produced no deps.json at all even though runtime execution was correct.

This change captures only the runtime-visible outer task. It does not expand a cached Graph definition into its internal nodes or change Graph execution, allocation, upload, or scheduling behavior.

Validation

• a2a3sim mixed fallback with dep-gen: captured tasks 0..7, outer Graph tasks 1 and 7, and creator edges 0 -> 1 / 0 -> 7
• a2a3sim Graph-only mix SPMD with dep-gen: captured outer Graph tasks 0..2 and zero dependency edges
• a2a3sim mixed fallback and Graph-only cases without dep-gen: passed
• a2a3 onboard mixed fallback and Graph-only cases with dep-gen: passed via task-submit task task_20260819_215719_419142230438
• runtime builds: a2a3sim, a2a3, a5sim, and a5 passed
• ruff check, clang-format --dry-run --Werror, and git diff --check passed

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The runtimes now share dependency annotation logic and capture dependency metadata for outer GRAPH tasks. Graph execution tests validate generated deps.json entries, task IDs, outer GRAPH tasks, and creator edges.

Changes

GRAPH dependency capture

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared dependency annotation src/a2a3/.../pto_orchestrator.cpp, src/a5/.../pto_orchestrator.cpp	Both runtimes use a shared DepGraphAnnotate helper for creator and TensorMap dependency edges.
Outer GRAPH capture and validation src/a2a3/.../pto_orchestrator.cpp, src/a5/.../pto_orchestrator.cpp, tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/graph_execution/test_graph_execution.py	Outer GRAPH submissions capture annotated boundary fanins and close capture records on success or failure. Tests validate generated dependency metadata and creator edges.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3e486

This change adds outer Graph tasks and their creator edges to dependency output without changing runtime execution. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness because the regression test can occasionally validate stale output when runs occur within the same second; tightening artifact selection is recommended follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OuterGraphSubmission
  participant DepGraphAnnotate
  participant DependencyCapture
  participant GraphExecutionTest
  OuterGraphSubmission->>DependencyCapture: begin outer GRAPH capture
  OuterGraphSubmission->>DepGraphAnnotate: compute annotated boundary fanins
  DepGraphAnnotate-->>DependencyCapture: creator and TensorMap edges
  OuterGraphSubmission->>DependencyCapture: end capture
  GraphExecutionTest->>DependencyCapture: read generated deps.json
  DependencyCapture-->>GraphExecutionTest: return task and edge metadata

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Possibly related PRs

• hw-native-sys/simpler#1444: Introduced related graph-capture logic and test coverage.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1731: Modified outer GRAPH recording and dependency metadata.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1897: Added related asynchronous graph-recording changes.

Poem

A rabbit hops through graphs tonight,
Creator edges snap in light.
Outer tasks leave trails so clear,
deps.json brings each path near.
TensorMaps join the dance—
Capture closes with a prance!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 10.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: capturing outer Graph tasks during host dependency generation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the dependency-generation changes, affected runtimes, regression coverage, and validation results.

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In `@tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/graph_execution/test_graph_execution.py`:
- Around line 12-13: Update the artifact-selection logic around
super().test_run(...) to snapshot matching output-directory modification times
before execution, then accept only directories that are new or have a later
mtime than the snapshot. Remove reliance on int(time.time()) and ensure the
selected directory’s deps.json comes from a post-run artifact rather than a
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• src/a2a3/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp
• src/a5/runtime/host_build_graph/runtime/orchestrator_core/pto_orchestrator.cpp
• tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/graph_execution/test_graph_execution.py

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[ChaoWao]

I had the same change open as #1908 (created 27 min earlier); this one is a strict
superset of it — every line of mine is here, plus the regression assertion I had not
written — so I am closing #1908 in favour of this. Three things from measuring mine that
may be worth folding in.

1. record_then_replay_mix_spmd produced no deps.json at all before this. I ran
both cases in graph_execution with --enable-dep-gen on a2a3sim, before and after:

case	before	after
record_then_replay_2d	6 tasks / 8 edges	8 tasks / 10 edges
record_then_replay_mix_spmd	no deps.json written	3 tasks / 0 edges

mix_spmd submits nothing but Graphs, so dep_gen had no task to open an entry for and
never wrote the file — which is a sharper statement of the gap than the 2d case's missing
nodes. _validate_outer_graph_capture only covers the 2d case; the mix_spmd case is
where "no artifact at all" regressed to, and it would catch a future change that stops
opening entries for Graph-only runs.

2. kernel_ids == [-1, -1, -1] alone does not mean "is a Graph". The 2d case's
rt_submit_dummy_task fence carries the same triple, so that count goes 1 → 3 rather than
0 → 2. The test handles this correctly by also requiring len(args) == 3; I mention it
only because the same wording ("identifiable by their all-invalid kernel ids") was in my
PR body and is not true on its own.

3. deps_viewer renders the mix_spmd output as 0 nodes. With 3 tasks / 3 tensors /
0 edges, python -m simpler_setup.tools.deps_viewer --format html writes an empty graph —
it drops isolated nodes. So for a Graph-only run the capture now lands in deps.json but
still shows nothing in the HTML view. Not this PR's job to fix, but it does bound what the
change buys a reader who looks at the rendered graph.

For the record on CI: my run of the same diff hit one st-network1-onboard-a2a3 failure
(examples/workers/l4/global_tload_mixed_l3, remote worker → finalize_native_run failed with code -100, then a leaked global comm domain), while this PR and #1905/#1907/#1890
all passed that job. That example contains no rt_submit_graph and the capture is gated
on dep_gen_host_graph_enabled(), so the diff cannot reach it — but the lane failing once
under an unrelated change is worth knowing if it shows up again.

[Crane-Liu]

@ChaoWao Addressed:

• Added a record_then_replay_mix_spmd regression that requires three captured outer Graph tasks and zero edges, covering the prior no-deps.json failure mode.
• Kept Graph identification case-specific: the mixed-fallback test requires invalid kernel IDs plus three args, while mix SPMD requires invalid IDs plus one arg. The PR description now states that invalid IDs alone are not a discriminator.
• Agreed that deps_viewer dropping isolated tasks is outside this PR; it is recorded locally for a focused follow-up.
• Thanks for the st-network1-onboard-a2a3 failure context. This PR run passed that lane, so no unrelated runtime change was folded in.