Fix: make host logging nonblocking and unify sim output - #2029
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughHost logging now uses bounded asynchronous delivery with shared process state, stderr fallback, drop accounting, and fork-aware lifecycle controls. Simulated AICPU logging delegates to HostLogger. Python workers coordinate writer startup and shutdown. Worker copies now validate canonical buffer identities and offsets. ChangesHost logging architecture
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change moves host and simulated logging onto an asynchronous queue and changes writer lifecycle around process forks and worker shutdown. At the current head, a flush failure can interrupt worker cleanup and cause a later close to retry native finalization, while the forked logging tests can fail because inherited writers are not quiesced and restarted. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PythonWorker
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PythonWorker->>HostLogger: initialize with deferred writer
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PythonWorker->>ForkedChild: create child workers
ForkedChild->>HostLogger: start writer after setup
AICPUAdapter->>HostLogger: bind state and emit records
HostLogger-->>PythonWorker: flush accepted records
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1401-1408: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winGuard
_flush_host_log()inChipWorker.finalize().
HostLogger::flush()can reachHostLogAsyncSink::wait_until_empty(), whose uncaught synchronization exceptions can cross the binding. If that occurs afterself._impl.finalize()succeeds, the registry cleanup is skipped andWorker._finalize_chip()does not clearself._chip_worker, so a later close attempt can retryChipWorker.finalize(). SuppressBaseExceptionaround_flush_host_log(), matching the other call sites.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_sim_device_log.cpp`:
- Around line 296-301: Update the high-volume child flush calls in the affected
pipe tests, including the A5 test, to pass an explicit timeout longer than the
default 1000 ms to HostLogger::flush(). Keep the one- or two-record child tests
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In `@python/simpler/task_interface.py`:
- Around line 1401-1408: Update ChipWorker.finalize() to suppress BaseException
raised by _flush_host_log(), while preserving the finally block’s registry
cleanup for every outcome. Match the existing guarded _flush_host_log() handling
used by other call sites and leave self._impl.finalize() behavior unchanged.
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1408-1409: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRecord the suppressed flush failure.
contextlib.suppress(BaseException)discards every flush error without a trace. A repeated drop or a blocked sink then leaves no signal at all, andfinalize()is the last point where this process can report it.Keep the suppression so registry cleanup always runs, and write one short diagnostic line before it is discarded.
Based on learnings, silent exception swallowing in this codebase is treated as a diagnostic-consistency and observability concern rather than a lint violation.
♻️ Proposed diagnostic on the suppressed path
try: self._impl.finalize() finally: - with contextlib.suppress(BaseException): - _flush_host_log() + try: + _flush_host_log() + except BaseException as flush_error: # noqa: BLE001 -- cleanup must always continue + with contextlib.suppress(BaseException): + sys.stderr.write( + f"[chip_worker pid={os.getpid()}] WARN: host-log flush failed during " + f"finalize: {flush_error}\n" + ) with self._registry_lock:This requires
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In `@tests/ut/cpp/common/test_sim_device_log.cpp`:
- Line 233: In tests/ut/cpp/common/test_sim_device_log.cpp, update both
ForkedProcessesEmitWholeRecords at lines 233-233 and
WritersOutrunASmallPipeWithoutDeadlocking at lines 282-282: call
prepare_to_fork() after each bind_level(...) call, then restart the parent
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In `@python/simpler/task_interface.py`:
- Around line 1408-1409: Update the suppressed error path around _flush_host_log
in finalize() to catch the suppressed BaseException, emit one concise diagnostic
line including the failure details, and then preserve suppression so registry
cleanup still runs. Add only the required os and sys imports if the module’s
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Follow-up review: issue #1792 items 5 and 6I reviewed the current PR head against the detailed discussion in #1792 and the implementation introduced by #1945. The code now satisfies the functional requirements of items 5 and 6. The remaining points are review and verification follow-ups rather than known correctness blockers. Item 5: fold simulated device logging into HostLogger
Conclusion: item 5 is implemented. Item 6: never block a log producer
Conclusion: item 6 is implemented. Relationship to #1945 and measurement#1945 introduced the per-process buffered file sink and removed the largest shared-stderr cost, but its producer path could still synchronously write or flush and it did not provide a bounded queue or loss accounting. This PR adds the bounded asynchronous stage needed to complete item 6. The #1792 discussion requested remeasurement after #1945 before adding another queue. Direct production
The exact multi-rank profiling scenario used during #1945 has not been reproduced in this verification. It should be rerun if reviewers require that specific comparison. ABI and compatibility
ABI v3 adds process/sink ownership, an opaque sink context and enqueue callback, dropped/pending counters, and producer lifecycle state. These fields are needed so private Bindings validate the exact ABI version, minimum structure size, and threshold range. The sim loader propagates rejection as a startup failure. The supported contract remains that host and simulated AICPU components come from the same build. Arbitrary mixing with an older binary is not guaranteed; in particular, the old Observable behavior and validationOrdinary host and sim records longer than 512 bytes are deliberately truncated to one Current CI passes on the PR head, including Linux/macOS unit tests and packaging, a2a3sim/a5sim system tests, a2a3/a5 onboard tests, pre-commit, and profiling-flags smoke tests. Targeted coverage includes blocked/full sinks, hard write failure accounting, bounded fork preparation, concurrent producer quiesce/restart, cross-DSO forwarding, parent/child output, live sim thresholds, record integrity, incompatible ABI rejection, and Python worker startup/teardown cleanup. The PTO ISA pin and referenced PTO ISA headers are unchanged, so no pin update is required. This PR addresses only items 5 and 6; it does not by itself close the remaining items in #1792. |
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The targeted logging coverage passed within those runs, including bounded/full sink behavior, drop accounting, bounded fork preparation, cross-DSO forwarding, sim HostLogger binding and live thresholds, record integrity, ABI rejection, worker startup rollback, and teardown drain. Conclusion after rebase and testing: the implementation continues to satisfy issue #1792 items 5 and 6. No remaining correctness defect was found for those two items. The ABI v3 evolution still requires normal maintainer review, and the exact multi-rank performance scenario from #1945 remains an optional reviewer-requested comparison rather than a functional blocker. The new-head GitHub CI is now running; a5 onboard validation is provided by that architecture-specific CI runner because this local host is a2a3. |
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Final verification after rebasing onto current upstream/main:\n\n- PR head: e831ab0\n- Full GitHub CI run 33048482947: all jobs passed, including Linux/macOS unit and simulation jobs, a2a3/a5 onboard jobs, network1, and DeepSeek a2a3 smoke.\n- Local verification details and the item 5/6 assessment are recorded in the previous comment: https://github.com/hw-native-sys/simpler/pull/2029#issuecomment-5435569983\n\nConclusion: no test failure or remaining correctness blocker was found for issue #1792 items 5 and 6 on the rebased head. The internal SimplerHostLogState ABI v3 change still needs the normal maintainer/API-owner review noted earlier. |
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Reviewed at e831ab046 against 80dd3cd96. CI is green everywhere including both onboard pools, and the lifecycle work is careful — the writer is created only after the last local fork, quiesced before every fork, flushed before os._exit and before close(), and restored after a startup rollback (worker.py:7602), which is the easy one to miss and would otherwise let one failed Worker silently mute logging for unrelated Workers in the same parent. Item 5 in particular I think is done cleanly.
Four things below. The first is a request about shape rather than code.
1. Please split this into two PRs — item 5 first
The two halves are almost file-disjoint, and I checked each changed file:
PR A = item 5 (one writer) — 10 files, mostly deletion:
platform/include/aicpu/device_log.h · platform/sim/aicpu/device_log.cpp (118 → 84) · platform/onboard/aicpu/device_log.cpp · platform/shared/aicpu/unified_log_device.cpp · a2a3|a5/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp · a2a3|a5/platform/sim/aicpu/CMakeLists.txt · test_sim_device_log.cpp · part of tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
PR B = item 6 (drop and count) — everything else: host_log.cpp, the v3 ABI, host_log.h, the bindings, task_interface.py, worker.py, the four new/changed cpp log tests, the three py tests, and the two scene tests (which only need _flush_host_log because the writer became asynchronous).
The dependency is one-directional and argues for A first:
- A does not need B. Routing sim's device log through
HostLoggeronly usesis_enabled()andbind_state(), both of which have existed since #1845. It lands against today's synchronous logger. - B does not need A either, but B alone leaves a hole: sim keeps a second independent writer that can still block — on the platform CI exercises most. After A there is genuinely one writer in the process, so "there is one writer" and "that writer does not block" become two independently verifiable claims instead of one compound one.
Cost of splitting, stated honestly: test_sim_device_log.cpp currently uses B's API in nine places (start_writer() ×2, flush() ×5, prepare_to_fork() ×2). In A alone that test goes back to asserting the record appears on stderr with the host envelope and needs none of them; the writer choreography comes back in B, which has to touch that file anyway because its fork semantics change. So it is "write the simple version first", not wasted work.
Why it is worth it beyond review size: A is a pure convergence with very low risk and can merge immediately, while B carries an ABI bump, a new thread, and a whole fork lifecycle. Both must-fix findings below are entirely in B, and so is the one governance question — A has no reason to wait behind any of them.
2. Must fix (B): records emitted before the writer starts are lost, and the counter that should record that is then zeroed
Three lines establish the mechanism:
emit()counts and returns when there is no sink —host_log.cpp:684-697.- There is no synchronous fallback:
write_record_now()is defined athost_log.cpp:274and its only caller in the file is:431, inside the writer thread'srun(). No producer-side path can reach the destination. - That window is entered deliberately:
worker.py:7811seeds withdefer_writer=True, andworker.py:8000starts the writer only after_await_children_ready().
And host_log.cpp:556-564 resets the counters when sink_process_pid != pid. The comment explains this for a fork child, but sink_process_pid starts at 0, so it also fires on the first start_writer() in any process — immediately after the window where loss is guaranteed.
Verified by probe on this branch:
emit one ERROR while the writer is deferred
dropped-count delta ....... 2
occurrences on stderr ..... 0 <- nothing at all
start the writer, emit again
occurrences on stderr ..... 1 <- positive control: the path works
read the counter
dropped total ............. 0 <- the two drops are gone from the record
Failure scenario: an L3 Worker.init() that fails while bringing up its subtree loses every C++ LOG_ERROR/LOG_WARN emitted in that window, and _host_log_dropped_records() afterwards reports 0, so nothing indicates anything was lost. That is precisely the accounting item 6 exists to provide, missing exactly where it matters most.
Two small fixes, and I would do both:
- Fall back synchronously while there is no sink — call
write_record_now()whensink_enqueue == nullptr. This does not conflict withcodestyle.md§5: that rule explicitly exempts initialization and teardown paths, and this window is by construction init. Loss in the window becomes zero rather than counted. - Narrow the reset to an actual pid change —
sink_process_pid != 0 && sink_process_pid != pid. Otherwise pre-writer drops are always swallowed.
3. Must fix (B): two scene tests now have a wall-clock verdict
tests/st/runtime_fatal_codes/test_runtime_fatal_codes.py:311—assert _flush_host_log(1000)tests/st/host_build_graph_validation/test_host_build_graph_validation.py:103— same
flush() returns false for exactly one reason: the deadline (host_log.cpp:338). So the assertion means "the queue drained within one second". This repo runs 16-way sim locally and in CI, so under load that budget becomes the test's verdict, and the failure is a bare assert False that points at no real defect. It is the shape #1913 and #1914 just removed from the unit suite.
Suggestion: assert on the content, not on the timeout's boolean. Give the wait a generous outer bound and poll readouterr() until the marker appears, or assert _host_log_dropped_records() == 0, which is the property actually being claimed. A slow machine then waits longer instead of going red.
4. Please answer #1792's explicit instruction about staging (B)
Item 6 is staged: add the drop counter for the failure paths that already exist → measure whether a write ever actually blocks → build a bounded queue only if a number justifies it. The issue also says, in so many words:
Whoever closes this item should not add the bounded queue on top of #1945 without re-measuring. The staging below was written when the shared fd was assumed; a private buffered file changes what the remaining cost is.
This PR delivers the most expensive stage, and I could not find a number in the body, the commit message, or the comments. I do not think the design is wrong — #1945 measured that blocking is real and dominant (runner-to-validate p95/max 0.150/0.538 → 0.051/0.164 ms). But #1945 changed the premise the staging was written against, so "is a queue still needed, and how big" is the question that reopened rather than closed. Either attach the measurement (same profiled workload, p95/max with and without the queue, plus observed drop counts), or amend #1792 to record why re-measuring is moot now.
Consider (none blocking)
- The record cap moved from 2048 to 512 and no doc says so.
kRecordCapacity = _POSIX_PIPE_BUF; longer records get~\nand are truncated (host_log.cpp:673-679), where the old path had a 2048-byte stack buffer plus an unboundedstd::vector<char>. This is the right resolution of item 5's twice-derived invariant, butdocs/logging.mdchanges by 123 lines without mentioning that records truncate at 512 bytes. - A dlopened module can become the sink owner, and it can be unloaded.
set_level(level, defer_writer = false)starts a writer, and sim's AICPU SO callsset_log_level→set_levelafter binding, whilesim/host/device_runner.cpp:769dlcloses that handle. Today_task_interfacealways wins the race (ChipWorker.initseeds before_impl.initloads the SO), so this is latent rather than live — but nothing enforces the ordering, and after such adlclosebothsink_enqueueand the writer thread's code are unmapped. Refusingstart_writer()from a module that is not the state's owner would make it structural. _flush_host_logdefaults disagree: 100 ms intask_interface.py:1281, 1000 ms inhost_log.h:67.Worker.close()andChipWorker.finalize()take the 100 ms default and discard the result undercontextlib.suppress, so a slow destination silently loses records that were already accepted — and those count aspending, notdropped, so afterwards they are indistinguishable from records that were never emitted.std::this_thread::yield()in the writer thread (host_log.cpp:428) is off the dispatch path, socodestyle.md§5 does not strictly bite — but it is an unbounded spin waiting for an earlier MPSC producer to publish its slot, and it burns a core whenever that producer is preempted. The writer still holds its semaphore token there, so it could return tosem_waitor bound the spin.
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- Route simulated AICPU logs through the process HostLogger so sim and host records share one threshold, envelope, queue, and destination. - Add a fixed MPSC queue with bounded producer admission, explicit drop accounting, and no steady-state producer-side output I/O. - Preserve pre-writer initialization diagnostics synchronously and retain their failure count across the first writer startup. - Restrict sink ownership to the process-state owner so a bound DSO cannot leave a callback or writer thread behind after dlclose. - Replace the writer publication-gap spin with semaphore waiting and keep fork, shutdown, and os._exit drains bounded and observable. - Extend the shared host-log ABI to v3 for queue callbacks and lifecycle state, rejecting incompatible sim bindings before execution. - Make sim and onboard scene tests wait for complete diagnostic content and unchanged drop counts instead of racing the asynchronous writer. - Document the 512-byte record cap and cover portable initialization loss, bounded waiting, DSO ownership, sim output, and teardown reporting. Addresses items 5 and 6 of hw-native-sys#1792.
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host records share one threshold, envelope, queue, and destination.
accounting, and no steady-state producer-side output I/O.
their failure count across the first writer startup.
leave a callback or writer thread behind after dlclose.
fork, shutdown, and os._exit drains bounded and observable.
state, rejecting incompatible sim bindings before execution.
instead of treating a one-second flush deadline as correctness.
waiting, DSO ownership, sim output, and teardown reporting.
Addresses items 5 and 6 of #1792.