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  • Preserves the physical logits row-width envelope in varlen launcher arguments.
  • Applies the k + 1 floor only to routing decisions.
  • Prevents out-of-bounds reads for narrow logits.
  • Updates warmup_varlen to populate exact-row launchers within warmed bands.
  • Requires 16-byte workspace base alignment.
  • Adds regression coverage for envelope clamping, incremental warmup, and workspace alignment.
  • No public API, configuration, or test-list changes were identified.

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  • Added test_selfsampling_varlen_narrow_logits_clamps_envelope_to_row_width.
  • Added test_selfsampling_warmup_incremental_rows_populate_exact_launchers.
  • Added test_validate_run_ws_requires_16_byte_alignment.
  • These tests are not listed in tests/integration/test_lists/ for CI or manual QA coverage.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up.

Description

Two host-side defects in the self-sampling GVR varlen path, found by the FlashInfer port review (DKG issue #60) and reproduced against the shared host code at #18625's head:

  1. Envelope reached the kernel inflated. _varlen_launcher computed max(min(n_env, npad), k + 1) and passed it as the envelope slot of the reg / reg_clus / clus launch tuples. The kernels clamp each row's kv-derived valid length to that envelope before the short-path decision, so a caller whose logits are narrower than k + 1 while some kv_lens exceed k made the row load run to k + 1 elements at the physical row stride: into the next row, and past the tensor for the last row (compute-sanitizer reports the out-of-bounds reads; with the caching allocator only the wrong result shows). The router still needs the k + 1 floor to pick a non-degenerate family, so the launch tuples now carry the physical bound min(n_env, npad) and only routing sees max(that, k + 1). A row whose valid length exceeds the physical width now clamps to it and takes the in-kernel short path (identity + -1 tail), which is the documented contract.
  2. Warmup skipped exact row counts. warmup_varlen keyed its done-set on the band representatives and returned before the exact-row launcher population, so a later call with a new row count inside an already-warmed band never created that row count's launcher, and a CUDA-graph capture at it raised "varlen launcher not compiled for this shape". The done key now gates only the GPU band launches; the exact-row population (pure host work, compile-cache hits) always runs.

Also tightens validate_run_ws from 8- to 16-byte base alignment to match the DSL workspace fake, so a misaligned workspace fails on the host with a clear message instead of at DSL conversion.

TensorRT-LLM's own indexer path cannot reach either defect: its logits width, kv_lens and max_seq_len all derive from the same kv_cache_manager.max_seq_len, so every row's valid length fits the row width, and CUDA-graph launchers come from the eager warmup forwards rather than warmup_varlen. Both are real for direct callers of run_varlen / warmup_varlen (the FlashInfer port, op-level benchmarks). Whenever the logits width is at least k + 1 the launch tuples are bit-identical to before, so there is no performance change on the production path.

Test Coverage

tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py:

  • test_selfsampling_varlen_narrow_logits_clamps_envelope_to_row_width — narrow logits with kv_lens beyond k (and exactly the width): identity + -1 tail per row, launch envelope equals the row width.
  • test_selfsampling_warmup_incremental_rows_populate_exact_launchers — incremental warmup_varlen row lists, then a CUDA-graph capture at the new row count.
  • test_validate_run_ws_requires_16_byte_alignment.

Full module passes locally on B200 (sm_100).

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… exact-row warmup population

_varlen_launcher inflated the envelope to max(min(n_env, npad), k + 1)
and passed it to the reg / reg_clus / clus launch tuples; the kernels
clamp each row's valid length to that envelope before the short-path
decision, so logits narrower than k + 1 with kv lengths beyond k read
k + 1 elements at the physical row stride (into the next row, past the
tensor for the last row). Only routing needs the k + 1 floor: the launch
tuples now carry min(n_env, npad) and such rows take the short path.

warmup_varlen keyed its done-set on the band representatives and
returned before the exact-row launcher population, so a later call with
a new row count inside an already-warmed band left that row count
uncompiled and CUDA-graph capture at it raised. The done key now gates
only the band launches; the exact-row population always runs.

validate_run_ws now requires 16-byte base alignment, matching the DSL
workspace fake. Neither defect is reachable through the TensorRT-LLM
indexer path (its logits width, kv_lens and max_seq_len share one bound
and graph launchers come from the eager warmup forwards); both hit
direct callers of run_varlen / warmup_varlen (DKG issue NVIDIA#60).

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Varlen Top-K decoding now clamps physical kernel bounds to row width, requires 16-byte workspace alignment, and populates launcher-cache entries incrementally during warmup. Regression tests cover the updated routing, warmup behavior, and alignment validation.

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Varlen Top-K launcher corrections

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Physical envelope and family routing
tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling_host.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py
Varlen routing uses a row-width-clamped physical envelope for kernel arguments and cached launch entries. Family selection continues to use the routing envelope.
Workspace alignment contract
tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling_host.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py
Workspace validation now requires 16-byte base alignment.
Incremental warmup cache population
tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/blackwell/top_k/gvr_topk_decode_self_sampling_host.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py
Warmup tracks completed GPU bands separately from exact row-count launcher entries. Exact requested row counts are populated after successful warmup.

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This change corrects varlen Top-K launch bounds, warmup launcher population, and workspace alignment validation, with regression coverage described for each behavior. No evidenced merge-blocking risk remains.

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Picks up the main-side waive of unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_trtllm_serve_endpoints.py (NVIDIA#18685) that failed the CPU lanes in the previous CI round.

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CI triage for round 3 (PR_Github #71340 / L0 #58462, head eed52e1, run with --disable-fail-fast): none of the failures involve this PR's files, and the PR's own suite passed.

  • The unittest/_torch/thop/parallel bucket (which contains test_gvr_selfsampling_topk.py with the three new regression tests) passed on both B300-PyTorch-2 (573 s) and DGX_B200-PyTorch-2 (557 s); test_cute_dsl_gvr_topk_decode.py / _tiers.py buckets passed too.
  • CPU-Generic-x86-1 / arm-1: unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_trtllm_serve_endpoints.py (HTTP 500 from the image-generation endpoints) — identical to main's post-merge L0_PostMerge doc enhancement for disagg #2947; main waived the file in [None][infra] Waive 1 failed cases for main in pre-merge 58439 #18685 (nvbugs/6720250), picked up here by merging main (2c6bc76).
  • DGX_B200-PyTorch-9: unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_trtllm_serve_e2e.py Flux1/Flux2 text-to-image — also failing on main's L0_PostMerge doc enhancement for disagg #2947, not yet waived on main, so this lane will keep failing independently of this PR until main waives or fixes it.
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Picks up the main-side waive of unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_trtllm_serve_e2e.py TestFlux1/Flux2TextToImage (nvbugs/6720944) that failed the DGX_B200 lane in the previous CI round.

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