Count asynchronous global copies as unsupported instead of dropping them

[SHTUSIST]

cp.async and the bulk tensor copy instructions read global memory, and the PTX pass matched them with neither of its two patterns. An HBF address reached by one produced no entry of any kind — not a modeled delay, and not an unsupported-list entry either. Reported as 07-B-cp-async-and-bulk-tensor-copy-unmatched.md; independently reproduced here before fixing.

Design goal this violates, line 27 of docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-09-hbfsim-hybrid-design.md:

Fail closed whenever an HBF address could reach an uninstrumented or unsupported memory operation.

The change

Two alternatives added to the unsupported pattern in src/ptxpass_hbf/transform.cpp, both requiring .global in the opcode:

cp\.async\S*\.global\S*
cp\.reduce\.async\S*\.global\S*

The .global requirement is deliberate. The same families carry pure synchronisation forms — cp.async.commit_group, cp.async.wait_group, cp.async.bulk.wait_group, cp.async.mbarrier.arrive — which touch no memory, and a shared-to-shared bulk copy names no global space. The test asserts each of those stays out of the count.

⚠️ One consequence needs your decision

The unsupported list reaches src/cuda_runtime/coverage.cpp:379-396. Two outcomes:

• Timing-backed range, non-strict policy — launch still allowed, now recorded as opaque_unmodeled_timing with modeled: false. Pure visibility gain; the access was already uncharged.
• Strict policy, or a capacity-backed range — launch refused, reason unsupported_operation. A kernel using these instructions against a registered range that used to run will now be refused.

That second one is what failing closed means, but Triton emits cp.async freely on recent architectures, so whether you want it on now is your call. If you would rather have visibility without refusals, say so and I will route these opcodes to the recorded-but-allowed path instead.

Test

tests/cpu/ptx_async_copy_coverage_test.cpp — fails on the old pattern at the first asynchronous copy, passes on the new one.

One trap worth noting for review: the probe kernel needs a ld.param to load its pointer, and ld.param is itself on the unsupported list. My first version of this test counted absolute totals, so every case looked unsupported and the test went green against unfixed code. Each case is now measured as an increment over the same kernel without the instruction under test. No case in the file rewrites an instruction, so it needs no embedded device helper and runs in a CPU-only build; rewriting cases stay in ptx_transform_test.

Test status

CPU-only build. Same four tests fail before and after — context_lifecycle, vmem_tuning, run_with_bpftime, mqsim_benchmark — all pre-existing and unrelated.

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[zzyuanyi]

Blocking issue: this PR excludes cp.async.bulk.tensor., cp.reduce.async.bulk.tensor., and cp.async.bulk.prefetch.tensor.* from the unsupported pattern, and its test explicitly requires them not to be counted. The current hybrid base has no ptx_async_op.cpp, parse_tma, or TmaDirection implementation, so those instructions are neither modeled nor reported as unsupported after this PR. That preserves the exact fail-open coverage hole the PR is meant to close. The added ptx_async_copy_coverage and existing ptx_transform tests both pass, but the new negative assertions encode behavior that is only safe after feature/sm120-exact-stage1 is merged. Please either keep these families unsupported on hybrid for now, or make the SM120 modeling change an actual merged dependency before excluding them.

[SHTUSIST]

You are right and I have reverted it (66f5fb7).

The trade I made was wrong in the direction that matters: hybrid has no parse_tma, so excluding the three bulk-tensor prefixes left them neither modeled nor reported on the only branch that exists today, and the test encoded that as intended behaviour. I was optimising for a merge that has not happened at the cost of the hole the PR exists to close.

The lookaheads are gone, all three families are counted again, and the test asserts the positive case for each. The merge instruction now lives in a comment beside the pattern instead of in an unmerged branch: when feature/sm120-exact-stage1 lands, the same commit removes the three prefixes it models from this pattern, so the hole is never open in between.

Same four pre-existing tests fail before and after (context_lifecycle, vmem_tuning, run_with_bpftime, mqsim_benchmark).

[SHTUSIST]

Confirmed and fixed in 936b8e5.

I reproduced the multi-line case before changing anything: a bulk tensor copy split after ...complete_tx::bytes matches neither physical line, and matches only when the two are joined. So the scan let it through, and with an ordinary ld.global elsewhere in the same kernel the module was still marked instrumented — the launch then proceeded with an unreported access, which is the fail-open path you describe.

Physical lines are now accumulated into one logical statement before the scan. A statement counts as open until its text, with any trailing comment stripped, ends in ;, {, } or :. The rewrite path is deliberately untouched and still matches per line, so no rewritten output changes; only the scan sees joined statements.

The new test writes the same statement once across two lines and once on one line and requires an equal count. It fails on the previous pass at that equality and passes on this one.

Suite: 88% passed, same four pre-existing failures.