Grant run resources, and separate transport from execution lifetime

[ChaoWao]

What this changes

Ordinary async held at most three runs in flight, and the reason was not a
device limit. PTO_PIPELINE_MAX_DEPTH was two things at once — the most sets a
context could be granted, and the width every per-set owner was built to — so a
context paid for three whether or not a run could reach the third, and a caller
who wanted more had no way to ask. The count is now whatever the Worker was
granted, and every owner of a per-run resource is built to it.

PTO_PIPELINE_MAX_DEPTH is gone. Nothing clamps to it, so leaving a name for a
maximum that bounds nothing would be a lie.

Two independent capacities

Payload transport no longer owns execution lifetime. A mailbox holds:

Region	Count	Per item	What it bounds
control frame	1	64 KiB	startup and control commands
request frames F	MAILBOX_REQUEST_FRAMES (K = 2)	64 KiB	concurrent hand-off
run-state entries E	M = granted + K	~360 B	concurrent in-flight runs

A request frame carries one submission's bytes and nothing about the run's life.
The child copies the blob out, echoes that frame's generation into the entry its
header names, and the parent takes the frame back while the run it carried is
still executing. A run-state entry carries the run: identity, state, run epoch,
rc, inline error text, disposition, and the acceptance word the device writes —
which is why that word cannot live on the frame, since the frame is gone by then.
The extra K entries are what let a request be handed over before a set is free.

Only the entry table grows with the grant, so a context granted 1024 sets costs
~590 KB of shared memory rather than 64 MB.

Every cross-side reference carries entry_generation, odd while occupied and
bumped even at release, so a frame left over from a previous occupant of an entry
is refused rather than executed under the new identity. Both reclaim decisions
are levels, not pulses, so an observation one poll misses the next one sees.

Ownership hand-offs are ordered, not just eventually consistent

The parent may refill a frame the instant it sees the consumption ACK, and may
free an entry the instant it sees a terminal. So:

• the ACK is the child's last store to a frame — an IDLE sequenced after it
  does not tidy the frame up, it erases whatever the parent has already published
  into it, and the task that payload carried is never served;
• the terminal is the child's last store to an entry, and every frame
  operation completes before it, since the ACK is written through the entry.

Both are asserted as orderings over the loop's own stores, because the end state
cannot tell the two orders apart.

An unattributable header is answered by its kind

Header	Who can resolve it	Outcome
names a live entry at a generation that moved on	the parent, from its own record	frame returned, no entry touched
names an index outside the table, or an even generation	neither side	endpoint stops, with the reason published

The second kind is not corruption-tolerant for a reason: the child cannot name
the run, so it has no entry it may publish into and no successor it may charge;
and the parent holds a record that still looks live, so it has no reclamation of
its own. The bounded outcome is this endpoint's own stop, which gives every run
it still holds a terminal under one cause.

Transport backpressure, and who may claim work

Request transport is bounded independently of the grant, so a grant above K makes
saturation an ordinary state. Every publication caller now consults it before
claiming:

• the staged lane through can_stage;
• the ordinary lane through the new can_dispatch, which the group and single
  scheduling paths take in place of a bare idle() — that caller previously had
  no transport term at all, and was the one that could reach submit_progress
  with nowhere to write.

The gate's answer survives to the publication it gates because
Scheduler::dispatch_claimed is the only caller of both publication entry
points, so all publication for all endpoints runs on one thread, and the only
other party touching frame ownership is the child's acknowledgement, which can
only free a frame. A second publication in the same round re-reads availability
after the first marked its frame published.

Exhaustion inside submit_progress is therefore left as a throw because it is
now an admitter defect rather than backpressure — and the comment says plainly
that the throw does poison the endpoint, which is why saturation must never take
that path. submit_dispatch also no longer reports a publication that threw as
submitted: PUBLICATION_REPORTED says the terminal is already delivered without
claiming the run is live.

An earlier revision of this PR added a reservation held from the gate to the
publication. It is removed: the scheduler claims a task before calling into
WorkerThread, so it did not close the window it was written for, and
submit_dispatch catching a publication throw and returning SUBMITTED made the
caller dismiss a reservation the endpoint never consumed — permanently retiring
one frame's worth of transport.

Grant-sized resources, and safe failure

RunResourceArena replaces PipelineSlotPool: it owns which sets exist and who
holds each one, sized to the grant, and reports the three counts that always
partition it — free, live, quarantined. A set whose run could not
prove what it left behind is quarantined: never reused, still counted against the
grant, so a context cannot buy itself more concurrency by failing.

Sizing is two-phase on both runners. build_run_resources allocates and
constructs every per-set container into detached storage and touches no member;
commit_run_resources is noexcept and swaps. A grant therefore moves
atomically, and a failure leaves the runner at its previous grant with every
table consistent — rather than earlier tables at the new count, later ones at the
old, and three pointer-held tables holding nulls that every reader and the whole
cleanup path dereferences. Each per-set owner gained the same build/commit
pair, and those that can answer for their own contents gained
grant_is_replaceable, which set_run_resource_grant asks before anything is
built.

publish_new_block no longer allocates after the device acquire. The whole host
record, including its reference capacity, is built first; the two steps after the
acquire only write and move into reserved capacity. A bad_alloc there used to
leave the device block owned by no record and charged to nothing.

Lifetime and identity

• A native run is keyed by its own epoch, not slot + 1.
• Every operation that dereferences a carrier across the C boundary holds that
  run's lease for the duration — including the joined launch and the diagnostic
  capability query, which each read two carriers.
• A run whose destruction cannot be proved has its storage abandoned.
  Refusing the reclamation was not enough: retaining a map entry preserved
  nothing once the owner's destructor returned, because the entry and the bytes
  both belonged to it. RuntimeStorage::abandon detaches the block without
  freeing it — a deliberate leak, and the correct trade for bytes the device may
  still reach.

Diagnostic banks

Terminal banks are keyed by epoch and settled on every path that stops using
one. Three proofs let a bank be handed on — its snapshot consumed, the run
submitted nothing at all, or every producer that could write into it proved
terminated — and a run that can prove none of them quarantines its bank,
because an AICPU on a card may still be writing there.

The third proof belongs to a simulated device and only to it. A sim run's
producers are this process's AICPU and AICore threads, ActiveRun::join joins
both sets, and drain_execution calls it before reading the run's first error.
So a failed sim run reads no snapshot — it never reached its terminal
publication — and still returns its bank, where three such failures used to
retire the whole table for the collector's life. Completion and producer-stop
travel into run_close as separate facts, so no error path can be made to look
complete; the onboard bases pass the second as false, since nothing a host can do
observes an AICPU stopping.

Two paths previously retired a bank per occurrence and now return the credit:

• a non-retaining collector's NotStarted rollback, which returned before the
  release whenever output retention was off;
• an acquire whose arm refused, which had taken the bank and kept it.

finalize returns them all, since what made a quarantined bank unsafe was a
producer writing into storage that finalize releases.

Public surface

No new key, identifier, return value or recovery path. pipeline_depth accepts
any positive value instead of being refused above three; an under-grant still
fails startup rather than being quietly served, and the default request is still
two, so an unconfigured Worker's capacity and footprint do not move.
mailbox_size takes and returns size_t and refuses a grant outside the
admitted range [1, MAILBOX_MAX_GRANTED_SETS], whose upper end is the inherited
1 TiB cap on the entry table. Larger grants are rejected by this conservative
sizing policy; their computed size is still representable in a 64-bit size_t.
Registration applies the same cap, and neither the cap nor the admitted range
moves in this PR.

Registering a mailbox now carries the byte extent of the region alongside its
address — Worker::add_worker / add_next_level_worker,
WorkerManager::add_next_level[_at] / add_sub, the LocalMailboxEndpoint
constructor, and the three nanobind entry points. The grant is checked against
that extent before any entry is installed and before any is written, so a direct
caller can no longer claim more sets than it mapped. The Python facade passes the
mapping's own length, so no behaviour visible to a simpler user moves.

Integration with merged work

Rebased onto 620807d2d, which includes #2567 (caller-order owners),
#2572 (caller-stream enqueue), #2578 (borrowed RTS context), #2580 and
#2581 (run state across an execution-context refusal) and #2577
(publication order before successor staging).

• Add: initialize chip workers on a borrowed RTS context #2578's validate_execution_context() preflight is applied to every native run
  entry point — launch, joined launch, poll, wait and finalize — on the
  lease-based bodies this PR rewrote, and its central clear_runtime_binding()
  owns the grant hook's pointer too.

• Add: enqueue caller-stream work through the chip run lane #2572's caller_stream is threaded through the leased storage, not the
  direct runtime_bufs_[slot] access it was written against, so the feature is
  preserved and the carrier it dereferences is held for the call.

• Add: order native eager runs on a caller stream #2567's caller_orders_ is sized by the grant like every other per-set owner.

• Fix: preserve run state on native execution context refusal #2581's ExecutionContextRefused unwinds a refused run without retiring it or
  its argument references. It supersedes Fix: preserve L2 run handles after execution context refusal #2580's _validate_context callback,
  which this PR does not resurrect.

• Fix: preserve run publication order before successor staging #2577's active-first dispatch order and its per-endpoint
  can_stage_run_on_worker guard are kept exactly as written, and compose with
  this PR's transport terms: stage_preparable_run now asks can_stage(),
  single_empty and that guard in turn. Its one translation is the guard's
  resource-ownership test, which named the retired pipeline_slots_ and now
  names run_resources_ — the same question asked of the arena that replaced
  the pool. All three of its deterministic regressions are retained.

Neither feature's ownership is otherwise touched. #2579 (HBG host-surface split)
remains with its author; nothing here duplicates it.

Product delta from this rebase

One line: Orchestrator::can_stage_run_on_worker calls
run_resources_.owns(lease) where #2577 wrote pipeline_slots_.owns(lease). The
member was renamed by this PR and owns has the same meaning on both, so the
guard's behaviour is unchanged. Nothing else in src/ or python/ moved for the
rebase, and no shared API was added.

Testing

Build, lint and authored coverage are below. CI is green on 01da574fd
(18 check runs SUCCESS, 1 SKIPPED — deploy — plus the external CodeRabbit
check); no test was executed locally in this round. The head moved to
e26f9a968 for a comment/message/test-name correction, whose CI is still
running.

• cmake --build tests/ut/cpp/build — every target, 0 errors
• build_runtimes for a2a3, a5, a2a3sim, a5sim — 0 errors on all four
• pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
• ruff check / ruff format --check over python/ tests/ simpler_setup/
• pyright over every changed Python file — 0 errors
• clang-format, cpplint, clang-tidy
• check-headers over all 87 changed files, plus check-english-only,
  check-retired-names, check-kernel-wire-isolation,
  check-test-platform-literals, check-ut-cpp-axis,
  check-ut-cpp-case-naming, check-ut-cpp-stub-linkage
• Hardware acceptance — authored, awaiting CI

New coverage

A registration's grant is checked against the region it mapped.
tests/ut/cpp/common/hierarchical/test_mailbox_registration.cpp refuses an
over-grant with the region left byte-for-byte untouched — it is canary-filled
rather than zeroed, so an untouched table is distinguishable from a cleared one —
accepts the exact region a grant needs and shows only the entry table cleared,
refuses a grant above the sizing cap even when the claimed extent is SIZE_MAX,
and shows a refused add_next_level_at(7, …) leaving worker_id 7 free, which
start()'s duplicate-id check would otherwise report. The cap case is about the
sizing policy and claims nothing further — the grant it uses, and the size that
grant computes, are both representable.

A failed run's bank is returned when, and only when, its producers are proved
stopped. test_chip_swimlane_run_terminal.cpp pins the two outcomes against
each other on the same failed run, and drives PLATFORM_RUN_TERMINAL_BANKS + 1
consecutive proved-stopped failures to show the table stays whole — the capacity
symptom this repairs. test_chip_swimlane_retained_runs.cpp adds the retained
close of such a run: the bank comes back while the artifact still carries
processing_complete: false and the cut-unknown verdict, so nothing invalid is
published as a result.

Both groups are executed: ut is green on ubuntu and macOS, 319/319 cpput
tests on ubuntu and 318/318 on macOS. What is not executed anywhere is the sim
drain's
passing of the producer-stop proof — cpput compiles no sim runner translation
unit, and the st-sim jobs run successful runs, not failing ones — so for that
wiring the evidence is the source trace plus compilation of all four runtime
builds.

The hand-off's store order, on the real child loop.
tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_request_frame_handback.py drives
_run_mailbox_loop against a real shared buffer with both publication primitives
recorded, and asserts the ACK is the last store to the frame and the terminal the
last store to the entry. A stale header is shown to leave a live occupant's entry
with no store at all and to leave the endpoint running; an out-of-range index
and an even generation are each shown to stop the endpoint with the reason
published, having touched no entry and run no task.

The contract's worked example, on all four backends. pipeline_depth=8 with
launch_depth=4 and 64 submissions. The two budgets are deliberately different
numbers, because a case where they are equal cannot tell a launch bound from a
resource bound. Three claims are now causal rather than sampled:

• the whole grant is reached — all eight sets holding a run at one coherent
  instant, and all eight carrying one across the case. Four is everything the
  launch budget can account for, so this is what separates the two budgets, and
  it is the claim an implementation advertising eight while recycling fewer
  cannot satisfy.
• the launch budget is reached and never exceeded — the widest launched
  instant equals launch_depth exactly.

Set occupancy is read from the entry generation's parity, which is what the
protocol itself uses to mean occupied, so a set counted here holds a run whether
that run is staged, activated or launched.

An earlier revision derived the held count from the orchestrator's admission
waiter count. That was wrong and is removed: Orchestrator::begin_run waits on
run_fifo_.size() < pending_run_limit_ and takes no pipeline-slot lease there,
so a parked caller says the pending-run FIFO is full and nothing about how many
resource sets hold a run — and two non-zero waiter readings do not establish one
continuous wait, since a caller can wake, re-enter and be counted again.

A simultaneous instant is actually proved. _coherent_snapshot makes two
passes over the states, not only the identities: a single pass could read A
launched, then — after A retired and E launched — read E launched, and report
both. The previous head's predicate also required every entry in the table to
be launched, which M = granted + K makes unsatisfiable at any grant; it now
counts the entries that carry a launched run.

Close covers a published-but-unstaged run. The child's exit sweep keyed on
state alone, and an entry the parent has published but the child has not staged
yet still reads IDLE — so exactly those runs got no terminal and the parent
waited on them for ever. The sweep now keys on the generation's parity.

Unit coverage for the arena's three counts, quarantine and regrant refusal;
the epoch-keyed bank lifecycle, including the two newly repaired credit paths;
and abandoned storage outliving its owner, proved by writing a witness word into
the carrier after the close, destroying the worker, and reading the word back.

Fixtures migrated to the split transport

Seven tests/ut files were stale against this PR's own protocol or against #2578,
and every one was a fixture defect rather than a product one:

• The generation filter is sized by the grant. Four fixtures that bypass
  ChipWorker::init built runtime_bufs_ by hand but left
  pipeline_generations_ empty, and is_admissible refuses any slot outside it —
  so every preparation was refused as a stale lease before reaching the stubs.
  That one omission is the whole of the chip_run_lane, joined_launch,
  three_run_capacity and native_run_operation_lease failures, which presented
  as empty mock-event lists and runs that were already done.
• TASK_READY is a frame word, not an entry word. One scheduler case waited
  for the ready state on the entries, which correctly read IDLE, and burned its
  deadline. Readiness now reads the frames; identity still reads the entries those
  frames name.
• Three MailboxRunEntry * writes used byte offsets. entry + MAILBOX_OFF_…
  strides whole 384 B entries, so the stale-identity forgery wrote megabytes past
  a stack array — the segfault that ended that binary — and two more did the same
  inside forked children. All three now write through the struct's members, and the
  poison message they check is the entry's.
• A terminal bank is taken by epoch. The retained-runs fixture armed bank 0
  without acquiring it, so run_close resolved no bank for the epoch and every
  settlement read partial_cut_unknown. It now acquires then arms, as the runner
  does.
• The program contract declares no depth limit. A TRB case still pinned the
  program contract's pipeline_depth to 2; the kernel contract's 2 is asserted
  separately and unchanged.
• Teardown requires a bound runtime (Add: initialize chip workers on a borrowed RTS context #2578's guard), so the lease fixture now
  stands in a real, closable handle rather than leaving lib_handle_ null and
  skipping the device finalize it asserts.

The in-process child mock

MockMailboxWorker stands in for the forked child in test_scheduler.cpp. It was
half-migrated — write_task_accepted reached a run-state entry, but the loop
still wrote error and TASK_DONE into the request frame, which no poll reads
any more, so completion was never published. It now serves the real protocol:
scan every request frame, resolve the entry and generation from the frame's
header, refuse a header that names no live occupant, copy the payload out,
return the frame before the completion wait, and publish rc, text and the
terminal state into the entry.

Returning the frame early is not a convenience. Transport is an admission
resource now, so a mock holding its frame across a run blocks the parent from
admitting anything else into that endpoint — which is why a scheduler case could
not consume its slot and the fixture teardown then ran to the CTest deadline. The
acceptance-before-completion, sticky-ACK and host-span assertions are unchanged,
no timeout was lengthened, and write_task_accepted now targets the entry the
staged run actually occupies instead of a hardcoded index 0.

Manual publication fixtures

Transport is MAILBOX_REQUEST_FRAMES wide and the grant is a separate width, so a
fixture that publishes more dispatches than there are frames without a hand-back
between them is correctly refused. MailboxChildExitTest published three before
waking its child, so nothing had returned a frame when the third went out. It now
performs the hand-back a child makes once it has copied a payload out — the
frame's own word to IDLE, then the consumption ACK into the entry its header
names — between the second and third publications, leaving the entry un-staged,
which is exactly where a child sits at that point. All three identities, the
own-error versus endpoint-error distinction, the stale-identity variant, both exit
codes and the mmap/pipe/child cleanup are unchanged, and the transport is still
two frames.

Every manual publication site was then audited rather than assumed. Of the three
other cases that publish more than twice, none is a defect: two drive a frameless
FakeEndpoint, whose base available_request_transport reports no limit, and the
extra publications in the mailbox cases sit inside EXPECT_THROW — being refused
is their subject.

A device-wide snapshot is not a constant

test_onboard_device_memory_info_matches_acl compared two separate reads of a
live quantity. simpler_device_memory_info calls
aclrtGetMemInfo(ACL_HBM_MEM), which reports the card's free bytes at the instant
of the call, device-wide and shared with every process on it — so equality of free
bytes across two calls is not something the API offers. The hardware case now
compares total_bytes exactly, which is a property of the card and of the memory
type and is what says both surfaces queried the same thing, and requires each free
reading to be well formed against that capacity. No tolerance is introduced,
because nothing unstable is being compared.

The exact-byte coverage that equality stood in for moves to
test_device_memory_info_forwards_exact_bytes, which drives the Worker surface
over a structural stand-in for the chip worker's result and pins both fields —
including a value above 2^32, since truncation is the failure this guards and no
live card can be asked to report a chosen value. Its scope is the Python
forwarding only: the production DeviceMemoryInfo is a result-only nanobind type
with read-only fields and no constructor, so no test can mint one, and this case
reaches neither aclrtGetMemInfo nor nanobind's conversion of its struct. An
earlier revision instantiated that type directly, which is what failed
deterministically on macOS at head b8ec96140; no production constructor or
mutable field was added to accommodate the test. What actually changed on the card
between the two hardware reads is unknown and is not claimed either way.

Observing five launched runs

TestA5TmrCapacityBeyondTheOldCeiling asserts five runs launched and accepted at
one coherent instant, over pipeline_depth=5 with launch_depth=5. On head
31ece8812 the A5 TMR copy reported together=None after seeing launched
entries and then none.

What is established, and what is not. Four properties of the case could each
prevent a real five-wide instant from being seen, and all four were present:

• observation began only after the last submit, so the sampler could see only
  whatever remained of the window;
• submission was interleaved with device allocation, putting five alloc_tensor
  round trips inside the window the five runs had to share;
• the runs used _REFILL_SPIN_ITERS, documented as the shorter per run budget
  sized to outlast one sampling pass, where the overlap cases that require a full
  width use _DEVICE_SPIN_ITERS, documented as long enough for the host to
  observe the window;
• the observer abandoned the search at the first instant showing nothing
  launched, though runs retire at different times and a gap between one retiring
  and the next launching is ordinary.

All four are now fixed. This does not establish that the product has no gate
limiting a5 TMR to fewer than five launched runs. The two HBG copies of this
case already allocated up front and already used the long budget, and they pass —
which makes the case defects a sufficient explanation for their passing, not a
proof about TMR, whose runtime and scratch model differ. Nor does the config
granting five prove the device path honours it. The A5 job on b8ec96140 passed
once; a single pass does not explain the earlier failure either. If five is still
not observed, that is then evidence about the product, and the report below is
what distinguishes the two — the launched-count history alone cannot: a clamp
and a missed instant can both produce a history whose maximum is under five. The
history is diagnostic context, not a discriminator.

The _DEVICE_SPIN_ITERS change is a fivefold increase in per-run device work. Its
justification is that it is the constant the sibling overlap cases already use for
exactly this purpose, not a measurement — no timing evidence is claimed for it,
and it is not offered as a diagnosis.

Observer lifetime. The sampler reads integer addresses into the chip mailbox's
shared memory, so it must be proved stopped before that mapping can go; a timed
join whose result is not checked proves nothing, and raising after a timeout
still unwinds into the release. The observer therefore holds its own export of the
shared buffer for the sampler's whole life — an export is what makes
SharedMemory.close() raise BufferError instead of unmapping — and releases it
only after the thread is observed dead. A sampler that will not stop leaves the
segment mapped and its close reports the live reader, rather than this case
reading freed memory. __enter__ waits for the first completed sample, so the
span across the submissions is established rather than assumed; sampler exceptions
are re-raised to the caller instead of lost on a daemon thread; and every loop
path sleeps, including the incoherent-read branches that previously tight-looped.

The expected width is still five, the per-run result assertions are intact, no
case was deleted and nothing became a cumulative count. The same observer is used
by all four suites, AST-identical across them.

Acceptance mapping

Every row of the normative acceptance table — 1 to 39 plus 17a, 17b, 19a and 20a,
forty-three obligations — has an assertion, and the table below names the ones
this feature added together with the obligation each closes. Evidence is of three
kinds, kept apart: native (deterministic, no device), scene (a real
Worker.submit route), and source (established by reading the code; nothing
executes it). A shared invariant is proved once, where it lives, rather than
copied across backends; a backend-specific behaviour carries a scene on that
backend or a case against that backend's own runner. The generic per-suite
test_run is not counted as acceptance for any row.

062dee225 (Crane-Liu) removes docs/design/run-resource-acceptance.md, on the
grounds that test-to-requirement notes belong in the review and issue workflow
rather than in a shipped design page. That commit is preserved as pushed; the
mapping it carried is this section, and nothing in the shipped tree now links to
the deleted page.

Cases added for this feature, and the obligation each one closes:

Row	Case
28, F6	test_scheduler.cpp::MailboxPipelineSchedulerFixture::AStagedRequestParkedByFullTransportResumesOnTheAcknowledgedFrame — three runs to a real mailbox endpoint whose child withholds both hand-backs. The scheduler decides everything: two publications go out, the third stays READY with can_stage() false, and after the child's acknowledgement the frame carries the third task's own entry — matched by task_slot, as PREPARE_READY, while the acknowledging run has published no terminal
29	test_scheduler.cpp::AFailureAmongLiveRunsIsNotItsSuccessorsOutcome — M runs live at once, one fails, and every other completion is SUCCESS with an empty message keyed by its own task slot
32	test_scheduler.cpp::EveryConcurrentFailureKeepsItsOwnFullText — one run per run-state entry, all live, each failing with a distinct text filled to MAILBOX_ERROR_MSG_SIZE - 1; every completion carries its own whole text and its own code, and a run admitted into a recycled entry reports its own text rather than the previous occupant's
24	test_native_run_operation_lease.cpp::AdmittingLaterRunsRehashesTheTableUnderASleepingWaiter — a waiter parked inside the backend wait, 23 later admissions, an asserted growth in bucket_count() so the rehash is observed rather than argued, and the waiter's entry pointer, lease and own latched rc all intact. A ParkedWaiter guard owns the release and the join; its exception state is declared before the thread and the thread is started in the constructor body, so the catch cannot assign a member that is not yet constructed
34, 26, 27	tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_wide_close_drain.py — a Worker the case owns, five unwaited runs, and the state after its own close(): both run registries empty, _has_live_resources() false, every handle terminal with a repeatable outcome, and a failed run returning the same error object on every later read
37	test_chip_run_lane_joined_launch.cpp::ADiagnosticSuccessorWithNoTerminalBankStaysPreparedUntilOneIsReleased — the wait itself, which is in the lane: can_join_diagnostic_run ends on can_take_run_terminal_bank, and launch_ready_prefix returns before launch_native_run_joined, so a successor with no bank is left PREPARED for a later round rather than ordered onto the device with nowhere to publish. In the case: run 372 ordered behind run 371 at swimlane level one, every bank held, no joined launch reaching the backend at all, the successor left prepared and named by id, then the same run joining exactly once after one bank is released. Plus ARunThatFoundNoBankStillCollectsAndIsServedOnTheNextRelease for the collector's behaviour toward a bankless front run, and test_sim_callable_pool.cpp::TheSimRunnerHandsDiagnosticBanksOutByEpochAndRefusesBeyondTheBankCount for the arming helper through both of its zero-returning branches
4	test_trb_runtime_temp_buffer.cpp::CompatibleRetainedBindsReuseTheArenaWithoutWritingIt, on both arch targets. The skip is in the runtime maker, which both targets compile for real: bind_callable_to_runtime_impl probes the cache, bind_cached_runtime_image wires three pointers on a hit, and build_and_cache_prebuilt_arena — the one static-arena setup and the one image upload — runs on a miss alone. The fixture's cache hooks record what the build published and return it unchanged on every later lookup, which is what a hit needs to be observable at all. So: one warm bind, a sentinel over the whole arena, then eight compatible binds with nothing released: each wired to the recorded arena by address, and afterwards no second upload, no second static-arena setup, no replacement entry, no new allocation, the arena pointer unmoved and the sentinel unchanged. A ninth run with a host input then copies at stage_inputs and not at bind, which is what separates the clause from ordinary staging
39, 1	test_pipeline_depth_request.py::test_the_grant_is_the_depth_the_child_resolved, test_a_grant_below_one_set_is_refused and test_the_request_is_bounded_by_what_the_native_side_can_carry, plus test_host_worker.py::test_a_chip_child_grants_the_depth_it_resolved — the grant table under the refactored semantics, where joining and granting are separate questions
33, 9	TestA5WideDeviceResultChain::test_a_device_result_feeds_four_later_runs — one device result is the input of four later runs, each with its own control, and the borrow window is read from the accepted-run registry Worker.free itself scans. What that counts is live borrowers, not occupied resource sets: a parent handle outlives the native run it names, so native occupancy at width stays the worked-capacity examples' claim
29, 32 (scene)	TestA5TmrWideFailureAttribution::test_one_failure_amid_a_wide_prefix_is_its_own
35	TestA5TmrWideTwoEndpoints::test_each_endpoint_carries_a_wide_grant
28 (endpoint)	test_scheduler.cpp::TransportSaturationResumesOnTheAcknowledgedFrame, retained as the endpoint-level regression beside the scheduler-level one

Row 36 is discharged by an existing node rather than a new one:
test_child_addr_guard.py::TestSubmitDispatchGuard::test_child_arg_to_wrong_worker_rejected
submits an allocation live on worker 0 to worker 1 on a Worker with two chip
endpoints, through the same Orchestrator.submit_next_level a scene submission
uses, and asserts both the "not a live allocation on target worker 1" refusal
and that nothing reached native.

Following the run-resource refactor

6d6c43ba3 (Crane-Liu) separates the run-resource grant from the request-frame
pool and removes _local_task_frame_count,
_granted_chip_task_frame_counts and Worker._chip_task_frame_counts. That
commit is preserved as pushed; this one adds the test migrations it did not
reach:

• test_pipeline_depth_request.py and test_host_worker.py no longer pin the
  old conflation. The grant is the depth the child resolved, on every route, with
  no platform, runtime or joined-launch term — and a simulated child's no to
  joined launch no longer reduces it, which is the distinction the refactor makes.
  Those cases are replaced, not restored.
• pipeline_depth gains the uint32 boundary the native side carries, asserted
  at the boundary rather than at a round number.
• The a2a3 host_build_graph early-enqueue scenes follow
  _chip_run_resource_set_counts, as the other three suites already did.

Outstanding

No contract row is left without an assertion. What remains is coverage that
would add nothing, listed so its absence is a decision: a wide-close scene on
the other three onboard routes, a two-endpoint scene for row 36, a hardware
scene for the row-37 wait, and an onboard-runner cpput target (its bank arming
is a line-for-line twin of the sim definition asserted here). None is required
by a contract row.

Execution status

• Passing at 931d59d40 (a prior head, hardware): A3 job 115905104831 and A5
  job 115905105190 show the HBG and TMR five-launched/accepted cases, the
  8-held / 4-launched / 64-submission cases, and TestA2a3TmrWideOutstandingClose
  all passing.
• Failing at fd0b0ce9d: Ubuntu Python UT job 115950714059, 3204 passed and
  2 failed — both in test_wide_close_drain.py, which called RunHandle.done
  (a property) as a method. Fixed at d8de732ae; no other .done() call exists
  under tests/.
• No CI for d8de732ae: its workflow was cancelled with no jobs when the
  head moved past it.
• Failing at 6d6c43ba3: pre-commit job 115972438743 — clang-format
  modified four files and the job ended in failure. clang-tidy, cpplint,
  ruff and pyright passed; the dependent test jobs were skipped. The four
  files are formatted here, with their non-whitespace content proved unchanged.
• Passing at 5e3564a56: 18 check runs SUCCESS, 1 SKIPPED (deploy), plus
  CodeRabbit. That head carried neither repair below, so it is evidence for the
  rest of the PR and for nothing in them.
• Failing at f4d93f0fd: ut on macOS, 1 failed / 3213 passed — the new
  grant-registration case compared a registration's declared extent with the size
  the facade requested, and macOS rounds a POSIX shm mapping up to a page
  (212992 vs 198144). The product path was unaffected: the facade declares the
  mapping's own length and the C++ check is a lower bound, which is why every
  case that drives the real _Worker passed in the same run. Fixed at
  01da574fd; the ubuntu job of that run reports a cancellation, not a second
  failure — the matrix is fail-fast.
• Passing at 01da574fd: 18 check runs SUCCESS, 1 SKIPPED (deploy), plus
  the external CodeRabbit check. ut green on ubuntu and macOS — CTest 319/319
  on ubuntu and 318/318 on macOS, including
  test_mailbox_registration and the swimlane terminal targets, plus the whole
  pyut suite. ut-a2a3, ut-a5, both st-onboard and all four st-sim jobs
  pass.
• e26f9a968, a002acc47 (current head): comment, refusal-message,
  doc-paragraph and test-name wording only — no behaviour, no cap, no admitted
  range and no test input changed. Their CI is not claimed here.

Observer ownership

All five background samplers this PR adds — the wide-window one and the four
worked-capacity ones — now share _EntrySampler, which is where the risky part
lives once: its own export of the chip mailbox held for the thread's whole life
and released only after the thread is observed dead, a readiness handshake before
the body runs, sampler exceptions carried to the caller, a join whose timeout is a
failure rather than something ignored, and a sleep on every loop path. A sampler
that will not stop leaves the segment mapped and its close reports the live reader
instead of the case reading freed memory. All of the worked examples' evidence —
widest_held, widest, held_sets, frontiers, dispatches_by_slot — moved
onto the observer with every assertion unchanged.

Four other samplers in these suites pre-date this PR (they are present unchanged
at the merge base) and carry the same pattern. They are reported, not changed.

Coverage this PR does not have

The runner-level branches that settle a bank — the rollback gated on output
retention, and the sim drain that supplies the producer-stop proof — are not
reachable from cpput without a device runner, so the cases above pin the
collector-level invariants they rely on and the branches themselves are covered
only by the scene suites under CI. The cross-process protocol's
own execution is likewise CI's: the child loop runs in a forked process, and the
suites that drive it are the existing tests/ut/py/test_worker/ ones, which were
not run in this round, together with the new handback module above. The wire layout is contract-checked at import on both
sides; the protocol is not.

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Pipeline depth now follows a per-context run-resource grant instead of a fixed compile-time limit. Mailboxes and runtime storage size from that grant. Run coordination uses generation-bearing leases and epoch-based operation tracking. Tests cover requests and execution beyond the previous capacity limit.

Changes: Run-resource capacity

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Grant contract and request propagation src/common/worker/pipeline_contract.h, src/common/worker/runtime_c_api.h, src/common/worker/chip_worker.*, src/common/platform/.../c_api_shared.cpp, python/simpler/worker.py, python/bindings/worker_bind.h, src/a2a3/runtime/*, src/a5/runtime/*, tests/ut/py/*, docs/task-flow.md, docs/worker-manager.md, docs/dfx/host-trace.md	The fixed pipeline-depth limit is removed. Workers can publish a requested run-resource grant to runtimes. Python mailbox sizing and runtime pipeline contracts use the requested or granted depth.
Grant-sized resource storage src/common/worker/run_resource_arena.h, src/common/platform/include/host/run_resource_slots.h, src/common/platform/include/host/*, src/common/platform/{onboard,sim}/host/device_runner_base.*, src/a2a3/platform/*/host/device_runner.*, src/a5/platform/*/host/device_runner.*, tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/*	The resource arena manages generation-bearing leases. Runner storage, ledgers, workspace records, and stream ownership tables resize to the grant.
Mailbox and admission coordination src/common/hierarchical/orchestrator.*, src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.*, src/common/platform/include/host/queued_stream_waits.h, src/common/platform/include/host/run_stream_pair.h, tests/ut/cpp/common/hierarchical/*	Mailbox frames and worker lanes follow endpoint capacity. The orchestrator checks leases through RunResourceArena and recomputes the authorized FIFO prefix for early launch.
Epoch-owned terminal diagnostics src/common/platform/include/host/chip_swimlane_collector.h, src/common/platform/shared/host/chip_swimlane_collector.cpp, src/common/platform/{onboard,sim}/host/device_runner_base.*, tests/ut/cpp/common/platform/test_chip_swimlane_run_terminal.cpp	Terminal diagnostic banks are acquired, looked up, and released by run epoch. The three retained banks limit concurrent snapshots, not concurrent runs.
Native-run operation and teardown lifecycle src/common/worker/chip_worker.*, src/common/worker/native_run_context.h, src/common/worker/native_run_storage_tag.h, tests/ut/cpp/common/hierarchical/test_native_run_operation_lease.cpp	ChipWorker tracks run operations by epoch and coordinates them with leases. Finalization retains run storage when destruction is not proven. Tests cover operation contention, retries, and uncertain teardown.
Capacity validation tests/st/a2a3/*/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py, tests/st/a5/*/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py, tests/ut/cpp/common/hierarchical/test_pipeline_contract.cpp, tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_pipeline_depth_request.py, docs/investigations/2026-09-runtime-descriptor-input-visibility-chain.md	Tests check grants and five-run execution beyond the previous limit. The runtime descriptor documentation identifies grant-sized slot storage.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Worker
  participant ChipWorker
  participant RuntimeAPI
  participant DeviceRunner
  Worker->>ChipWorker: Provide resolved pipeline depth
  ChipWorker->>RuntimeAPI: Publish run-resource grant
  RuntimeAPI->>DeviceRunner: Apply context grant
  DeviceRunner-->>RuntimeAPI: Return grant result
  RuntimeAPI-->>ChipWorker: Return grant result

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4eb06

Pipeline depth is now sized from a runtime grant. Some failure paths can leak diagnostic banks, and a failed resize can crash during teardown. Direct callers can create a mailbox frame count larger than its mapping. The new capacity tests can also pass without proving that five runs were active at once. Resolve these issues before merging.

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src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.cpp: 1

623-627: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid a heap allocation on every progress round.

WorkerThread::progress runs on every scheduler progress tick, once for each worker. The fixed array is gone, so each call now allocates a std::vector<RunId> and takes lane_mu_ an extra time just to size it. lanes_ changes size only in start. Reuse a member scratch buffer instead. Only the progress thread uses this buffer, and the lane count is fixed after start.

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-    std::vector<RunId> activate;
-    {
-        std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lane_lk(lane_mu_);
-        activate.assign(lanes_.size(), INVALID_RUN_ID);
-    }
+    // Sized once in `start` alongside `lanes_`; only the progress thread touches it.
+    std::vector<RunId> &activate = activation_scratch_;
+    std::fill(activate.begin(), activate.end(), INVALID_RUN_ID);

In start, add activation_scratch_.assign(endpoint_->caps().max_inflight_tasks, INVALID_RUN_ID); next to lanes_.assign(...). Declare std::vector<RunId> activation_scratch_; in worker_manager.h.

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Review comment at @src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.cpp around lines 623 -
627:
Update WorkerThread::progress to reuse a member activation buffer instead of
allocating and sizing a local vector on each progress tick; initialize the
buffer alongside lanes_ in start, then reset its entries to INVALID_RUN_ID
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @python/bindings/worker_bind.h:
- Around line 895-897: Update the lambda wrapping mailbox_size to return a
checked size_t value instead of narrowing the byte count to int; reject counts
whose mailbox size cannot be represented before returning it to
Worker._init_hierarchical.

Review comments at @src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.cpp:
- Around line 238-241: Update the add_next_level_worker registration path and
LocalMailboxEndpoint constructor to pass the mailbox mapping size as
mailbox_bytes. Validate that mailbox_size(task_frame_count) does not exceed
mailbox_bytes before resizing frames_ or allowing task_frame access, while
preserving the existing rejection of zero task_frame_count.

Review comments at @src/common/platform/include/host/workspace_manager.h:
- Around line 891-892: Update publish_new_block to reserve space in blocks_ and
size the new Block’s refs before calling backend_.acquire, so recording the
block and calling add_ref cannot allocate after device allocation. Keep
add_ref’s existing reference-capacity checks and refusal behavior unchanged.

Review comments at @src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.cpp:
- Around line 264-306: Update DeviceRunnerBase::size_run_resources in the
onboard runner to build all per-set containers and constructed entries in local
containers, then commit them to the members using only noexcept swaps after
every allocation succeeds. Apply the same build-then-swap approach to the sim
runner’s containers and arena_banks_; on failure, preserve the previous resource
sizing. The affected sites are
src/common/platform/onboard/host/device_runner_base.cpp lines 264-306 and
src/common/platform/sim/host/device_runner_base.cpp lines 132-148.
- Around line 2976-2984: Update withdraw_unlaunched_collectors_for_run to
release the run’s terminal bank when LaunchProgress is NotStarted, before the
retains-runs check, so release occurs regardless of collector retention.
Preserve quarantine for partially submitted or unproven runs, and apply the same
change to the corresponding simulator implementation.

Review comments at @src/common/platform/shared/host/chip_swimlane_collector.cpp:
- Line 1563: Update the run teardown around the bank_epoch_ assignment to
release the assigned bank after an error run has fully joined, even when
device_execution_complete is false. Also clear bank ownership when the collector
finalizes so reinitialization restores all three banks.

Review comments at
@tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py:
- Line 2097: Ensure the test releases all five exported shared-memory views
returned by _frames before fixture teardown, including when assertions fail.
Wrap their use in a finally scope and release each view there, following the
existing frame-view helper pattern in the other capacity tests.
- Around line 2026-2029: The snapshot can report five runs as launched even if
their states were never simultaneous. In all four `_coherent_snapshot` sampling
sites—tests/st/a2a3/host_build_graph/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py lines
2026-2029,
tests/st/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py lines
1683-1686, tests/st/a5/host_build_graph/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py
lines 1799-1802, and
tests/st/a5/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/early_enqueue/test_early_enqueue.py lines
1393-1396—recheck the same five run identities and launched states after the
first pass, and return keys only if that second check still confirms all five.

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Review comments at @src/common/hierarchical/worker_manager.cpp:
- Around line 623-627: Update WorkerThread::progress to reuse a member
activation buffer instead of allocating and sizing a local vector on each
progress tick; initialize the buffer alongside lanes_ in start, then reset its
entries to INVALID_RUN_ID before use. Declare the scratch buffer on the worker
manager and rely on the fixed lane count and progress-thread-only access.

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Summary

Related to #1853.

• Size native run-resource tables to each Worker's validated grant and keep grant changes transactional.
• Separate a mailbox's fixed two request frames from the longer-lived run-state entries, so each payload frame returns after hand-off.
• Preserve run identity through epoch leases and quarantine resources whose completion cannot be proven.
• Gate scheduler dispatch on request transport and keep per-run FIFO/device ordering.

Validation

• 686 C++ unit tests on the PR implementation: scheduler 92/92, three-run capacity 14/14, run-progress slots 8/8.
• 686 Python depth validation: 61 passed; Ruff check and format passed.
• A3 onboard capacity suite: 14 passed, 10 skipped by platform markers, no failures.
• CI for head 6d6c43ba: build and change detection passed; pre-commit is running. Remaining checks will report on the PR as they start and complete.

The PR delivers the run-resource/transport portion of the pipeline work. Health-consumer/drain integration and final backpressure/throughput acceptance remain tracked under #1853.

Submitted on the existing PR branch in commit 6d6c43ba. Related to #1853.

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Review feedback closed out — 8 inline threads answered, 6 resolved, 2 left open. Head 5e3564a56.

Resolved (verified against current source, not against an outdated anchor): the mailbox_size narrowing (now a checked uint64_t with an explicit refusal); the workspace ownership record (refs sized before backend_.acquire, add_ref allocation-free after it); transactional run-resource sizing on both runners (build into staging, noexcept commit, grant published last, previous grant preserved on failure); the NotStarted terminal-bank credit on both the retaining and non-retaining branches; the two-pass coherent snapshot in all four scene suites; and the scoped mailbox-view release.

Left open, with the reasons in the threads:

• worker_manager.cpp mapping size — the public route now derives both the region and the count from one checked value, but add_next_level_at and the endpoint constructor still take no mapped byte count, so a direct caller can still pass an oversized grant. Real, and a shared-product repair outside this PR's current scope.
• chip_swimlane_collector.cpp bank after a failed simulated run — the finalize reset is in; releasing on a thread-join is deliberately declined because that is not a proof about a producer still writing. The capacity trade is a maintainer call, so I have not closed it.

Nitpick (worker_manager.cpp:623-627, progress scratch buffer) — adopted. activation_scratch_ is a member, sized in start alongside lanes_, and progress fills it in place (worker_manager.cpp:744-745, worker_manager.h:985). Ownership holds for the reason the suggestion assumed and the code now states: WorkerManager::progress is reached only from the scheduler loop under its loop mutex, and the buffer's last read precedes poll_progress/finish_progress_dispatch, the only callouts that can re-enter.

Two notes on evidence, so nothing here is overclaimed. CI on this head is green (19 pass / 1 skip; Ubuntu CTest 318/318, macOS 317/317, all four backends' capacity and default-serial scenes passing) — but that covers none of the host-allocation-failure paths above, which rest on allocation order and noexcept, not on execution. And @Crane-Liu's scope note is information about what remains tracked under #1853; it is not evidence that this PR's own acceptance may be reduced, and the full-feature acceptance stands as delivered.