"""Force the lalamo attention implementation when the GPU cannot run Pallas. lalamo's inference config defaults to the Pallas-Triton flash attention kernel (``MixerForwardPassConfig.for_inference``). Pallas-Triton needs a Triton backend that T4 (compute capability 7.5) does not provide, so the first forward fails during XLA compilation even with ``--xla_gpu_enable_triton_gemm=false``. ``UZU_ATTENTION_IMPL=xla`` switches the mixer config to the plain XLA path. ``pallas`` forces the default back. Anything else (including unset) keeps the config as-is. """ from __future__ import annotations import os import subprocess ENV_VAR = "UZU_ATTENTION_IMPL" # BF16 tensor cores start at Ampere. On Turing the XLA dot lowers to # ALG_DOT_BF16_BF16_F32, which cuBLAS does not implement, so a bf16 forward # dies inside the attention kernel instead of at startup. BF16_MIN_CAPABILITY = 8.0 def gpu_capabilities() -> list[float]: """Return the compute capability of every visible GPU (empty off-GPU).""" try: result = subprocess.run( ["nvidia-smi", "--query-gpu=compute_cap", "--format=csv,noheader"], text=True, capture_output=True, check=False, timeout=20, ) except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired): return [] caps = [] if result.returncode != 0: return caps for line in (result.stdout or "").splitlines(): try: caps.append(float(line.strip())) except ValueError: continue return caps def bf16_block_reason(dtype: str, capabilities: list[float]) -> str | None: """Return why this dtype cannot run here, or None when it can.""" if dtype != "bfloat16" or not capabilities: return None old = [capability for capability in capabilities if capability < BF16_MIN_CAPABILITY] if not old: return None return ( f"GPU compute capability {old[0]:.1f} has no BF16 matmul " "(ALG_DOT_BF16_BF16_F32 is unimplemented); use float32. " "UZU_ATTENTION_IMPL=xla does not help: it only avoids Pallas-Triton." ) def enter_mesh(sharding): """Activate the sharding mesh for the rest of the process. With ``--parallel tensor`` the mesh has 2 devices, and any ``jax.jit`` launched outside a mesh context fails with "Length of device assignment 1 is not equal to the size of the mesh 2; enter your jit into a mesh context via jax.set_mesh". A single-device mesh never raises, which is why CPU lanes never showed this. """ mesh = getattr(sharding, "mesh", None) if mesh is None or getattr(mesh, "empty", False): return None import jax manager = jax.set_mesh(mesh) manager.__enter__() return manager def requested() -> str | None: """Explicit env wins; otherwise pick xla automatically on pre-Ampere. Pallas-Triton needs cc >= 8.0. Scripts that do not go through run_lane (Modal jobs, make_qad_dataset -> yaqa_calibration) used to fall back to Pallas and die at the first forward, so the device decides for them. """ value = os.environ.get(ENV_VAR, "").strip().lower() if value in ("xla", "pallas"): return value capabilities = gpu_capabilities() if any(capability < BF16_MIN_CAPABILITY for capability in capabilities): return "xla" return None def force_float32_activations(config): """Use f32 activations on GPUs without BF16 tensor cores. ``Model.load(..., dtype=float32)`` only fixes the weights: the embedding forward config still defaults to ``activation_dtype=bfloat16``, so the residual stream (and therefore attention's q/k/v) stays bf16 and the dot lowers to ALG_DOT_BF16_BF16_F32, which Turing does not implement. """ capabilities = gpu_capabilities() if not capabilities or not any(capability < BF16_MIN_CAPABILITY for capability in capabilities): return config from dataclasses import replace import jax.numpy as jnp embedding = config.embedding_forward_pass_config if embedding.activation_dtype == jnp.float32: return config return replace( config, embedding_forward_pass_config=replace(embedding, activation_dtype=jnp.float32), ) def apply_attention_env(config): """Return config with the attention implementation overridden, if requested.""" mode = requested() if mode is None: return config from dataclasses import replace from lalamo.modules import AttentionImplementation target = AttentionImplementation.XLA if mode == "xla" else AttentionImplementation.PALLAS transformer = config.transformer_forward_pass_config mixer = transformer.mixer_forward_pass_config if getattr(mixer, "attention_implementation", None) == target: return config return replace( config, transformer_forward_pass_config=replace( transformer, mixer_forward_pass_config=replace(mixer, attention_implementation=target), ), ) def describe() -> str: mode = requested() return f"attention={mode or 'default'}"