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[CUB] Fix NVRTC < 13.2 compilation of WarpScan partial scans - #12314

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closes #12312

WarpScanSmem::InclusiveScanPartial iterates with cuda::static_for over a generic lambda ([&](auto step)). It backs cub::WarpScan::{Inclusive,Exclusive}ScanPartial and ScanPartial for logical warp sizes that are not a power of two. Without -default-device, NVRTC 12.x, 13.0 and 13.1 reject generic lambdas in device code (#12312). #12300 fixed the same problem in warp_reduce_shfl.cuh.

The lambda uses the step in constexpr int offset = 1 << step and if constexpr (step == 0), so changing the parameter to int alone does not compile. This PR takes step as int and uses const int offset and if (step == 0):

  • cuda::static_for still calls the lambda once per step with a constant argument, so the branch folds after inlining. nvcc SASS is byte-identical to main.
  • Both branches, uninitialized_copy_single and plain assignment, were already instantiated for every non-power-of-two warp size, since STEPS = ceil(log2(N)) >= 2. No new requirements on T.

Three alternatives also compile with NVRTC 12.x, but all change SASS:

  • a member function, either recursive like ScanStep or a fold over make_integer_sequence: 21 of 55 kernels differ;
  • a named functor passed to cuda::static_for;
  • a _CCCL_PRAGMA_UNROLL_FULL() loop.

They predicate the addend shared-memory load, so they would need benchmarks.

cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu now also runs cub::WarpScan<int, 7>::InclusiveScanPartial. With main's headers that kernel fails at warp_scan_smem.cuh(240) with every NVRTC version before 13.2; with this PR it compiles. PR CI uses CTK 13.4, whose NVRTC accepts generic lambdas, so only the CTK 12.x jobs (nightly) exercise the check.

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  • NVRTC compile checks (pip wheels 12.0.140, 12.4.127, 12.8.93, 12.9.86, 13.0.88, 13.1.115, 13.2.86, 13.3.33 and 13.4.92; C++17 and C++20):
    • The cub.test.nvrtc kernel compiles with all of them. With main's headers it fails at warp_scan_smem.cuh(240) with every version before 13.2.
    • A TU instantiates all six partial-scan entry points, with the full InclusiveScan as a control. Types: int, float, double, long long, __nv_bfloat16 and a non-trivially-copyable type. Logical warp sizes: 3, 5, 7, 24 and 32. It compiles with this PR; main fails at warp_scan_smem.cuh(240) with 12.0.140, 12.9.86 and 13.1.115.
  • nvcc. nvcc 13.4.92 with g++ 15.2, sm_75/89/90/100/120: cuobjdump -sass is byte-identical to main for all 55 kernels of that TU.
  • pre-commit. pre-commit run --files passes on both files.
  • GPU (Tesla T4, NVRTC 12.9.86, with [CUB] Fix NVRTC compilation of warp reduction lambdas #12300's change; see the comment from 2026-10-28): the cub.test.nvrtc kernel reports no errors, and InclusiveScanPartial matches a CPU scan for every valid_items.

CI on dbf8030: cub.test.nvrtc passed on H100 (CTK 13.4), and the SASS diff found no change in the 100 cub-benchmark targets. The failed jobs came from pytest 9.2.0 (fixed by #12313) and from a CUDA package repository outage on one runner, plus the two summary jobs.

Other generic lambdas in device code (not changed here)

  • Fail before NVRTC 13.2 without -default-device (checked):
  • Only reached by C Parallel algorithms that already pass -default-device: kernel_transform.cuh and kernel_segmented_reduce.cuh:189.
  • DeviceBatchedTopK only: agent_batched_topk.cuh, agent_batched_topk_cluster.cuh and kernel_batched_topk.cuh:573.

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  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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WarpScanSmem::InclusiveScanPartial runs `cuda::static_for` over a
generic lambda (`[&](auto step)`). Without `-default-device`, NVRTC
12.x, 13.0 and 13.1 reject generic lambdas in device code:

  warp_scan_smem.cuh(249): error: A function without execution space
  annotations (__host__/__device__/__global__) is considered a host
  function, and host functions are not allowed in JIT mode.

As a result, InclusiveScanPartial, ExclusiveScanPartial and ScanPartial
of cub::WarpScan with a non-power-of-two logical warp size fail to
compile with these NVRTC versions.

Take `step` as `int` and replace `constexpr int offset` and
`if constexpr (step == 0)` with their runtime forms. Both branches were
already instantiated for every non-power-of-two warp size, because
STEPS >= 2. `cuda::static_for` still unrolls the steps, so the
generated SASS is unchanged.

Extend the NVRTC test with an InclusiveScanPartial on a 7-thread
logical warp.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Partial inclusive scans now calculate consistent prefix sums when processing fewer items than the logical warp width.
  • Tests
    • Expanded validation checks prefix sums for five valid items within a seven-thread logical warp, helping verify scan results across partial inputs.

InclusiveScanPartial now uses an int callback parameter and computes its offset at runtime. The NVRTC test adds a seven-thread logical warp and checks the first five partial-scan results.

Changes: WarpScan NVRTC compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Partial scan compatibility and regression test
cub/cub/warp/specializations/warp_scan_smem.cuh, cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu
InclusiveScanPartial uses an int callback parameter and a regular if. The NVRTC kernel declares shared storage for WarpScan<int, 7> and checks inclusive results for five valid items.

Assessment against linked issues

Objective Addressed Explanation
Compile InclusiveScanPartial for non-power-of-two logical warp sizes with NVRTC versions before 13.2 [12312] ✅

Suggested reviewers: miscco

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 69daa

This change lets partial warp scans with non-power-of-two logical warp sizes compile with older NVRTC versions. The generated code is reported unchanged, and the new test passes. No actionable merge risk remains.

Architecture risk: Low · up to 69daa

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Changed systems: cub

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  • observed — cub (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu: The kernel adds a WarpScan<int, 7> type and its temporary-storage type for testing a logical warp size of seven.
  • observed — Modified behavior in cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu: The kernel adds shared storage for the seven-thread warp scan.
  • observed — Modified behavior in cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu: The kernel tests a partial inclusive scan within each seven-thread logical warp, using items[0] + 1 and five valid items. It increments errors when a prefix sum for one of those five threads differs from the expected triangular sum.
  • observed — Modified behavior in cub/cub/warp/specializations/warp_scan_smem.cuh: InclusiveScanPartial replaces the generic lambda parameter with int and computes offset as a runtime value; the step-zero check is now a runtime if rather than if constexpr.
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186-187: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

suggestion: Isolate the NVRTC regression test.

The existing warp reduction in this program fails compilation with NVRTC before 13.2, independently of this scan. Put the scan in a separate NVRTC program or land the reduction fix first, so this test can check the affected versions. (github.com)


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Comment thread cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu Resolved
Lane 0's input was zero, so the offset-4 step added nothing for lane 4
and the check passed without it. Scan inputs of items[0] + 1.

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@fbusato I believe we should probably pull that out into a member function rather than a lambda. WDYT?

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Ran it on a GPU now (Tesla T4, sm_75, NVRTC 12.9.86, driver 610.57), with this branch at dbf8030 plus the warp_reduce_shfl.cuh change of #12300:

  • cub/test/catch2_test_nvrtc.cu kernel, same launch as the test (128 threads, 4 items): errors == 0 and the block-sorted output is correct, including the new WarpScan<int, 7>::InclusiveScanPartial check.
  • WarpScan<T, W>::InclusiveScanPartial against a CPU cumulative sum for every valid_items from 1 to W, for int/7, float/7, double/7, int/5 and int/24: all match.

Compile-only before; this was the missing run on a device.

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@miscco I tried that as one of the alternatives (details in the description). A named functor with a templated __device__ operator() passed to cuda::static_for compiles with NVRTC 12.9, and so does an unrolled _CCCL_PRAGMA_UNROLL_FULL() loop. Both change the SASS compared to main, because they predicate the addend shared-memory load (for int/7 on sm_89: 208 to 192 instructions), so I kept the lambda with an int parameter, which leaves the SASS byte-identical. If you and @fbusato prefer the member function / functor and accept that codegen change, I can switch to it and attach SASS and benchmark numbers.

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/ok to test dbf8030

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1. Python host benchmark setup fails on Function._nodeid · 2 jobs

Explanation: Both Windows and Linux installed pytest 9.2.0 with pytest-benchmark 5.3.0, whose fixture accesses the unavailable private Function._nodeid attribute; all 125 host benchmark cases consequently fail during setup. The PR changes only CUB warp-scan code and its NVRTC test, so the evidence indicates an unrelated dependency incompatibility.

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2026-10-28T16:37:18.5371567Z E       AttributeError: 'Function' object has no attribute '_nodeid'. Did you mean: 'nodeid'?
2026-10-28T16:29:56.9074372Z E       AttributeError: 'Function' object has no attribute '_nodeid'. Did you mean: 'nodeid'?
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2. CUDA wheel setup cannot download Yum repository metadata · 1 job

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I merged main into the branch (69daa88), so it now includes #12300 and #12313. The cub.test.nvrtc kernel compiles with all nine NVRTC versions I tried (12.0.140 to 13.4.92), in C++17 and C++20. With main's headers it fails at warp_scan_smem.cuh(240) on every version before 13.2.

The CI run on dbf8030 had three failing jobs, none caused by this change:

  • Test cuda.cccl.examples (Windows and Linux HostJIT): pytest 9.2.0 removed Function._nodeid, which pytest-benchmark 5.3.0 reads, so all 125 host-benchmark cases errored in setup. [CI] Pin pytest<9.2 for cuda.cccl.examples #12313 capped pytest minutes before the run started, but dbf8030 predates it.
  • Build cuda.cccl [CTK12.9 GCC13]: on that runner, dnf got 404s for the CUDA rhel8 repository metadata (15:57 to 16:00 UTC). Sibling jobs of the same run loaded the same repository at 15:44, 15:48, 15:52 and 16:19. Its three test jobs were skipped.
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cub.test.nvrtc passed on H100 (CTK 13.4), including the new WarpScan<int, 7> case, and the SASS diff found no change in the 100 cub-benchmark targets.

@miscco, on the member function: I measured it again on current main. A recursive member function like ScanStep, or a fold over make_integer_sequence, compiles with NVRTC 12.x but changes the SASS of 21 of the 55 kernels in my test TU. All 21 are cuda::std::plus instantiations: the addend LDS becomes predicated, and instruction counts change by -24 to +8. With the int lambda all 55 stay byte-identical (nvcc 13.4; sm_75, sm_89, sm_90, sm_100, sm_120), which is how #12300 was merged. I'd keep int, but can switch.

The WarpReduceBatched case reported in #12312 needs a different fix, because its index is a template argument; I replied there.

@fbusato, could you /ok to test 69daa88?

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[BUG]: cub::WarpScan::InclusiveScanPartial fails to compile with NVRTC < 13.2 (generic lambda in warp_scan_smem.cuh)

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