Change (old) attention behavior to disallow wraparound, enforced via assertion.

Shared kU64PerLine constant

PiperOrigin-RevId: 828072451

gemma/activations.h

@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ struct AttentionActivationsPtrs {
     // `inv_timescale*` are not batched.
   }
 
+  size_t SeqLen() const {
+    return static_cast<size_t>(div_seq_len.GetDivisor());
+  }
+
   const ModelConfig& config;
   MatPtrT<float> q;
   MatPtrT<BF16> q_bf;

gemma/attention.cc

@@ -66,20 +66,12 @@ static HWY_INLINE void QDotK(const size_t start_pos, const size_t last_pos,
   CompressTraits<BF16>::Compress(df, q, qkv_dim, tls, MakeSpan(q_bf, qkv_dim),
                                  0);
 
-  if (HWY_LIKELY(last_pos < static_cast<size_t>(div_seq_len.GetDivisor()))) {
+  // --seq_len must be large enough to avoid wraparound.
-    // Slightly faster: no wraparound.
+  HWY_DASSERT(last_pos < static_cast<size_t>(div_seq_len.GetDivisor()));
-    for (size_t pos = start_pos; pos <= last_pos; ++pos) {
+  for (size_t pos = start_pos; pos <= last_pos; ++pos) {
-      const float score =
+    const float score =
-          Dot(dbf, MakeConstSpan(q_bf, qkv_dim), 0, k.Row(pos), qkv_dim);
+        Dot(dbf, MakeConstSpan(q_bf, qkv_dim), 0, k.Row(pos), qkv_dim);
-      att[pos] = score;
+    att[pos] = score;
-    }
-  } else {
-    for (size_t pos = start_pos; pos <= last_pos; ++pos) {
-      const size_t pos_modulo = div_seq_len.Remainder(pos);
-      const float score =
-          Dot(dbf, MakeConstSpan(q_bf, qkv_dim), 0, k.Row(pos_modulo), qkv_dim);
-      att[pos_modulo] = score;
-    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -114,25 +106,13 @@ static HWY_INLINE void WeightedSumV(
     const hwy::Divisor& div_seq_len, const float* HWY_RESTRICT att,
     const MatPtrT<KV_t>& v, float* HWY_RESTRICT att_out, ThreadingContext& ctx,
     const size_t worker) {
-  if (HWY_LIKELY(last_pos < static_cast<size_t>(div_seq_len.GetDivisor()))) {
+  // --seq_len must be large enough to avoid wraparound.
-    // Slightly faster: no wraparound. Could be replaced with MatMul(att, v) if
+  HWY_DASSERT(last_pos < static_cast<size_t>(div_seq_len.GetDivisor()));
-    // we supported non-transposed B.
+  // TODO: replace with MatMul(att, v) after it supports non-transposed B.
-    // TODO: 2..4x unroll
+  MulByConstTo(att[start_pos], v.Row(start_pos), att_out, v.Cols(), ctx,
-    MulByConstTo(att[start_pos], v.Row(start_pos), att_out, v.Cols(), ctx,
+               worker);
-                 worker);
+  for (size_t pos = start_pos + 1; pos <= last_pos; ++pos) {
-    for (size_t pos = start_pos + 1; pos <= last_pos; ++pos) {
+    MulByConstAndAdd(att[pos], v.Row(pos), att_out, v.Cols());
-      MulByConstAndAdd(att[pos], v.Row(pos), att_out, v.Cols());
-    }
-  } else {
-    {
-      const size_t pos_mod = div_seq_len.Remainder(start_pos);
-      MulByConstTo(att[pos_mod], v.Row(pos_mod), att_out, v.Cols(), ctx,
-                   worker);
-    }
-    for (size_t pos = start_pos + 1; pos <= last_pos; ++pos) {
-      const size_t pos_mod = div_seq_len.Remainder(pos);
-      MulByConstAndAdd(att[pos_mod], v.Row(pos_mod), att_out, v.Cols());
-    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -146,9 +126,10 @@ void SingleDotSoftmaxWeightedSum(
     float* HWY_RESTRICT att_out, ThreadingContext& ctx, const size_t worker) {
   const float att_cap = activations.config.att_cap;
   const float query_scale = activations.query_scale;
-  const size_t seq_len =
+  // --seq_len must be large enough to avoid wraparound.
-      static_cast<size_t>(activations.div_seq_len.GetDivisor());
+  HWY_DASSERT(last_pos < activations.SeqLen());
   const LayerConfig& layer_config = activations.config.layer_configs[layer_idx];
+
   // Apply rope and scaling to Q.
   if (query_norm_scale.HasPtr()) {
     CallUpcasted(&query_norm_scale, [&](const auto* weights_t) {
@@ -163,8 +144,7 @@ void SingleDotSoftmaxWeightedSum(
   QDotK(start_pos, last_pos, activations.div_seq_len, q, k, att, ctx, worker);
 
   // SoftMax with optional SoftCap yields "probabilities" in att.
-  const size_t att_len = HWY_MIN(last_pos + 1, seq_len);
+  const Logits logits(att, last_pos + 1);
-  const Logits logits(att, att_len);
   MaybeLogitsSoftCap(att_cap, logits, ctx, worker);
   Softmax(logits, ctx, worker, /*temperature=*/1.0f);
 
@@ -194,8 +174,7 @@ void DotSoftmaxWeightedSum(const size_t num_tokens, const size_t layer_idx,
   const size_t kHeadGroups = layer_config.heads / layer_config.kv_heads;
 
   const size_t cache_layer_size = layer_config.CacheLayerSize();
-  const size_t seq_len =
+  const size_t seq_len = activations.SeqLen();
-      static_cast<size_t>(activations.div_seq_len.GetDivisor());
   // All layers should have the same number of heads.
   HWY_DASSERT(activations.div_heads.GetDivisor() == layer_config.heads);
 
@@ -284,8 +263,10 @@ static HWY_INLINE void ComputeQKV(size_t num_tokens, const size_t layer_idx,
        ++interleaved_idx) {
     const size_t qi = div_qbatch.Remainder(interleaved_idx);
     const size_t batch_idx = div_qbatch.Divide(interleaved_idx);
-    const size_t cache_pos =
+    const size_t cache_pos = qbatch.Pos(qi) + batch_idx;
-        activations.div_seq_len.Remainder(qbatch.Pos(qi) + batch_idx);
+    // --seq_len must be large enough to avoid wraparound.
+    HWY_DASSERT(cache_pos < activations.SeqLen());
+
     env.row_ptrs[0][interleaved_idx] = reinterpret_cast<uint8_t*>(
         qbatch.KV(qi).kv_cache.Row(cache_pos) + layer_idx * cache_layer_size);
   }
@@ -304,8 +285,9 @@ static HWY_INLINE void ComputeQKV(size_t num_tokens, const size_t layer_idx,
         const size_t interleaved_idx = task / kv_heads;
         const size_t qi = div_qbatch.Remainder(interleaved_idx);
         const size_t batch_idx = div_qbatch.Divide(interleaved_idx);
-        const size_t pos = qbatch.Pos(qi) + batch_idx;
+        const size_t cache_pos = qbatch.Pos(qi) + batch_idx;
-        const size_t cache_pos = activations.div_seq_len.Remainder(pos);
+        // --seq_len must be large enough to avoid wraparound.
+        HWY_DASSERT(cache_pos < activations.SeqLen());
         auto& kv_cache = qbatch.KV(qi).kv_cache;
         KV_t* HWY_RESTRICT kv = kv_cache.Row(cache_pos) +
                                 layer_idx * cache_layer_size +
@@ -325,7 +307,7 @@ static HWY_INLINE void ComputeQKV(size_t num_tokens, const size_t layer_idx,
         }
 
         PositionalEncodingQK(kv_f32, layer_idx, activations, env.ctx, worker,
-                             pos, /*mul=*/1.0f);
+                             cache_pos, /*mul=*/1.0f);
         CompressPerThread tls;
         Compress(kv_f32, 2 * qkv_dim, tls, MakeSpan(kv, 2 * qkv_dim), 0);
       });

gemma/flash_attention.cc

@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ void FlashAttention(const size_t num_tokens, const size_t target_parallelism,
       size_t last = pos;
       const size_t prefix_end = qbatch.PrefixEnd(qi);
       if (prefix_end > 0 && prefix_end - 1 > last) {
-        // last_pos in QDotK and WeightedSumV is inclusive.
+        // last_pos in `TileFlashAttention` is inclusive.
         last = prefix_end - 1;
       }
       last_pos[offset] = last;

util/basics.h

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ namespace gcpp {
 // For hwy::BitSet4096. Note that KVs are extremely large for such batches.
 HWY_INLINE_VAR constexpr size_t kMaxBatchSize = 4096;
 
+// Multiplier so a u64 occupies an entire cache line; avoids false sharing.
+HWY_INLINE_VAR constexpr size_t kU64PerLine = HWY_ALIGNMENT / sizeof(uint64_t);
+
 enum class Tristate : int32_t { kFalse = 0, kTrue = 1, kDefault = -1 };
 
 static inline const char* ToString(Tristate t) {

util/threading_context.cc

@@ -43,12 +43,9 @@ static void TunePool(hwy::PoolWaitMode wait_mode, hwy::ThreadPool& pool) {
   const size_t num_tasks[4] = {HWY_MAX(1, num_workers / 2), num_workers * 1,
                                num_workers * 5, num_workers * 20};
 
-  // Count tasks executed to ensure workers aren't optimized out. One per
+  // Count tasks executed to ensure workers aren't optimized out.
-  // cache line to avoid false sharing.
+  std::vector<uint64_t> counters(num_workers * kU64PerLine);
-  const size_t kSizePerLine = HWY_ALIGNMENT / sizeof(size_t);
+  uint64_t prev_total = 0;  // avoids having to reset counters.
-
-  std::vector<size_t> counters(num_workers * kSizePerLine);
-  size_t prev_total = 0;  // avoids having to reset counters.
 
   hwy::RandomState rng;
   for (size_t rep = 0; rep < 500; ++rep) {
@@ -63,13 +60,13 @@ static void TunePool(hwy::PoolWaitMode wait_mode, hwy::ThreadPool& pool) {
     pool.Run(begin, end, [&](uint64_t task, size_t thread) {
       HWY_ASSERT(begin <= task && task < end);
       HWY_ASSERT(thread < num_workers);
-      counters[thread * kSizePerLine]++;
+      counters[thread * kU64PerLine]++;
     });
 
     // Reduce count and ensure it matches the expected number of tasks.
-    size_t total = 0;
+    uint64_t total = 0;
     for (size_t i = 0; i < num_workers; ++i) {
-      total += counters[i * kSizePerLine];
+      total += counters[i * kU64PerLine];
     }
     const size_t expected = end - begin;
     HWY_ASSERT(total == prev_total + expected);

util/threading_test.cc

@@ -202,8 +202,7 @@ TEST(ThreadingTest, TestStaticPartition) {
   }
 }
 
-static constexpr size_t kU64PerThread = HWY_ALIGNMENT / sizeof(size_t);
+static uint64_t outputs[hwy::kMaxLogicalProcessors * kU64PerLine];
-static uint64_t outputs[hwy::kMaxLogicalProcessors * kU64PerThread];
 
 std::vector<uint64_t> MeasureForkJoin(hwy::ThreadPool& pool) {
   // Governs duration of test; avoid timeout in debug builds.
@@ -217,7 +216,7 @@ std::vector<uint64_t> MeasureForkJoin(hwy::ThreadPool& pool) {
   const double t0 = hwy::platform::Now();
   for (size_t reps = 0; reps < 1200; ++reps) {
     pool.Run(0, pool.NumWorkers(), kCaller, [&](uint64_t task, size_t thread) {
-      outputs[thread * kU64PerThread] = base + thread;
+      outputs[thread * kU64PerLine] = base + thread;
     });
     hwy::PreventElision(outputs[base]);
     if (pool.AutoTuneComplete()) break;
@@ -258,7 +257,7 @@ std::vector<uint64_t> MeasureForkJoin(hwy::ThreadPool& pool) {
       const uint64_t t0 = hwy::timer::Start();
       pool.Run(0, pool.NumWorkers(), kCaller,
                [&](uint64_t task, size_t thread) {
-                 outputs[thread * kU64PerThread] = base + thread;
+                 outputs[thread * kU64PerLine] = base + thread;
                });
       const uint64_t t1 = hwy::timer::Stop();
       times.push_back(t1 - t0);
@@ -268,7 +267,7 @@ std::vector<uint64_t> MeasureForkJoin(hwy::ThreadPool& pool) {
       const uint64_t t0 = hwy::timer::Start();
       pool.Run(0, pool.NumWorkers(), kCaller,
                [&](uint64_t task, size_t thread) {
-                 outputs[thread * kU64PerThread] = base + thread;
+                 outputs[thread * kU64PerLine] = base + thread;
                });
       const uint64_t t1 = hwy::timer::Start();
       times.push_back(t1 - t0);
@@ -315,10 +314,10 @@ TEST(ThreadingTest, BenchJoin) {
 
     // Verify outputs to ensure the measured code is not a no-op.
     for (size_t lp = 0; lp < pool.NumWorkers(); ++lp) {
-      HWY_ASSERT(outputs[lp * kU64PerThread] >= 1);
+      HWY_ASSERT(outputs[lp * kU64PerLine] >= 1);
-      HWY_ASSERT(outputs[lp * kU64PerThread] <= 1 + pool.NumWorkers());
+      HWY_ASSERT(outputs[lp * kU64PerLine] <= 1 + pool.NumWorkers());
-      for (size_t i = 1; i < kU64PerThread; ++i) {
+      for (size_t i = 1; i < kU64PerLine; ++i) {
-        HWY_ASSERT(outputs[lp * kU64PerThread + i] == 0);
+        HWY_ASSERT(outputs[lp * kU64PerLine + i] == 0);
       }
     }
   };