feat: enable Triton kernels on MUSA - #375
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change enables MUSA support across Triton operator validation and registry dispatch. It adds Triton backend identifiers, prioritizes Triton implementations for MUSA operations, and updates dispatch, correctness, and dtype-alignment tests. ChangesMUSA Triton support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change enables MUSA Triton execution, but MUSA attention dispatch can currently fail before selecting a backend, GEMM inputs may not be validated to the same physical device, and an RMSNorm test conflicts with the documented fallback behavior. The PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted by the owners. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant OpRegistry
participant MUSAOperation
participant TritonOperator
OpRegistry->>MUSAOperation: resolve MUSA operation
MUSAOperation->>TritonOperator: select prioritized Triton backend
TritonOperator-->>MUSAOperation: execute with MUSA tensors
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/ops/triton/matmul/det_gemm.py`:
- Around line 149-150: Validate exact device equality for the GEMM operands in
both entry points before calling _TritonDetGemmFn.apply, rejecting cases where
a.device differs from b.device; retain the existing supported-device checks and
ensure _triton_gemm cannot launch with mixed-device pointers.
In `@rl_engine/kernels/registry.py`:
- Line 578: Add a MUSA ws2_attention entry in the MUSA backend map used by
KernelRegistry.get_attention_op, with OpBackend.PYTORCH_CP_ATTENTION as the
first candidate, matching the ROCm configuration. Extend the dispatch test to
call get_attention_op for MUSA and verify the candidate is returned.
In `@tests/test_rms_norm.py`:
- Around line 243-245: Update the MUSA branch in the RMS norm test to condition
its type assertion on Triton availability: expect RMSNormTritonOp when Triton is
available and NativeRMSNormOp otherwise, while preserving the forward attribute
check for the selected operation.
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| assert a.device.type in ("cuda", "hip", "xpu", "musa") | ||
| assert b.device.type in ("cuda", "hip", "xpu", "musa") |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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file='rl_engine/kernels/ops/triton/matmul/det_gemm.py'
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printf '%s\n' '--- direct symbols and device checks ---'
rg -n -C 3 '_TritonDetGemmFn|_triton_gemm|device\.type|a\.device|b\.device|MUSA|musa' "$file" rl_engine 2>/dev/null | head -n 300
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[ -f "$f" ] && { echo "### $f"; rg -n -C 3 'triton|torch.?musa|musa|torch' "$f" || true; }
done
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git ls-files | rg '(^|/)(test|tests|pyproject|requirements|uv\.lock|poetry\.lock|README|.*triton.*|.*musa.*)' | head -n 200
printf '%s\n' '--- direct GEMM references and validation ---'
rg -n -C 4 'deterministic_gemm_triton|TritonDetGemmOp|_TritonDetGemmFn|_det_gemm_kernel|mixed.?device|same device|device ==|device !=' rl_engine tests 2>/dev/null | head -n 400Repository: RL-Align/RL-Kernel
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Triton language kernel launch tensor arguments different devices pointer arguments same device PyTorch MUSA support
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Triton kernels require all pointer arguments (tensors) to be accessible from the device context where the kernel is launched [1][2][3]. In the PyTorch integration, a Triton kernel is typically executed within the context of the current active device [1][3]. If you pass a tensor located on a device different from the current active device, the kernel launch will fail with a ValueError such as "Pointer argument (at X) cannot be accessed from Triton (cpu tensor?)" [1][4][2]. To resolve this issue, you must ensure that the kernel execution context matches the device where your tensors are located. Common strategies include: 1. Using the context manager torch.cuda.device(x.device) when launching the kernel [1][3]. 2. Explicitly setting the device using torch.cuda.set_device before the launch [1][2]. Regarding MUSA support, Moore Threads provides torch_musa to enable PyTorch and Triton-based workflows on MUSA hardware [5][6]. This integration includes a "Triton-MUSA" compiler and provides compatibility adapters like torchada [7][5][8]. While the underlying requirement for matching device contexts applies generally to Triton-based backends, torch_musa specifically enables the MUSA backend string and provides specialized handling to map Triton operations to MUSA hardware [5][6]. For complex frameworks like vLLM, specialized patches are sometimes used to handle syntax or compiler incompatibilities between standard Triton and the MUSA-specific Triton compiler [9].
Citations:
- 1: GitHub issue 2441 in triton-lang/triton (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: GitHub issue 2925 in triton-lang/triton (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: GitHub issue 2441 in openai/triton (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: GitHub issue 5205 in triton-lang/triton (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://github.com/MooreThreads/torch_musa/releases
- 6: https://github.com/MooreThreads/torch%5Fmusa
- 7: https://github.com/MooreThreads/torchada
- 8: https://pypi.org/project/torchada/
- 9: https://github.com/MooreThreads/vllm-musa/blob/v0.17.0-dev/vllm_musa/patches/README.md
Reject mixed-device GEMM operands before launching _det_gemm_kernel.
_triton_gemm allocates c on a.device and passes both a and b pointers to Triton. Triton requires pointer arguments to be accessible from the launch device. If a.device != b.device, the launch can fail. Add an exact device-equality check in both entry points before _TritonDetGemmFn.apply.
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/ops/triton/matmul/det_gemm.py` around lines 149 - 150,
Validate exact device equality for the GEMM operands in both entry points before
calling _TritonDetGemmFn.apply, rejecting cases where a.device differs from
b.device; retain the existing supported-device checks and ensure _triton_gemm
cannot launch with mixed-device pointers.
| "logp_deterministic_indexed": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_NATIVE], | ||
| "attn": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_ATTN], | ||
| "attention": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_NATIVE_ATTENTION], | ||
| "cp_attention": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_CP_ATTENTION], |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Add MUSA ws2_attention candidates.
KernelRegistry.get_attention_op reads ws2_attention, not cp_attention. The MUSA map has no ws2_attention key. Every MUSA contract-aware attention request therefore gets no candidates and raises RuntimeError.
Add the MUSA ws2_attention list, with PYTORCH_CP_ATTENTION first, as on ROCm. Extend the dispatch test to exercise get_attention_op on MUSA.
Proposed fix
"attention": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_NATIVE_ATTENTION],
"cp_attention": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_CP_ATTENTION],
+ "ws2_attention": [
+ OpBackend.PYTORCH_CP_ATTENTION,
+ OpBackend.PYTORCH_NATIVE_ATTENTION,
+ ],
"kv_cache_attention": [OpBackend.PYTORCH_NATIVE_KV_CACHE_ATTN],🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@rl_engine/kernels/registry.py` at line 578, Add a MUSA ws2_attention entry in
the MUSA backend map used by KernelRegistry.get_attention_op, with
OpBackend.PYTORCH_CP_ATTENTION as the first candidate, matching the ROCm
configuration. Extend the dispatch test to call get_attention_op for MUSA and
verify the candidate is returned.
| if device_ctx.is_musa: | ||
| assert isinstance(op, RMSNormTritonOp) | ||
| assert hasattr(op, "forward") |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve the no-Triton fallback expectation.
When Triton is unavailable, RMSNormTritonOp fails construction and the registry selects NativeRMSNormOp. This MUSA branch then fails even though the fallback works.
Assert RMSNormTritonOp only when Triton is available. Otherwise assert NativeRMSNormOp.
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In `@tests/test_rms_norm.py` around lines 243 - 245, Update the MUSA branch in the
RMS norm test to condition its type assertion on Triton availability: expect
RMSNormTritonOp when Triton is available and NativeRMSNormOp otherwise, while
preserving the forward attribute check for the selected operation.
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Summary
Thank you for merging the previous PR that added the MUSA backend support. Building on that foundation, this PR adds MUSA support for Triton-backed RL-Kernel operators.
MUSA tensors are not reported as CUDA tensors by PyTorch, so the existing
.is_cudaandtorch.cuda.is_available()checks could incorrectly rejectMUSA execution or select the CPU fallback. This change adds explicit MUSA
device handling while preserving the existing CUDA and ROCm paths.
Changes
torch_musaandtorch.musa.logpgrpo_lossratio_kllinear_logpdet_gemmbatch_invariant_logprms_normembeddingsiluswigluropelinear_logpforward/backward coverage.This PR does not add MUSA native C++/MUSA kernels. Native MUSA kernel support
is handled separately in the
MUSA-support-native-kernelsbranch.Validation
Validated locally on:
2.9.0.post1+musa5.1.2mp223.2.0mp_22Results:
5/5 passed7/7 passed100 passedCompatibility
CUDA-specific.
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