feat: HIP CLR profiler integration (hipProfiler*Ext v0.1.0)

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Summary

Integrate German's HIP CLR built-in profiler API (hipProfiler*Ext) as an alternative profiling path for RTL. This uses the CLR's internal dispatch table wrappers instead of HSA signal injection, providing:

• Multi-process safe profiling (no shared HSA signal pool contention)
• CUDAGraph compatible (no signal injection into graph replay packets)
• Zero overhead on production workloads (CLR callback path, no AQL packet modification)

What's in this PR

Core: src/hip_intercept.cpp

• Consumes CLR profiler records via hipProfilerEnableExt / hipProfilerDisableExt / hipProfilerGetRecordsExt
• Backward compatible: auto-detects v0 (has Reset) vs v0.1.0 (no Reset) API at runtime
• v0.1.0 new fields consumed:
  • Grid/block dimensions for kernel dispatches -> stored in API args
  • Memory addresses for alloc/copy ops (memory1/memory2/size)
  • Demangled kernel names
  • Linked-list traversal for multi-op graph launches
• v0 fallback: contiguous array traversal, optional Reset call

Docker: docker/Dockerfile.hip-profiler

Full reproducible build environment:

• Base: rocm/ufb-private:pytorch-2.10.0-rocm7.13.0a20260424 (ROCm 7.13 nightly)
• CLR source: ROCm/rocm-systems branch amd/dev/gandryey/ROCM-1667-12 (PR #5215)
• Builds libamdhip64.so with profiler extensions from source
• Patches applied: version map exports, nodiscard warning fixes
• Pre-built image: rocm/pytorch-private:rtl-hip-profiler-v013_20260427

Build script: docker/build-hip-profiler.sh

One-command image rebuild when CLR branch or ROCm base updates.

Validation

v0.1.0 API (ROCm 7.13 + new CLR, MI355X)

rtl[hip]: hipProfiler*Ext API v0.1.0 resolved, Enable returned 0 (start_id=4159)
rtl[hip]: draining 4159 records (1 chunks x 10000)
rtl[hip]: drained api=4159 kernel=12 copy=2 barrier=0 graph_ops=0 skipped=0

New fields verified:

hipMalloc: ptr=0x721007c00000 size=2097152
hipLaunchKernel: grid=[1024,1,1] block=[256,1,1]
hipMemcpyWithStream: dst=0x14e82bc0 src=0x721004300000 size=262144

Kernel names now fully demangled:

Cijk_Ailk_Bljk_S_B_Bias_HA_S_SAV_UserArgs_MT32x32x128_MI16x16x1_SN_LDSB1_AFC0_AG...

v0 API backward compat (ROCm 7.2 + old CLR, MI355X)

rtl[hip]: hipProfiler*Ext API v0 resolved, Enable returned 0 (start_id=0)
rtl[hip]: draining 3306 records (1 chunks x 10000)
rtl[hip]: drained api=3306 kernel=11 copy=1 barrier=0 graph_ops=0 skipped=0

CPU tests: 216 passed, 34 skipped

Quick start

# Pull pre-built image
docker pull rocm/pytorch-private:rtl-hip-profiler-v013_20260427

# Run with hip profiler mode
docker run --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add video \
  --security-opt seccomp=unconfined --cap-add SYS_PTRACE --privileged \
  --network host --ipc host -e HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 \
  rocm/pytorch-private:rtl-hip-profiler-v013_20260427 \
  bash -c "GPU_CLR_PROFILE_OUTPUT=/dev/null rtl trace --mode hip -o /tmp/trace.db -- \
    python3 -c 'import torch; x=torch.randn(512,512,device=\"cuda\"); torch.mm(x,x); torch.cuda.synchronize()'"

Dependencies

• Upstream CLR: ROCm/rocm-systems PR #5215
• ROCm nightly base: unified-framework-builds workflow

Test plan

• v0.1.0 API E2E on MI355X (demangled names, grid dims, memory addrs)
• v0 API backward compatibility on MI355X
• CPU unit tests (216 passed)
• Multi-GPU test with ATOM serving
• Overhead benchmark vs baseline

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GPU smoke tests on banff MI300X (ROCm 7.2.0)

Ran the three pieces of GPU-side validation that can be verified without a ROCm build containing the CLR profiler patch. The branch was cloned fresh, built on banff against ROCm 7.2, and run against the tests/gpu_workload gemm HIP binary.

Environment

• Host: banff-ccs-aus-p20-14, 8x MI300X
• ROCm: 7.2.0 (libamdhip64.so.7.2.70201)
• CLR profiler symbols present: 0 (confirmed via nm -D libamdhip64.so | grep hipClrProfiler)
• Load avg: 0.35, no other GPU users

Test 1 — HSA default mode regression

HSA_TOOLS_LIB=$(pwd)/librtl.so RTL_OUTPUT=trace_hsa.db ./tests/gpu_workload gemm 256 10

Result: PASS

• 13 intercept calls, 12 kernels injected, 12 recorded OK, 0 drops
• rocpd_op has the new correlation_id column with DEFAULT 0
• SELECT count(*), min(correlation_id), max(correlation_id) FROM rocpd_op → 12, 1, 12 — the counter-based correlation_id is now being persisted (previously silently dropped)
• top view returns correct data: matmul 10 calls 372.0us total 98.79%, __amd_rocclr_fillBufferAligned 2 calls

Confirms the schema change and writer binding are working end-to-end on HSA mode. No regression.

Test 2 — HIP mode graceful fallback

HSA_TOOLS_LIB=$(pwd)/librtl.so RTL_MODE=hip GPU_CLR_PROFILE=/dev/null   RTL_OUTPUT=trace_hip.db ./tests/gpu_workload gemm 256 10

Result: PASS

rtl: mode=hip
rtl[hip]: GPU_CLR_PROFILE=/dev/null
rtl[hip]: skipping HSA queue intercept; CLR profiler handles capture
[... workload runs ...]
rtl[hip]: hipClrProfiler API not available in this ROCm build
rtl[hip]:   enable=(nil) disable=(nil) get_records=(nil) reset=(nil)
rtl[hip]: requires ROCm build with rocm-systems commit 5dc10a8 or later
rtl: trace finalized (0 records written)

• Mode parsed correctly, HSA interception skipped
• libamdhip64.so loaded via RTLD_NOLOAD
• All 5 hipClrProfiler* symbols dlsym'd to (nil) cleanly — no crash
• Warning printed with actionable remediation guidance
• Workload itself ran successfully (GEMM 256x256 x10 done, exit 0). RTL does not break applications when the profiler API is absent.
• Trace DB opened and closed cleanly with 0 records — expected since CLR profiler never activated

This is the exact graceful-fallback behavior the RFC promised.

Test 3 — Schema migration on pre-existing trace file

Created an old.db with the pre-change schema (no correlation_id column), then ran a HIP workload with RTL_OUTPUT=old.db to force schema migration on open.

Result: PASS

• Pre-migration: rocpd_op has 9 columns, no correlation_id
• Post-migration: rocpd_op has 10 columns with correlation_id INTEGER DEFAULT 0 appended. rocpd_api also migrated.
• Pre-existing row preserved (id=1, correlation_id=0) — no data loss
• 5 new rows written with correlation_id > 0 — new writes populate the column correctly
• ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN migration is idempotent (re-running produces no errors since we swallow them)

Summary

Test	Platform	Status
HSA mode regression + schema persistence	MI300X ROCm 7.2	PASS
HIP mode graceful fallback (no CLR patch)	MI300X ROCm 7.2	PASS
Schema migration on pre-existing DB	MI300X ROCm 7.2	PASS
HIP mode with real CLR profiler	—	BLOCKED on ROCm build with rocm-systems@5dc10a8+
Launch latency validation (Tests 1-4 from RFC)	—	BLOCKED on same build
vLLM / ATOM end-to-end overhead	—	BLOCKED on same build

The blocked items all need a ROCm build with German's CLR profiler patch. Once that build is available on one of our nodes, the remaining validation can happen quickly — the integration code itself is exercised and working.

Test plan checklist updated accordingly.

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🤖 GPT-5.4 Code Review

NEEDS CHANGES

Real issues

1. Dependency violation / project policy risk

benchmarks/overhead_bench.py adds "rtl_hip" mode that hard-requires a custom-built libamdhip64.so from rocm-systems branch and documents profiler-extension symbols from that branch.

• This is not a direct roctracer / rocprofiler-sdk / libroctx64 dependency, so it does not violate item (1) literally.
• But it does introduce a nonstandard ROCm runtime dependency outside stock ROCm, which is a significant portability/regression risk for a “self-contained” profiler.

If this mode is intended to stay, it should be clearly gated as experimental and not treated as a normal benchmark option.

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2. Incorrect / unsafe LD_PRELOAD handling in benchmark launcher

In _run_rtl_hip():

preload = hip_lib
if os.path.isfile(stubs_lib):
    preload = f"{stubs_lib} {hip_lib}"
env["LD_PRELOAD"] = preload

LD_PRELOAD is not consistently parsed as a space-separated list by the dynamic loader across environments; the portable separator is : for library search paths, but LD_PRELOAD itself is typically whitespace-separated by glibc. More importantly, this overwrites any existing LD_PRELOAD, unlike cmd_trace.py which preserves it.

Why this matters:

• Can silently break existing preload-based tooling.
• Inconsistent behavior between CLI path and benchmark path.

At minimum, preserve existing LD_PRELOAD and use one consistent construction strategy across both codepaths.

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3. Potential underflow / OOB iteration in HIP drain

In hip_profiler_drain():

size_t remaining = total_count - c * chunk_size;
size_t n = (remaining < chunk_size) ? remaining : chunk_size;

If chunk_count * chunk_size > total_count, then for some c, c * chunk_size exceeds total_count and remaining underflows (size_t), causing a huge n and out-of-bounds reads.

Even if the producer API “should” be consistent, this is still a correctness/security bug on unchecked external data.

Use a guarded form, e.g.:

• break when c * chunk_size >= total_count, or
• compute base = c * chunk_size; if (base >= total_count) break;

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4. Truncation of thread IDs

In hip_intercept.cpp:

db.record_hip_api(..., (int)rec.thread_id);

thread_id is declared as uint64_t and comments say it is a hash of std::thread::id. Truncating to int will collide badly on busy multi-threaded workloads.

This is a correctness issue for correlation/debugging. If DB schema only supports 32-bit TID semantics, this path should map/hash explicitly and document it; otherwise store full 64-bit.

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5. Shutdown path may skip DB flush/close in HIP mode

shutdown() in hsa_intercept.cpp returns early for HIP mode after hip_profiler_drain() and relies on a separate atexit from lazy_init_db():

// trace_db flush/close is handled by the atexit handler registered during lazy_init_db()

That assumption is fragile:

• If hip_profiler_drain() never opens the DB (e.g. no records / early error), no DB atexit may be registered.
• More importantly, atexit ordering depends on registration order. If DB atexit was registered during shutdown-time lazy init, it will run before/after other handlers depending on when registration occurs. This deserves explicit validation.

I’m not calling this definitely broken, but the current comment overstates safety. The shutdown ordering for HIP mode should be made explicit rather than relying on lazy registration during teardown.

Other notes

• No direct references to roctracer, rocprofiler-sdk, or libroctx64 were introduced in the C++ path.
• HSA usage change in OnLoad() looks reasonable: HIP mode now avoids queue interception entirely.
• SQLite changes themselves look fine; adding correlation_id plus indexes is okay, and ignoring ALTER TABLE errors is acceptable for this migration pattern.

Recommended fixes before merge

1. Fix the chunk iteration underflow in hip_profiler_drain().
2. Preserve existing LD_PRELOAD in benchmark HIP mode and make preload handling consistent.
3. Stop truncating 64-bit HIP thread IDs to int, or explicitly remap them safely.
4. Tighten HIP shutdown/DB lifecycle so flush/close ordering is explicit, not implicit.

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Model: gpt-5.4

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MINOR ISSUES

Correctness

• Potential duplicate/late activation bug in HIP mode

  • In hip_profiler_probe(), g_fn_enable() is called unconditionally once symbols resolve.
  • hip_profiler_drain() then immediately calls g_fn_disable() and g_fn_get_records().
  • If the profiler was already activated earlier via GPU_CLR_PROFILE_OUTPUT during hip::init(), calling Enable again at shutdown is at best unnecessary and at worst could perturb profiler state or return an error depending on CLR semantics.
  • More importantly, if the app was not already activated, enabling only at shutdown is too late to capture prior activity, so the “belt-and-suspenders” comment is misleading.
  • Suggestion: probe should only resolve symbols; activation should not happen during drain unless there is a documented “enable-after-init still captures future records” use case.

• Unchecked underflow in chunk iteration

  • In hip_profiler_drain():

    size_t remaining = total_count - c * chunk_size;

    If chunk_count * chunk_size metadata is inconsistent, this can underflow and cause out-of-bounds iteration.
  • Probably benign if CLR guarantees consistency, but this is still an unchecked trust boundary from an external library. Guard with:

    size_t base = c * chunk_size;
    if (base >= total_count) break;

• Thread ID truncation

  • HipApiRecordExt::thread_id is uint64_t, but it is written as:

    (int)rec.thread_id

  • This can truncate on large values and break correlation/grouping. If the DB schema only supports 32-bit TIDs, this should be explicit/documented; otherwise use 64-bit consistently.

Security / Robustness

• Hard-coded LD_PRELOAD replacement in benchmark helper

  • _run_rtl_hip() sets:

    env["LD_PRELOAD"] = preload

    unlike cmd_trace.py, which preserves existing preload entries.
  • This can silently drop required preload libraries in benchmark environments and change behavior unexpectedly.
  • Not a security bug per se, but a real robustness issue. It should append/prepend to existing LD_PRELOAD, not overwrite it.

• Unchecked return from g_fn_reset()

  • hip_profiler_drain() ignores the return value of g_fn_reset().
  • Since shutdown behavior depends on clearing CLR state before its own finalizer runs, failures should at least be logged.

Dependency violations

• No forbidden dependency introduced
  • No references to roctracer, rocprofiler-sdk, or libroctx64 in the new C++ path.
  • The benchmark list still includes "roctracer" as an external comparison target, but that is not a runtime/library dependency of rocm-trace-lite itself.

Performance

• Mostly fine
  • The HIP path is shutdown-only and zero-copy over CLR chunks, so no obvious hot-path allocation issue in this diff.
  • No new lock contention or thread-per-dispatch issue introduced.

Style / consistency

• Logging is a bit noisy but acceptable
  • New fprintf(stderr, ...) diagnostics are consistent with the rest of the file.
  • No substantive style issues worth blocking on.

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Model: gpt-5.4

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🤖 GPT-5.4 Code Review

NEEDS CHANGES

Real issues

1. Correctness: hip_profiler_drain() can underflow and walk past returned chunks

In src/hip_intercept.cpp:

size_t remaining = total_count - c * chunk_size;
size_t n = (remaining < chunk_size) ? remaining : chunk_size;

If chunk_count * chunk_size > total_count (which is exactly the expected case for a partially filled last chunk, and could also happen for any extra capacity chunking), then for any c where c * chunk_size > total_count, remaining underflows (size_t) and n becomes chunk_size. That causes out-of-bounds reads from chunks[c][i].

This needs a guard, e.g. break when c * chunk_size >= total_count.

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2. Correctness / signal handling: HIP mode does DB work from atexit after skipping normal HSA init path

HIP mode returns early from OnLoad() and only registers:

std::atexit(shutdown);

Then shutdown() in HIP mode does:

• hip_intercept::hip_profiler_drain()
• SQLite writes/flush/close

This is fragile because atexit ordering relative to HIP runtime / C++ static destructors in other DSOs is not guaranteed in a way you can rely on here. Your own comments acknowledge CLR finalizer/destructor behavior. If HIP/CLR teardown runs before this handler in some cases, dlsymed function pointers / internal buffers may no longer be valid.

Not necessarily always broken, but this is a real lifecycle risk introduced by the new mode.

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3. Performance / correctness: unconditional fprintf(stderr, ...) on probe/drain path

hip_profiler_probe() and hip_profiler_drain() print multiple lines unconditionally, including success paths:

fprintf(stderr, "rtl[hip]: hipProfiler*Ext API resolved, Enable returned %d\n", rc);
fprintf(stderr, "rtl[hip]: draining %zu records ...\n", ...);
fprintf(stderr, "rtl[hip]: drained api=... \n", ...);

For a profiler library intended for low overhead and production use, unconditional stderr logging from every traced process is a real issue. It can perturb workloads, spam multi-process jobs, and break tools expecting clean stderr. Existing code already prints diagnostics at shutdown, but this adds more noisy paths.

At minimum gate behind an env/debug flag or keep only the final summary.

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4. Security / robustness: unchecked return from g_fn_reset()

At end of hip_profiler_drain():

g_fn_reset();

Return value is ignored, unlike disable / get_records. Since comments rely on Reset() to prevent later CLR finalizer output, failure matters. This should be checked and logged.

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Dependency violations

No new dependency on roctracer, rocprofiler-sdk, or libroctx64 in code paths added here.

(There are mentions of roctracer in docs/bench scripts, but not as a linked/runtime dependency for rocm-trace-lite itself.)

Notes

The SQLite schema migration changes look reasonable and use the existing single-writer pattern; I don’t see a new SQLite thread-safety violation in this diff.

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Model: gpt-5.4