KernelBench-M / pipeline /forkpool.py
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"""Fork-based crash isolation with a preloaded registry.
Problem: importing the 188-substrate registry costs ~85s, and a mutant that
triggers an illegal memory access poisons the CUDA context so unrecoverably
that the process must exit. Paying the import per problem (for isolation) wastes
most of the runtime.
Solution: the PARENT loads the registry once and never touches CUDA. For each
unit of work it fork()s a child; the child inherits the registry through
copy-on-write (no reload, no serialization), initializes CUDA itself, does the
work, and exits. If the child dies — poisoned context, watchdog kill, OOM —
the parent is unaffected and forks the next one.
Constraint: the parent must NOT initialize CUDA (a CUDA context cannot be
inherited across fork), so keep all torch.cuda calls inside run_fn.
"""
import os
import sys
def run_isolated(run_fn, *args, timeout=None):
"""Run run_fn(*args) in a forked child. Returns the child's exit code.
0 = completed; 3 = the runner's "context poisoned, respawn me" signal;
other = crash/kill. The parent never shares CUDA state with the child.
"""
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0: # child
code = 0
try:
run_fn(*args)
except SystemExit as e:
code = e.code if isinstance(e.code, int) else 1
except Exception:
import traceback
traceback.print_exc()
code = 1
finally:
sys.stdout.flush()
sys.stderr.flush()
os._exit(code) # never run parent's atexit/finalizers
if timeout is None:
_, status = os.waitpid(pid, 0)
return os.waitstatus_to_exitcode(status)
# bounded wait: kill the child if it exceeds the wall-clock budget
import time
deadline = time.monotonic() + timeout
while True:
done, status = os.waitpid(pid, os.WNOHANG)
if done:
return os.waitstatus_to_exitcode(status)
if time.monotonic() > deadline:
os.kill(pid, 9)
os.waitpid(pid, 0)
return 124
time.sleep(0.5)
def isolated_loop(problems, run_fn, label="run", timeout=2400, retries=6):
"""Process problems one at a time, each in its own forked child.
The registry stays resident in the parent, so a crash costs only the work
in flight — never a re-import.
"""
for p in problems:
for attempt in range(retries):
rc = run_isolated(run_fn, p, timeout=timeout)
if rc == 0:
break
if rc == 124:
print(f"[{label}] {p}: TIMEOUT (child killed)", flush=True)
break
print(f"[{label}] {p}: done", flush=True)