[BugFix] Add shuffle elect condition for ptx_arrive_barrier() in TMA barrier injection

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved barrier arrival behavior in producer code when warp specialization is enabled. Barrier operations now conditionally execute based on warp-level election, enhancing synchronization correctness in specialized parallel execution scenarios.

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Walkthrough

Added a new VisitStmt_ override in the TmaBarrierRewriter class to intercept ptx_arrive_barrier() calls. When warp specialization is enabled and the context is a producer, the barrier arrival is now conditionally guarded by tl_shuffle_elect(128), otherwise delegating to the base visitor.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
TMA Barrier Producer Conditional Guard src/transform/inject_tma_barrier.cc	Added VisitStmt_ override to wrap ptx_arrive_barrier() calls with IfThenElse condition when has_warp_specialization_ and is_producer_ are true

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~12 minutes

• Verify the logic for detecting ptx_arrive_barrier() calls within the Evaluate node
• Confirm the conditional guard (tl_shuffle_elect(128)) is correctly applied only when both warp specialization and producer flags are set
• Check that the fallback to base visitor preserves expected behavior in other cases

Poem

🐰 A barrier guards the flock so tight,
But when producers race through night,
We shuffle-elect just eighty-one,
A warp at once—the work gets done!
With specialization, threads align,
In sync they cross the finish line. ✨

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title directly describes the main change: adding a shuffle elect condition for ptx_arrive_barrier() in TMA barrier injection, which matches the core modification in the changeset.

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• src/transform/inject_tma_barrier.cc (1 hunks)

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🧠 Learnings (1)

📚 Learning: 2025-09-12T09:47:46.474Z

Learnt from: kurisu6912
Repo: tile-ai/tilelang PR: 794
File: tilelang/transform/add_bufstore_wrapper.py:30-33
Timestamp: 2025-09-12T09:47:46.474Z
Learning: In TVM's PyStmtExprMutator, visit_block_ methods typically call super().visit_block_(op) to process child nodes and update internal state, but return the original op when the block itself doesn't need transformation. The pattern `return op` is correct for blocks that serve as containers where mutations happen at deeper levels.

Applied to files:

• src/transform/inject_tma_barrier.cc

🧬 Code graph analysis (1)

src/transform/inject_tma_barrier.cc (2)

src/transform/warp_specialized_rewriter.h (1)

• has_warp_specialization_ (95-95)

src/tl_templates/cuda/intrin.h (1)

• tl_shuffle_elect (88-122)

🔇 Additional comments (2)

src/transform/inject_tma_barrier.cc (2)

507-522: Verify interaction with existing VisitExpr_ handling of ptx_arrive_barrier().

The existing VisitExpr_ method (lines 575-582) also handles ptx_arrive_barrier() calls. When clear_arrive_ is true, it returns 0, effectively removing the call. Since the new VisitStmt_ method calls StmtExprMutator::VisitStmt_(op) on line 515, which will visit the child call expression, you may end up with:

IfThenElse(tl_shuffle_elect(128), Evaluate(0), Stmt())

This would be dead code if clear_arrive_ is true for producer arrivals. Verify that the logic prevents clear_arrive_ from being true when is_producer_ is true, or handle the interaction explicitly.

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513-514: Verify the hardcoded 128 matches the producer thread extent.

The call to tl_shuffle_elect(128) uses a hardcoded value of 128. If producer_thread_extent_ is computed dynamically and can differ from 128, the election logic will be incorrect, potentially causing barrier synchronization failures.

Consider using producer_thread_extent_ instead of the hardcoded 128:

-        PrimExpr cond = Call(DataType::Bool(), tl_shuffle_elect(),
-                             {IntImm(DataType::Int(32), 128)});
+        PrimExpr cond = Call(DataType::Bool(), tl_shuffle_elect(),
+                             {producer_thread_extent_});

Alternatively, if 128 is guaranteed to be correct for all producer contexts, add a comment explaining why.

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