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feat(mir): add Drop glue translation for device code#409

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Summary

Enable types with effectful Drop implementations on device by emitting actual drop_in_place::<T> calls when the no-op proof fails. Preserves the existing no-op fast path as an optimization.

Motivation

TerminatorKind::Drop is currently a support gap (tracked as error_drop_glue in STATUS.md). Destructors that do observable work (logging, releasing resources, resetting state) fail compilation. This PR closes that gap by falling back to real drop glue when the no-op proof fails.

Implementation

  • mir-importer (drop_glue.rs): add emit_drop_glue() and compute_drop_place_address() -- when drop_glue_is_noop() fails, emit a MirCallOp to the monomorphized drop_in_place::<T>
  • mir-importer (terminator/mod.rs): change translate_drop() from if noop → branch; else → error to if noop → branch; else → emit_drop_glue()
  • rustc-codegen-cuda (collector.rs): discover and collect drop_in_place::<T> functions via TerminatorKind::Drop, allow InstanceKind::DropGlue through the instance filter
  • Convert error_drop_glue from expected-failure to positive test (drop_glue example with end-to-end verification)
  • Update STATUS.md and smoketest.sh to remove error_drop_glue from error examples

Testing

Validated on RTX A2000 (sm_86), nightly-2026-04-03:

cargo test -p mir-importer         # 805 passed
cargo fmt --all -- --check         # clean
cargo clippy -p mir-importer -p cuda-oxide-codegen --tests -- -D warnings  # clean
scripts/smoketest.sh               # 133/141 passed (8 failures are sm_90+ features)

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Enable types with effectful Drop implementations on device by emitting
actual drop_in_place::<T> calls when the no-op proof fails.

Changes:
- mir-importer (drop_glue.rs): add emit_drop_glue() and
  compute_drop_place_address() -- when drop_glue_is_noop() fails, emit
  a MirCallOp to the monomorphized drop_in_place::<T>
- mir-importer (terminator/mod.rs): change translate_drop() from
  error on effectful drop to emit_drop_glue() fallback
- rustc-codegen-cuda (collector.rs): discover and collect
  drop_in_place::<T> functions, process TerminatorKind::Drop to
  enqueue drop glue instances, allow InstanceKind::DropGlue through
  the instance filter
- Convert error_drop_glue from expected-failure to positive test
  (drop_glue example with end-to-end verification)
- Preserve existing no-op fast path as optimization

Signed-off-by: abder <bobmatt911@gmail.com>
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honeyspoon force-pushed the add-device-drop-glue branch from d0ac741 to 40e76a4 Compare July 22, 2026 01:16
The drop-glue emission path shipped with a type-level widening of the
no-op proof: a Drop impl whose fields are all trivially droppable was
declared unobservable. That reasoning is false. A drop body's
observability is independent of its fields; a raw-pointer RAII guard
whose drop writes through the pointer is the canonical counterexample,
and the drop_glue example is exactly that shape. The fallback made
translate_drop lower such drops to a plain branch, so the destructor
never ran on device (verified on GPU at the original head: all 256
outputs read 0x0 instead of the expected 0xDEADBEEF sentinel).

Remove the fallback in all three coupled places at once:

- all_field_drops_are_empty in mir-importer's drop_glue.rs
- drop_fields_have_no_drop in collector.rs
- the fallback arm in drop_instance_is_noop (device_codegen filter)

and unify the three decisions onto one shared predicate,
mir_importer::drop_instance_is_noop (the body-level proof). The
collector consults it through a scoped rustc_internal::run, so
collection, emission, and translation cannot drift: everything the
importer calls is collected, and provably no-op shims are skipped at
discovery time, which also stops transitively collecting dead stdlib
Drop::drop bodies (e.g. IntoIter's PolymorphicIter) whose MIR the
device pipeline cannot compile.

Also revert the Assert-follows-success-edge widening in body_is_noop:
now that a failed proof emits the real drop_in_place call, an assert
must fail the proof rather than silently delete a would-be device trap.

Verified on GPU: cargo oxide run drop_glue now observes the sentinel in
all 256 elements, and cargo oxide run array_for_loop still passes with
the IntoIter shims proven no-op at collection time.

Signed-off-by: nihalp <nihalp@nvidia.com>
"Effectful drop glue is now fully supported" overclaimed. State
precisely what holds: provably no-op glue lowers to a plain branch;
otherwise the drop lowers to a device-side drop_in_place call, covering
direct impl Drop types reachable from kernels; and drop glue whose MIR
uses constructs the pipeline cannot yet translate (slice/Vec element
drops, panic formatting) still fails compilation with a diagnostic.
Destructors are never silently skipped.

Signed-off-by: nihalp <nihalp@nvidia.com>
@nihalpasham nihalpasham added enhancement New feature or request miscompile Produces incorrect PTX/IR (wrong generated code) codegen Device code-generation pipeline (Rust MIR to IR to PTX) labels Jul 22, 2026
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nihalpasham force-pushed the add-device-drop-glue branch from bd0c1ce to 0857b25 Compare July 22, 2026 15:17
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Thanks for the PR.

The makes sense for device RAII, device-side calls to the monomorphized drop_in_place::<T> shim, discovered by the collector like any other device function, mirroring how rustc's own mono-item collector handles drop glue.

  • As submitted, though, the widened type-level "no-op" fallback silently skipped exactly the destructors the PR enables — including this PR's own drop_glue example, which failed on GPU at the submitted head (all 256 outputs 0x00000000, expected 0xDEADBEEF). A silent miscompile replacing main's loud error.
  • I pushed a maintainer commit removing the fallback in all three coupled places and unifying them onto one shared predicate (drop_instance_is_noop, body-level proof only) consulted by the importer's emit decision, the collector, and device_codegen's filter; it also reverts the Assert-edge widening in body_is_noop and makes the collector skip provably-no-op shims at discovery, so dead Drop::drop bodies are never collected.
  • A second commit scopes STATUS.md to actual support. Net: destructors are never silently skipped — provably no-op drops lower to a branch, everything else emits the real call or fails loudly.

For example:

struct DropMarker { target: *mut u32 }
impl Drop for DropMarker { fn drop(&mut self) { unsafe { *self.target = 0xDEADBEEF; } } }

// 256 threads; each writes 0 to its own slot, then builds a
// DropMarker aimed at it. The destructor fires at end of scope:
#[kernel] fn drop_glue_kernel(mut out: DisjointSlice<u32>) {
    let slot = ...;              // this thread's output slot
    *slot = 0;
    let _m = DropMarker { target: slot };
}   // <- _m drops here; slot must become 0xDEADBEEF

main:        loud compile error
PR as filed: compiles, destructor silently skipped - all 256 slots read 0
repaired:    compiles, destructor runs - all 256 slots read 0xDEADBEEF

Reviewer note: mir-importer 803 and backend 17 tests pass; drop_glue PASSES on an RTX 5090 with the sentinel host-verified; array_for_loop passes (IntoIter shims prove no-op at collection time); drop/array compile-only subset 7/7; ltoir check passes. Land before #398; the drop-glue predicate reconciliation for #398's array::Drain reduction is spelled out in the review record. All hosted CI checks passed on the final head.

#437 is related but stays open.

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nihalpasham merged commit d0eff58 into NVlabs:main Jul 22, 2026
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