Production shapes rarely keep M (batch x seq) a multiple of 128. Lift
the divisibility requirements to the validated envelope:
- scale packers zero-pad rows to full 128-row tiles (the same ceil
convention CUTLASS/cuBLAS/CuTeDSL use for the blocked SF tensor), so
the packed source always has ceil(rows/128)*128 rows;
- the example accepts an arbitrary M or an N tail: TMA loads zero-fill
out-of-bounds rows and the C store is predicated. N keeps the
16-byte-aligned-rows rule (N % 8 == 0), the same contiguous-dim
alignment CuTeDSL validates;
- simultaneous M and N tails are rejected with a clear error: the
fragment-to-global copy lowering emits the column guard bound from
the wrong dimension in that case (upstream bug, tracked separately).
Tests: tail-shape runtime correctness (257x384, 130x128, 128x136 with
exact binary-scale references), rejection paths, and packer padding
round-trip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
blockscaled_chunk_kmajor packed words are byte-identical to the
CUTLASS/CuTeDSL canonical blocked SF layout (tile_atom_to_shape_SF,
sf_vec_size=16, atom ((32,4),(16,4)):((16,4),(0,1)) tiled with order
(2,1,3)); the two views bridge zero-copy via torch view casts. Document
that on the packer and lock it with a cross-layout contract test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
