add all codegen stages to spec_tensor

2026-08-14 22:18:26 +00:00 · 2026-05-12 10:23:03 -07:00
521 changed files with 18352 additions and 30316 deletions
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ runs:
  steps:
    - name: Run process replay tests
      shell: bash
-      if: env.CAPTURE_PROCESS_REPLAY == '1'
      run: |
        export PR_TITLE=$(jq -r .pull_request.title "$GITHUB_EVENT_PATH")
        export CURRENT_SHA=${{ github.event.pull_request && github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ inputs:
  python-version:
    description: 'Python version to use'
    required: false
-    default: '' # if you don't set a version, the native python version will be used
+    default: '3.12'
  key:
    description: 'Key for the python cache'
    required: false
    default: ''  # if you don't set a key, it doesn't cache
  deps:
-    description: 'Extra dependency groups (space separated)'
+    description: 'Extra dependency groups (comma separated)'
    required: false
    default: ''
  pydeps:
@@ -41,33 +41,20 @@ inputs:
    description: "Install LLVM?"
    required: false
    default: 'false'
-  tinydreno:
-    description: "Install tinydreno"
+  mesa:
+    description: "Install mesa"
    required: false
    default: 'false'
-  qemu:
-    description: "Install qemu"
+  tinydreno:
+    description: "Install tinydreno"
    required: false
    default: 'false'
 runs:
  using: "composite"
  steps:
-    - name: Setup environment
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        echo "UV_CACHE_DIR=/tmp/.uv-cache" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-        echo "OMP_NUM_THREADS=1" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-        # no buffers should be over 300MB in CI
-        echo "MAX_BUFFER_SIZE=300000000" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-    - name: Set up uv
-      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@08807647e7069bb48b6ef5acd8ec9567f424441b
-      with:
-        enable-cache: 'false' # see below for manual caching
-
    - name: Set up Python ${{ inputs.python-version }}
+      id: setup-python
      uses: actions/setup-python@v6
-      if: inputs.python-version != ''
      with:
        python-version: ${{ inputs.python-version }}

@@ -76,23 +63,23 @@ runs:
    - name: Cache Python packages (PR)
      if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
      id: restore-venv-pr
-      uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
+      uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
      with:
-        path: /tmp/.uv-cache
-        key: uv-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-${{ inputs.python-version }}-${{ inputs.deps }}-${{ inputs.pydeps }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
+        path: ${{ github.workspace }}/.venv
+        key: venv-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-${{ steps.setup-python.outputs.python-version }}-${{ inputs.deps }}-${{ inputs.pydeps }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
    - name: Cache Python packages
      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
      id: restore-venv
      uses: actions/cache@v5
      with:
-        path: /tmp/.uv-cache
-        key: uv-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-${{ inputs.python-version }}-${{ inputs.deps }}-${{ inputs.pydeps }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
+        path: ${{ github.workspace }}/.venv
+        key: venv-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-python-${{ steps.setup-python.outputs.python-version }}-${{ inputs.deps }}-${{ inputs.pydeps }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}

    # **** Caching downloads ****

    - name: Cache downloads (PR)
      if: inputs.key != '' && github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-      uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
+      uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
      with:
        path: ${{ runner.os == 'Linux' && '~/.cache/tinygrad/downloads/' || '~/Library/Caches/tinygrad/downloads/' }}
        key: downloads-${{ github.job }}-${{ inputs.key }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
@@ -106,26 +93,34 @@ runs:
    # **** Python deps ****

    - name: Install dependencies in venv (with extra)
-      if: inputs.deps != ''
+      if: inputs.deps != '' && steps.restore-venv-pr.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' && steps.restore-venv.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
      shell: bash
      run: |
-        uv venv .venv
-        DEPS="${{ inputs.deps }}"
-        uv pip install --python .venv -e ".[${DEPS// /,}]" ${{ inputs.pydeps }} --torch-backend cpu --extra-index-url https://aiinfra.pkgs.visualstudio.com/PublicPackages/_packaging/Triton-Nightly/pypi/simple/
+        python -m venv .venv
+        if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Windows" ]]; then
+          source .venv/Scripts/activate
+        else
+          . .venv/bin/activate
+        fi
+        python -m pip install -e ".[${{ inputs.deps }}]" ${{ inputs.pydeps }} --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --extra-index-url https://aiinfra.pkgs.visualstudio.com/PublicPackages/_packaging/Triton-Nightly/pypi/simple/
    - name: Install dependencies in venv (without extra)
-      if: inputs.deps == ''
+      if: inputs.deps == '' && steps.restore-venv-pr.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' && steps.restore-venv.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
      shell: bash
      run: |
-        uv venv .venv
-        uv pip install --python .venv -e . ${{ inputs.pydeps }}
-    - name: Prune uv cache
-      if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
-      shell: bash
-      run: uv cache prune --ci
-    - name: Configure venv
+        python -m venv .venv
+        if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Windows" ]]; then
+          source .venv/Scripts/activate
+        else
+          . .venv/bin/activate
+        fi
+        python -m pip install -e . ${{ inputs.pydeps }}
+    - name: Set up venv environment
      shell: bash
      run: |
        echo "VIRTUAL_ENV=${{ github.workspace }}/.venv" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        echo "OMP_NUM_THREADS=1" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        # no buffers should be over 300MB in CI
+        echo "MAX_BUFFER_SIZE=300000000" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
        if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Windows" ]]; then
          echo "${{ github.workspace }}/.venv/Scripts" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
        else
@@ -134,7 +129,7 @@ runs:

    # ******************* apt *******************
    - name: Setup apt
-      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true' || inputs.qemu == 'true')
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.cuda == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true')
      shell: bash
      run: |
        sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/cache/apt/archives
@@ -143,6 +138,11 @@ runs:
        echo 'Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "5";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99parallel
        echo 'Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99keep-debs

+    - name: Add OpenCL Repo
+      if: inputs.opencl == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
+      shell: bash
+      run: echo "deb [ allow-insecure=yes ] https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oneAPI.list
+
    - name: Add AMD Repo (Linux)
      if: inputs.amd == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
      shell: bash
@@ -161,50 +161,54 @@ runs:
        echo "deb http://apt.llvm.org/$(lsb_release -cs)/ llvm-toolchain-$(lsb_release -cs)-20 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/llvm.list

    - name: Compute Package List + Hash
-      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true' || inputs.qemu == 'true')
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.cuda == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true')
      id: apt-pkgs
      shell: bash
      run: |
        pkgs=""
        # **** OpenCL ****
        if [[ "${{ inputs.opencl }}" == "true" ]]; then
-          pkgs+=" ocl-icd-opencl-dev"
+          pkgs+=" opencl-headers \
+            intel-oneapi-runtime-openmp=2023.2.1-16 intel-oneapi-runtime-compilers-common=2023.2.1-16 intel-oneapi-runtime-compilers=2023.2.1-16 \
+            intel-oneapi-runtime-dpcpp-sycl-opencl-cpu=2023.2.1-16 intel-oneapi-runtime-tbb-common=2021.10.0-49541 \
+            intel-oneapi-runtime-tbb=2021.10.0-49541 intel-oneapi-runtime-opencl=2023.2.1-16"
        fi
        # **** AMD ****
        if [[ "${{ inputs.amd }}" == "true" ]]; then
-          pkgs+=" comgr"
+          pkgs+=" hsa-rocr comgr hsa-rocr-dev liburing-dev libibverbs-dev libc6-dev"
+        fi
+        # **** CUDA ****
+        if [[ "${{ inputs.cuda }}" == "true" ]]; then
+          pkgs+=" git g++ cmake ninja-build llvm-15-dev zlib1g-dev libglew-dev \
+            flex bison libfl-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev nvidia-cuda-toolkit-gcc libzstd-dev"
        fi
        # **** WebGPU (dependencies for software-based vulkan) ****
        if [[ "${{ inputs.webgpu }}" == "true" ]]; then
-          pkgs+=" mesa-vulkan-drivers"
+          pkgs+=" libgl1 libglx-mesa0 libgl1-mesa-dri libxcb-xfixes0-dev mesa-vulkan-drivers"
        fi
        # **** LLVM ****
        if [[ "${{ inputs.llvm }}" == "true" ]]; then
          pkgs+=" libllvm20 clang-20 lld-20"
        fi
-        # **** QEMU ****
-        if [[ "${{ inputs.qemu }}" == "true" ]]; then
-          pkgs+=" qemu-user-static"
-        fi

        echo "pkgs=$pkgs" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
        echo "hash=$(echo -n "$pkgs" | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

    - name: Cache apt (PR)
-      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true' || inputs.qemu == 'true') && github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-      uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.cuda == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true') && github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+      uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
      with:
        path: /var/cache/apt/archives/
        key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-apt-${{ steps.apt-pkgs.outputs.hash }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
    - name: Cache apt
-      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true' || inputs.qemu == 'true') && github.event_name != 'pull_request'
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.cuda == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true') && github.event_name != 'pull_request'
      uses: actions/cache@v5
      with:
        path: /var/cache/apt/archives/
        key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-apt-${{ steps.apt-pkgs.outputs.hash }}-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}

    - name: Run apt Update + Install
-      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true' || inputs.qemu == 'true')
+      if: runner.os == 'Linux' && (inputs.opencl == 'true' || inputs.amd == 'true' || inputs.cuda == 'true' || inputs.webgpu == 'true' || inputs.llvm == 'true')
      shell: bash
      run: |
        sudo apt -qq update || true
@@ -216,11 +220,6 @@ runs:

        sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/cache/apt/archives/

-    - name: Add clang to PATH (Linux)
-      if: inputs.llvm == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
-      shell: bash
-      run: echo "/usr/lib/llvm-20/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
-
    # **** AMD ****
    - name: Setup AMD (Linux)
      if: inputs.amd == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
@@ -240,33 +239,78 @@ runs:
          jq -r '.assets[] | select(.name == "libamd_comgr.dylib").browser_download_url' | \
          sudo xargs curl -fL -o /usr/local/lib/libamd_comgr.dylib

-    # **** CUDA ****
-    - name: Install CUDA
-      if: inputs.cuda == 'true'
+    # **** gpuocelot ****
+
+    - name: Install gpuocelot dependencies (MacOS)
+      if: inputs.ocelot == 'true' && runner.os == 'macOS'
      shell: bash
      run: |
-        sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/cuda/targets/x86_64-linux
-        curl -fL https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvrtc/linux-x86_64/cuda_nvrtc-linux-x86_64-11.5.119-archive.tar.xz \
-          | sudo tar -xJ -C /usr/local/cuda/targets/x86_64-linux --strip-components=1
-        echo /usr/local/cuda/targets/x86_64-linux/lib | sudo tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/cuda-nvrtc.conf
-        sudo ldconfig
+        pkgs=(cmake ninja llvm@15 zlib glew flex bison [email protected] zstd ncurses)
+        for f in "${pkgs[@]}"; do
+          brew ls --versions "$f" >/dev/null 2>&1 || brew install --quiet "$f"
+        done

-    # **** gpuocelot ****
+        # Fix boost 1.85 for gpuocelot
+        ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected] /opt/homebrew/opt/boost || true
+        ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/boost/lib/libboost_atomic-mt.dylib /opt/homebrew/opt/boost/lib/libboost_atomic.dylib || true
+        ln -s /opt/homebrew/opt/boost/lib/libboost_thread-mt.dylib /opt/homebrew/opt/boost/lib/libboost_thread.dylib || true
+    - name: Cache gpuocelot (PR)
+      if: inputs.ocelot == 'true' && github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+      id: cache-build-pr
+      uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
+      env:
+        cache-name: cache-gpuocelot-build-1
+      with:
+        path: ${{ github.workspace }}/gpuocelot/ocelot
+        key: ${{ runner.os }}-gpuocelot-b16039dc940dc6bc4ea0a98380495769ff35ed99-rebuild-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
+    - name: Cache gpuocelot
+      if: inputs.ocelot == 'true' && github.event_name != 'pull_request'
+      id: cache-build
+      uses: actions/cache@v5
+      env:
+        cache-name: cache-gpuocelot-build-1
+      with:
+        path: ${{ github.workspace }}/gpuocelot/ocelot
+        key: ${{ runner.os }}-gpuocelot-b16039dc940dc6bc4ea0a98380495769ff35ed99-rebuild-${{ env.CACHE_VERSION }}
+    - name: Clone/compile gpuocelot
+      if: inputs.ocelot == 'true' && steps.cache-build-pr.outputs.cache-hit != 'true' && steps.cache-build.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/gpuocelot/gpuocelot.git ${{ github.workspace }}/gpuocelot
+        cd ${{ github.workspace }}/gpuocelot/ocelot
+        git checkout b16039dc940dc6bc4ea0a98380495769ff35ed99
+        mkdir build
+        cd build
+
+        CMAKE_ARGS="-Wno-dev -G Ninja -DOCELOT_BUILD_TOOLS=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_ALWAYS=0 -DBUILD_TESTS_CUDA=OFF -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5"
+        if [[ "${{ runner.os }}" == "macOS" ]]; then
+          sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode_16.2.app/Contents/Developer
+          CMAKE_ARGS="$CMAKE_ARGS -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=$(brew --prefix boost)/include -DBoost_LIBRARY_DIR=$(brew --prefix boost)/lib"
+        fi
+
+        cmake .. $CMAKE_ARGS
+        ninja
    - name: Install gpuocelot
      if: inputs.ocelot == 'true'
      shell: bash
      run: |
-        sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
-        sudo curl --output-dir /usr/local/lib -fLO https://github.com/tinygrad/gpuocelot/releases/download/v0.1.0/libgpuocelot.${{ runner.os == 'Linux' && 'so' || 'dylib' }}
+        cd ${{ github.workspace }}/gpuocelot/ocelot/build
+        sudo cp libgpuocelot.${{ runner.os == 'macOS' && 'dylib' || 'so' }} /usr/${{ runner.os == 'macOS' && 'local/' || '' }}lib/

    # **** WebGPU ****

-    - name: Install WebGPU dawn
-      if: inputs.webgpu == 'true'
+    - name: Install WebGPU dawn (Linux)
+      if: inputs.webgpu == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
      shell: bash
      run: |
-        sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib
-        sudo curl --output-dir /usr/local/lib -fLO https://github.com/wpmed92/pydawn/releases/download/v0.1.6/libwebgpu_dawn.${{ runner.os == 'Linux' && 'so' || 'dylib' }}
+        sudo curl -fL https://github.com/wpmed92/pydawn/releases/download/v0.1.6/libwebgpu_dawn.so -o /usr/local/lib/libwebgpu_dawn.so
+        sudo ldconfig
+    - name: Install WebGPU dawn (macOS)
+      if: inputs.webgpu == 'true' && runner.os == 'macOS'
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        brew tap wpmed92/dawn
+        brew install dawn

    # **** LLVM ****

@@ -275,18 +319,18 @@ runs:
      shell: bash
      run: brew install llvm@20

+    # **** mesa ****
+    - name: Install mesa (linux)
+      if: inputs.mesa == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
+      shell: bash
+      run: sudo curl -fL https://github.com/sirhcm/tinymesa/releases/download/v1/libtinymesa_cpu-mesa-25.2.7-linux-amd64.so -o /usr/lib/libtinymesa_cpu.so
+    - name: Install mesa (macOS)
+      if: inputs.mesa == 'true' && runner.os == 'macOS'
+      shell: bash
+      run: brew install sirhcm/tinymesa/tinymesa_cpu
+
    # *** tinydreno ***
    - name: Install tinydreno (linux)
      if: inputs.tinydreno == 'true' && runner.os == 'Linux'
      shell: bash
      run: sudo curl -fL https://github.com/sirhcm/tinydreno/raw/refs/heads/master/libllvm-qcom.so -o /usr/lib/libllvm-qcom.so
-
-    # *** OpenCL ***
-    - name: Install rusticl
-      if: inputs.opencl == 'true'
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        sudo curl -fL https://github.com/sirhcm/tinymesa/releases/download/rusticl-v1/libRusticlOpenCL.so.1.0.0 -o /usr/lib/libRusticlOpenCL.so
-        sudo mkdir -p /etc/OpenCL/vendors
-        echo "/usr/lib/libRusticlOpenCL.so" | sudo tee /etc/OpenCL/vendors/rusticl.icd
-        echo "RUSTICL_ENABLE=llvmpipe" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
        llvm: 'true'
        pydeps: 'pyyaml mako'
    - name: Install autogen support packages
-      run: sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libclang-20-dev llvm-20-dev hip-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libdrm-dev liburing-dev
+      run: sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libclang-20-dev llvm-20-dev hip-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libdrm-dev
    - name: Regenerate autogen files
      run: |
        find tinygrad/runtime/autogen -type f -name "*.py" -not -path "*/amd/*" -not -name "__init__.py" -not -name "comgr.py" -not -name "metal.py" -not -name "iokit.py" -not -name "corefoundation.py" -not -name "libclang.py" -delete
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ jobs:
        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import comgr_3, hsa, hip, amd_gpu, sqtt, rocprof, amdgpu_kd, amdgpu_drm"
        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen.am import *"
        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen.nv_regs import *"
-        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import libc, kfd, io_uring, pci, vfio"
+        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import libc, kfd, io_uring, ib, pci, vfio"
        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import llvm"
        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import webgpu"
        python3 -c "from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import kgsl, qcom_dsp"
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 name: Run MLPerf Training

 on:
-  #schedule:
-  #  - cron: '5 8 * * *'  # Runs at 08:05 UTC (12:05 AM Pacific Time)
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '5 8 * * *'  # Runs at 08:05 UTC (12:05 AM Pacific Time)
  push:
    branches:
      - update_mlperf
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ As it turns out, 90% of what you need for neural networks are a decent autograd/
 Throw in an optimizer, a data loader, and some compute, and you have all you need.

 ```python
-from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, nn

 class LinearNet:
  def __init__(self):
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ optim = nn.optim.Adam([model.l1, model.l2], lr=0.001)

 x, y = Tensor.rand(4, 1, 28, 28), Tensor([2,4,3,7])  # replace with real mnist dataloader

-with Context(TRAINING=1):
+with Tensor.train():
  for i in range(10):
    optim.zero_grad()
    loss = model(x).sparse_categorical_crossentropy(y).backward()
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ Documentation along with a quick start guide can be found on the [docs website](
 ```python
 from tinygrad import Tensor

-x = Tensor.eye(3)
-y = Tensor([[2.0,0,-2.0]])
+x = Tensor.eye(3, requires_grad=True)
+y = Tensor([[2.0,0,-2.0]], requires_grad=True)
 z = y.matmul(x).sum()
 z.backward()

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ X_train -= X_train.mean()
 # *****
 # 1. Define an MNIST model.

-from tinygrad import Tensor, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor

 l1 = Tensor.kaiming_uniform(128, 784)
 l2 = Tensor.kaiming_uniform(10, 128)
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ l1n, l2n = l1.numpy(), l2.numpy()
 from tinygrad.nn.optim import SGD
 optim = SGD([l1, l2])

-with Context(TRAINING=1):
-  X, Y = X_train[(samples:=Tensor.randint(128, high=X_train.shape[0]))], Y_train[samples]
-  optim.zero_grad()
-  model(X).sparse_categorical_crossentropy(Y).backward()
-  optim.schedule_step()   # this will step the optimizer without running realize
+Tensor.training = True
+X, Y = X_train[(samples:=Tensor.randint(128, high=X_train.shape[0]))], Y_train[samples]
+optim.zero_grad()
+model(X).sparse_categorical_crossentropy(Y).backward()
+optim.schedule_step()   # this will step the optimizer without running realize

 # *****
 # 3. Create a schedule (linear uop).
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ def example_2_hip(a:Tensor, correct):
    # the sink specifies the GLOBAL and LOCAL sizes, along with the input buffers and name
    sink = UOp.sink(UOp.special(GLOBALS, 'gidx0'), UOp.special(THREADS, 'lidx0'), out, buf,
                    arg=KernelInfo(name="hip_reduce_sum_kernel"))
-    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)), UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=code), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))
+    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=Device.DEFAULT),
+                UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)), UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=code), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))
  eval_harness("HIP kernel", a, lambda x: Tensor.empty(GLOBALS).custom_kernel(x, fxn=hip_reduce_sum)[0].sum(), check=correct)

 def example_3_custom_uop(a:Tensor, correct):
@@ -122,7 +123,8 @@ def example_5_custom_assembly(a:Tensor, correct):
        offset_dwords = (self.labels[inst._target] - inst._pos - inst.size()) // 4
        if not -32768 <= offset_dwords <= 32767: raise ValueError(f"branch to '{inst._target}' offset {offset_dwords} exceeds simm16 range")
        inst.simm16 = offset_dwords
-      return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in self.instructions]))))
+      return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=Device.DEFAULT),
+                                   UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in self.instructions]))))

  CU_COUNT = 32
  LANES = 64
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ A lot of work can still be done here. For example, we never copy the inputs to o

 Many accelerators have Tensor Cores / MAC arrays / systolic arrays. The main value of these is that, since they are 2-D, they create an n^2 ratio between the compute and the input data.

-GPUs use Tensor Cores instead of MAC arrays to fit better in the GPU warp paradigm. This is because the output of Tensor Cores is O(n) wrt the input, while the output of MAC arrays is O(n^2)
+GPUs use Tensor Cores instead of MAC arrays to fit better in the GPU warp paradigm. This is because the output of Tensor Cores is O(n) wrt the input, while the output of MAC arrays like the AMX is O(n^2)

 We have a simple framework in tinygrad for adding these ALU blocks and achieving good performance from them.

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ You will see `CUDA` here on a GPU instance, or `CPU` here on a CPU instance.
 We'll use the model from [the Keras tutorial](https://keras.io/examples/vision/mnist_convnet/).

 ```python
-from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, nn

 class Model:
  def __init__(self):
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ We'll use the Adam optimizer. The `nn.state.get_parameters` will walk the model
 ```python
 optim = nn.optim.Adam(nn.state.get_parameters(model))
 batch_size = 128
-@Context(TRAINING=1)
 def step():
+  Tensor.training = True  # makes dropout work
  samples = Tensor.randint(batch_size, high=X_train.shape[0])
  X, Y = X_train[samples], Y_train[samples]
  optim.zero_grad()
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ Since we are just randomly sampling from the dataset, there's no real concept of
 for step in range(7000):
  loss = jit_step()
  if step%100 == 0:
+    Tensor.training = False
    acc = (model(X_test).argmax(axis=1) == Y_test).mean().item()
    print(f"step {step:4d}, loss {loss.item():.2f}, acc {acc*100.:.2f}%")
 ```
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ For our loss function we will be using sparse categorical cross entropy loss. Th
 ```python
 def sparse_categorical_crossentropy(self, Y, ignore_index=-1) -> Tensor:
    loss_mask = Y != ignore_index
-    y_counter = Tensor.arange(self.shape[-1], dtype=dtypes.int32).unsqueeze(0).expand(Y.numel(), self.shape[-1])
+    y_counter = Tensor.arange(self.shape[-1], dtype=dtypes.int32, requires_grad=False, device=self.device).unsqueeze(0).expand(Y.numel(), self.shape[-1])
    y = ((y_counter == Y.flatten().reshape(-1, 1)).where(-1.0, 0) * loss_mask.reshape(-1, 1)).reshape(*Y.shape, self.shape[-1])
    return self.log_softmax().mul(y).sum() / loss_mask.sum()
 ```
@@ -165,18 +165,17 @@ from extra.datasets import fetch_mnist
 Now we have everything we need to start training our neural network.
 We will be training for 1000 steps with a batch size of 64.

-We use `with Context(TRAINING=1)` to enable training mode.
+We use `with Tensor.train()` to set the internal flag `Tensor.training` to `True` during training.
 Upon exit, the flag is restored to its previous value by the context manager.

 ```python
-from tinygrad import Context
 X_train, Y_train, X_test, Y_test = fetch_mnist()

-with Context(TRAINING=1):
+with Tensor.train():
  for step in range(1000):
    # random sample a batch
    samp = np.random.randint(0, X_train.shape[0], size=(64))
-    batch = Tensor(X_train[samp])
+    batch = Tensor(X_train[samp], requires_grad=False)
    # get the corresponding labels
    labels = Tensor(Y_train[samp])

@@ -214,7 +213,7 @@ with Timing("Time: "):
  for step in range(1000):
    # random sample a batch
    samp = np.random.randint(0, X_test.shape[0], size=(64))
-    batch = Tensor(X_test[samp])
+    batch = Tensor(X_test[samp], requires_grad=False)
    # get the corresponding labels
    labels = Y_test[samp]

@@ -258,7 +257,7 @@ with Timing("Time: "):
  for step in range(1000):
    # random sample a batch
    samp = np.random.randint(0, X_test.shape[0], size=(64))
-    batch = Tensor(X_test[samp])
+    batch = Tensor(X_test[samp], requires_grad=False)
    # get the corresponding labels
    labels = Y_test[samp]

@@ -83,5 +83,9 @@ NV backend supports several interfaces for communicating with devices:
 ## CPU Arch
 The CPU renderers may be additionally configured using the arch component of [the `DEV` environment variable](env_vars.md#dev-variable).
 CPU arch should be specified as a comma-separated list of parameters, and must contain at least two values: the architecture family (ie. x86_64, arm64, or riscv64) and the cpu type (as accepted by `clang`'s `-march`).
-If native is specified as the cpu type, tinygrad (or delegate compiler) will query the host cpu type. Additional comma-separated values are interpreted as cpu feature flags. When a value is preceded by a `-` character, the corresponding feature flag will be disabled, otherwise the flag will be enabled.
+If native is specified as the cpu type, tinygrad (or delegate compiler) will query the host cpu type. Additional comma-separated values may be specified as follows:
+
+* `AMX`: emit Apple silicon AMX instructions
+
+All other additional values are interpreted as cpu feature flags. When a value is preceded by a `-` character, the corresponding feature flag will be disabled, otherwise the flag will be enabled.
 Note that enabled feature flags should not be preceded by a `+`.
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class VLIWRenderer(Renderer):
      assert u.dtype.count in (1,8), "dtype count must be 1 or 8"

      # dumb register allocator
-      if u.op not in {Ops.STORE, Ops.SINK, Ops.INDEX}:
+      if u.op not in {Ops.STORE, Ops.SINK, Ops.GEP}:
        r[u] = reg
        reg += u.dtype.count

@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ class VLIWRenderer(Renderer):
          inst.append({"flow": [("halt",)]})
        case Ops.CONST:
          inst.append({"load": [("const", r[u], u.arg)]})
-        case Ops.INDEX:
-          # an INDEX is just an alias to a special register in the vector
-          r[u] = r[u.src[0]] + u.src[1].arg
+        case Ops.GEP:
+          # a GEP is just an alias to a special register in the vector
+          r[u] = r[u.src[0]] + u.arg[0]
        case Ops.STACK:
          if all(s == u.src[0] for s in u.src):
            # if all sources are the same, we can broadcast
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  # *** render to device ***

  from tinygrad.codegen import to_program
-  with Context(PCONTIG=2, SPEC=0):
+  with Context(PCONTIG=2, DEVECTORIZE=2, SPEC=0):
    out = tree_traversal(forest_t, val_t, height, rounds)
    sink = out.schedule_linear().src[-1].src[0]
    prg = to_program(sink, VLIWRenderer())
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  # *** run on Machine and compare ***

  # NOTE: the scratch size needs to be reduced to 1536 when you have a register allocator
-  src = eval(prg.src[2].arg)
+  src = eval(prg.src[3].arg)
  max_regs = max(t[1] for instr in src for v in instr.values() for t in v if len(t) > 1) + 8
  print(f"{max_regs:5d} regs used" + ("" if max_regs <= 1536 else "       <-- WARNING: TOO MANY REGISTERS, MUST BE <= 1536"))
  machine = problem.Machine(mem, src, problem.DebugInfo(scratch_map={}), n_cores=1, trace=False, scratch_size=max_regs)
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ from tinygrad.dtype import DTypeLike, dtypes
 import math

 # rewritten from numpy
-def rfftfreq(n: int, d: float = 1.0) -> Tensor:
+def rfftfreq(n: int, d: float = 1.0, device=None) -> Tensor:
  val = 1.0 / (n * d)
  N = n // 2 + 1
-  results = Tensor.arange(N)
+  results = Tensor.arange(N, device=device)
  return results * val

 # just like in librosa
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Tuple
 import time
-from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit, nn, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit, nn
 import gymnasium as gym
 from tinygrad.helpers import trange
 import numpy as np  # TODO: remove numpy import
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":

  @TinyJit
  def train_step(x:Tensor, selected_action:Tensor, reward:Tensor, old_log_dist:Tensor) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
-    with Context(TRAINING=1):
+    with Tensor.train():
      log_dist, value = model(x)
      action_mask = (selected_action.reshape(-1, 1) == Tensor.arange(log_dist.shape[1]).reshape(1, -1).expand(selected_action.shape[0], -1)).float()

@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ class ConvGroup:
    self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(channels_out, channels_out, kernel_size=3, padding=1, bias=False)
    self.norm1 = nn.BatchNorm(channels_out, track_running_stats=False, eps=1e-12, momentum=hyp['net']['batch_norm_momentum'])
    self.norm2 = nn.BatchNorm(channels_out, track_running_stats=False, eps=1e-12, momentum=hyp['net']['batch_norm_momentum'])
-    cast(Tensor, self.norm1.weight).is_param_(False)
-    cast(Tensor, self.norm2.weight).is_param_(False)
+    cast(Tensor, self.norm1.weight).requires_grad = False
+    cast(Tensor, self.norm2.weight).requires_grad = False
  def __call__(self, x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
    x =    self.norm1(self.conv1(x).max_pool2d().float()).cast(dtypes.default_float).quick_gelu()
    return self.norm2(self.conv2(x).float()).cast(dtypes.default_float).quick_gelu() + x
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
    return ret.mul(hyp['opt']['loss_scale_scaler']*loss_batchsize_scaler).sum().div(hyp['opt']['loss_scale_scaler'])

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
+  @Tensor.train()
  def train_step(idxs:Tensor) -> Tensor:
    X, Y = X_train[idxs], Y_train[idxs]
    if len(GPUS) > 1:
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # model based off https://medium.com/data-science/going-beyond-99-mnist-handwritten-digits-recognition-cfff96337392
 from typing import Callable
-from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit, nn, GlobalCounters, function, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit, nn, GlobalCounters, function
 from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, colored, trange
 from tinygrad.nn.datasets import mnist

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Model:
  def __call__(self, x:Tensor) -> Tensor: return x.sequential(self.layers)

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
+  @Tensor.train()
  def train_step(self, X_train:Tensor, Y_train:Tensor) -> Tensor:
    opt.zero_grad()
    samples = Tensor.randint(getenv("BS", 512), high=X_train.shape[0])
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # model based off https://towardsdatascience.com/going-beyond-99-mnist-handwritten-digits-recognition-cfff96337392
 from typing import List, Callable
-from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit, nn, GlobalCounters, Device, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit, nn, GlobalCounters, Device
 from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, colored, trange
 from tinygrad.nn.datasets import mnist

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":

  @TinyJit
  def train_step() -> Tensor:
-    with Context(TRAINING=1):
+    with Tensor.train():
      opt.zero_grad()
      samples = Tensor.randint(getenv("BS", 512), high=X_train.shape[0])
      Xt, Yt = X_train[samples].shard_(GPUS, axis=0), Y_train[samples].shard_(GPUS, axis=0)  # we shard the data on axis 0
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import itertools
 from typing import Callable
-from tinygrad import nn, Tensor, dtypes, Device, TinyJit, Context
+from tinygrad import nn, Tensor, dtypes, Device, TinyJit
 from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, trange, partition

 class Model:
@@ -35,21 +35,22 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":

  params = nn.state.get_parameters(model)

-  # init params
+  # init params, set requires grad on the ones we need gradients of
  for x in params:
+    if x.requires_grad is None: x.requires_grad_()
    x.replace(x.contiguous())
  Tensor.realize(*params)

  # split params (with grads) and buffers (without)
-  params, buffers = partition(params, lambda x: x.is_param)
+  params, buffers = partition(params, lambda x: x.requires_grad)
  print(f"params: {len(params)} buffers: {len(buffers)}")

  # optim params
  pos_params = list(itertools.accumulate(params, lambda x,y: x+y.numel(), initial=0))
  adam_m = Tensor.zeros(pos_params[-1], device="CPU").contiguous()
  adam_v = Tensor.zeros(pos_params[-1], device="CPU").contiguous()
-  adam_b1_t = Tensor.ones((1,), dtype=dtypes.float32, device="CPU").contiguous()
-  adam_b2_t = Tensor.ones((1,), dtype=dtypes.float32, device="CPU").contiguous()
+  adam_b1_t = Tensor.ones((1,), dtype=dtypes.float32, device="CPU", requires_grad=False).contiguous()
+  adam_b2_t = Tensor.ones((1,), dtype=dtypes.float32, device="CPU", requires_grad=False).contiguous()
  adam_params = [adam_m, adam_v, adam_b1_t, adam_b2_t]

  # create loss and grads. init all state so the JIT works on microbatch
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  Tensor.realize(*params, *buffers, *adam_params, loss, grads)

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
+  @Tensor.train()
  def microbatch():
    samples = Tensor.randint(BS // ACC_STEPS, high=X_train.shape[0])
    for t in params: t.grad = None
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from extra.lr_scheduler import OneCycleLR
 from tinygrad import nn, dtypes, Tensor, Device, GlobalCounters, TinyJit, Variable
 from tinygrad.nn.state import get_state_dict
 from tinygrad.nn import optim
-from tinygrad.helpers import Context, BEAM, WINO, getenv, colored, prod, TRAINING
+from tinygrad.helpers import Context, BEAM, WINO, getenv, colored, prod
 from extra.bench_log import BenchEvent, WallTimeEvent

 cifar_mean = [0.4913997551666284, 0.48215855929893703, 0.4465309133731618]
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ class UnsyncedBatchNorm:
    if affine: self.weight, self.bias = Tensor.ones(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32), Tensor.zeros(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32)
    else: self.weight, self.bias = None, None

-    self.running_mean = Tensor.zeros(num_devices, sz, dtype=dtypes.float32).is_param_(False)
-    self.running_var = Tensor.ones(num_devices, sz, dtype=dtypes.float32).is_param_(False)
-    self.num_batches_tracked = Tensor.zeros(1, dtype=dtypes.int).is_param_(False)
+    self.running_mean = Tensor.zeros(num_devices, sz, dtype=dtypes.float32, requires_grad=False)
+    self.running_var = Tensor.ones(num_devices, sz, dtype=dtypes.float32, requires_grad=False)
+    self.num_batches_tracked = Tensor.zeros(1, dtype=dtypes.int, requires_grad=False)

  def __call__(self, x:Tensor):
    xr = x.reshape(self.num_devices, -1, *x.shape[1:]).cast(dtypes.float32)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class UnsyncedBatchNorm:
    return ret.reshape(x.shape).cast(x.dtype)

  def calc_stats(self, x:Tensor):
-    if TRAINING:
+    if Tensor.training:
      # This requires two full memory accesses to x
      # https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/c618dc13d2aa23625cb0d7ada694137532a4fa33/aten/src/ATen/native/cuda/Normalization.cuh
      # There's "online" algorithms that fix this, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Welford's_Online_algorithm
@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ class UnsyncedBatchNorm:
 class BatchNorm(nn.BatchNorm2d if getenv("SYNCBN") else UnsyncedBatchNorm):
  def __init__(self, num_features):
    super().__init__(num_features, track_running_stats=False, eps=1e-12, momentum=0.85, affine=True)
-    self.weight.is_param_(False)
+    self.weight.requires_grad = False
+    self.bias.requires_grad = True

 class ConvGroup:
  def __init__(self, channels_in, channels_out):
@@ -171,7 +172,7 @@ def train_cifar():
    Λ, V = _eigens(_patches(X.float().numpy()))
    W = V/np.sqrt(Λ+1e-2)[:,None,None,None]

-    return Tensor(W.astype(np.float32)).cast(dtypes.default_float).is_param_(False)
+    return Tensor(W.astype(np.float32), requires_grad=False).cast(dtypes.default_float)

  # ========== Loss ==========
  def cross_entropy(x:Tensor, y:Tensor, reduction:str='mean', label_smoothing:float=0.0) -> Tensor:
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ def train_cifar():
      # self.model_ema = copy.deepcopy(net) # won't work for opencl due to unpickeable pyopencl._cl.Buffer
      self.net_ema = SpeedyResNet(w)
      for net_ema_param, net_param in zip(get_state_dict(self.net_ema).values(), get_state_dict(net).values()):
+        net_ema_param.requires_grad = False
        net_ema_param.assign(net_param.numpy())

    @TinyJit
@@ -305,7 +307,7 @@ def train_cifar():
  params_bias = []
  params_non_bias = []
  for params in params_dict:
-    if params_dict[params].is_param:
+    if params_dict[params].requires_grad is not False:
      if 'bias' in params:
        params_bias.append(params_dict[params])
      else:
@@ -359,11 +361,11 @@ def train_cifar():
  i = 0
  eval_acc_pct = 0.0
  batcher = fetch_batches(X_train, Y_train, BS=BS, is_train=True)
-  with Context(TRAINING=1):
+  with Tensor.train():
    st = time.monotonic()
    while i <= STEPS:
      if i % getenv("EVAL_STEPS", STEPS) == 0 and i > 1 and not getenv("DISABLE_BACKWARD"):
-        # Using Context(TRAINING=0) here actually bricks batchnorm, even with track_running_stats=True
+        # Use Tensor.training = False here actually bricks batchnorm, even with track_running_stats=True
        corrects = []
        corrects_ema = []
        losses = []
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Int8Embedding:
    self.weight, self.scale = Tensor.ones(vocab_size, embed_size, dtype=dtypes.int8), Tensor.ones(vocab_size, dtype=dtypes.half)

  def __call__(self, idx:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-    if not hasattr(self, 'arange'): self.arange = Tensor.arange(self.vocab_sz).unsqueeze(-1)
+    if not hasattr(self, 'arange'): self.arange = Tensor.arange(self.vocab_sz, requires_grad=False, device=self.weight.device).unsqueeze(-1)
    big_shp = idx.shape+(self.vocab_sz, self.embed_sz)
    arange, idx, vals = self.arange.expand(big_shp), idx.reshape(idx.shape+(1, 1)).expand(big_shp), (self.weight.cast(self.scale.dtype).T*self.scale).T
    return (arange == idx).mul(vals).sum(-2, dtype=vals.dtype)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import os
 if "NOOPT" not in os.environ: os.environ["NOOPT"] = "1"
 from tinygrad import Device, nn, Tensor, dtypes
 from train_gpt2 import GPT, GPTConfig
-from tinygrad.helpers import DEV, dedup, flatten, getenv, GlobalCounters, to_function_name, Context
+from tinygrad.helpers import DEV, dedup, flatten, getenv, GlobalCounters, to_function_name
 from tinygrad.engine.realize import get_kernel
 from tinygrad.schedule.memory import memory_planner
 from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops
@@ -23,23 +23,23 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  #B, T = Variable("B", 1, 128).bind(4), 64 #Variable("T", 1, 1024).bind(64)
  B, T = 4, 64

+  Tensor.training = True
  optimizer = nn.optim.Adam(nn.state.get_parameters(model), lr=1e-4)
  warmup_count = getenv("WARMUP", 3)
-  with Context(TRAINING=1):
-    for i in range(warmup_count):  # TODO: why does it take three and not two to stabilize
-      GlobalCounters.reset()
-      X = Tensor.empty(4, 64, dtype=dtypes.int).reshape(B, T)
-      Y = Tensor.empty(4, 64, dtype=dtypes.int).reshape(B, T)
-      _, loss = model(X, Y)
-      optimizer.zero_grad()
-      if getenv("BACKWARD", 1):
-        loss.backward()
-        tensors = optimizer.schedule_step()
-      else:
-        tensors = []
-      sched = loss.schedule(*tensors)
-      print(f"calls {i}:", len(sched))
-      #run_schedule(sched[:])
+  for i in range(warmup_count):  # TODO: why does it take three and not two to stabilize
+    GlobalCounters.reset()
+    X = Tensor.empty(4, 64, dtype=dtypes.int).reshape(B, T)
+    Y = Tensor.empty(4, 64, dtype=dtypes.int).reshape(B, T)
+    _, loss = model(X, Y)
+    optimizer.zero_grad()
+    if getenv("BACKWARD", 1):
+      loss.backward()
+      tensors = optimizer.schedule_step()
+    else:
+      tensors = []
+    sched = loss.schedule(*tensors)
+    print(f"calls {i}:", len(sched))
+    #run_schedule(sched[:])
  sched = memory_planner(sched)
  ast_dedup = dedup([si.ast for si in sched if si.ast.op is Ops.SINK])
  srcs = {}
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import os, math, time
 import numpy as np
-from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, fetch, Device, TinyJit, GlobalCounters, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, fetch, Device, TinyJit, GlobalCounters
 from dataclasses import dataclass

@dataclass
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class CausalSelfAttention:
    self.n_embd = config.n_embd
    # not really a 'bias', more of a mask, but following the OpenAI/HF naming though
    self.bias = Tensor.ones(1, 1, config.block_size, config.block_size).tril()
-    self.bias.is_param_(False)
+    self.bias.requires_grad = False

  def __call__(self, x:Tensor):
    B, T, C = x.shape
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class GPT:

  def __call__(self, idx:Tensor, targets=None):
    b, t = idx.shape
-    pos = Tensor.arange(0, t)
+    pos = Tensor.arange(0, t, device=idx.device)

    tok_emb = self.wte(idx) # token embeddings of shape (b, t, n_embd)
    pos_emb = self.wpe(pos) # position embeddings of shape (t, n_embd)
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  if args.gpus > 1: x, y = x.shard(GPUS, axis=0), y.shard(GPUS, axis=0)

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
+  @Tensor.train()
  def step(x:Tensor, y:Tensor) -> Tensor:
    _, loss = model(x, y)
    optimizer.zero_grad()
@@ -204,3 +204,4 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
    top_k = 40
    y = model.generate(x, max_new_tokens, temperature=temperature, top_k=top_k)
    print(decode(y[0].tolist()))
+
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # much taken from https://github.com/cloneofsimo/minRF
-from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, GlobalCounters, TinyJit, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, GlobalCounters, TinyJit
 from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, trange
 from extra.models.llama import Attention, FeedForward, precompute_freqs_cis

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  optimizer = nn.optim.Adam(nn.state.get_parameters(model), lr=5e-4)

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
+  @Tensor.train()
  def train_step():
    if getenv("OVERFIT"): samples = Tensor.zeros(getenv("BS", 256), dtype='int')
    else: samples = Tensor.randint(getenv("BS", 256), high=X_train.shape[0])
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import functools, argparse, pathlib
 from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, Device, GlobalCounters, Variable
-from tinygrad.helpers import Timing, Profiling, tqdm
+from tinygrad.helpers import Timing, Profiling, CI, tqdm
 from tinygrad.nn.state import torch_load, get_state_dict
 from extra.models.llama import FeedForward, Transformer
 from extra.bench_log import BenchEvent, WallTimeEvent
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
    model = Transformer(n_layers=32, dim=4096, hidden_dim=14336, n_heads=32, n_kv_heads=8, norm_eps=1e-5, vocab_size=32000, feed_forward=functools.partial(MixtureFeedForward, 8), jit=False)
    model_state_dict = get_state_dict(model)

-    for k in (t := tqdm(state, disable=None)):
+    for k in (t := tqdm(state, disable=CI)):
      if 'feed_forward.experts.' in k:
        expert_no = int(k.split('feed_forward.experts.')[1].split('.')[0])
        device = Device.DEFAULT + ":" + str((expert_no//2)+1)
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
        device = Device.DEFAULT
      t.set_description(f"ram used: {GlobalCounters.mem_used/1e9:5.2f} GB, loading {k} to {device}")
      model_state_dict[k].replace(state[k].to(device).half()).realize()
-  if t.disable: print(f"ram used: {GlobalCounters.mem_used/1e9:5.2f} GB")
+  if CI: print(f"ram used: {GlobalCounters.mem_used/1e9:5.2f} GB")

  from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor
  spp = SentencePieceProcessor(model_file=args.weights + "/tokenizer.model")
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import math
 from typing import Union

 from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, dtypes
-from tinygrad.helpers import prod, argfix, Context, TRAINING
+from tinygrad.helpers import prod, argfix, Context
 from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters
 from extra.models.unet import UNetModel

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class EmbeddingBert(nn.Embedding):
  def __call__(self, idx:Tensor) -> Tensor:
    if idx.numel() == 0: return Tensor.empty(idx.shape+(self.embed_sz,), dtype=self.weight.dtype, device=self.weight.device)
    arange_shp, weight_shp, big_shp = (1, 1, self.vocab_sz, 1), (1, 1, self.vocab_sz, self.embed_sz), idx.shape+(self.vocab_sz, self.embed_sz,)
-    if not hasattr(self, 'arange'): self.arange = Tensor.arange(self.vocab_sz).reshape(arange_shp)
+    if not hasattr(self, 'arange'): self.arange = Tensor.arange(self.vocab_sz, requires_grad=False, device=self.weight.device).reshape(arange_shp)
    arange, idx, vals = self.arange.expand(big_shp), idx.reshape(idx.shape+(1, 1,)).expand(big_shp), self.weight.cast(dtypes.default_float).reshape(weight_shp).expand(big_shp)
    return (arange == idx).where(vals, 0).sum(2, dtype=vals.dtype)

@@ -77,15 +77,15 @@ class FrozenBatchNorm2dRetinaNet(nn.BatchNorm2d):
  def __init__(self, sz:int, eps=1e-5, affine=True, track_running_stats=True, momentum=0.1):
    self.eps, self.track_running_stats, self.momentum = eps, track_running_stats, momentum

-    self.weight = Tensor.ones(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32).is_param_(False) if affine else None
-    self.bias = Tensor.zeros(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32).is_param_(False) if affine else None
+    self.weight = Tensor.ones(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32, requires_grad=False) if affine else None
+    self.bias = Tensor.zeros(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32, requires_grad=False) if affine else None

-    if track_running_stats: self.running_mean, self.running_var = Tensor.zeros(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32).is_param_(False), Tensor.ones(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32).is_param_(False)
-    self.num_batches_tracked = Tensor.zeros(1, dtype=dtypes.long).is_param_(False)
+    if track_running_stats: self.running_mean, self.running_var = Tensor.zeros(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32, requires_grad=False), Tensor.ones(sz, dtype=dtypes.float32, requires_grad=False)
+    self.num_batches_tracked = Tensor.zeros(1, dtype=dtypes.long, requires_grad=False)

  def __call__(self, x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
    batch_mean, batch_var = super().calc_stats(x.cast(dtypes.float32))
-    if self.track_running_stats and TRAINING:
+    if self.track_running_stats and Tensor.training:
      self.running_mean.assign((1-self.momentum) * self.running_mean + self.momentum * batch_mean.detach().cast(self.running_mean.dtype))
      self.running_var.assign((1-self.momentum) * self.running_var + self.momentum * x.numel()/(x.numel()-x.shape[1]) * batch_var.detach().cast(self.running_var.dtype))
      self.num_batches_tracked += 1
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ def eval_stable_diffusion():
      batch = batch.cat(batch[-1:].expand(bs - unpadded_bs, *batch[-1].shape))
    return batch, unpadded_bs 

-  @Context(TRAINING=0)
+  @Tensor.train(mode=False)
  def eval_unet(eval_inputs:list[dict], unet:UNetModel, cond_stage:FrozenOpenClipEmbedder, first_stage:AutoencoderKL,
                inception:FidInceptionV3, clip:OpenClipEncoder) -> tuple[float, float]:
    # Eval is divided into 5 jits, one per model
@@ -498,10 +498,11 @@ def eval_stable_diffusion():

 if __name__ == "__main__":
  # inference only
+  Tensor.training = False
+
  models = getenv("MODEL", "resnet,retinanet,unet3d,rnnt,bert").split(",")
-  with Context(TRAINING=0):
-    for m in models:
-      nm = f"eval_{m}"
-      if nm in globals():
-        print(f"eval {m}")
-        globals()[nm]()
+  for m in models:
+    nm = f"eval_{m}"
+    if nm in globals():
+      print(f"eval {m}")
+      globals()[nm]()
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # load each model here, quick benchmark
 from tinygrad import Tensor, GlobalCounters
-from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, Context
+from tinygrad.helpers import getenv
 import numpy as np

 def test_model(model, *inputs):
@@ -59,10 +59,11 @@ def spec_mrcnn():

 if __name__ == "__main__":
  # inference only for now
-  with Context(TRAINING=0):
-    for m in getenv("MODEL", "resnet,retinanet,unet3d,rnnt,bert,mrcnn").split(","):
-      nm = f"spec_{m}"
-      if nm in globals():
-        print(f"testing {m}")
-        globals()[nm]()
+  Tensor.training = False
+
+  for m in getenv("MODEL", "resnet,retinanet,unet3d,rnnt,bert,mrcnn").split(","):
+    nm = f"spec_{m}"
+    if nm in globals():
+      print(f"testing {m}")
+      globals()[nm]()

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import os, time, math, functools, random, contextlib
 from pathlib import Path
 import multiprocessing

-from tinygrad import Device, GlobalCounters, Tensor, TinyJit, dtypes, Context
+from tinygrad import Device, GlobalCounters, Tensor, TinyJit, dtypes
 from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, BEAM, WINO, round_up, diskcache_clear, Profiling, profile_marker, DEBUG
 from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters, get_state_dict, load_state_dict, safe_load, safe_save
 from tinygrad.nn.optim import LAMB, LARS, SGD, OptimizerGroup, Adam, AdamW
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ def train_resnet():
  # input_std = Tensor([0.229, 0.224, 0.225], device=GPUS, dtype=dtypes.float32).reshape(1, -1, 1, 1)
  def normalize(x): return (x.permute([0, 3, 1, 2]) - input_mean).cast(dtypes.default_float)
  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
  def train_step(X, Y):
    optimizer_group.zero_grad()
    X = normalize(X)
@@ -171,7 +170,6 @@ def train_resnet():
    return loss.realize(), top_1.realize()

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=0)
  def eval_step(X, Y):
    X = normalize(X)
    out = model.forward(X)
@@ -182,11 +180,11 @@ def train_resnet():
  def fake_data_get(batch_size):
    x = Tensor.zeros(batch_size, 224, 224, 3, dtype=dtypes.uchar).contiguous()
    y = [0] * batch_size
-    return x.shard(GPUS, axis=0).realize(), Tensor(y).shard(GPUS, axis=0), y, None
+    return x.shard(GPUS, axis=0).realize(), Tensor(y, requires_grad=False).shard(GPUS, axis=0), y, None

  def data_get(it):
    x, y, cookie = next(it)
-    return x.shard(GPUS, axis=0).realize(), Tensor(y).shard(GPUS, axis=0), y, cookie
+    return x.shard(GPUS, axis=0).realize(), Tensor(y, requires_grad=False).shard(GPUS, axis=0), y, cookie

  # ** epoch loop **
  step_times = []
@@ -194,6 +192,7 @@ def train_resnet():
    # ** train loop **
    if MLLOGGER and RUNMLPERF:
      MLLOGGER.start(key=mllog_constants.EPOCH_START, value=e+1, metadata=dict(epoch_num=e+1))
+    Tensor.training = True
    BEAM.value = TRAIN_BEAM

    if INITMLPERF:
@@ -272,6 +271,7 @@ def train_resnet():
      eval_loss = 0.0
      eval_top_1 = 0
      eval_num_samples = 0
+      Tensor.training = False
      BEAM.value = EVAL_BEAM

      if INITMLPERF:
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ def train_retinanet():
    layers_to_train = ["layer4", "layer3", "layer2", "layer1", "conv1"][:trainable_layers]
    for k, v in get_state_dict(backbone).items():
      if all([not k.startswith(layer) for layer in layers_to_train]):
-        v.is_param_(False)
+        v.requires_grad = False

  def _data_get(it:Iterator[tuple[Tensor, ...]], val:bool=False):
    if val:
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ def train_retinanet():

      if getenv("RESET_STEP", 1): _train_step.reset()

-      with Context(TRAINING=0):
+      with Tensor.train(mode=False):
        if not RUNMLPERF:
          i, proc = 0, _fake_data_get(EVAL_BS, val=(val:=True))
        else:
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ def train_unet3d():
    return x.shard(GPUS, axis=0).realize(), y.shard(GPUS, axis=0), cookie

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
+  @Tensor.train()
  def train_step(model, x, y):
    optim.zero_grad()

@@ -795,10 +795,10 @@ def train_unet3d():
    optim.step()
    return loss.realize()

-  @Context(TRAINING=0)
+  @Tensor.train(mode=False)
  def eval_step(model, x, y):
    y_hat, y = sliding_window_inference(model, x, y, gpus=GPUS)
-    y_hat, y = Tensor(y_hat), Tensor(y)
+    y_hat, y = Tensor(y_hat), Tensor(y, requires_grad=False)
    loss = dice_ce_loss(y_hat, y)
    score = dice_score(y_hat, y)
    return loss.realize(), score.realize()
@@ -919,7 +919,6 @@ def train_rnnt():
  pass

@TinyJit
-@Context(TRAINING=0)
 def eval_step_bert(model, input_ids:Tensor, segment_ids:Tensor, attention_mask:Tensor, masked_positions:Tensor, masked_lm_ids:Tensor,
                   masked_lm_weights:Tensor, next_sentence_labels:Tensor, GPUS):
  for t in [input_ids, segment_ids, attention_mask, masked_positions, masked_lm_ids, masked_lm_weights, next_sentence_labels]:
@@ -1107,7 +1106,6 @@ def train_bert():
      MLLOGGER.start(key=mllog_constants.EPOCH_START, value=i*GBS, metadata={"epoch_num": i*GBS})

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=1)
  def train_step_bert(input_ids:Tensor, segment_ids:Tensor, attention_mask:Tensor,
                      masked_positions:Tensor, masked_lm_ids:Tensor, masked_lm_weights:Tensor, next_sentence_labels:Tensor):
    for t in [input_ids, segment_ids, attention_mask, masked_positions, masked_lm_ids, masked_lm_weights, next_sentence_labels]:
@@ -1135,6 +1133,7 @@ def train_bert():

  while train_data is not None and i < train_steps and not achieved:
    if getenv("TRAIN", 1):
+      Tensor.training = True
      BEAM.value = TRAIN_BEAM
      st = time.perf_counter()
      GlobalCounters.reset()
@@ -1187,6 +1186,7 @@ def train_bert():
      eval_lm_accs = []
      eval_clsf_accs = []
      eval_times = []
+      Tensor.training = False
      BEAM.value = EVAL_BEAM

      for j in tqdm(range(max_eval_steps), desc="Evaluating", total=max_eval_steps, disable=BENCHMARK):
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ def train_bert():
        previous_step = i

 def train_llama3():
-  from examples.mlperf.models.flat_llama import FlatTransformer, apply_grad, FP8_DTYPE, MXFP8
+  from examples.mlperf.models.flat_llama import FlatTransformer, apply_grad, FP8_DTYPE
  from examples.llama3 import MODEL_PARAMS
  from examples.mlperf.lr_schedulers import CosineAnnealingLRWithWarmup
  from examples.mlperf.optim import GradAccClipAdamW
@@ -1419,7 +1419,10 @@ def train_llama3():

  for p in optim.params:
    grad_dtype = dtypes.bfloat16 if p.dtype == FP8_DTYPE else p.dtype
-    p.grad = p.zeros_like(dtype=grad_dtype).contiguous()
+    if isinstance(p.device, tuple) and p.uop.axis is not None:
+      p.grad = Tensor.zeros(p.shape, dtype=grad_dtype, device=p.device[0]).shard_(p.device, axis=p.uop.axis).contiguous()
+    else:
+      p.grad = Tensor.zeros(p.shape, dtype=grad_dtype, device=p.device).contiguous()
  grads = [p.grad for p in optim.params]

  scheduler = CosineAnnealingLRWithWarmup(optim, opt_base_learning_rate, opt_end_learning_rate, opt_learning_rate_warmup_steps, opt_learning_rate_decay_steps)
@@ -1435,24 +1438,16 @@ def train_llama3():

  fp8_amax = [t for ts in model._fp8_amax.values() for t in ts]
  fp8_grad_amax = [t for ts in model._fp8_grad_amax.values() for t in ts] if hasattr(model, "_fp8_grad_amax") else []
-  fp8_inv_scales = list(model._fp8_inv_scale.values()) + list(model._fp8_next_inv_scale.values())
+  fp8_inv_scales = list(model._fp8_inv_scale.values())

  from tinygrad.nn.state import get_state_dict
  model_state = get_state_dict(model)
-  for wname in model._fp8_inv_scale:
+  for wname in ["wqkv", "wo", "w13", "w2"]:
    w = model_state[wname]
    w._inv_scale = model._fp8_inv_scale[wname]
-    w._next_inv_scale = model._fp8_next_inv_scale[wname]
    if optim.master_params:
      idx = next(j for j, p in enumerate(optim.params) if p is w)
-      master = optim.master_params[idx]
-      inv = w._inv_scale if w._inv_scale.device == master.device else w._inv_scale.to(master.device)
-      if MXFP8:
-        from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import _mx_block_scale
-        bs = _mx_block_scale(inv.reshape(-1, inv.shape[-1])).reshape(w.shape)
-        master.assign((master * bs).contiguous())
-      else:
-        master.assign((master * inv.reshape(*inv.shape, *([1]*(w.ndim-inv.ndim)))).contiguous())
+      optim.master_params[idx].assign((optim.master_params[idx] * w._inv_scale.reshape(-1, *([1]*(w.ndim-1)))).contiguous())

  # realize everything here
  if optim.master_params: Tensor.realize(*optim.master_params)
@@ -1463,7 +1458,7 @@ def train_llama3():
    if is_dp: tokens = tokens.to(None).shard(device, 0)
    if is_mp: tokens = tokens.shard(device)
    if not is_sharding: tokens = tokens.to(None)
-    logits:Tensor = model(tokens[:, :-1], save=bool(SMALL))
+    logits:Tensor = model(tokens[:, :-1])
    if getenv("FAST_CE", 0):
      from extra.llama_kernels.fused_ce import fused_ce_loss
      loss = fused_ce_loss(logits.cast(dtypes.bfloat16), tokens[:, 1:], label_smoothing=0.0)
@@ -1481,7 +1476,7 @@ def train_llama3():
    grad_norm = optim.fstep(grads)
    scheduler.step()

-    for g in grads: g.assign(0)
+    for g in grads: g.assign(g.zeros_like())

    lr_cpu = optim.lr.float().to("CPU")
    grad_norm_cpu = grad_norm.float().to("CPU")
@@ -1490,7 +1485,7 @@ def train_llama3():
    return lr_cpu, grad_norm_cpu

  @TinyJit
-  @Context(TRAINING=0)
+  @Tensor.train(False)
  def eval_step(tokens:Tensor):
    if is_dp: tokens = tokens.to(None).shard(device, 0)
    if is_mp: tokens = tokens.shard(device)
@@ -1503,7 +1498,7 @@ def train_llama3():
  def fake_data(bs, samples):
    import numpy as np
    for _ in range(samples // bs):
-      fake_data_np = np.random.randint(0, real_vocab_size, size=(bs, SEQLEN + 1), dtype=np.int32)
+      fake_data_np = np.random.randint(0, model_params["vocab_size"], size=(bs, SEQLEN + 1), dtype=np.int32)
      yield Tensor(fake_data_np, device="NPY")

  def get_train_iter():
@@ -1803,7 +1798,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  elif getenv("RUNMLPERF"): bench_log_manager = WallTimeEvent(BenchEvent.MLPERF_RUN)
  else: bench_log_manager = contextlib.nullcontext()

-  with Context(TRAINING=1):
+  with Tensor.train():
    for m in getenv("MODEL", "resnet,retinanet,unet3d,rnnt,bert,maskrcnn,stable_diffusion").split(","):
      nm = f"train_{m}"
      if nm in globals():
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ import math, os
 if __name__ == "__main__":
  os.environ["DEFAULT_FLOAT"] = "bfloat16"
  os.environ["OPTIM_DTYPE"] = "bfloat16"
-  if "DEV" not in os.environ: os.environ["DEV"] = "NULL::gfx950"
+  if "DEV" not in os.environ: os.environ["DEV"] = "NULL"
  # CDNA
+  os.environ["EMULATE"] = "AMD_CDNA4"
  os.environ["DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG"] = "1"
  os.environ["ALL2ALL"] = "1"
  os.environ["USE_ATOMICS"] = "1"
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
    if "ASM_GEMM" not in os.environ:
      os.environ["ASM_GEMM"] = "1"
 from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, function, getenv, dtypes, TinyJit
-from tinygrad.helpers import Timing, colored, GlobalCounters, profile_marker, round_up
+from tinygrad.helpers import Timing, colored, GlobalCounters, profile_marker
 from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops, UOp
 from extra.models.llama import apply_rotary_emb, precompute_freqs_cis
 from extra.llama_kernels.rmsnorm import rmsnorm
@@ -23,8 +24,6 @@ FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE = getenv("FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE", 0)
 FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE = getenv("FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE", 0)
 FUSED_SILU_W13 = getenv("FUSED_SILU_W13", 0)
 SPLIT_W13 = getenv("SPLIT_W13", 0)
-COLUMNWISE_WEIGHT_SCALE = getenv("COLUMNWISE_WEIGHT_SCALE", 0)
-MXFP8 = getenv("MXFP8", 0)

 FP8_DTYPE = dtypes.fp8e4m3
 FP8_GRAD_DTYPE = dtypes.fp8e5m2
@@ -37,48 +36,31 @@ def quantize_fp8(x:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor|None=None):
  return x_clamped.cast(FP8_DTYPE), scale.float().reciprocal(), new_amax

 def matmul(x:Tensor, w:Tensor, fp8:bool=True, amax_x:Tensor|None=None, w_inv_scale:Tensor|None=None,
-           x_fp8:Tensor|None=None, x_new_amax:Tensor|None=None,
-           grad_amax_state:Tensor|None=None, x_prequant_mx:tuple|None=None) -> tuple[Tensor,...]:
+           x_fp8:Tensor|None=None, x_scale:Tensor|None=None, x_new_amax:Tensor|None=None,
+           grad_amax_state:Tensor|None=None) -> tuple[Tensor,...]:
  if not fp8:
    if ASM_GEMM:
      from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import can_use_asm_gemm, asm_gemm
      if can_use_asm_gemm(x, w.T): return (asm_gemm(x, w.T),)
    return (x @ w.T,)
  assert w_inv_scale is not None, "fp8 matmul requires w_inv_scale (weights must be stored in fp8 with per-tensor scale)"
-  if MXFP8:
-    from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import asm_gemm, quantize_mxfp8, mx_pack, can_use_asm_gemm, _mx_block_scale
-    if x_prequant_mx is not None: x_q, x_e8, x_si = x_prequant_mx       # fused producer already quantized (2d)
-    else: x_q, x_e8, x_si = quantize_mxfp8(x.reshape(-1, x.shape[-1]))
-    l_shape = x.shape[:-1] if x is not None else x_q.shape[:-1]
-    if can_use_asm_gemm(x_q, w.T):
-      out = asm_gemm(x_q, w.T, mx=True, mx_scales=(x_si, x_e8, mx_pack(w_inv_scale), w_inv_scale),
-                     mx_w_stored=True).reshape(*l_shape, w.shape[0])
-    else:
-      x_phys = (x_q.cast(dtypes.bfloat16) * _mx_block_scale(x_e8)).reshape(*l_shape, x_q.shape[-1])
-      out = x_phys @ (w.cast(dtypes.bfloat16) * _mx_block_scale(w_inv_scale)).T
-    return out, (amax_x.detach() if amax_x is not None else None), x_q
  if x_fp8 is None:
    if FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE and amax_x is not None:
      from extra.llama_kernels.quantize_fp8_delayed import quantize_fp8_delayed
-      x_fp8, _, x_new_amax, _ = quantize_fp8_delayed(x, amax_x, FP8_DTYPE)
+      x_fp8, x_scale, x_new_amax, _ = quantize_fp8_delayed(x, amax_x, FP8_DTYPE)
    else:
-      x_fp8, _, x_new_amax = quantize_fp8(x, amax_state=amax_x)
+      x_fp8, x_scale, x_new_amax = quantize_fp8(x, amax_state=amax_x)
  if ASM_GEMM:
    from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import can_use_asm_gemm, asm_gemm
    if can_use_asm_gemm(x_fp8, w.T):
-      assert amax_x is not None
-      if COLUMNWISE_WEIGHT_SCALE:
-        out = asm_gemm(x_fp8, w.T, x_scale=amax_x, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state, w_post_scale=w_inv_scale)
-      else:
-        out = asm_gemm(x_fp8, w.T, x_scale=amax_x, w_scale=w_inv_scale, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state)
-      return out, x_new_amax, x_fp8
-  return (x_fp8.dot(w.T, dtype=dtypes.float) * ((amax_x.float() + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX) * w_inv_scale).cast(dtypes.bfloat16), x_new_amax, x_fp8
+      return asm_gemm(x_fp8, w.T, x_scale=x_scale, w_scale=w_inv_scale, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state), x_new_amax, x_fp8, w
+  return (x_fp8.dot(w.T, dtype=dtypes.float) * x_scale * w_inv_scale).cast(dtypes.bfloat16), x_new_amax, x_fp8, w

 def norm_quantize_matmul(x:Tensor, norm:Tensor, w:Tensor, w_inv_scale:Tensor, eps:float, amax_x:Tensor, grad_amax_state:Tensor):
  if FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:
    from extra.llama_kernels.fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8 import fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8
-    x_fp8, new_amax, x_normed, rrms = fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x, norm, amax_x, eps, FP8_DTYPE)
-    out, *ret = matmul(None, w, w_inv_scale=w_inv_scale, x_fp8=x_fp8, amax_x=amax_x, x_new_amax=new_amax, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state)
+    x_fp8, x_inv_scale, new_amax, x_normed, rrms = fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x, norm, amax_x, eps, FP8_DTYPE)
+    out, *ret = matmul(None, w, w_inv_scale=w_inv_scale, x_fp8=x_fp8, x_scale=x_inv_scale, x_new_amax=new_amax, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state)
    return out, x_normed, rrms, ret
  x_normed, rrms = rmsnorm(x, eps)
  out, *ret = matmul(x_normed * norm, w, amax_x=amax_x, w_inv_scale=w_inv_scale, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state)
@@ -88,8 +70,8 @@ def add_norm_quantize_matmul(x:Tensor, residual:Tensor, norm:Tensor, w:Tensor, w
                             grad_amax_state:Tensor|None=None):
  if FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:
    from extra.llama_kernels.fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8 import fused_add_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8
-    x_fp8, new_amax, h, x_normed, rrms = fused_add_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x, residual, norm, amax_x, eps, FP8_DTYPE)
-    out, *ret = matmul(None, w, w_inv_scale=w_inv_scale, x_fp8=x_fp8, amax_x=amax_x, x_new_amax=new_amax, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state)
+    x_fp8, x_inv_scale, new_amax, h, x_normed, rrms = fused_add_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x, residual, norm, amax_x, eps, FP8_DTYPE)
+    out, *ret = matmul(None, w, w_inv_scale=w_inv_scale, x_fp8=x_fp8, x_scale=x_inv_scale, x_new_amax=new_amax, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_state)
    return out, h, x_normed, rrms, ret
  h = x + residual
  x_normed, rrms = rmsnorm(h, eps)
@@ -101,8 +83,8 @@ def silu_w13_quantize_matmul(x_w13:Tensor, w2:Tensor, s_2:Tensor,
                             grad_amax_xw13:Tensor, grad_amax_xout:Tensor):
  if FUSED_SILU_W13:
    from extra.llama_kernels.cast_amax import fused_quantize_fp8_w13
-    x2_fp8, new_amax_x2 = fused_quantize_fp8_w13(x_w13, amax_x2, FP8_DTYPE, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xw13)
-    out, *ret = matmul(None, w2, w_inv_scale=s_2, x_fp8=x2_fp8, amax_x=amax_x2, x_new_amax=new_amax_x2, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xout)
+    x2_fp8, x2_inv_scale, new_amax_x2 = fused_quantize_fp8_w13(x_w13, amax_x2, FP8_DTYPE, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xw13)
+    out, *ret = matmul(None, w2, w_inv_scale=s_2, x_fp8=x2_fp8, x_scale=x2_inv_scale, x_new_amax=new_amax_x2, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xout)
    return out, ret
  hidden = x_w13.shape[-1] // 2
  x_w1, x_w3 = x_w13[..., :hidden], x_w13[..., hidden:]
@@ -123,16 +105,13 @@ class FlatTransformer:
    scaled_std = 0.02 / math.sqrt(2 * n_layers)

    # Attention
-    self.wqkv, s_qkv = self.lin_per_layer(dim, self.n_heads * self.head_dim + self.n_kv_heads * self.head_dim * 2)
-    self.wo, s_o = self.lin_per_layer(self.n_heads * self.head_dim, dim, std=scaled_std)
+    self._init_inv_scales = []  # populated by lin_per_layer
+    self.wqkv = self.lin_per_layer(dim, self.n_heads * self.head_dim + self.n_kv_heads * self.head_dim * 2)
+    self.wo = self.lin_per_layer(self.n_heads * self.head_dim, dim, std=scaled_std)

    # FeedForward
-    if SPLIT_W13:
-      self.w1, s_1 = self.lin_per_layer(dim, hidden_dim)
-      self.w3, s_3 = self.lin_per_layer(dim, hidden_dim)
-    else:
-      self.w13, s_13 = self.lin_per_layer(dim, hidden_dim * 2)
-    self.w2, s_2 = self.lin_per_layer(hidden_dim, dim, std=scaled_std)
+    self.w13 = self.lin_per_layer(dim, hidden_dim * 2)
+    self.w2 = self.lin_per_layer(hidden_dim, dim, std=scaled_std)

    self.norm_eps = norm_eps
    self.attention_norm = Tensor.ones(n_layers, dim).contiguous()
@@ -143,44 +122,38 @@ class FlatTransformer:
    self.tok_embeddings = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, dim)
    self.tok_embeddings.weight = Tensor.normal(vocab_size, dim, mean=0.0, std=0.02, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16)
    self.output = Tensor.normal(1, vocab_size, dim, mean=0.0, std=0.02, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16)
-    self.freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(dim // n_heads, max_context * 2, rope_theta).contiguous().is_param_(False)
+    self.freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(dim // n_heads, max_context * 2, rope_theta).contiguous().requires_grad_(False)

-    def _amax(): return Tensor.full((), FP8_MAX, dtype=dtypes.float32).contiguous().is_param_(False)
-    names = ["xqkv", "xo", "x2"]
-    names += ["x1", "x3"] if SPLIT_W13 else ["x13"]
+    def _amax(): return Tensor.full((), FP8_MAX, dtype=dtypes.float32).contiguous().requires_grad_(False)
+    names = ["xqkv", "xo", "x13", "x2"]
    self._fp8_amax = {name: [_amax() for _ in range(n_layers)] for name in names}
-    grad_names = ["xqkv", "xo", "xout"]
-    grad_names += ["xw1", "xw3"] if SPLIT_W13 else ["xw13"]
+    grad_names = ["xqkv", "xo", "xw13", "xout"]
+    if SPLIT_W13: grad_names.append("xw3")
    self._fp8_grad_amax = {name: [_amax() for _ in range(n_layers)] for name in grad_names}
-    w_scales = [("wqkv", s_qkv), ("wo", s_o), ("w2", s_2)]
-    w_scales += [("w1", s_1), ("w3", s_3)] if SPLIT_W13 else [("w13", s_13)]
-    self._fp8_inv_scale = {name: (s if MXFP8 else s.float()).contiguous().is_param_(False) for name, s in w_scales}
-    self._fp8_next_inv_scale = {name: (s if MXFP8 else s.float()).contiguous().is_param_(False) for name, s in w_scales}
+    w_names = ["wqkv", "wo", "w13", "w2"]
+    self._fp8_inv_scale = {wname: inv_scales.float().contiguous().requires_grad_(False)
+                           for wname, inv_scales in zip(w_names, self._init_inv_scales)}
+    del self._init_inv_scales

-  def lin_per_layer(self, in_features:int, out_features:int, std:float=0.02, w:Tensor|None=None):
-    if w is None:
-      if getenv("ZEROS"): w = Tensor.zeros(self.n_layers, out_features, in_features)
-      else: w = Tensor.normal(self.n_layers, out_features, in_features, mean=0.0, std=std)
-    if MXFP8:
-      from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import quantize_mxfp8
-      w_q, w_e8, _ = quantize_mxfp8(w.reshape(self.n_layers * out_features, in_features))
-      return w_q.reshape(self.n_layers, out_features, in_features), w_e8.reshape(self.n_layers, out_features, in_features // 32)
-    amax = (w.abs().max(axis=2) if COLUMNWISE_WEIGHT_SCALE else w.abs().flatten(1).max(1)).detach()
+  def lin_per_layer(self, in_features:int, out_features:int, std:float=0.02):
+    if getenv("ZEROS"): w = Tensor.zeros(self.n_layers, out_features, in_features)
+    else: w = Tensor.normal(self.n_layers, out_features, in_features, mean=0.0, std=std)
+    amax = w.abs().flatten(1).max(1).detach()
    scale = FP8_MAX / (amax + 1e-8)
-    inv_scale = (amax + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX
-    scale_b = scale.reshape(self.n_layers, out_features, 1) if COLUMNWISE_WEIGHT_SCALE else scale.reshape(-1, 1, 1)
-    return (w * scale_b).clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX).cast(FP8_DTYPE), inv_scale
+    self._init_inv_scales.append((amax + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX)
+    return (w * scale.reshape(-1, 1, 1)).clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX).cast(FP8_DTYPE)

-  def attention(self, x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor, *, attention_norm:Tensor, wqkv:Tensor, wo:Tensor,
+  def attention(self, x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor, attention_norm:Tensor, wqkv:Tensor, wo:Tensor,
                amax_xqkv:Tensor, amax_xo:Tensor, s_qkv:Tensor, s_o:Tensor,
                grad_amax_xqkv:Tensor, grad_amax_xo:Tensor):
    bsz, seqlen, _ = x.shape
-    amaxs, saves = [], []
+    new_amaxs, saves = [], []

-    xqkv, x_normed, rrms, (new_amax, *s) = norm_quantize_matmul(x, attention_norm, wqkv, s_qkv, self.norm_eps,
-                                                                  amax_x=amax_xqkv, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xqkv)
-    amaxs.append(new_amax)
-    saves.extend([x_normed, rrms, *s, xqkv])
+    xqkv, x_normed, rrms, ret = norm_quantize_matmul(x, attention_norm, wqkv, s_qkv, self.norm_eps,
+                                                     amax_x=amax_xqkv, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xqkv)
+    saves.extend([x_normed, rrms])
+    new_amaxs.extend(ret[:1])
+    saves.extend(ret[1:] + [xqkv])
    xqkv = xqkv.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_kv_heads, self.n_rep + 2, self.head_dim)
    xq = xqkv[:, :, :, :self.n_rep].reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_heads, self.head_dim)
    xk = xqkv[:, :, :, self.n_rep].reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_kv_heads, self.head_dim)
@@ -190,63 +163,74 @@ class FlatTransformer:
    xq, xk, xv = xq.cast(dtypes.bfloat16), xk.cast(dtypes.bfloat16), xv.cast(dtypes.bfloat16)
    if getenv("HK_FLASH_ATTENTION"):
      from extra.thunder.amd.fa import flash_attention
-      attn, *save = flash_attention(xq, xk, xv, is_causal=True, write_flat=True)
+      attn, *save = flash_attention(xq, xk, xv, is_causal=True)
      saves.extend(save)
    else:
      xq, xk, xv = xq.transpose(1, 2), xk.transpose(1, 2), xv.transpose(1, 2)
      attn = xq.scaled_dot_product_attention(xk, xv, is_causal=True, enable_gqa=True).transpose(1, 2)
    attn = attn.reshape(bsz, seqlen, -1)

-    out, new_amax, *s = matmul(attn, wo, amax_x=amax_xo, w_inv_scale=s_o, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xo)
-    amaxs.append(new_amax)
-    saves.extend([*s, out])
-    return out, amaxs, saves
+    out, *ret = matmul(attn, wo, amax_x=amax_xo, w_inv_scale=s_o, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xo)
+    new_amaxs.extend(ret[:1])
+    saves.extend(ret[1:] + [out])
+    return (out, *new_amaxs, *saves)

-  def feed_forward(self, x:Tensor, residual:Tensor, **kwargs):
-    amaxs, saves = [], []
+  def feed_forward(self, x:Tensor, residual:Tensor, ffn_norm:Tensor, w13:Tensor, w2:Tensor,
+                   amax_x13:Tensor, amax_x2:Tensor, s_13:Tensor, s_2:Tensor,
+                   grad_amax_xw13:Tensor, grad_amax_xout:Tensor,
+                   w1:Tensor|None=None, w3:Tensor|None=None, grad_amax_xw3:Tensor|None=None):
+    new_amaxs, saves = [], []

    if SPLIT_W13:
+      assert w1 is not None and w3 is not None and grad_amax_xw3 is not None
      h = x + residual
      x_normed, rrms = rmsnorm(h, self.norm_eps)
      saves.extend([x_normed, rrms])
-      inp = x_normed * kwargs["ffn_norm"]
-      x_w1, new_amax, *s = matmul(inp, kwargs["w1"], amax_x=kwargs["amax_x1"], w_inv_scale=kwargs["s_1"], grad_amax_state=kwargs["grad_amax_xw1"])
-      amaxs.append(new_amax)
-      saves.extend([*s, x_w1])
-      x_w3, new_amax, *s = matmul(inp, kwargs["w3"], amax_x=kwargs["amax_x3"], w_inv_scale=kwargs["s_3"], grad_amax_state=kwargs["grad_amax_xw3"])
-      amaxs.append(new_amax)
-      saves.extend([*s, x_w3])
-      if FUSED_SILU_W13 and MXFP8:
-        from extra.llama_kernels.fused_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8 import fused_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8
-        aq, ae8, asi = fused_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8(x_w1.reshape(-1, x_w1.shape[-1]), x_w3.reshape(-1, x_w3.shape[-1]))
-        out, new_amax, *s = matmul(None, kwargs["w2"], x_prequant_mx=(aq, ae8, asi), amax_x=kwargs["amax_x2"],
-                                   w_inv_scale=kwargs["s_2"], grad_amax_state=kwargs["grad_amax_xout"])
-        out = out.reshape(*x_w1.shape[:-1], kwargs["w2"].shape[0])
-      else:
-        out, new_amax, *s = matmul(x_w1.silu() * x_w3, kwargs["w2"], amax_x=kwargs["amax_x2"], w_inv_scale=kwargs["s_2"],
-                                   grad_amax_state=kwargs["grad_amax_xout"])
-      amaxs.append(new_amax)
-      saves.extend([*s, out])
-    else:
-      x_w13, h, x_normed, rrms, (new_amax, *s) = add_norm_quantize_matmul(x, residual, kwargs["ffn_norm"], kwargs["w13"], kwargs["s_13"],
-                                                                          self.norm_eps, amax_x=kwargs["amax_x13"],
-                                                                          grad_amax_state=kwargs["grad_amax_xw13"])
-      amaxs.append(new_amax)
-      saves.extend([x_normed, rrms, *s, x_w13])
-      out, (new_amax, *s) = silu_w13_quantize_matmul(x_w13, kwargs["w2"], kwargs["s_2"], amax_x2=kwargs["amax_x2"],
-                                                     grad_amax_xw13=kwargs["grad_amax_xw13"], grad_amax_xout=kwargs["grad_amax_xout"])
-      amaxs.append(new_amax)
-      saves.extend([*s, out])
-    return out, h, amaxs, saves
+      inp = x_normed * ffn_norm
+      # separate w1 and w3 matmuls
+      x_w1, *ret1 = matmul(inp, w1, amax_x=amax_x13, w_inv_scale=s_13, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xw13)
+      new_amaxs.extend(ret1[:1])
+      saves.extend(ret1[1:] + [x_w1])
+      x_w3, *ret3 = matmul(inp, w3, amax_x=amax_x13, w_inv_scale=s_13, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xw3)
+      saves.extend(ret3[1:] + [x_w3])
+      # silu * mul + w2 matmul
+      out, *ret2 = matmul(x_w1.silu() * x_w3, w2, amax_x=amax_x2, w_inv_scale=s_2, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xout)
+      new_amaxs.extend(ret2[:1])
+      saves.extend(ret2[1:] + [out])
+      return (out, h, *new_amaxs, *saves)
+
+    x_w13, h, x_normed, rrms, ret = add_norm_quantize_matmul(x, residual, ffn_norm, w13, s_13, self.norm_eps,
+                                                             amax_x=amax_x13, grad_amax_state=grad_amax_xw13)
+    saves.extend([x_normed, rrms])
+    new_amaxs.extend(ret[:1])
+    saves.extend(ret[1:] + [x_w13])
+
+    out, ret = silu_w13_quantize_matmul(x_w13, w2, s_2, amax_x2=amax_x2, grad_amax_xw13=grad_amax_xw13, grad_amax_xout=grad_amax_xout)
+    new_amaxs.extend(ret[:1])
+    saves.extend(ret[1:] + [out])
+    return (out, h, *new_amaxs, *saves)

  @function(precompile=True, precompile_backward=True)
-  def run_layer(self, x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor, attn_kwargs:dict, ffn_kwargs:dict, save:bool=True):
-    attn, attn_amaxs, attn_saves = self.attention(x, freqs_cis, **attn_kwargs)
-    ffn, h, ffn_amaxs, ffn_saves = self.feed_forward(x, attn, **ffn_kwargs)
+  def run_layer(self, x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor,
+                attention_norm:Tensor, wqkv:Tensor, wo:Tensor,
+                ffn_norm:Tensor, w13:Tensor, w2:Tensor,
+                amax_xqkv:Tensor, amax_xo:Tensor,
+                amax_x13:Tensor, amax_x2:Tensor,
+                s_qkv:Tensor, s_o:Tensor, s_13:Tensor, s_2:Tensor,
+                grad_amax_xqkv:Tensor, grad_amax_xo:Tensor,
+                grad_amax_xw13:Tensor, grad_amax_xout:Tensor,
+                w1:Tensor|None=None, w3:Tensor|None=None, grad_amax_xw3:Tensor|None=None):
+    attn, *attn_ret = self.attention(x, freqs_cis, attention_norm, wqkv, wo,
+                                     amax_xqkv=amax_xqkv, amax_xo=amax_xo, s_qkv=s_qkv, s_o=s_o,
+                                     grad_amax_xqkv=grad_amax_xqkv, grad_amax_xo=grad_amax_xo)
+    attn_amaxs, attn_saves = attn_ret[:2], attn_ret[2:]
+    ffn, h, *ffn_ret = self.feed_forward(x, attn, ffn_norm, w13, w2,
+                                                   amax_x13=amax_x13, amax_x2=amax_x2, s_13=s_13, s_2=s_2,
+                                                   grad_amax_xw13=grad_amax_xw13, grad_amax_xout=grad_amax_xout,
+                                                   w1=w1, w3=w3, grad_amax_xw3=grad_amax_xw3)
+    ffn_amaxs, ffn_saves = ffn_ret[:2], ffn_ret[2:]
    h = h + ffn
-    amaxs = tuple(a.detach() for a in (*attn_amaxs, *ffn_amaxs))
-    if save: return (h, *amaxs, *attn_saves, *ffn_saves)
-    else: return (h, *amaxs)
+    return (h, *attn_amaxs, *ffn_amaxs, *attn_saves, *ffn_saves)

  def shard(self, device:tuple[str, ...], mp:bool=False):
    from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters
@@ -254,30 +238,15 @@ class FlatTransformer:
      for v in get_parameters(self): v.shard_(device, axis=None)
    else:
      # flat per-layer weights: axis 0 is n_layers, so shard axes are +1 vs per-layer Transformer
-      def _shard_fp8(name:str, axis:int, std:float=0.02):
-        w = getattr(self, name)
-        if MXFP8:
-          from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import quantize_mxfp8
-          w_bf16 = Tensor.empty(self.n_layers, w.shape[1], w.shape[2], dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).shard(device, axis=axis).randn_like() * std
-          w_q, w_e8, _ = quantize_mxfp8(w_bf16)
-          w.replace(w_q)
-          self._fp8_inv_scale[name].replace(w_e8.contiguous()).is_param_(False)
-          self._fp8_next_inv_scale[name].replace(w_e8.contiguous()).is_param_(False)
-        else:
-          w.shard_(device, axis=axis)
-          scale_axis = (1 if axis == 1 else None) if COLUMNWISE_WEIGHT_SCALE else None
-          self._fp8_inv_scale[name] = self._fp8_inv_scale[name].shard(device, axis=scale_axis).contiguous().is_param_(False)
-          self._fp8_next_inv_scale[name] = self._fp8_next_inv_scale[name].shard(device, axis=scale_axis).contiguous().is_param_(False)
-        Tensor.realize(w, self._fp8_inv_scale[name], self._fp8_next_inv_scale[name])
-      sstd = 0.02 / math.sqrt(2 * self.n_layers)
-      _shard_fp8("wqkv", 1)          # (n_layers, out, dim) shard out
-      _shard_fp8("wo", 2, sstd)      # (n_layers, dim, in) shard in
+      self.wqkv.shard_(device, axis=1).realize()          # (n_layers, out, dim) shard out
+      self.wo.shard_(device, axis=2).realize()            # (n_layers, dim, in) shard in
      if SPLIT_W13:
-        _shard_fp8("w1", 1)
-        _shard_fp8("w3", 1)
-      else:
-        _shard_fp8("w13", 1)         # (n_layers, hidden*2, dim) shard out
-      _shard_fp8("w2", 2, sstd)      # (n_layers, dim, hidden) shard in
+        self.w1 = self.w13[:, :self.hidden_dim, :].contiguous()
+        self.w3 = self.w13[:, self.hidden_dim:, :].contiguous()
+        self.w1.shard_(device, axis=1).realize()
+        self.w3.shard_(device, axis=1).realize()
+      self.w13.shard_(device, axis=1).realize()           # (n_layers, hidden*2, dim) shard out
+      self.w2.shard_(device, axis=2).realize()            # (n_layers, dim, hidden) shard in
      self.attention_norm.shard_(device, axis=None).realize()
      self.ffn_norm.shard_(device, axis=None).realize()
      self.norm.weight.shard_(device, axis=None).realize()
@@ -287,26 +256,27 @@ class FlatTransformer:
      for amax_dict in (self._fp8_amax, self._fp8_grad_amax):
        for name in amax_dict:
          for i in range(len(amax_dict[name])):
-            amax_dict[name][i] = amax_dict[name][i].to(device).contiguous().is_param_(False)
+            amax_dict[name][i] = amax_dict[name][i].to(device).contiguous().requires_grad_(False)
+      for name in self._fp8_inv_scale:
+        self._fp8_inv_scale[name] = self._fp8_inv_scale[name].to(device).contiguous().requires_grad_(False)

-  def __call__(self, tokens:Tensor, save:bool=True):
+  def __call__(self, tokens:Tensor):
    h = self.tok_embeddings(tokens)
    freqs_cis = self.freqs_cis.cast(h.dtype)[:, :tokens.shape[1], :, :, :]
    a, ga, s = self._fp8_amax, self._fp8_grad_amax, self._fp8_inv_scale
    for i in range(self.n_layers):
-      attn_kwargs = dict(attention_norm=self.attention_norm[i], wqkv=self.wqkv[i], wo=self.wo[i],
-                         amax_xqkv=a["xqkv"][i], amax_xo=a["xo"][i], s_qkv=s["wqkv"][i], s_o=s["wo"][i],
-                         grad_amax_xqkv=ga["xqkv"][i], grad_amax_xo=ga["xo"][i])
-      ffn_kwargs = dict(ffn_norm=self.ffn_norm[i], w2=self.w2[i],
-                        amax_x2=a["x2"][i], s_2=s["w2"][i], grad_amax_xout=ga["xout"][i])
-      if SPLIT_W13:
-        ffn_kwargs.update(w1=self.w1[i], w3=self.w3[i], amax_x1=a["x1"][i], amax_x3=a["x3"][i],
-                          s_1=s["w1"][i], s_3=s["w3"][i], grad_amax_xw1=ga["xw1"][i], grad_amax_xw3=ga["xw3"][i])
-      else:
-        ffn_kwargs.update(w13=self.w13[i], amax_x13=a["x13"][i], s_13=s["w13"][i], grad_amax_xw13=ga["xw13"][i])
-      h, *ret = self.run_layer(h, freqs_cis, attn_kwargs, ffn_kwargs, save=save)
-      amax_names = ["xqkv", "xo"] + (["x1", "x3"] if SPLIT_W13 else ["x13"]) + ["x2"]
-      for name, new_val in zip(amax_names, ret[:len(amax_names)]):
+      split_kwargs = dict(w1=self.w1[i], w3=self.w3[i], grad_amax_xw3=ga["xw3"][i]) if SPLIT_W13 else {}
+      h, *ret = self.run_layer(h, freqs_cis,
+                               self.attention_norm[i], self.wqkv[i], self.wo[i],
+                               self.ffn_norm[i], self.w13[i], self.w2[i],
+                               amax_xqkv=a["xqkv"][i], amax_xo=a["xo"][i],
+                               amax_x13=a["x13"][i], amax_x2=a["x2"][i],
+                               s_qkv=s["wqkv"][i], s_o=s["wo"][i],
+                               s_13=s["w13"][i], s_2=s["w2"][i],
+                               grad_amax_xqkv=ga["xqkv"][i], grad_amax_xo=ga["xo"][i],
+                               grad_amax_xw13=ga["xw13"][i], grad_amax_xout=ga["xout"][i],
+                               **split_kwargs)
+      for name, new_val in zip(["xqkv", "xo", "x13", "x2"], ret[:5]):
        a[name][i].assign(new_val)

    logits = matmul(self.norm(h), self.output[0], fp8=False)[0]
@@ -320,59 +290,41 @@ def apply_grad(grad_buf:Tensor, new_grad:UOp):
  pads = _get_pads(new_grad)
  if len(pads) <= 1:
    new_grad = new_grad.cast(grad_buf.dtype)
-    grad_buf.uop = grad_buf.uop.after(grad_buf.uop.store(grad_buf.uop + new_grad))
+    store = grad_buf.uop.store(grad_buf.uop + new_grad)
+    grad_buf.uop = grad_buf.uop.after(store)
    return
-  cur = grad_buf.uop
-  for pad in sorted(pads, key=lambda p: p.marg[0][0] if p.op == Ops.PAD else 0, reverse=True):
-    if pad.op == Ops.PAD:
-      grad_shrink = tuple([(p[0], s+p[0]) for s,p in zip(pad.src[0].shape, pad.marg)])
-      buf_slice = cur.shrink(grad_shrink)
-      cur = cur.after(buf_slice.store(buf_slice + pad.src[0].cast(cur.dtype)))
-    else:
-      cur = cur.after(cur.store(cur + pad.cast(cur.dtype)))
-  grad_buf.uop = cur
+  sorted_pads = sorted(pads, key=lambda p: p.marg[0][0] if p.op == Ops.PAD else 0)
+  inners_raw = [Tensor(p.src[0] if p.op == Ops.PAD else p, device=grad_buf.device) for p in sorted_pads]
+  if getenv("FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM", 0):
+    from extra.llama_kernels.fused_pad_grad_accum import fused_pad_grad_accum, can_fused_pad_grad_accum
+    if can_fused_pad_grad_accum(grad_buf, inners_raw):
+      grad_buf.uop = fused_pad_grad_accum(grad_buf, inners_raw).uop
+      return
+  inners = [t.cast(grad_buf.dtype) for t in inners_raw]
+  grad_buf.assign(grad_buf + inners[0].cat(*inners[1:], dim=0))

 if __name__ == "__main__":
  config = {}
  BS                 = config["BS"]                     = getenv("BS", 16)
  SEQLEN             = config["SEQLEN"]                 = getenv("SEQLEN", 8192)
-  SMALL              = config["SMALL"]                  = getenv("SMALL", 0)

  from examples.llama3 import MODEL_PARAMS
-  model_params = MODEL_PARAMS[llama_size:=getenv("LLAMA3_SIZE", "8B")]["args"]
-  # vocab_size from mixtral tokenizer
-  if not SMALL: model_params |= {"vocab_size": 32000}
-  real_vocab_size = model_params['vocab_size']
-  if (llama_layers:=getenv("LLAMA_LAYERS")) != 0: model_params["n_layers"] = llama_layers
-
-  # pad vocab
-  if (MP := getenv("MP", 1)) > 1: model_params["vocab_size"] = round_up(model_params["vocab_size"], 256 * MP)
-  vocab_mask:Tensor = Tensor.arange(model_params["vocab_size"]).reshape(1, 1, -1) >= real_vocab_size
-
+  model_params = MODEL_PARAMS[getenv("LLAMA3_SIZE", "8B")]["args"]
+  if (llama_layers:=getenv("LLAMA_LAYERS")) != 0: model_params['n_layers'] = llama_layers
  model = FlatTransformer(**model_params, max_context=SEQLEN)
-
  state = nn.state.get_state_dict(model)
  print("tensor count:", len(state))

  # shard the model
  from tinygrad import Device
-  is_dp = (DP := getenv("DP", 1)) > 1
-  is_mp = (MP := getenv("MP", 1)) > 1
-  is_sharding = is_dp or is_mp
-  device_count = max(DP, MP)
-  device = tuple(f"{Device.DEFAULT}:{i}" for i in range(device_count))
-
-  model.shard(device, is_mp)
-
-  if is_dp: vocab_mask.shard_(device, axis=None).realize()
-  if is_mp: vocab_mask.shard_(device, axis=2).realize()
+  if (DP := getenv("DP", 1)) > 1:
+    model.shard(tuple(f"{Device.DEFAULT}:{i}" for i in range(DP)))
+  if (MP := getenv("MP", 1)) > 1:
+    model.shard(tuple(f"{Device.DEFAULT}:{i}" for i in range(MP)), mp=True)

  # preallocate all the grad buffers and zero them out
-  grad_dtype = lambda x: dtypes.bfloat16 if x.dtype in dtypes.fp8s else x.dtype
-  grads = {x:x.zeros_like(dtype=grad_dtype(x)).contiguous() for x in state.values() if x.is_param}
-
-  fp8_amax = [t for ts in model._fp8_amax.values() for t in ts]
-  fp8_grad_amax = [t for ts in model._fp8_grad_amax.values() for t in ts]
+  grads = {x:Tensor.zeros(x.shape, dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device).contiguous()
+           for x in state.values() if x.requires_grad is None}

  # print model size
  sz = 0
@@ -381,31 +333,23 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
    sz += v.nbytes()
  print(f"total sz: {sz/1e9:.2f} GB")

-  with Timing("fake data: "): tokens = Tensor.randint(BS, SEQLEN+1, low=0, high=real_vocab_size, dtype=dtypes.int)
+  with Timing("fake data: "): tokens = Tensor.randint(BS, SEQLEN+1, low=0, high=model.vocab_size, dtype=dtypes.int)
  with Timing("realize weights/grads/data: "): Tensor.realize(*state.values(), *grads.values(), tokens)
  print("mem per device: " + ', '.join(f"{dev}: {mem/1e9:.2f} GB" for dev, mem in sorted(GlobalCounters.mem_used_per_device.items())))
  if DP > 1: tokens = tokens.shard(tuple(f"{Device.DEFAULT}:{i}" for i in range(DP)), axis=0)
  if MP > 1: tokens = tokens.shard(tuple(f"{Device.DEFAULT}:{i}" for i in range(MP)))

  @TinyJit
-  def fwd_bwd(tokens:Tensor):
-    with Timing("python forward: "):
-      logits = model(tokens[:, :-1], save=llama_size=="8B")
-      loss = vocab_mask.where(-1e9, logits).sparse_categorical_crossentropy(tokens[:, 1:])
+  def jit_step(tokens:Tensor):
+    with Timing("python forward: "): loss = model(tokens[:, :-1]).sparse_categorical_crossentropy(tokens[:, 1:])
    with Timing("python backward: "):
      for t,g in zip(grads, loss.gradient(*grads)):
        apply_grad(grads[t], g.uop)
-    with Timing("run fwd_bwd: "): loss.realize(*grads.values(), *fp8_amax, *fp8_grad_amax)
-
-  @TinyJit
-  def optim_step():
-    for g in grads.values(): g.assign(g.zeros_like())
-    Tensor.realize(*grads.values())
+    with Timing("run step: "): loss.realize(*grads.values())

  for i in range(6):
    GlobalCounters.reset()
    profile_marker(f"step {i}")
    with Timing(colored(f"*** step {i}: ", "red")):
-      fwd_bwd(tokens)
-      optim_step()
+      jit_step(tokens)
  print("mem per device: " + ', '.join(f"{dev}: {mem/1e9:.2f} GB" for dev, mem in sorted(GlobalCounters.mem_used_per_device.items())))
@@ -1,285 +0,0 @@
-import math, os, functools
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-  os.environ["DEFAULT_FLOAT"] = "bfloat16"
-  os.environ["OPTIM_DTYPE"] = "bfloat16"
-  if "DEV" not in os.environ: os.environ["DEV"] = "NULL::gfx950"
-  # CDNA
-  os.environ["DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG"] = "1"
-  os.environ["ALL2ALL"] = "1"
-  os.environ["USE_ATOMICS"] = "1"
-from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, function, getenv, dtypes, TinyJit
-from tinygrad.helpers import Timing, colored, GlobalCounters, profile_marker
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops, UOp
-from extra.models.llama import apply_rotary_emb, precompute_freqs_cis
-from extra.llama_kernels.rmsnorm import rmsnorm
-from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import _mx_block_scale
-
-FP8_DTYPE = dtypes.fp8e4m3
-FP8_MAX = 448.0
-INIT_STD = 0.008
-
-def quantize_mx(x:Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
-  *batch, K = x.shape
-  scale_K = K // 32
-  amax = x.detach().float().reshape(*batch, scale_K, 32).abs().max(axis=-1)
-  e8 = (amax.maximum(1e-38).log2().floor() + 127).clamp(0, 254).cast(dtypes.uint8)
-  qscale = (127.0 - e8.cast(dtypes.float32)).exp2().reshape(*batch, scale_K, 1).expand(*batch, scale_K, 32).reshape(*batch, K)
-  x_scaled = x.float() * qscale
-  x_clamped = x_scaled + (x_scaled.detach().clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX) - x_scaled.detach())  # STE
-  return x_clamped.cast(FP8_DTYPE), e8
-
-def _quant_dequant_fwd(x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-  # x (2d bf16) -> bf16 value after an mxfp8 round-trip (1x32 block scaling on the last axis)
-  M, K = x.shape
-  scale_K = K // 32
-  amax = x.float().reshape(M, scale_K, 32).abs().max(axis=-1)
-  e8 = (amax.maximum(1e-38).log2().floor() + 127).clamp(0, 254).cast(dtypes.uint8)
-  qscale = (127.0 - e8.cast(dtypes.float32)).exp2().reshape(M, scale_K, 1).expand(M, scale_K, 32).reshape(M, K)
-  x_fp8 = (x.float() * qscale).clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX).cast(FP8_DTYPE).cast(dtypes.float32)
-  return (x_fp8 * _mx_block_scale(e8)).cast(dtypes.bfloat16)
-
-@functools.cache
-def _quant_dequant_fwd_fxn(x_p, device):
-  return _quant_dequant_fwd(Tensor(x_p, device=device))
-
-def _quant_dequant_bwd(grad:UOp, call:UOp) -> tuple:
-  return (Tensor(grad).cast(dtypes.bfloat16).uop,)
-
-def quant_dequant_mx(x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-  fxn = _quant_dequant_fwd_fxn(x.as_param(0).uop, x.device)
-  return Tensor(UOp.maketuple(fxn.uop).call(x.uop, grad_fxn=_quant_dequant_bwd).gettuple(0))
-
-def _dequant_fwd(w_q:Tensor, w_scale:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-  return w_q.cast(dtypes.bfloat16) * _mx_block_scale(w_scale)
-
-@functools.cache
-def _dequant_fwd_fxn(wq_p, ws_p, device):
-  return _dequant_fwd(Tensor(wq_p, device=device), Tensor(ws_p, device=device))
-
-def _dequant_bwd(grad:UOp, call:UOp) -> tuple:
-  w_scale = Tensor(call.src[2])
-  return ((Tensor(grad).cast(dtypes.bfloat16) * _mx_block_scale(w_scale).cast(dtypes.bfloat16)).uop, None)
-
-def dequant_weight(w_q:Tensor, w_scale:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-  fxn = _dequant_fwd_fxn(w_q.as_param(0).uop, w_scale.as_param(1).uop, w_q.device)
-  call = UOp.maketuple(fxn.uop).call(w_q.uop, w_scale.uop, grad_fxn=_dequant_bwd)
-  return Tensor(call.gettuple(0))
-
-def matmul_mx(x:Tensor, w_q:Tensor, w_scale:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-  l_shape = x.shape[:-1]
-  x_phys = quant_dequant_mx(x.reshape(-1, x.shape[-1])).reshape(*l_shape, x.shape[-1])
-  w_phys = dequant_weight(w_q, w_scale)
-  return (x_phys @ w_phys.T).cast(dtypes.bfloat16)
-
-def swiglu(x:Tensor, limit:float=7.0, alpha:float=1.702) -> Tensor:
-  x_glu, x_linear = x[..., ::2], x[..., 1::2]
-  x_glu = x_glu.clamp(max_=limit)
-  x_linear = x_linear.clamp(-limit, limit)
-  return (x_glu * (alpha * x_glu).sigmoid()) * (x_linear + 1)
-
-class GPTOSS:
-  def __init__(self, dim:int, n_layers:int, n_heads:int, n_kv_heads:int, head_dim:int, n_experts:int, experts_per_tok:int,
-               intermediate_size:int, vocab_size:int, norm_eps:float=1e-5, rope_theta:int=150000, sliding_window:int=128,
-               swiglu_limit:float=7.0, max_context:int=8192):
-    self.dim, self.n_layers, self.n_heads, self.n_kv_heads, self.head_dim = dim, n_layers, n_heads, n_kv_heads, head_dim
-    self.n_rep = n_heads // n_kv_heads
-    self.n_experts, self.experts_per_tok, self.intermediate_size = n_experts, experts_per_tok, intermediate_size
-    self.vocab_size, self.norm_eps, self.sliding_window, self.swiglu_limit = vocab_size, norm_eps, sliding_window, swiglu_limit
-    self.sm_scale = 1.0 / math.sqrt(head_dim)
-
-    scaled_std = INIT_STD / math.sqrt(2 * n_layers)
-    q_dim, qkv_dim = n_heads * head_dim, head_dim * (n_heads + 2 * n_kv_heads)
-
-    # attn
-    self.wqkv, self.wqkv_scale = self._quant_weight(n_layers, qkv_dim, dim)
-    self.wqkv_bias = Tensor.zeros(n_layers, qkv_dim, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-    self.wo, self.wo_scale = self._quant_weight(n_layers, dim, q_dim, std=scaled_std)
-    self.wo_bias = Tensor.zeros(n_layers, dim, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-    self.sinks = Tensor.zeros(n_layers, n_heads, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-    self.attention_norm = Tensor.ones(n_layers, dim).contiguous()
-
-    # moe ffn
-    self.ffn_norm = Tensor.ones(n_layers, dim).contiguous()
-    self.gate = Tensor.normal(n_layers, n_experts, dim, mean=0.0, std=INIT_STD, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16)
-    self.gate_bias = Tensor.zeros(n_layers, n_experts, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-    self.w_gate_up, self.w_gate_up_scale = self._quant_weight(n_layers, n_experts, intermediate_size * 2, dim)
-    self.w_gate_up_bias = Tensor.zeros(n_layers, n_experts, intermediate_size * 2, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-    self.w_down, self.w_down_scale = self._quant_weight(n_layers, n_experts, dim, intermediate_size, std=scaled_std)
-    self.w_down_bias = Tensor.zeros(n_layers, n_experts, dim, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-
-    # output
-    self.norm = nn.RMSNorm(dim, norm_eps)
-    self.tok_embeddings = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, dim)
-    self.tok_embeddings.weight = Tensor.normal(vocab_size, dim, mean=0.0, std=INIT_STD, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16)
-    self.output = Tensor.normal(vocab_size, dim, mean=0.0, std=INIT_STD, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16)
-    self.freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(head_dim, max_context * 2, rope_theta).contiguous().is_param_(False)
-
-  def _quant_weight(self, *shape:int, std:float=INIT_STD):
-    w = Tensor.zeros(*shape) if getenv("ZEROS") else Tensor.normal(*shape, mean=0.0, std=std)
-    w_q, w_e8 = quantize_mx(w)
-    return w_q, w_e8.is_param_(False)
-
-  def _attn_mask(self, seqlen:int, sliding:bool, dtype) -> Tensor:
-    i, j = Tensor.arange(seqlen).reshape(seqlen, 1), Tensor.arange(seqlen).reshape(1, seqlen)
-    allowed = j <= i
-    if sliding: allowed = allowed & (i - j < self.sliding_window)
-    return allowed.where(0.0, -1e30).cast(dtype).contiguous()
-
-  def attention(self, x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor, mask:Tensor, *, attention_norm:Tensor, wqkv:Tensor, wqkv_scale:Tensor,
-                wqkv_bias:Tensor, wo:Tensor, wo_scale:Tensor, wo_bias:Tensor, sinks:Tensor):
-    bsz, seqlen, _ = x.shape
-    x_normed, rrms = rmsnorm(x, self.norm_eps)
-    qkv = matmul_mx(x_normed * attention_norm, wqkv, wqkv_scale) + wqkv_bias
-    qkv = qkv.reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_kv_heads, self.n_rep + 2, self.head_dim)
-    xq = qkv[:, :, :, :self.n_rep].reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_heads, self.head_dim)
-    xk, xv = qkv[:, :, :, self.n_rep], qkv[:, :, :, self.n_rep + 1]
-    xq, xk = apply_rotary_emb(xq, xk, freqs_cis)
-
-    xq = xq.cast(dtypes.bfloat16).reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_kv_heads, self.n_rep, self.head_dim).permute(0, 2, 3, 1, 4)
-    xk = xk.cast(dtypes.bfloat16).permute(0, 2, 1, 3).unsqueeze(2)
-    xv = xv.cast(dtypes.bfloat16).permute(0, 2, 1, 3).unsqueeze(2)
-    scores = ((xq @ xk.transpose(-2, -1)).float() * self.sm_scale + mask).contiguous()
-    sink = sinks.reshape(1, self.n_kv_heads, self.n_rep, 1, 1).float()
-    m = scores.max(-1, keepdim=True).maximum(sink)
-    e = (scores - m).exp()
-    w = (e / (e.sum(-1, keepdim=True) + (sink - m).exp())).cast(dtypes.bfloat16).contiguous()
-    attn = (w @ xv).permute(0, 3, 1, 2, 4).reshape(bsz, seqlen, self.n_heads * self.head_dim)
-
-    out = matmul_mx(attn, wo, wo_scale) + wo_bias
-    return out, [x_normed, rrms, attn]
-
-  def feed_forward(self, x:Tensor, *, ffn_norm:Tensor, gate:Tensor, gate_bias:Tensor,
-                   w_gate_up:Tensor, w_gate_up_scale:Tensor, w_gate_up_bias:Tensor,
-                   w_down:Tensor, w_down_scale:Tensor, w_down_bias:Tensor):
-    x_normed, rrms = rmsnorm(x, self.norm_eps)
-    inp = x_normed * ffn_norm
-
-    logits = inp.float() @ gate.float().T + gate_bias.float()
-    thresh = logits.topk(self.experts_per_tok)[0][..., -1:]
-    weights = (logits >= thresh).where(logits, -float("inf")).softmax(-1)
-
-    out = None
-    for e in range(self.n_experts):
-      gate_up = (matmul_mx(inp.contiguous_backward(), w_gate_up[e], w_gate_up_scale[e]) + w_gate_up_bias[e]).contiguous()
-      y = (matmul_mx(swiglu(gate_up, self.swiglu_limit), w_down[e], w_down_scale[e]) + w_down_bias[e]).contiguous()
-      contrib = (weights[..., e:e+1].cast(y.dtype) * y).contiguous()
-      out = contrib if out is None else out + contrib
-    return out, [x_normed, rrms]
-
-  @function(precompile=True, precompile_backward=True)
-  def run_layer(self, x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor, mask:Tensor, attn_kwargs:dict, ffn_kwargs:dict, save:bool=True):
-    attn, attn_saves = self.attention(x, freqs_cis, mask, **attn_kwargs)
-    h = x + attn
-    ffn, ffn_saves = self.feed_forward(h, **ffn_kwargs)
-    h = h + ffn
-    if save: return (h, *attn_saves, *ffn_saves)
-    return (h,)
-
-  def shard(self, device:tuple[str, ...], mp:bool=False):
-    assert not mp, "MP not supported"
-    from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters
-    for v in get_parameters(self): v.shard_(device, axis=None)
-    Tensor.realize(*get_parameters(self))
-
-  def __call__(self, tokens:Tensor, save:bool=True):
-    h = self.tok_embeddings(tokens)
-    bsz, seqlen = tokens.shape
-    freqs_cis = self.freqs_cis.cast(h.dtype)[:, :seqlen, :, :, :]
-    mask_full = self._attn_mask(seqlen, False, dtypes.float32)
-    mask_sliding = self._attn_mask(seqlen, True, dtypes.float32)
-    for i in range(self.n_layers):
-      attn_kwargs = dict(attention_norm=self.attention_norm[i], wqkv=self.wqkv[i], wqkv_scale=self.wqkv_scale[i],
-                         wqkv_bias=self.wqkv_bias[i], wo=self.wo[i], wo_scale=self.wo_scale[i], wo_bias=self.wo_bias[i],
-                         sinks=self.sinks[i])
-      ffn_kwargs = dict(ffn_norm=self.ffn_norm[i], gate=self.gate[i], gate_bias=self.gate_bias[i],
-                        w_gate_up=self.w_gate_up[i], w_gate_up_scale=self.w_gate_up_scale[i], w_gate_up_bias=self.w_gate_up_bias[i],
-                        w_down=self.w_down[i], w_down_scale=self.w_down_scale[i], w_down_bias=self.w_down_bias[i])
-      mask = mask_sliding if i % 2 == 0 else mask_full
-      h, *_ = self.run_layer(h, freqs_cis, mask, attn_kwargs, ffn_kwargs, save=save)
-
-    logits = self.norm(h) @ self.output.T
-    return logits
-
-def _get_pads(uop:UOp) -> list[UOp]:
-  if uop.op == Ops.ADD: return _get_pads(uop.src[0]) + _get_pads(uop.src[1])
-  return [uop]
-
-def apply_grad(grad_buf:Tensor, new_grad:UOp):
-  pads = _get_pads(new_grad)
-  if len(pads) <= 1:
-    new_grad = new_grad.cast(grad_buf.dtype)
-    grad_buf.uop = grad_buf.uop.after(grad_buf.uop.store(grad_buf.uop + new_grad))
-    return
-  cur = grad_buf.uop
-  for pad in sorted(pads, key=lambda p: p.marg[0][0] if p.op == Ops.PAD else 0, reverse=True):
-    if pad.op == Ops.PAD:
-      grad_shrink = tuple([(p[0], s+p[0]) for s,p in zip(pad.src[0].shape, pad.marg)])
-      buf_slice = cur.shrink(grad_shrink)
-      cur = cur.after(buf_slice.store(buf_slice + pad.src[0].cast(cur.dtype)))
-    else:
-      cur = cur.after(cur.store(cur + pad.cast(cur.dtype)))
-  grad_buf.uop = cur
-
-GPT_OSS_20B = dict(dim=2880, n_layers=24, n_heads=64, n_kv_heads=8, head_dim=64, n_experts=32, experts_per_tok=4,
-                   intermediate_size=2880, vocab_size=128256, norm_eps=1e-5, rope_theta=150000, sliding_window=128,
-                   swiglu_limit=7.0)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-  config = {}
-  BS      = config["BS"]      = getenv("BS", 16)
-  SEQLEN  = config["SEQLEN"]  = getenv("SEQLEN", 8192)
-
-  model_params = GPT_OSS_20B
-  real_vocab_size = model_params["vocab_size"]
-  if (layers := getenv("LAYERS")) != 0: model_params["n_layers"] = layers
-
-  model = GPTOSS(**model_params, max_context=SEQLEN)
-
-  state = nn.state.get_state_dict(model)
-  print("tensor count:", len(state))
-
-  from tinygrad import Device
-  is_dp = (DP := getenv("DP", 1)) > 1
-  device_count = DP
-  device = tuple(f"{Device.DEFAULT}:{i}" for i in range(device_count))
-
-  if is_dp: model.shard(device)
-
-  # preallocate all the grad buffers and zero them out
-  grad_dtype = lambda x: dtypes.bfloat16 if x.dtype in dtypes.fp8s else x.dtype
-  grads = {x:x.zeros_like(dtype=grad_dtype(x)).contiguous() for x in state.values() if x.is_param}
-
-  # print model size
-  sz = 0
-  for k,v in state.items():
-    print(f"{colored(k, 'green' if v in grads else 'white'):30s} {str(v.shape):30s} {str(v.dtype):20s} {v.device}  {v.nbytes()/1e9:.2f} GB")
-    sz += v.nbytes()
-  print(f"total sz: {sz/1e9:.2f} GB")
-
-  with Timing("fake data: "): tokens = Tensor.randint(BS, SEQLEN+1, low=0, high=real_vocab_size, dtype=dtypes.int)
-  with Timing("realize weights/grads/data: "): Tensor.realize(*state.values(), *grads.values(), tokens)
-  print("mem per device: " + ', '.join(f"{dev}: {mem/1e9:.2f} GB" for dev, mem in sorted(GlobalCounters.mem_used_per_device.items())))
-  if is_dp: tokens = tokens.shard(device, axis=0)
-
-  @TinyJit
-  def fwd_bwd(tokens:Tensor):
-    with Timing("python forward: "):
-      logits = model(tokens[:, :-1], save=True)
-      loss = logits.sparse_categorical_crossentropy(tokens[:, 1:])
-    with Timing("python backward: "):
-      for t,g in zip(grads, loss.gradient(*grads)):
-        apply_grad(grads[t], g.uop)
-    with Timing("run fwd_bwd: "): loss.realize(*grads.values())
-
-  @TinyJit
-  def optim_step():
-    for g in grads.values(): g.assign(g.zeros_like())
-    Tensor.realize(*grads.values())
-
-  for i in range(6):
-    GlobalCounters.reset()
-    profile_marker(f"step {i}")
-    with Timing(colored(f"*** step {i}: ", "red")):
-      fwd_bwd(tokens)
-      optim_step()
-  print("mem per device: " + ', '.join(f"{dev}: {mem/1e9:.2f} GB" for dev, mem in sorted(GlobalCounters.mem_used_per_device.items())))
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-import unittest
-from tinygrad import Tensor, TinyJit
-from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters
-from examples.mlperf.models.flat_llama import apply_grad
-
-class FlatModel:
-  def __init__(self, n_layers:int, dim:int, hidden:int):
-    self.n_layers = n_layers
-    self.w1 = Tensor.uniform(n_layers, dim, hidden, low=-0.1, high=0.1)
-    self.w2 = Tensor.uniform(n_layers, hidden, dim, low=-0.1, high=0.1)
-    self.scale = Tensor.uniform(dim, low=0.9, high=1.1)
-    self.bias = Tensor.zeros(dim).contiguous()
-
-  def __call__(self, x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
-    h = x
-    for i in range(self.n_layers):
-      h = (h @ self.w1[i]).relu() @ self.w2[i] + h
-    return (h * self.scale + self.bias).sum()
-
-class TestApplyGradE2E(unittest.TestCase):
-  def _run_with_apply_grad(self, model, xs):
-    grads = {p: Tensor.zeros(p.shape, dtype=p.dtype).contiguous().realize() for p in get_parameters(model)}
-    for x in xs:
-      loss = model(x)
-      for p, g in zip(grads, loss.gradient(*grads)):
-        apply_grad(grads[p], g.uop)
-      Tensor.realize(loss, *grads.values())
-    return [grads[p] for p in get_parameters(model)]
-
-  def _run_reference(self, model, xs):
-    for x in xs: model(x).backward()
-    return [p.grad for p in get_parameters(model)]
-
-  def _assert_close(self, got, expected, atol, rtol):
-    for g, e in zip(got, expected):
-      self.assertTrue(g.allclose(e, atol=atol, rtol=rtol).item(), f"grad mismatch (max abs diff {(g - e).abs().max().item()})")
-
-  def _assert_match(self, model, xs, atol, rtol):
-    self._assert_close(self._run_with_apply_grad(model, xs), self._run_reference(model, xs), atol, rtol)
-
-  def test_e2e_single_step(self):
-    model = FlatModel(n_layers=3, dim=8, hidden=16)
-    Tensor.realize(*get_parameters(model))
-    self._assert_match(model, [Tensor.randn(2, 8).realize()], atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-4)
-
-  def test_e2e_multi_step_accumulation(self):
-    model = FlatModel(n_layers=4, dim=8, hidden=16)
-    Tensor.realize(*get_parameters(model))
-    self._assert_match(model, [Tensor.randn(2, 8).realize() for _ in range(3)], atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-4)
-
-  def test_e2e_jit(self):
-    model = FlatModel(n_layers=3, dim=8, hidden=16)
-    Tensor.realize(*get_parameters(model))
-    grads = {p: Tensor.zeros(p.shape, dtype=p.dtype).contiguous().realize() for p in get_parameters(model)}
-
-    @TinyJit
-    def fwd_bwd(x:Tensor):
-      loss = model(x)
-      for p, g in zip(grads, loss.gradient(*grads)): apply_grad(grads[p], g.uop)
-      Tensor.realize(loss, *grads.values())
-
-    xs = [Tensor.randn(2, 8).realize() for _ in range(3)]
-    for x in xs: fwd_bwd(x)
-    self._assert_close([grads[p] for p in get_parameters(model)], self._run_reference(model, xs), atol=1e-3, rtol=1e-3)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-  unittest.main()
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ os.environ["WQKV"] = "1"
 import unittest
 import numpy as np
 from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, dtypes
-from tinygrad.device import Device
+from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters
+from tinygrad.device import is_dtype_supported, Device
 from examples.mlperf.models.llama import Transformer
 from examples.mlperf.models.flat_llama import FlatTransformer

@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@ class TestFlatLlama(unittest.TestCase):
    flat = FlatTransformer(**params)
    copy_weights(flat, ref)

+    for p in get_parameters(ref): p.requires_grad_(True)
+    for p in get_parameters(flat): p.requires_grad_(True)
    Tensor.realize(*nn.state.get_state_dict(flat).values())

    tokens = Tensor([[1, 50, 100, 999, 2, 10]])
@@ -111,7 +114,7 @@ class TestFlatLlama(unittest.TestCase):
    self.assertEqual(ref_logits.shape, flat_logits.shape)
    np.testing.assert_allclose(flat_logits, ref_logits, atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-4)

-  @unittest.skipUnless(dtypes.fp8e4m3 in Device[Device.DEFAULT].renderer.supported_dtypes(), "fp8 not supported on this device")
+  @unittest.skipUnless(is_dtype_supported(dtypes.fp8e4m3), "fp8 not supported on this device")
  def test_forward_fp8(self):
    import examples.mlperf.models.flat_llama as flat_llama_mod
    old_fp8 = flat_llama_mod.FP8
@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops

 STOCHASTIC_ROUND = getenv("STOCHASTIC_ROUND", 0)
 MASTER_WEIGHTS = getenv("MASTER_WEIGHTS", 0)
-FP8_AMAX_MARGIN = getenv("FP8_AMAX_MARGIN", 1.1)
-IMMEDIATE_SCALE = getenv("IMMEDIATE_SCALE", 0)
-MXFP8 = getenv("MXFP8", 0)

 def stochastic_round_bf16(x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
  bits = x.bitcast(dtypes.uint32)
@@ -24,14 +21,11 @@ class GradAccClipAdamW(Optimizer):
  def __init__(self, params:list[Tensor], lr=0.001, b1=0.9, b2=0.999, eps=1e-6, weight_decay=0.0, grad_acc=1, clip_norm=1.0, device=None, fused=FUSE_OPTIM):
    super().__init__(params, lr, device, fused)
    self.b1, self.b2, self.eps, self.wd = b1, b2, eps, weight_decay
-    self.b1_t, self.b2_t = (Tensor.ones((1,), dtype=dtypes.float32, device=self.device) for _ in [b1, b2])
+    self.b1_t, self.b2_t = (Tensor.ones((1,), dtype=dtypes.float32, device=self.device, requires_grad=False) for _ in [b1, b2])
    self.m = self._new_optim_param()
    self.v = self._new_optim_param()
    self.grad_acc, self.clip_norm = grad_acc, clip_norm
-    if MASTER_WEIGHTS and self.params[0].dtype != dtypes.float32:
-      self.master_params:list[Tensor]|None = [p.to(self.device).float().contiguous() for p in self.params]
-    else:
-      self.master_params = None
+    self.master_params:list[Tensor]|None = [p.float().contiguous() for p in self.params] if MASTER_WEIGHTS and self.params[0].dtype != dtypes.float32 else None

  def fstep(self, grads:list[Tensor]):
    if self.fused:
@@ -42,8 +36,7 @@ class GradAccClipAdamW(Optimizer):
    for i, tt in enumerate(self.params): tt.assign(self._apply_update(tt, updates[i], self.master_params[i] if self.master_params else None))
    # collect inv_scale tensors attached to fp8 params (set by _apply_update)
    fp8_inv_scales = [tt._inv_scale for tt in self.params if hasattr(tt, '_inv_scale')]
-    fp8_next_inv_scales = [tt._next_inv_scale for tt in self.params if hasattr(tt, '_next_inv_scale')]
-    to_realize = extra+self.params+self.buffers+(self.master_params or [])+fp8_inv_scales+fp8_next_inv_scales
+    to_realize = extra+self.params+self.buffers+(self.master_params or [])+fp8_inv_scales

    Tensor.realize(*to_realize)
    return extra[-1]
@@ -85,37 +78,13 @@ class GradAccClipAdamW(Optimizer):
    up = up.float().shard_like(w) + self.lr.to(w.device) * wd * w.detach()
    new_w = w.detach() - up
    if master is not None: master.assign(new_w)
-    # when master is offloaded to a different device than the param, results are resharded back onto the param's (sharded) device
-    offloaded = master is not None and master.device != t.device
-    if STOCHASTIC_ROUND and t.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16:
-      out = stochastic_round_bf16(new_w)
-      return out.shard_like(t) if offloaded else out
+    if STOCHASTIC_ROUND and t.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16: return stochastic_round_bf16(new_w)
    if t.dtype in dtypes.fp8s:
-      if MXFP8:
-        from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import quantize_mxfp8
-        w_q, w_e8, _ = quantize_mxfp8(new_w.reshape(-1, new_w.shape[-1]))
-        new_e8 = w_e8.reshape(t._inv_scale.shape)
-        t._inv_scale.assign(new_e8.shard_like(t._inv_scale) if offloaded else new_e8)
-        ret = w_q.reshape(new_w.shape)
-        return ret.shard_like(t) if offloaded else ret
      from examples.mlperf.models.flat_llama import FP8_MAX
-      if IMMEDIATE_SCALE:
-        amax_axis = tuple(range(t._inv_scale.ndim, new_w.ndim))
-        new_inv = ((new_w.float().abs().max(axis=amax_axis).detach() + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX).cast(t._inv_scale.dtype)
-        t._inv_scale.assign(new_inv.shard_like(t._inv_scale) if offloaded else new_inv)
-        scale = new_inv.reciprocal().reshape(*new_inv.shape, *([1]*(new_w.ndim-new_inv.ndim)))
-        ret = (new_w * scale).clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX).cast(t.dtype)
-        return ret.shard_like(t) if offloaded else ret
-      # delayed scaling: reuse previous step's inv_scale
-      t._inv_scale.assign(t._next_inv_scale)
-      inv_scale = t._inv_scale.to(new_w.device) if offloaded else t._inv_scale
-      scale = inv_scale.reciprocal().reshape(*inv_scale.shape, *([1]*(new_w.ndim-inv_scale.ndim)))
-      scaled = (new_w * scale).clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX)
-      ret = scaled.cast(t.dtype)
-      # update inv_scale for next step from quantized result
-      new_amax = (ret.float().abs().max(axis=tuple(range(inv_scale.ndim, ret.ndim))) * inv_scale * FP8_AMAX_MARGIN).detach()
-      new_inv = ((new_amax + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX).cast(t._inv_scale.dtype)
-      t._next_inv_scale.assign(new_inv.shard_like(t._next_inv_scale) if offloaded else new_inv)
-      return ret.shard_like(t) if offloaded else ret
-    out = new_w.cast(t.dtype)
-    return out.shard_like(t) if offloaded else out
+      amax = new_w.float().abs().max(axis=tuple(range(1, new_w.ndim))).detach()  # per-layer amax for (n_layers, out, in)
+      scale = FP8_MAX / (amax + 1e-8)
+      fp8_w = (new_w * scale.reshape(-1, *([1]*(new_w.ndim-1)))).clamp(-FP8_MAX, FP8_MAX).cast(t.dtype)
+      if hasattr(t, '_inv_scale'):
+        t._inv_scale.assign(((amax + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX).cast(t._inv_scale.dtype))
+      return fp8_w
+    return new_w.cast(t.dtype)
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=${DEV:-AMD}
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
@@ -11,7 +9,6 @@ export DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG=1
 export DEBUG=${DEBUG:-2}
 export HK_FLASH_ATTENTION=${HK_FLASH_ATTENTION:-1}
 export ALL2ALL=${ALL2ALL:-1}
-export LATE_ALLREDUCE=${LATE_ALLREDUCE:-1}
 export USE_ATOMICS=${USE_ATOMICS:-1}
 export ASM_GEMM=${ASM_GEMM:-1}
 export WQKV=${WQKV:-1}
@@ -19,11 +16,10 @@ export MASTER_WEIGHTS=${MASTER_WEIGHTS:-1}
 export FP8=${FP8:-1}
 export ALLREDUCE_CAST=${ALLREDUCE_CAST:-1}
 export FAST_CE=${FAST_CE:-0}
-export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-0}
-export SPLIT_W13=${SPLIT_W13:-1}
+export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-1}
+export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-1}
+export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-1}
+export FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM=${FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM:-1}
 export OFFLOAD_OPTIM=${OFFLOAD_OPTIM:-1}

 export DEFAULT_FLOAT="bfloat16" OPTIM_DTYPE="bfloat16"
@@ -43,7 +39,7 @@ export BEAM_UOPS_MAX=6000 BEAM_UPCAST_MAX=256 BEAM_LOCAL_MAX=1024 BEAM_MIN_PROGR

 export FAKEDATA=${FAKEDATA:-1} BENCHMARK=${BENCHMARK:-10}
 if [ -z "$FULL_LAYERS" ]; then
-  export LLAMA_LAYERS=${LLAMA_LAYERS:-2}
+  export LLAMA_LAYERS=2
 fi

 python3 examples/mlperf/model_train.py
@@ -1,34 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=${DEV:-AMD}
+export EMULATE="AMD_CDNA4"
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
-export DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG=1

 export DEBUG=${DEBUG:-0}
 export HK_FLASH_ATTENTION=${HK_FLASH_ATTENTION:-1}
 export ALL2ALL=${ALL2ALL:-1}
-export LATE_ALLREDUCE=${LATE_ALLREDUCE:-1}
-export USE_ATOMICS=${USE_ATOMICS:-1}
+export USE_ATOMICS=${USE_ATOMICS:-0}
 export ASM_GEMM=${ASM_GEMM:-1}
 export WQKV=${WQKV:-1}
-export MASTER_WEIGHTS=${MASTER_WEIGHTS:-1}
-export FP8=${FP8:-1}
-export ALLREDUCE_CAST=${ALLREDUCE_CAST:-1}
-export FAST_CE=${FAST_CE:-0}
-export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-0}
-export SPLIT_W13=${SPLIT_W13:-1}
 export OFFLOAD_OPTIM=${OFFLOAD_OPTIM:-1}

 export DEFAULT_FLOAT="bfloat16" OPTIM_DTYPE="bfloat16"
-export DP=${DP:-1} MP=${MP:-8} BS=${BS:-1} EVAL_BS=${EVAL_BS:-1} GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS=${GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS:-1152}
-export GBS=$((BS * GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS))
+export DP=${DP:-1} MP=${MP:-8}
+export BS=${BS:-1} EVAL_BS=${EVAL_BS:-1} GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS=${GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS:-1152}

 export MODEL="llama3"
 export BASEDIR="/raid/datasets/c4/"
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=${DEV:-AMD}
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
@@ -20,11 +18,9 @@ export FP8=${FP8:-1}
 export ALLREDUCE_CAST=${ALLREDUCE_CAST:-1}
 export FAST_CE=${FAST_CE:-1}
 export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-1}
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE:-1}
 export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-1}
 export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-1}
-export SPLIT_W13=${SPLIT_W13:-0}
-export OFFLOAD_OPTIM=${OFFLOAD_OPTIM:-0}
+export FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM=${FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM:-1}

 export DEFAULT_FLOAT="bfloat16" OPTIM_DTYPE="bfloat16"
 export DP=${DP:-8} MP=${MP:-1} BS=${BS:-16} EVAL_BS=${EVAL_BS:-8} GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS=${GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS:-2}
@@ -48,7 +44,7 @@ export BEAM_UOPS_MAX=6000 BEAM_UPCAST_MAX=256 BEAM_LOCAL_MAX=1024 BEAM_MIN_PROGR

 export FAKEDATA=${FAKEDATA:-1} BENCHMARK=${BENCHMARK:-10}
 if [ -z "$FULL_LAYERS" ]; then
-  export LLAMA_LAYERS=${LLAMA_LAYERS:-2}
+  export LLAMA_LAYERS=2
 fi

 python3 examples/mlperf/model_train.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=${DEV:-AMD}
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
@@ -11,7 +9,6 @@ export DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG=1
 export DEBUG=${DEBUG:-2}
 export HK_FLASH_ATTENTION=${HK_FLASH_ATTENTION:-1}
 export ALL2ALL=${ALL2ALL:-1}
-export LATE_ALLREDUCE=${LATE_ALLREDUCE:-1}
 export USE_ATOMICS=${USE_ATOMICS:-1}
 export ASM_GEMM=${ASM_GEMM:-1}
 export WQKV=${WQKV:-1}
@@ -19,10 +16,10 @@ export MASTER_WEIGHTS=${MASTER_WEIGHTS:-1}
 export FP8=${FP8:-1}
 export ALLREDUCE_CAST=${ALLREDUCE_CAST:-1}
 export FAST_CE=${FAST_CE:-0}
-export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE:-0}
+export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-1}
 export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-0}
 export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-0}
+export FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM=${FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM:-0}
 export SPLIT_W13=${SPLIT_W13:-1}
 export OFFLOAD_OPTIM=${OFFLOAD_OPTIM:-1}

@@ -48,7 +45,7 @@ export BEAM_UOPS_MAX=6000 BEAM_UPCAST_MAX=256 BEAM_LOCAL_MAX=1024 BEAM_MIN_PROGR

 export FAKEDATA=${FAKEDATA:-1} BENCHMARK=${BENCHMARK:-10}
 if [ -z "$FULL_LAYERS" ]; then
-  export LLAMA_LAYERS=${LLAMA_LAYERS:-2}
+  export LLAMA_LAYERS=2
 fi

 python3 examples/mlperf/model_train.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=${DEV:-AMD}
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
@@ -20,11 +18,9 @@ export FP8=${FP8:-1}
 export ALLREDUCE_CAST=${ALLREDUCE_CAST:-1}
 export FAST_CE=${FAST_CE:-1}
 export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-1}
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE:-1}
 export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-1}
 export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-1}
-export SPLIT_W13=${SPLIT_W13:-0}
-export OFFLOAD_OPTIM=${OFFLOAD_OPTIM:-0}
+export FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM=${FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM:-1}

 export DEFAULT_FLOAT="bfloat16" OPTIM_DTYPE="bfloat16"
 export DP=${DP:-8} MP=${MP:-1} BS=${BS:-16} EVAL_BS=${EVAL_BS:-8} GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS=${GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS:-2}
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=${DEV:-AMD}
+export EMULATE="AMD_CDNA4"
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
 export DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG=1
@@ -11,19 +10,9 @@ export DEVICE_IN_FUNCTION_BUG=1
 export DEBUG=${DEBUG:-0}
 export HK_FLASH_ATTENTION=${HK_FLASH_ATTENTION:-1}
 export ALL2ALL=${ALL2ALL:-1}
-export LATE_ALLREDUCE=${LATE_ALLREDUCE:-1}
-export USE_ATOMICS=${USE_ATOMICS:-1}
+export USE_ATOMICS=${USE_ATOMICS:-0}
 export ASM_GEMM=${ASM_GEMM:-1}
 export WQKV=${WQKV:-1}
-export MASTER_WEIGHTS=${MASTER_WEIGHTS:-1}
-export FP8=${FP8:-1}
-export ALLREDUCE_CAST=${ALLREDUCE_CAST:-1}
-export FAST_CE=${FAST_CE:-0}
-export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=${FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE:-0}
-export FUSED_SILU_W13=${FUSED_SILU_W13:-0}
-export SPLIT_W13=${SPLIT_W13:-1}
 export OFFLOAD_OPTIM=${OFFLOAD_OPTIM:-1}

 export DEFAULT_FLOAT="bfloat16" OPTIM_DTYPE="bfloat16"
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-export BENCHMARK=${BENCHMARK:-5}
+export BENCHMARK=5
 export EVAL_BS=0
-VIZ=${VIZ:--1} FULL_LAYERS=1 DEBUG=${DEBUG:--0} examples/mlperf/training_submission_v6.0/tinycorp/benchmarks/llama31_8b/implementations/tinybox_8xMI350X/dev_beam.sh
+VIZ=${VIZ:--1} FULL_LAYERS=1 DEBUG=0 examples/mlperf/training_submission_v6.0/tinycorp/benchmarks/llama8b/implementations/tinybox_8xMI350X/dev_beam.sh
 SRC="AMD"; [[ $DEV == NULL* ]] && SRC="NULL"
-[ "$BENCHMARK" -le 3 ] || python -m tinygrad.viz.cli -s "$SRC" -t --interval "train @ 2" "train @ 3"
+python -m tinygrad.viz.cli -s "$SRC" -t
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ set -e  # Exit on any error
 set -o pipefail  # Make pipeline fail if any command fails

 export PYTHONPATH="."
-export PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1/bin:$PATH"
-export ROCM_PATH="/opt/rocm-7.1.1"
 export DEV=AMD
 export CHECK_OOB=0
 export REWRITE_STACK_LIMIT=5000000 HCQDEV_WAIT_TIMEOUT_MS=240000
@@ -21,10 +19,9 @@ export FP8=1
 export ALLREDUCE_CAST=1
 export FAST_CE=1
 export FUSED_INPUT_QUANTIZE=1
-export FUSED_GRAD_QUANTIZE=1
 export FUSED_ADD_NORM_MUL_QUANTIZE=1
 export FUSED_SILU_W13=1
-export SPLIT_W13=0
+export FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM=1

 export DEFAULT_FLOAT="bfloat16" OPTIM_DTYPE="bfloat16"
 export DP=8 MP=1 BS=16 EVAL_BS=8 GRADIENT_ACC_STEPS=2
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ export EVAL_BS=0
 export FAKEDATA=1
 export NULL_ALLOW_COPYOUT=1
 export HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=""
-export DEV=NULL:HIP:gfx950
+export DEV=NULL
 export JITBEAM=0
 export LLAMA_LAYERS=${LLAMA_LAYERS:-"2"}
-time examples/mlperf/training_submission_v6.0/tinycorp/benchmarks/llama31_8b/implementations/tinybox_8xMI350X/dev_run.sh
+time examples/mlperf/training_submission_v6.0/tinycorp/benchmarks/llama8b/implementations/tinybox_8xMI350X/dev_run.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import torch
 from torchvision.utils import make_grid, save_image
 from tinygrad.nn.state import get_parameters
 from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
-from tinygrad.helpers import trange, Context
+from tinygrad.helpers import trange
 from tinygrad.nn import optim
 from tinygrad.nn.datasets import mnist

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def train_generator(optimizer, data_fake):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
  # data for training and validation
  X_train, _, _, _ = mnist()
-  ds_noise = Tensor.randn(64, 128)
+  ds_noise = Tensor.randn(64, 128, requires_grad=False)
  # parameters
  epochs, batch_size, k = 300, 512, 1
  sample_interval = epochs // 10
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  optim_g = optim.Adam(get_parameters(generator), lr=0.0002, b1=0.5)  # 0.0002 for equilibrium!
  optim_d = optim.Adam(get_parameters(discriminator), lr=0.0002, b1=0.5)
  # training loop
-  with Context(TRAINING=1):
+  with Tensor.train():
    for epoch in (t := trange(epochs)):
      loss_g, loss_d = 0.0, 0.0
      for _ in range(n_steps):
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ def compile(onnx_file):
  # TODO this seems dumb
  input_types = {k:(dtypes.float32 if v is dtypes.float16 else v) for k,v in input_types.items()}
  Tensor.manual_seed(100)
-  # replace symbolic dimensions (e.g. 'b' for dynamic batch) with 1
-  input_shapes = {k:tuple(s if isinstance(s, int) else 1 for s in shp) for k,shp in input_shapes.items()}
  inputs = {k:Tensor(Tensor.randn(*shp, dtype=input_types[k]).mul(8).realize().numpy(), device='NPY') for k,shp in sorted(input_shapes.items())}
  if not getenv("NPY_IMG"):
    inputs = {k:Tensor(v.numpy(), device=Device.DEFAULT).realize() if 'img' in k else v for k,v in inputs.items()}
@@ -42,7 +40,7 @@ def compile(onnx_file):
  kernel_calls = [u for u in run_onnx_jit.captured.linear.toposort(gate=lambda x: x.op not in kernel_asts)
                  if u.op is Ops.CALL and u.src[0].op in kernel_asts]
  print(f"captured {len(kernel_calls)} kernels")
-  if getenv("TEST", 1): np.testing.assert_equal(test_val, ret, "JIT run failed")
+  np.testing.assert_equal(test_val, ret, "JIT run failed")
  print("jit run validated")

  # check gated read_image usage
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ def compile(onnx_file):
  read_image_count = 0
  gated_read_image_count = 0
  for call in kernel_calls:
-    _, _, source, _ = call.src[0].src
+    _, _, _, source, _ = call.src[0].src
    src = source.arg
    kernel_count += 1
    read_image_count += src.count("read_image")
@@ -87,7 +85,7 @@ def test_vs_compile(run, inputs, test_val=None):
    step_times.append((et-st)*1e3)
    print(f"enqueue {(mt-st)*1e3:6.2f} ms -- total run {step_times[-1]:6.2f} ms")

-  if (assert_time:=getenv("ASSERT_MIN_STEP_TIME", 0.0)):
+  if (assert_time:=getenv("ASSERT_MIN_STEP_TIME")):
    min_time = min(step_times)
    assert min_time < assert_time, f"Speed regression, expected min step time of < {assert_time} ms but took: {min_time} ms"

@@ -104,7 +102,7 @@ def test_vs_compile(run, inputs, test_val=None):
 def test_vs_onnx(new_inputs, test_val, onnx_file, tol):
  import onnx
  import onnxruntime as ort
-
+  
  onnx_inputs = {k:v.numpy() for k,v in new_inputs.items()}
  onnx_model = onnx.load(onnx_file)

@@ -137,7 +135,7 @@ def bench(run, inputs):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
  if getenv("RUN_PICKLE"):
    with open(OUTPUT, "rb") as f: pickle_loaded = pickle.load(f)
-    inputs = {name: Tensor(Tensor.randn(*view.shape, dtype=dtype).numpy(), device=device)
+    inputs = {name: Tensor(Tensor.randn(*[int(s) for s in view.src[1].arg], dtype=dtype).numpy(), device=device)
              for name, (view, _vars, dtype, device) in zip(pickle_loaded.captured.expected_names, pickle_loaded.captured.expected_input_info)}
    test_vs_compile(pickle_loaded, inputs)
  else:
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #  - symbolic removal

 from examples.beautiful_mnist import Model
-from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, getenv, GlobalCounters, Variable, Context
+from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, getenv, GlobalCounters, Variable
 from tinygrad.nn.datasets import mnist
 from tinygrad.helpers import trange

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  X_samp, Y_samp = X_train[samples], Y_train[samples]
  print("*** got samples")

-  with Context(TRAINING=1):
+  with Tensor.train():
    """
    i = UOp.range(samples.shape[0])  # TODO: fix range function on UOp
    losses = model(X_samp[i]).sparse_categorical_crossentropy(Y_samp[i]).backward().contract(i)
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ elif cmd == "train":
    x_img = image_load(samples_base + "/" + str(sample_idx) + "a.png")
    y_img = image_load(samples_base + "/" + str(sample_idx) + "b.png")

-    sample_x = Tensor(x_img)
-    sample_y = Tensor(y_img)
+    sample_x = Tensor(x_img, requires_grad = False)
+    sample_y = Tensor(y_img, requires_grad = False)

    # magic code roughly from readme example
    # An explanation, in case anyone else has to go down this path:
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from typing import Tuple, Dict, List, Optional
-from tinygrad.dtype import DType, dtypes, AddrSpace
+from tinygrad.dtype import DType, dtypes
 from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
 from tinygrad.device import Device, Buffer
 from tinygrad.engine.jit import TinyJit
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def compile_net(linear:UOp, output_bufs:List[Buffer]) -> Tuple[Dict[str,str], Li

  def name_of(bu:UOp, is_out:bool) -> str:
    nonlocal n
-    if bu.op is Ops.PARAM: key, name, size = ("in", bu.arg.slot), f"input{bu.arg.slot}", prod(bu.shape)*bu.dtype.itemsize
+    if bu.op is Ops.PARAM: key, name, size = ("in", bu.arg), f"input{bu.arg}", prod(bu.shape)*bu.dtype.itemsize
    else:
      b = bu.buffer
      key, size = (id(b.base), b.offset, b.size, b.dtype), b.size*b.dtype.itemsize
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ def compile_net(linear:UOp, output_bufs:List[Buffer]) -> Tuple[Dict[str,str], Li
    arg_uops = [b for b in call.src[1:] if b.op is not Ops.BIND]
    prg = to_program(call.src[0], Device[arg_uops[0].device].renderer)
    info = prg.arg
-    functions[info.function_name] = prg.src[2].arg
-    cargs = [name_of(bu, i == 0) for i, bu in enumerate(arg_uops)] + list(info.vars)
+    functions[info.function_name] = prg.src[3].arg
+    cargs = [name_of(bu, i == 0) for i, bu in enumerate(arg_uops)] + [v for v in info.vars if v.op is Ops.DEFINE_VAR]
    statements.append((info.function_name, cargs, info.global_size, info.local_size))

  return functions, statements, {name:(size, dtype, key) for name, size, dtype, key in bufs.values()}, bufs_to_save
@@ -253,18 +253,17 @@ def export_model(model, target:str, *inputs, model_name: Optional[str] = "model"
  symbolic_vars = OrderedDict()
  for i, (_, args, global_size, _) in enumerate(statements):
    for j, var in enumerate(args):
-      if getattr(var, "op", None) is Ops.PARAM and var.addrspace is AddrSpace.ALU and var.arg.name is not None:
+      if getattr(var, "op", None) is Ops.DEFINE_VAR and isinstance(getattr(var, "arg", None), tuple) and isinstance(var.arg[0], str):
        if var not in symbolic_vars:
-          symbolic_vars[var] = var.expr
+          symbolic_vars[var] = var.arg[0]
          bufs[symbolic_vars[var]] = (var.dtype.itemsize, var.dtype, symbolic_vars[var])
        statements[i][1][j] = symbolic_vars[var]

    if global_size:
      for j, dim in enumerate(global_size):
-        if getattr(dim, "op", None) is Ops.ADD and len(dim.src) == 2 and \
-           any(s.op is Ops.PARAM and s.addrspace is AddrSpace.ALU for s in dim.src) and any(s.op is Ops.CONST for s in dim.src):
+        if getattr(dim, "op", None) is Ops.ADD and len(dim.src) == 2 and {dim.src[0].op, dim.src[1].op} == {Ops.DEFINE_VAR, Ops.CONST}:
          name, val = dim.src if dim.src[1].op is Ops.CONST else reversed(dim.src)
-          global_size[j] = f"_{name.expr}[0] + {val.arg}"
+          global_size[j] = f"_{name.arg[0]}[0] + {val.arg}"

  prg = ""
  if target == "clang":
@@ -458,11 +458,10 @@ def test_matmul():
  def asm_kernel(A:UOp, B:UOp, C:UOp) -> UOp:
    gidxs = [UOp.special(n, f"gidx{i}") for i,n in enumerate(grid)]
    lidxs = [UOp.special(n, f"lidx{i}") for i,n in enumerate(local)]
-    lds_size = max(LDS_SIZE, 65536//getenv("LIMIT_OCC", 65536))
-    lds = UOp.placeholder((lds_size,), dtypes.uint8, 0, AddrSpace.LOCAL)
+    lds = UOp(Ops.DEFINE_LOCAL, dtypes.uint8.ptr(size=max(LDS_SIZE, 65536//getenv("LIMIT_OCC", 65536)), addrspace=AddrSpace.LOCAL), (), 'lds')
    sink = UOp.sink(A.base, B.base, C.base, lds, *gidxs, *lidxs, arg=KernelInfo(name=colored("kernel", "cyan"),
                                                                                  estimates=Estimates(ops=N*N*N*2, mem=N*N*4*3)))
-    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in insts]))))
+    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in insts]))))
  c = Tensor.custom_kernel(a, b, c, fxn=asm_kernel)[2]
  linear = c.schedule_linear()

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def block_128x128_gemm(c:UOp, a:UOp, b:UOp) -> UOp:

  # accumulator (unified: both paths use (TM, TN) with scalar dtypes.float)
  acc = UOp.placeholder((TM, TN), dtypes.float, slot=2, addrspace=AddrSpace.REG)
-  acc = acc.after(acc.store(acc.zeros_like(buffer=False)))
+  acc = acc.after(acc.store(acc.zeros_like()))

  if use_wmma:
    k = UOp.range(BLOCK_K // WMMA_K, 101, AxisType.REDUCE)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def amd_flash_attention(o:UOp, q:UOp, k:UOp, v:UOp) -> UOp:
  P_lds = QP_lds[:, :BLOCK_N]
  P_write = P_lds.reshape(WAVES_M, TM // WMMA_ACC, WMMA_ACC, LANES_PER_WAVE_M, WAVES_N, TN, LANES_PER_WAVE_N)
  P_write = P_write.permute((0, 4, 3, 6, 1, 2, 5)).reshape(THREADS_PER_BLOCK, TM, TN)
-  # TODO: P_write[tid].store(S_reg.cast(dtypes.half)) -- shaped store fails due to RESHAPE(local BUFFER) surviving linearization
+  # TODO: P_write[tid].store(S_reg.cast(dtypes.half)) — shaped store fails due to RESHAPE(DEFINE_LOCAL) surviving linearization
  rw1 = UOp.range(TM, 296, AxisType.LOOP)
  rw2 = UOp.range(TN, 297, AxisType.LOOP)
  P_store = P_write[tid, rw1, rw2].store(S_reg[rw1, rw2].cast(dtypes.half)).end(rw1, rw2)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def make_matmul_kernel(name:str, src:str, local_size:int):
    wg_y = UOp.special(N//128, "gidx1")
    sink = UOp.sink(a.base, b.base, c.base, threads, wg_x, wg_y, arg=KernelInfo(name, estimates=Estimates(ops=2*N**3, mem=3*N*N*4)))
    lib = Device[Device.DEFAULT].compiler.compile_cached(src)
-    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=Device.DEFAULT), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
                                 UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))
  return fxn

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def eval_custom_matmul(fxn, dt=dtypes.float):
  with Context(DEBUG=0): Tensor.realize(a, b)

  ets = []
-  with Context(DEBUG=max(2, DEBUG.value)):
+  with Context(DEBUG=max(2, DEBUG.value), DEVECTORIZE=2 if dt == dtypes.half else 0):
    for _ in range(NUM_RUNS):
      GlobalCounters.reset()
      tst = Tensor.custom_kernel(c, a, b, fxn=fxn)[0].realize()
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import numpy as np
+import time
+import sys
+np.set_printoptions(linewidth=160)
+np.set_printoptions(linewidth=1000, threshold=10000000000, suppress=False)
+from tinygrad.runtime.ops_llvm import LLVMDevice, LLVMProgram, LLVMCompiler
+from llvmlite import ir  # type: ignore
+from tinygrad.helpers import flat_mv
+from tinygrad.device import MallocAllocator
+
+# https://github.com/corsix/amx/blob/main/Instructions.md
+# 12 lines for AMX support
+from functools import partialmethod
+class AMX:
+  @staticmethod
+  def nop_op_imm5(op, imm5, builder): builder.asm(ir.FunctionType(ir.VoidType(), []), f".word (0x201000 + ({op} << 5) + {imm5}); amx op {op} imm {imm5}", "", tuple(), True)
+  @staticmethod
+  def op_gpr(op, builder, gpr): builder.asm(ir.FunctionType(ir.VoidType(), [ir.IntType(64)]), f".word (0x201000 + ({op} << 5) + 0$0 - ((0$0 >> 4) * 6)); amx op {op} reg $0", "r", (gpr,), True)
+  set, clr = partialmethod(nop_op_imm5, 17, 0), partialmethod(nop_op_imm5, 17, 1)
+  ldx, ldy, stx, sty = partialmethod(op_gpr, 0), partialmethod(op_gpr, 1), partialmethod(op_gpr, 2), partialmethod(op_gpr, 3)
+  ldz, stz, ldzi, stzi = partialmethod(op_gpr, 4), partialmethod(op_gpr, 5), partialmethod(op_gpr, 6), partialmethod(op_gpr, 7)
+  extrx, extry = partialmethod(op_gpr, 8), partialmethod(op_gpr, 9)
+  fma64, fms64, fma32, fms32 = partialmethod(op_gpr, 10), partialmethod(op_gpr, 11), partialmethod(op_gpr, 12), partialmethod(op_gpr, 13)
+  mac16, fma16, fms16 = partialmethod(op_gpr, 14), partialmethod(op_gpr, 15), partialmethod(op_gpr, 16)
+  vecint, vecfp, matint, matfp, genlut = partialmethod(op_gpr, 18), partialmethod(op_gpr, 19), partialmethod(op_gpr, 20), partialmethod(op_gpr, 21), partialmethod(op_gpr, 22)
+
+def int_const(x): return ir.Constant(ir.IntType(64), x)
+
+
+N = 4096
+# N = 1024
+# N = 64
+
+BW = N*N*4
+
+# matrix is 64M, max load bandwidth is 57 GB/s
+# cache line looks like 256 bytes (64 floats)
+
+na = np.zeros((256), dtype=np.float32)
+# na = np.zeros((N, N), dtype=np.float32)
+nb = np.random.randn(N, N).astype(np.float32)
+nc = np.random.randn(N, N).astype(np.float32)
+
+ns = nb.reshape(-1, 32).sum(axis=0)
+
+a = MallocAllocator.alloc(na.nbytes)
+b = MallocAllocator.alloc(nb.nbytes)
+c = MallocAllocator.alloc(nc.nbytes)
+
+MallocAllocator._copyin(b, flat_mv(nb.data))
+MallocAllocator._copyin(c, flat_mv(nc.data))
+
+module = ir.Module(name=__file__)
+func = ir.Function(module, ir.FunctionType(ir.IntType(64), [ir.FloatType().as_pointer()]*3), name='exec')
+
+# load all
+entry = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="entry"))
+zm, xm, ym = [entry.ptrtoint(func.args[i], ir.IntType(64)) for i in range(3)]
+
+loop_1 = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_y"))
+loop_1_exit = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_y_exit"))
+exit = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="exit"))
+
+y = loop_1.phi(ir.IntType(64), name="y")
+y.add_incoming(int_const(0), entry._block)
+yp = loop_1_exit.add(y, int_const(32*2))
+y.add_incoming(yp, loop_1_exit._block)
+
+prefetch_function = ir.Function(module, ir.FunctionType(ir.VoidType(), [ir.PointerType(ir.FloatType()), ir.IntType(32), ir.IntType(32), ir.IntType(32)]), name="llvm.prefetch")
+
+xptr = y
+addr = loop_1_exit.add(xm, loop_1_exit.mul(int_const(4), xptr))
+
+#prefetch_ptr = loop_1_exit.inttoptr(loop_1_exit.add(addr, int_const(128)), ir.PointerType(ir.FloatType()))
+#loop_1_exit.call(prefetch_function, [prefetch_ptr, ir.IntType(32)(0), ir.IntType(32)(2), ir.IntType(32)(1)])
+
+AMX.ldx(loop_1_exit, loop_1_exit.add(int_const(1<<62), addr))
+xptr = loop_1_exit.add(xptr, int_const(32))
+AMX.ldy(loop_1_exit, loop_1_exit.add(int_const(1<<62), loop_1_exit.add(xm, loop_1_exit.mul(int_const(4), xptr))))
+
+AMX.fma32(loop_1_exit, int_const(1 << 63 | 1 << 28))
+AMX.fma32(loop_1_exit, int_const(1 << 63 | 1 << 28 | 1 << 20 | (16*4)<<10))
+AMX.fma32(loop_1_exit, int_const(1 << 63 | 1 << 29))
+AMX.fma32(loop_1_exit, int_const(1 << 63 | 1 << 29 | 1 << 20 | (16*4)))
+
+AMX.set(entry)
+
+AMX.stz(exit, exit.add(zm, int_const(1 << 62 | (0 << 56) | 0)))
+AMX.clr(exit)
+
+entry.branch(loop_1._block)
+loop_1.branch(loop_1_exit._block)
+loop_1_exit.cbranch(loop_1_exit.icmp_unsigned("==", yp, int_const(N*N)), exit._block, loop_1._block)
+exit.ret(int_const(0))
+
+device = LLVMDevice("llvm")
+prog = LLVMProgram(device, "exec", LLVMCompiler(device).compile(str(module)))
+
+"""
+loop_1 = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_y"))
+loop_2 = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_x"))
+loop_3 = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_k"))
+loop_3_exit = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_k_exit"))
+loop_2_exit = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_x_exit"))
+loop_1_exit = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="loop_y_exit"))
+
+y = loop_1.phi(ir.IntType(64), name="y")
+x = loop_2.phi(ir.IntType(64), name="x")
+k = loop_3.phi(ir.IntType(64), name="k")
+
+exit = ir.IRBuilder(func.append_basic_block(name="exit"))
+
+AMX.set(loop_2)
+
+# stride
+xptr = loop_3_exit.add(x, loop_3_exit.mul(k, int_const(N)))
+yptr = loop_3_exit.add(y, loop_3_exit.mul(k, int_const(N)))
+
+# if you are okay with the wrong answer, this is faster
+#xptr = loop_3_exit.add(x, loop_3_exit.mul(k, int_const(32)))
+#yptr = loop_3_exit.add(y, loop_3_exit.mul(k, int_const(32)))
+
+# double loads load 32 floats
+AMX.ldx(loop_3_exit, loop_3_exit.add(int_const(1<<62), loop_3_exit.add(xm, loop_3_exit.mul(int_const(4), xptr))))
+AMX.ldy(loop_3_exit, loop_3_exit.add(int_const(1<<62), loop_3_exit.add(ym, loop_3_exit.mul(int_const(4), yptr))))
+
+# <Z row> <X offset> <Y offset>
+AMX.fma32(loop_3_exit, int_const(0<<20 | (0*16*4)<<10 | (0*16*4)))
+AMX.fma32(loop_3_exit, int_const(1<<20 | (1*16*4)<<10 | (0*16*4)))
+AMX.fma32(loop_3_exit, int_const(2<<20 | (0*16*4)<<10 | (1*16*4)))
+AMX.fma32(loop_3_exit, int_const(3<<20 | (1*16*4)<<10 | (1*16*4)))
+
+# store
+gptr = loop_2_exit.mul(loop_2_exit.add(loop_2.mul(y, int_const(N)), x), int_const(4))
+zmp = loop_2_exit.add(zm, gptr)
+for j in range(2):
+  for r in range(16):
+    z_row = j*2
+    ptr = ((j*16)+r)*N
+    AMX.stz(loop_2_exit, loop_2_exit.add(zmp, int_const(1 << 62 | ((r*4+z_row) << 56) | ptr*4)))
+AMX.clr(loop_2_exit)
+
+yp = loop_1_exit.add(y, int_const(32))
+xp = loop_2_exit.add(x, int_const(32))
+kp = loop_3_exit.add(k, int_const(1))
+
+y.add_incoming(int_const(0), entry._block)
+x.add_incoming(int_const(0), loop_1._block)
+k.add_incoming(int_const(0), loop_2._block)
+y.add_incoming(yp, loop_1_exit._block)
+x.add_incoming(xp, loop_2_exit._block)
+k.add_incoming(kp, loop_3_exit._block)
+
+entry.branch(loop_1._block)
+loop_1.branch(loop_2._block)
+loop_2.branch(loop_3._block)
+loop_3.branch(loop_3_exit._block)
+loop_3_exit.cbranch(loop_3_exit.icmp_unsigned("==", kp, int_const(N)), loop_2_exit._block, loop_3._block)
+loop_2_exit.cbranch(loop_2_exit.icmp_unsigned("==", xp, int_const(N)), loop_1_exit._block, loop_2._block)
+loop_1_exit.cbranch(loop_1_exit.icmp_unsigned("==", yp, int_const(N)), exit._block, loop_1._block)
+exit.ret(int_const(0))
+
+device = LLVMDevice("llvm")
+prog = LLVMProgram(device, "exec", LLVMCompiler(device).compile(str(module)))
+"""
+
+def timeit(fxn):
+  st = time.perf_counter()
+  et = fxn()
+  return time.perf_counter() - st
+
+tm = min([timeit(lambda: prog(a, b, c, N**2)) for _ in range(20)])
+MallocAllocator._copyout(flat_mv(na.data), a)
+print(f"{N*N:10d} {tm*1e6:9.2f} us, {BW*1e-9/tm:.2f} GB/s")
+
+np.testing.assert_allclose(na[:ns.shape[0]], ns, atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-4)
+
+# comp = (nb.T @ nc).T
+# np.testing.assert_allclose(na, comp, atol=1e-4, rtol=1e-5)
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import numpy as np
+from tinygrad.runtime.ops_cl import CLProgram, CLCompiler
+from tinygrad import Device, dtypes
+from tinygrad.device import Buffer
+from hexdump import hexdump
+
+# https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/blob/master/documentation/visa/instructions/DPAS.md
+# https://registry.khronos.org/OpenCL/extensions/intel/cl_intel_subgroups.html
+# https://registry.khronos.org/OpenCL/extensions/intel/cl_intel_subgroup_matrix_multiply_accumulate.html
+# https://registry.khronos.org/OpenCL/extensions/intel/cl_intel_subgroup_split_matrix_multiply_accumulate.html
+# https://hc34.hotchips.org/assets/program/conference/day1/GPU%20HPC/Intel_s%20Ponte%20Vecchio%20GPU%20-%20Architecture%20Systems%20and%20Software%20FINAL.pdf
+
+device = Device["CL"]
+
+# NOTE: only the subgroup type 8 ones work
+prog = CLProgram(device, "test", CLCompiler(device, "test").compile(f"""
+__attribute__((intel_reqd_sub_group_size(8)))
+__kernel void test(__global float* data0, const __global int* data1, const __global int8* data2) {{
+  int lidx0 = get_local_id(0);
+  int a = data1[lidx0];
+  int8 b = data2[lidx0];
+  float out = intel_sub_group_f16_f16_matrix_mad_k16(a, b, 0.0f);
+  data0[lidx0] = out;
+}}
+"""))
+#with open("/tmp/test.elf", "wb") as f: f.write(prog.lib)
+
+a = Buffer("CL", 8, dtypes.float32).allocate()
+b = Buffer("CL", 0x10, dtypes.float16).allocate()
+c = Buffer("CL", 8*0x10, dtypes.float16).allocate()
+
+row = np.array([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8], np.float16)
+mat = np.random.random((8, 0x10)).astype(np.float16)
+
+b.copyin(row.data)
+c.copyin(mat.data)
+ret = prog(a._buf, b._buf, c._buf, global_size=[1,1,1], local_size=[8,1,1], wait=True)
+print(ret)
+out = np.frombuffer(a.as_memoryview(), np.float32)
+real = row.astype(np.float32)@mat.T.astype(np.float32)
+print("out:", out)
+print("real", real)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def hand_spec_tc_cores():
  acc_load = UOp.vectorize(acc.after(gk)[0], acc.after(gk)[1])
  out = UOp(Ops.WMMA, dtypes.float.vec(2), (a_tc, b_tc, acc_load), arg=wmma_arg)

-  end_loop = UOp.group(*[acc[i].store(out.index(i)) for i in range(2)]).end(gk)
+  end_loop = UOp.group(*[acc[i].store(out.gep(i)) for i in range(2)]).end(gk)

  sink = UOp.group(*[mat_idx(c.after(end_loop), gx, gy, warp, i).store(acc[i]) for i in range(2)])
  return sink.sink(arg=KernelInfo(name="custom_metal_matmul", opts_to_apply=())).simplify()
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def custom_gemm(C:UOp, A:UOp, B:UOp) -> UOp:
  # store the acc into gmem
  cp_i, cp_j = UOp.range(BLOCK_M//TC_M//WARPGROUP_SIZE, 10004), UOp.range(BLOCK_N//TC_N, 10005)
  c_load = lambda i: C[gx, cp_i*TC_M*WARPGROUP_SIZE + warpgroup*TC_M + (warp//16)*4+i, gy, cp_j*TC_N + warp%16]
-  store = UOp.group(*[c_load(i).store(acc[cp_j, cp_i].index(i)) for i in range(4)])
+  store = UOp.group(*[c_load(i).store(acc[cp_j, cp_i].gep(i)) for i in range(4)])
  store = store.end(cp_i, cp_j)

  return store.sink(arg=KernelInfo(name="custom_gemm", opts_to_apply=())).simplify()
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ wmma_arg = ('WMMA_16_16_32_half_float', (16, 16, 32), dtypes.half, dtypes.float,
 out = UOp(Ops.WMMA, dtypes.float.vec(4), (A_in, B_in, acc_load), arg=wmma_arg)

 # store back the acc
-acc = acc.after(UOp.group(*[acc[i].store(out.index(i)) for i in range(4)]).end(K_loop))
+acc = acc.after(UOp.group(*[acc[i].store(out.gep(i)) for i in range(4)]).end(K_loop))

 # store the acc into gmem
 store = UOp.group(*[C[gx, (warp//16)*4+i, gy, warp%16].store(acc[i]) for i in range(4)])
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  ref.realize()

  GlobalCounters.reset()
-  with Context(DEBUG=max(2, DEBUG.value)):
+  with Context(DEBUG=max(2, DEBUG.value), DEVECTORIZE=2):
    tst = Tensor.custom_kernel(c, a, b, fxn=custom_gemm)[0]
    tst.realize()
  print(f"{(N*M*K*2 / GlobalCounters.time_sum_s)*1e-12:.2f} REAL TFLOPS")
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":


  GlobalCounters.reset()
-  with Context(DEBUG=max(2, DEBUG.value)):
+  with Context(DEBUG=max(2, DEBUG.value), DEVECTORIZE=2):
    tst = Tensor.custom_kernel(c, a, b, fxn=custom_gemm)[0]
    tst.realize()
  print(f"{(N*M*K*2 / GlobalCounters.time_sum_s)*1e-12:.2f} REAL TFLOPS")
@@ -219,11 +219,10 @@ def test_matmul():
  def asm_kernel(A, B, C):
    gidxs = [UOp.special(n, f"gidx{i}") for i,n in enumerate(grid)]
    lidxs = [UOp.special(THREADS, "lidx0")]
-    lds_size = max(LDS_SIZE, 65536//getenv("LIMIT_OCC",2))
-    lds = UOp.placeholder((lds_size,), dtypes.uint8, 0, AddrSpace.LOCAL)
+    lds = UOp(Ops.DEFINE_LOCAL, dtypes.uint8.ptr(size=max(LDS_SIZE, 65536//getenv("LIMIT_OCC",2)), addrspace=AddrSpace.LOCAL), (), 'lds')
    sink = UOp.sink(A.base, B.base, C.base, lds, *gidxs, *lidxs,
                    arg=KernelInfo(name=colored("kernel","cyan"), estimates=Estimates(ops=N*N*N*2, mem=N*N*2*3)))
-    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in insts]))))
+    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in insts]))))

  c = Tensor.custom_kernel(a, b, c, fxn=asm_kernel)[2]
  linear = c.schedule_linear()
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  info = ProgramInfo(name="matmul_kernel",
                     global_size=(M//BLOCK_SIZE_M, N//BLOCK_SIZE_N, 1), local_size=(32*compiled.metadata.num_warps, 1, 1))
  sink = UOp.sink(arg=KernelInfo(name="matmul_kernel"))
-  prg_uop = to_program(UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR), UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src)), arg=info),
+  prg_uop = to_program(UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=Device.DEFAULT), UOp(Ops.LINEAR), UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src)), arg=info),
                       Device.default.renderer)
  rt = get_runtime(Device.DEFAULT, prg_uop)
  all_bufs = [x.ensure_allocated() for x in bufs]
@@ -1,60 +1,69 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
-from typing import cast, Callable, TypeVar, Generic, Any
-import struct, functools, time, collections, importlib, itertools, weakref
-from dataclasses import replace, dataclass, field
-from tinygrad.helpers import DEV, getenv, select_first_inited, select_by_name, suppress_finalizing, DEBUG, dedup, pluralize
-from tinygrad.helpers import to_tuple, round_up, partition
-from tinygrad.device import Device, Buffer, BufferSpec, Compiled, LRUAllocator, MultiBuffer
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops, sint, UOp, UPat, PatternMatcher, KernelInfo, graph_rewrite, track_rewrites, GroupOp
-from tinygrad.uop.symbolic import symbolic_simple, symbolic
-from tinygrad.dtype import dtypes, AddrSpace, truncate
+from typing import cast, Callable, TypeVar, Generic, Any, TYPE_CHECKING
+import struct, functools, time, itertools
+from dataclasses import replace
+if TYPE_CHECKING: from tinygrad.engine.realize import ExecContext
+from tinygrad.helpers import DEV, getenv, select_first_inited, select_by_name, suppress_finalizing, wait_cond, mv_address, round_up, DEBUG
+from tinygrad.device import Device, Buffer, BufferSpec, Compiled, LRUAllocator
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops, sint, UOp, UPat, PatternMatcher, KernelInfo, graph_rewrite, track_rewrites
+from tinygrad.dtype import dtypes
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from tinygrad.runtime.support.memory import BumpAllocator
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.hcq import MMIOInterface
 from tinygrad.renderer import Renderer, Estimates
-from tinygrad.engine.realize import to_program, get_call_arg_uops, get_call_name, get_call_outs_ins, estimate_uop, pm_flatten_linear
-from tinygrad.engine.jit import DepsTracker
+from tinygrad.engine.realize import pm_flatten_linear, to_program, track_stats

 HCQDeviceType = TypeVar('HCQDeviceType', bound='HCQ2Compiled')

 class HCQ2Compiled(Compiled):
-  timestamp_divider: float = 1000.0 # GPU timestamp counter ticks per microsecond; override per device
+  """
+  A base class for devices compatible with the HCQ (Hardware Command Queue) API.
+  """
+  timestamp_divider: float = 1000.0  # GPU timestamp counter ticks per microsecond; override per device

-  def __init__(self, device:str, allocator:'HCQAllocator', compilers:list[type[Renderer]], runtime, can_recover:bool=False, arch=None):
+  def __init__(self, device:str, allocator:'HCQAllocator', compilers:list[type[Renderer]], runtime,
+               kernargs_size=(16 << 20), can_recover:bool=False, arch=None):
    self.device_id:int = int(device.split(":")[1]) if ":" in device else 0

-    # default pm bufferize
-    self.pm_bufferize = PatternMatcher([
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag="timeline_signal"), lambda ctx: ctx.timeline_signal()),
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag="timeline_value"), lambda ctx: ctx.timeline_value()),
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag="sentinel_signal"), lambda ctx: ctx.timeline_signal("sentinel", (1 << 64) - 1)),
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, name="b"), lambda ctx, b:
-        Buffer(ctx.device, b.max_numel(), b.dtype.base, options=BufferSpec(host=False, uncached=True, cpu_access=True, nolru=True))
-        if b.tag is not None else None), # TODO: remove nolru
-    ])
+    super().__init__(device, allocator, compilers, runtime, None, arch=arch)

-    super().__init__(device, allocator, compilers, lambda *a, **kw: None, None, arch=arch)
+    self.kernargs_size = kernargs_size
+    self.kernargs_offset_allocator:BumpAllocator = BumpAllocator(kernargs_size, wrap=True)

-  @functools.cache
-  def timeline_signal(self, queue:str|None=None, init_value:int=0) -> Buffer:
-    buf = Buffer(self.device, 1, dtypes.uint64, options=BufferSpec(host=True, uncached=True, cpu_access=True), preallocate=True)
-    buf._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('Q')[0] = init_value
-    return buf
+  @functools.cached_property
+  def kernargs_buf(self) -> Buffer:
+    return Buffer(self.device, self.kernargs_size, dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(cpu_access=True), preallocate=True)

-  @functools.cache
-  def timeline_value(self, queue:str|None=None, init_value:int=1) -> Buffer:
+  @functools.cached_property
+  def timeline_signal(self) -> Buffer:
+    return Buffer(self.device, 0x100, dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(host=True, uncached=True, cpu_access=True), preallocate=True)
+
+  @functools.cached_property
+  def timestamps_buf(self) -> Buffer:
+    return Buffer(self.device, 0x100, dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(cpu_access=True), preallocate=True)
+
+  @functools.cached_property
+  def timeline_value(self) -> Buffer:
    buf = Buffer("CPU", 1, dtypes.uint64, preallocate=True)
-    buf.as_memoryview(force_zero_copy=True).cast('Q')[0] = init_value
+    buf.as_memoryview(force_zero_copy=True).cast('Q')[0] = 1
    return buf

  def synchronize(self, timeout:int|None=None):
    if not hasattr(self, 'iface'): return
-    sig = self.timeline_signal()._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('Q')
-    tl = self.timeline_value().as_memoryview(force_zero_copy=True).cast('Q')
-    st = time.perf_counter()
-    while sig[0] < tl[0] - 1:
-      if time.perf_counter() - st > (timeout or 3000) / 1000: self.on_device_hang()
+    sig = self.timeline_signal._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('Q')
+    tl = self.timeline_value.as_memoryview(force_zero_copy=True).cast('Q')
+    wait_cond(lambda: sig[0] >= tl[0] - 1, timeout_ms=3000, msg=f"{sig[0]} < {tl[0] - 1}")

  def device_props(self) -> dict[str,Any]: return {} # to be overridden if needed. dict keys are backend dependent.

+  def _realloc(self, oldbuf:HCQ2Buffer|None, new_size:int, options:BufferSpec|None=None, force=False) -> tuple[HCQ2Buffer, bool]:
+    if oldbuf is not None: self.allocator.free(oldbuf, oldbuf.size, options=options)
+    try: buf, realloced = self.allocator.alloc(new_size, options=options), True
+    except MemoryError:
+      if force: raise
+      buf, realloced = self.allocator.alloc(oldbuf.size if oldbuf is not None else new_size, options=options), False
+    return buf, realloced
+
  def count(self) -> int: return self.iface.count if hasattr(self, 'iface') else 1

  def _select_iface(self):
@@ -98,13 +107,12 @@ class HCQAllocator(LRUAllocator[HCQDeviceType], Generic[HCQDeviceType]):

  @suppress_finalizing
  def _free(self, buf:HCQ2Buffer, options:BufferSpec|None=None):
-    self.dev.synchronize()
    if options is not None and options.external_ptr is not None: return
    if hasattr(self, '_do_free'): self._do_free(buf, options)

  def _unmap(self, mb):
    self.dev.synchronize()
-    self.dev.iface.free(mb)
+    self.dev.iface.dev_impl.mm.unmap_range(int(mb.va_addr), round_up(mb.size, 0x1000))

  def _offset(self, buf, size:int, offset:int) -> HCQ2Buffer: return buf.offset(offset=offset, size=size)

@@ -114,7 +122,7 @@ class HCQAllocator(LRUAllocator[HCQDeviceType], Generic[HCQDeviceType]):
  def _copy(self, dst:Buffer, src:Buffer):
    from tinygrad.engine.realize import run_linear
    su = UOp.from_buffer(src)
-    run_linear(UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (su.copy_to_device(dst.device).call(UOp.from_buffer(dst), su),)), update_stats=False)
+    run_linear(UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (su.copy_to_device(dst.device).call(UOp.from_buffer(dst), su),)), jit=True, update_stats=False)

  def _copyin(self, dest:HCQ2Buffer, src:memoryview):
    s = Buffer(self.dev.device, len(src), dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(host=True), preallocate=True)
@@ -127,434 +135,219 @@ class HCQAllocator(LRUAllocator[HCQDeviceType], Generic[HCQDeviceType]):
    self.dev.synchronize()
    dest[:] = d._buf.cpu_view()[:len(dest)]

-  # def _as_buffer(self, buf): return buf.cpu_view().mv
+  def _as_buffer(self, buf): return buf.cpu_view().mv

-# *****************
-# 0. helpers
+# **************** lower context ****************

-HCQ_DEVS = frozenset(("AMD",))
-HCQ_P2P_DEVS = HCQ_DEVS | frozenset(("CPU",))
-
-def all_devices_in(d:Any, c:frozenset[str]) -> bool: return {x.split(":")[0] for x in to_tuple(d)} <= c
-
-def unwrap_after(uop):
-  while uop.op is Ops.AFTER: uop = uop.src[0]
-  return uop
-
-def make_getaddr(u, device=None):
-  if unwrap_after(u).op not in (Ops.BUFFER, Ops.SLICE, Ops.BINARY, Ops.MSTACK, Ops.MSELECT, Ops.PARAM): return u
-  return UOp(Ops.GETADDR, dtypes.uint64, src=(u,), arg=device or to_tuple(u.device)[0])
-
-def make_ins(op, *srcs):
-  return UOp(Ops.INS, dtypes.void, tuple(UOp.const(dtypes.uint32, s) if isinstance(s, int) else s.cast(dtypes.uint32) for s in srcs), op)
-
-def make_placeholder(devs, size:int, dtype, name=None, unique=True) -> UOp:
-  return UOp.param(next(UOp.unique_num) if unique else 0, dtype.ptr(size), device=devs).rtag(name or "buf")
-
-def make_patch(buf:UOp, off:sint, val:UOp, dtype=None) -> UOp:
-  dt = dtype or val.dtype
-  return UOp(Ops.SHRINK, buf.dtype.base, (buf, UOp.const(dtypes.int, off), UOp.const(dtypes.int, dt.itemsize))).bitcast(dt).store(val.cast(dt))
-
-def make_cmdbuf(lin, devs):
-  blob, patches = b'', []
-  for s in (s for ins in lin.src for s in ins.src):
-    if s.op is not Ops.CONST: patches.append((len(blob), s))
-    blob += struct.pack(f'<{s.dtype.fmt}', s.arg if s.op is Ops.CONST else 0x0)
-  buf = make_placeholder(devs, len(blob), dtypes.uint8)
-
-  # pull patches to cmdbuf
-  afters = dedup(u for _, s in patches for u in s.toposort() if u.op is Ops.AFTER)
-  deps = tuple(d for p in afters for d in p.src[1:])
-  cmdbuf = buf.after(buf.store(UOp(Ops.BINARY, dtypes.void, src=(), arg=blob)), *[make_patch(buf, off, s) for off, s in patches], *deps)
-  return cmdbuf.substitute({p: p.src[0] for p in afters}) if afters else cmdbuf
-
-def make_mstack(uops): return uops[0] if len(uops) == 1 else UOp(Ops.MSTACK, uops[0].dtype, tuple(uops))
-
-def make_signal(devs, queue=None, sentinel=False):
-  return make_placeholder(devs, 1, dtypes.uint64, "sentinel_signal" if sentinel else (queue, "timeline_signal") if queue else "timeline_signal", unique=False)
-def make_signal_value(devs, queue=None):
-  return make_placeholder(devs, 1, dtypes.uint64, (queue, "timeline_value") if queue else "timeline_value", unique=False)
-
-def make_submit(*cmds, devs:str|tuple[str, ...], queue:str) -> UOp:
-  return UOp.custom_function("submit_cmdbuf", UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, src=tuple(cmds), arg=(to_tuple(devs), queue)))
-def get_submit(ast:UOp) -> UOp: return next(u for u in ast.toposort() if u.op is Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION and u.arg == "submit_cmdbuf")
-
-@dataclass(frozen=True)
-class HCQInfo:
+@dataclass
+class HCQ2LowerCtx:
+  dev:HCQ2Compiled
  name:str
-  estimates:Estimates
-  device:tuple[str, ...]
-  queue:str

-  input_idxs:tuple[int, ...] = () # indexes into input_uops used by this call
-  inputs:int|None = None
+  kernargs_host:UOp|None = None
+  kernargs_gpu:UOp|None = None
+  kernargs_allocator:BumpAllocator = field(default_factory=lambda: BumpAllocator(0x1000, wrap=False))

-# *****************
-# 0.1. prep: replace buffers with params
+  timestamps_gpu:UOp|None = None
+  next_timestamp:itertools.count = field(default_factory=itertools.count)

-def replace_call_buffers(ctx:list[UOp], call:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  ctx += [s for s in dedup(call.src[1:]) if s not in ctx and s.op not in (Ops.PARAM, Ops.BIND)]
-  return call.replace(src=call.src[:1] + tuple(s if s.op in (Ops.PARAM, Ops.BIND) else s.param_like(ctx.index(s)) for s in call.src[1:]))
-pm_replace_buffers = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CALL, name="call"), replace_call_buffers)])
+  inputs:list[Buffer] = field(default_factory=list)
+  holds:list[UOp] = field(default_factory=list)

-# *****************
-# 1.1. prep: staging copies
+  def host_param(self, buf:Buffer) -> UOp:
+    if buf not in self.inputs: self.inputs.append(buf)
+    return UOp.placeholder((buf.size,), buf.dtype, self.inputs.index(buf))

-def _need_staging(a, b): return all_devices_in(a.device, HCQ_DEVS) and not all_devices_in(b.device, HCQ_P2P_DEVS)
+class HCQEncoder:
+  def __init__(self, ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx): self.ctx, self.dev, self.blob, self.patches, self.deps = ctx, ctx.dev, b'', [], set()

-def stage_copy(dst:UOp, src:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  if not (_need_staging(src, dst) or _need_staging(dst, src)): return None
+  @property
+  def src(self) -> tuple[UOp, ...]: return tuple(self.patches + list(self.deps))

-  stage = UOp.new_buffer("CPU", src.max_numel() * src.dtype.base.itemsize, dtypes.uint8)
-  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (src.copy_to_device("CPU").call(stage, src), stage.copy_to_device(dst.device).call(dst, stage)))
-pm_insert_copy_staging = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.COPY), UPat(name="dst"), UPat(name="src"))), stage_copy)])
+  def get_dev_addr(self, uop:UOp) -> sint|UOp:
+    # unwrap transient AFTER on the value: deps flow into enc.deps separately, the outer wrapper never reaches the final graph
+    while uop.op is Ops.AFTER:
+      self.deps.update(uop.src[1:])
+      uop = uop.src[0]
+    self.deps.add(uop)
+    return uop.buffer.get_buf(self.dev.device).va_addr if uop.op in (Ops.BUFFER, Ops.BUFFER_VIEW) else uop.ssimplify()

-# *****************
-# 2.1. tag hcq calls
+  def append(self, *data, dtype=dtypes.uint32):
+    for d in data:
+      if isinstance(d, int): self.blob += struct.pack(f'<{dtype.fmt}', d)
+      elif d.op is Ops.CONST: self.blob += struct.pack(f'<{dtype.fmt}', d.arg)
+      else:
+        self.patches.append(UOp(Ops.PATCH, dtype, src=(d,), arg=len(self.blob)))
+        self.blob += struct.pack(f'<{dtype.fmt}', 0)

-def tag_hcq_call(ctx:itertools.count, call:UOp) -> UOp:
-  if (hcq_devs:=next((b.device for b in call.src[1:] if all_devices_in(b.device, HCQ_DEVS)), None)) is None: return call
+  def q(self, *values): self.append(*values)

-  queue = "COMPUTE:0" if call.src[0].op is Ops.PROGRAM else "COPY:0"
-  info = HCQInfo(get_call_name(call, get_call_arg_uops(call)), estimate_uop(call), to_tuple(hcq_devs), queue)
-  return call.replace(arg=replace(call.arg, aux=info)).rtag(next(ctx))
-pm_tag_hcq_calls = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="linear"),
-  lambda ctx, linear: linear.replace(src=tuple(tag_hcq_call(ctx, s) for s in linear.src)))])
+# **************** prep runtime ****************

-# *****************
-# 2.2. deps tracking
-# device.timeline_signal/value are the per-device schedule epoch. Before a schedule queue accesses memory owned by device N for the first time,
-# it waits for device[N].timeline_signal >= device[N].timeline_value - 1. This orders the schedule after all prior schedules that touched device N.
-#
-# queue.timeline_signal/value are per-queue progress counters used only inside a schedule.
-# Only the owner queue signals its queue.timeline_signal. Values are monotonic.
-#
-# At schedule end, one finalizer queue per touched device[N] waits for every active queue on device[N] to reach its schedule-local
-# final queue.timeline value, then signals device[N].timeline_signal with the schedule's reserved device epoch. After that, buffers/transients
-# for device N from this schedule are safe for the next schedule
-#
-# C programs reserve and bump timeline values, then patch command buffers with the concrete wait/signal values.
+pm_prep_runtime = PatternMatcher([
+  # device-specific lowering of the program
+  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(UPat(), UPat(), UPat(), UPat(), UPat(Ops.BINARY)), name="prg"),),
+        name="call", allow_any_len=True), lambda ctx,call,prg: call.replace(src=(ctx.dev.pm_lower.rewrite(prg, ctx),) + call.src[1:])),
+])

-class HCQDepsTracker(DepsTracker):
-  @staticmethod
-  def _key(buf:Any) -> tuple[Any, int, int]:
-    return (buf.arg.slot, 0, buf.max_numel() * buf.dtype.base.itemsize) if isinstance(buf, UOp) else DepsTracker._key(buf)
+# **************** lower hcq ****************

-def make_deps(u:UOp, dep_lanes:list[tuple[UOp, int, int]], nlanes:int) -> UOp:
-  deps:dict[UOp, list[int|None]] = collections.defaultdict(lambda: [None]*nlanes)
-  for dep, dlane, lane in dep_lanes: deps[dep][lane] = dlane
-  return u.after(*deps, arg=tuple(tuple(v) for v in deps.values()))
-
-def sched_sync(ctx:DepsTracker, call:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  if not isinstance(call.arg.aux, HCQInfo): return None
-
-  refs = get_call_arg_uops(call)
-  outs, _ = get_call_outs_ins(call)
-  devices, queue = call.arg.aux.device, call.arg.aux.queue
-
-  dep_lanes:list[tuple[UOp, int, int]] = []
-  for lane, d in enumerate(devices):
-    lane_refs = [b if b.op is Ops.PARAM else mb.bufs[lane] if isinstance(mb:=b.buffer, MultiBuffer) else mb for b in refs]
-    for dep, dlane in ctx.access_resources(lane_refs, outs, (call, lane)): dep_lanes.append((dep, dlane, lane))
-
-  if devices[0].split(":")[0] in {"AMD", "QCOM"} or queue.startswith("COPY"):
-    dep_lanes = [(dep, dlane, lane) for dep, dlane, lane in dep_lanes if (dep.arg.aux.device[dlane], dep.arg.aux.queue) != (devices[lane], queue)]
-
-  # keep latest dep per (dep device, queue, cur lane)
-  latest = {((dep.arg.aux.device[dlane], dep.arg.aux.queue), lane): (dep, dlane) for dep, dlane, lane in sorted(dep_lanes, key=lambda x: x[0].tag)}
-  return make_deps(call, [(dep, dlane, lane) for (_, lane), (dep, dlane) in latest.items()], len(devices))
-pm_sched_sync = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CALL, name="call"), sched_sync)])
-
-# *****************
-# 2.3. merge into queues
-
-def _merged_hcq_call(calls:list[UOp]):
-  info = replace(unwrap_after(calls[0]).arg.aux, estimates=sum((unwrap_after(c).arg.aux.estimates for c in calls), start=Estimates()))
-  cmdbuf = make_submit(*calls, devs=info.device, queue=info.queue)
-  return UOp.custom_function("hcq", cmdbuf.sink()).call(name="hcq", aux=info)
-
-def merge_queues(linear:UOp) -> UOp:
-  new_src:list[UOp] = []
-  opened_qs:dict[tuple[tuple[str, ...], str], list[UOp]] = {} # (devs, queue) -> list of calls, kept in submit order
-
-  for call in linear.src:
-    if not isinstance(unwrap_after(call).arg.aux, HCQInfo):
-      new_src += [_merged_hcq_call(opened_qs.pop(k)) for k in list(opened_qs)] + [call]
-      continue
-
-    devices, queue = unwrap_after(call).arg.aux.device, unwrap_after(call).arg.aux.queue
-
-    if (old:=opened_qs.pop((devices, queue), None)) is not None: new_rec = old + [call]
-    else:
-      # no such queue opened: close every open submit on this queue that shares a device, so submit order is kept
-      closing = [k for k in opened_qs if k[1] == queue and set(k[0]) & set(devices)]
-      new_src += [_merged_hcq_call(opened_qs.pop(k)) for k in closing]
-      new_rec = [call]
-    opened_qs[(devices, queue)] = new_rec
-  return linear.replace(src=tuple(new_src + [_merged_hcq_call(c) for c in opened_qs.values()]))
-pm_merge_queues = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="linear"), merge_queues)])
-
-# *****************
-# 2.4. finalizer
-
-def add_finalizer(ctx:itertools.count, linear:UOp) -> UOp:
-  # collect by device type
-  parts:dict[str, list[UOp]] = collections.defaultdict(list)
-  for call in linear.src:
-    if (c:=unwrap_after(call)).src[0].op is not Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION or c.src[0].arg != "hcq": continue
-    parts[c.arg.aux.device[0].split(':')[0]].append(unwrap_after(get_submit(call).src[0].src[0]))
-
-  nbump = next(ctx)
-  finalizers = []
-  for calls in parts.values():
-    devs = tuple(dedup(d for call in calls for d in unwrap_after(call).arg.aux.device))
-    zero = UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0)
-    tl = make_signal_value(devs)
-
-    # split each (multi-device) call into per-device deps, then store the device timeline value into the device signal after them
-    dep_lanes = [(call, dlane, devs.index(d)) for call in calls for dlane, d in enumerate(unwrap_after(call).arg.aux.device)]
-    store = make_deps(make_signal(devs).store(tl.index(zero)), dep_lanes, len(devs))
-    submit = make_submit(store, devs=devs, queue="COMPUTE:0")
-
-    upd = [(tl, 1)] + [(make_signal_value(devs, queue=qn), nbump) for qn in dedup([unwrap_after(call).arg.aux.queue for call in calls])]
-    patches = [s.after(submit).index(zero, dtype=s.dtype).store(s.index(zero) + inc) for s, inc in upd]
-    finalizers.append(UOp.custom_function("hcq", UOp.barrier(*patches).sink()).call(aux=HCQInfo("hcq finalizer", Estimates(), devs, "COMPUTE:0")))
-  return linear.replace(src=linear.src + tuple(finalizers))
-pm_add_finalizer = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="linear"), add_finalizer)])
-
-# *****************
-# 2.4. global sync
-
-def add_global_sync(ctx:set[tuple[str, ...]], submit:UOp, q:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  if (devs:=q.arg[0]) in ctx: return None
-  ctx.add(devs)
-
-  # some devices from a command buffer might be used for the first time this schedule, so we wait for their global timeline epoch.
-  wait = make_signal(devs).wait(make_signal_value(devs).index(UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0)) - 1)
-  return submit.replace(src=(q.replace(src=(UOp(Ops.BARRIER, dtypes.void), wait, *q.src)),))
-pm_add_global_sync = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_cmdbuf", src=(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="q"),), name="submit"), add_global_sync)])
-
-# *****************
-# 3.1. lower loads/stores
-
-def add_loads(ctx:set[int], submit:UOp, q:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  cur_devs = q.arg[0]
-  new_src:list[UOp] = []
-  for s in q.src:
-    if s.op is Ops.AFTER:
-      for lanes, dep in zip(s.arg, s.src[1:]):
-        devs, queue = dep.arg.aux.device, dep.arg.aux.queue
-        ctx.add(dep.tag) # mark op to update signal.
-
-        sig = make_mstack([make_signal(d if dl is None else devs[dl], queue=queue, sentinel=dl is None) for dl, d in zip(lanes, cur_devs)])
-        val = make_mstack([make_signal_value(d if dl is None else devs[dl], queue=queue) for dl, d in zip(lanes, cur_devs)]).index(UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0))
-        new_src.append(sig.wait(val + dep.tag))
-      s = s.src[0]
-    new_src.append(s)
-  return submit.replace(src=(q.replace(src=tuple(new_src)),))
-pm_add_inner_loads = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_cmdbuf", src=(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="q"),), name="submit"), add_loads)])
-
-def add_stores(ctx:set[int], submit:UOp, q:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  devs, queue = q.arg
-  new_src:list[UOp] = []
-  for op in q.src:
-    new_src.append(op)
-    if (sigval:=unwrap_after(op).tag) in ctx:
-      new_src.append(make_signal(devs, queue=queue).store(make_signal_value(devs, queue=queue).index(UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0)) + sigval))
-  return submit.replace(src=(q.replace(src=tuple(new_src)),))
-pm_add_inner_stores = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_cmdbuf", src=(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="q"),), name="submit"), add_stores)])
-
-# *****************
-# 2.1. hcq lowering: programs
-
-def encode_kernargs_clike(call:UOp, prg:UOp, devs:str|tuple[str, ...]) -> UOp:
+def lower_kernargs(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, call:UOp, prg:UOp) -> UOp:
  data, info = prg.arg
-  call_args = get_call_arg_uops(call)
-  buf = make_placeholder(devs, data.kernargs_alloc_size, dtypes.uint8, name="kernargs")
-  patches = [make_patch(buf, i*8, make_getaddr(call_args[gi], devs)) for i,gi in enumerate(info.globals)] \
-          + [make_patch(buf, len(info.globals)*8 + i*4, v, dtypes.uint32) for i,v in enumerate(info.vars)]
-  return buf.after(*patches)

-# *****************
-# 2.2. hcq lowering: ops to ir
+  enc = HCQEncoder(ctx)
+  for gi in info.globals: enc.append(enc.get_dev_addr(call.src[1+gi]), dtype=dtypes.uint64)
+  for v in info.vars: enc.append(v, dtype=dtypes.uint32)

-def encode_cmdbuf(submit:UOp, lin:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  if (pm:=Device.get_class(lin.arg[0][0]).pm_lower) is None: return None
-  return graph_rewrite(submit, pm, name=f"encode {lin.arg[0]}", enter_calls=True)
-pm_encode_cmdbufs = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_cmdbuf", src=(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="lin"),), name="submit"), encode_cmdbuf)])
+  args_off = ctx.kernargs_allocator.alloc(data.kernargs_alloc_size, 16)
+  assert ctx.kernargs_host is not None and ctx.kernargs_gpu is not None
+  ctx.kernargs_host.buffer.view(len(enc.blob), dtypes.uint8, args_off).ensure_allocated().as_memoryview(force_zero_copy=True)[:] = enc.blob

-# *****************
+  args_uop = (ctx.kernargs_gpu + args_off).after(ctx.kernargs_host.after(*tuple(p.replace(arg=p.arg+args_off) for p in enc.patches)))
+  return call.replace(src=(prg.replace(src=prg.src + (args_uop,), arg=(data, info)),) + call.src[1:])

-pm_early_simplify = PatternMatcher([
-  # getaddr(slice(base, off)) -> getaddr(base) + byte offset
-  (UPat(Ops.GETADDR, src=(UPat(Ops.SLICE, src=(UPat.var("base"), UPat.cvar("off"))),), name="g"),
-   lambda g, base, off: g.replace(src=(base,)) + UOp.const(dtypes.uint64, off.arg * base.dtype.itemsize)),
+def lower_program(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, call:UOp, prg:UOp) -> UOp:
+  sig, tl = UOp.from_buffer(ctx.dev.timeline_signal), ctx.host_param(ctx.dev.timeline_value)
+  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (
+    sig.wait(tl[0] - 1),
+    UOp(Ops.BARRIER, dtypes.void),
+    UOp(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, dtypes.void, src=(ctx.timestamps_gpu + next(ctx.next_timestamp) * 8,), arg="timestamp"),
+    prg,
+    UOp(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, dtypes.void, src=(ctx.timestamps_gpu + next(ctx.next_timestamp) * 8,), arg="timestamp"),
+    sig.store(tl[0])))
+
+def lower_copy(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, call:UOp, copy:UOp) -> UOp:
+  dst, src, dev = call.src[1], call.src[2], ctx.dev
+  devs = [dev, src_dev] if (src_dev:=Device[src.device]) is not dev else [dev]
+  sigs_tls = [(UOp.from_buffer(d.timeline_signal), ctx.host_param(d.timeline_value)) for d in devs]
+  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (
+    *[s.wait(t[0] - 1) for s,t in sigs_tls],
+    UOp(Ops.BARRIER, dtypes.void),
+    UOp(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, dtypes.void, src=(ctx.timestamps_gpu + next(ctx.next_timestamp) * 8,), arg="timestamp"),
+    UOp(Ops.COPY, dtypes.void, src=(dst, src), arg=src.buffer.nbytes),
+    UOp(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, dtypes.void, src=(ctx.timestamps_gpu + next(ctx.next_timestamp) * 8,), arg="timestamp"),
+    *[s.store(t[0]) for s,t in sigs_tls]))
+
+# lower to hcq-specific commands
+pm_hcq_lower = PatternMatcher([
+  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(UPat(Ops.BUFFER),), name="prg"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), lower_kernargs),
+  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(UPat(Ops.BUFFER), UPat()), name="prg"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), lower_program),
+  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.COPY, name="copy"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), lower_copy),
 ])

-# *****************
+# **************** build host program ****************

-def replace_params(call:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  gaddrs = [u for u in call.src[0].toposort(enter_calls=False) if u.op is Ops.GETADDR and u.src[0].op is Ops.PARAM and u.src[0].tag is None]
-  if not gaddrs: return None
+def resolve_cmdbuf(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, blob:UOp) -> UOp:
+  inner = blob.src[0] if blob.op is Ops.AFTER else blob

-  idxs:dict[int, int] = {}
-  for g in gaddrs: idxs.setdefault(g.src[0].arg.slot, len(idxs))
+  # prepare the cmdbuf and make it a param
+  bb = Buffer("CPU", len(inner.arg)//4, dtypes.uint32, preallocate=True)
+  bb.copyin(memoryview(bytearray(inner.arg)))
+  bb_param = ctx.host_param(bb)

-  inputs = make_placeholder(call.arg.aux.device, len(idxs), dtypes.uint64, "inputs")
-  body = call.src[0].substitute({g: inputs.index(UOp.const(dtypes.int, idxs[g.src[0].arg.slot])).load() for g in gaddrs})
-  return call.replace(src=(body, *call.src[1:], inputs), arg=replace(call.arg, aux=replace(call.arg.aux, input_idxs=tuple(idxs))))
-pm_replace_params = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="hcq"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), replace_params)])
+  submit_cf = UOp(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, dtypes.void, src=(bb_param.after(*(blob.src[1:] if blob.op is Ops.AFTER else ())),),
+                  arg=f"submit_{inner.tag.lower()}")

-# *****************
+  # increment the timeline value
+  tl = ctx.host_param(ctx.dev.timeline_value)
+  return tl.after(UOp(Ops.BARRIER, dtypes.void, src=(submit_cf,))).index(UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0), ptr=True).store(tl[0] + 1)

-def changes_per_submit(u:UOp) -> bool: return u.op in (Ops.LOAD, Ops.INDEX) or (u.op is Ops.PARAM and u.tag is None)
-def is_placeholder(b:UOp) -> bool: return (b.op is Ops.PARAM and b.tag is not None) or (b.op is Ops.MSTACK and all(is_placeholder(x) for x in b.src))
-def is_link_patch(s:UOp) -> bool: return is_placeholder(s.buf_uop) and not any(changes_per_submit(u) for u in s.backward_slice)
+def resolve_patches(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, buf:UOp) -> UOp|None:
+  inner = buf.src[0]

-def trim_link_patches(ctx:list[UOp], a:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  links, kept = partition(a.src[1:], is_link_patch)
-  ctx += links
-  return a.src[0].after(*kept) if links else None
-pm_trim_link_patches = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.AFTER, src=(UPat((Ops.PARAM, Ops.MSTACK)),), allow_any_len=True, name="a"), trim_link_patches)])
+  # buffer is accessed from the launcher, so transform it to a host param
+  if inner.op is Ops.BUFFER: inner = ctx.host_param(inner.buffer)

-def split_patches(call:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  # trim link-time patches
-  body = graph_rewrite(call.src[0], pm_trim_link_patches, ctx=(lt_patches:=[]), name=f"trim link-time patches ({call.arg.aux.name})")
+  return inner.after(*(inner.index(UOp.const(dtypes.int, p.arg//inner.dtype.base.itemsize), ptr=True).cast(p.dtype.ptr()).store(p.src[0].cast(p.dtype))
+                           if p.op is Ops.PATCH else p for p in buf.src[1:]))

-  units:dict[UOp, None] = {}
-  def unit_gate(u:UOp) -> bool:
-    if (is_plc:=is_placeholder(u)): units[u] = None
-    return not is_plc
-  body.toposort(gate=unit_gate)
-
-  srcs = dedup(list(call.src[1:]) + list(units) + [s.buf_uop for s in lt_patches])
-  param_sub = {u: UOp.param(i, u.dtype, device=u.device) for i,u in enumerate(srcs)}
-  for b in dedup(s.buf_uop for s in lt_patches):
-    idx = param_sub[b].arg.slot
-    srcs[idx] = srcs[idx].after(*dedup(s for s in lt_patches if s.buf_uop is b))
-
-  param_sub |= {v: v.replace(arg=replace(v.arg, slot=-1)) for v in body.variables() if v.op is Ops.PARAM}
-
-  info = replace(call.arg.aux, inputs=next((i for i,u in enumerate(srcs) if unwrap_after(u).tag == "inputs"), None))
-  return call.replace(src=(body.substitute(param_sub), *srcs), arg=replace(call.arg, aux=info))
-pm_split_patches = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="hcq"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), split_patches)])
-
-# *****************
-# 5.3. pack placeholders buffers
-
-def pack_hcq_placeholders(call:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  bufs = [b for b in call.src[0].toposort() if b.op is Ops.PARAM and b.tag in (maxtags:={"scratch"}) | (sumtags:={"program", "kernargs"})]
-
-  off_per_buf:dict[UOp, int] = {}
-  size_per_tag:dict[str, int] = {}
-  for b in bufs:
-    bsz = b.max_numel()
-    if b.tag in maxtags: size_per_tag[b.tag] = max(size_per_tag.get(b.tag, 0), bsz)
-    elif b.tag in sumtags:
-      off_per_buf[b] = round_up(size_per_tag.get(b.tag, 0), {"program": 0x1000}.get(b.tag, 128))
-      size_per_tag[b.tag] = off_per_buf[b] + bsz
-
-  count_per_tag = collections.Counter(b.tag for b in bufs)
-  ref_bufs = {b.tag:b for b in bufs if count_per_tag[b.tag] > 1}
-  bases = {tag:UOp.new_buffer(b.device, size_per_tag[tag], b.dtype).rtag(tag) for tag,b in ref_bufs.items()}
-  subs = {b:UOp(Ops.SLICE, b.dtype, (bases[b.tag], UOp.const(dtypes.weakint, off_per_buf.get(b, 0))), b.max_numel()) for b in bufs if b.tag in bases}
-  return call.replace(src=(call.src[0].substitute(subs, walk=True), *call.src[1:])) if subs else None
-pm_pack_placeholders = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="hcq"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), pack_hcq_placeholders)])
-
-# *****************
-# 6. bufferize placeholders: replace placeholders with real buffers.
-
-def bufferize_buf(buf:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  if buf.tag is None: return None
-  uops = tuple(UOp.from_buffer((dv:=Device[dev]).pm_bufferize.rewrite(buf, ctx=dv), "CPU") for dev in to_tuple(buf.device))
-  return make_mstack(uops)
-pm_bufferize = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.PARAM, name="buf"), bufferize_buf)])
-
-# *****************
-# 7. resolve patches
-
-def push_stack(op, s): return UOp(Ops.STACK, op.dtype.scalar().vec(len(s.src)),
-  tuple(op.replace(dtype=op.dtype.scalar(), src=tuple(x if y is s else y for y in op.src)) for x in s.src))
-
-def fold_blob_store(buf:UOp, blob:UOp) -> UOp:
-  for b in (mb.bufs if isinstance((mb:=buf.buffer), MultiBuffer) else (mb,)): b.ensure_allocated()._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('B')[:len(blob.arg)] = blob.arg
+def resolve_ref_buffers(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, buf:UOp) -> UOp:
+  if buf not in ctx.holds: ctx.holds.append(buf)
  return UOp(Ops.NOOP)

-def fold_const_store(buf:UOp, off:UOp, val:UOp) -> UOp:
-  for b, v in zip((bs:=mb.bufs if isinstance((mb:=buf.buffer), MultiBuffer) else (mb,)), val.src if val.op is Ops.STACK else (val,)*len(bs)):
-    struct.pack_into(f'<{v.dtype.fmt}', b.ensure_allocated()._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('B'), off.arg * buf.dtype.base.itemsize, truncate[v.dtype](v.arg))
-  return UOp(Ops.NOOP)
+def hcq_callify(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, sink:UOp) -> UOp:
+  call = to_program(sink, Device["CPU"].renderer).call(*[UOp.from_buffer(b, "CPU") if isinstance(b, Buffer) else b for b in ctx.inputs])
+  return call.replace(src=call.src + (UOp(Ops.BIND, dtypes.void, src=tuple(ctx.holds)),)) if ctx.holds else call

-def resolve_getaddr(buf:UOp, g:UOp) -> UOp:
-  if buf.op not in (Ops.BUFFER, Ops.MSTACK, Ops.MSELECT): return buf
-  devs, b = to_tuple(g.arg), buf.buffer
-  bufs = tuple(cast(Buffer, x.buffer) for x in buf.src) if buf.op is Ops.MSTACK else tuple(b.bufs if isinstance(b, MultiBuffer) else (b,)*len(devs))
-  assert len(bufs) == len(devs), f"can't resolve {len(bufs)} buffers on {len(devs)} devices"
-  addrs = tuple(UOp.const(dtypes.uint64, x.get_buf(d).va_addr) for x, d in zip(bufs, devs))
-  return addrs[0] if len(addrs) == 1 else UOp(Ops.STACK, dtypes.uint64.vec(len(addrs)), addrs)
+pm_create_host_sink = PatternMatcher([
+  (UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="l", allow_any_len=True), lambda ctx, l: UOp.sink(*l.src, arg=KernelInfo(name=ctx.name, estimates=Estimates()), tag=1))
+])

-def resolve_getaddr_slice(bv:UOp, g:UOp) -> UOp:
-  itemsize = bv.src[0].dtype.itemsize if unwrap_after(bv.src[0]).op in (Ops.BUFFER, Ops.SLICE, Ops.MSTACK, Ops.MSELECT) else bv.dtype.itemsize
-  return UOp(Ops.GETADDR, dtypes.uint64, src=(bv.src[0],), arg=g.arg) + UOp.const(dtypes.uint64, bv.src[1].arg * itemsize)
+# lower cmdbuf submits
+pm_lower_cmdbufs = PatternMatcher([
+  (UPat(Ops.AFTER, src=(UPat(Ops.BINARY),), name="blob", allow_any_len=True), resolve_cmdbuf),
+  (UPat(Ops.BINARY, name="blob"), resolve_cmdbuf),
+])

+# transform patches attached to buffers and params
 pm_resolve_patches = PatternMatcher([
-  # multi
-  (UPat(GroupOp.ALU, src=[UPat(Ops.STACK, name="s"), UPat(Ops.CONST)], name="op"), push_stack),
-  (UPat(Ops.CAST, src=(UPat(Ops.STACK, name="s"),), name="op"), push_stack),
-
-  # shrink on slice is shrink on base at offset
-  (UPat(Ops.SHRINK, src=(UPat(Ops.SLICE, name="bv"), UPat(), UPat()), name="shr"),
-    lambda shr, bv: shr.replace(src=(bv.src[0], shr.src[1] + bv.src[1].cast(shr.src[1].dtype), shr.src[2]))),
-
-  # getaddr
-  (UPat(Ops.GETADDR, src=(UPat(Ops.SLICE, name="bv"),), name="g"), resolve_getaddr_slice), # getaddr(slice(x)) -> offset+getaddr(x)
-  (UPat(Ops.GETADDR, src=(UPat(name="buf"),), name="g"), resolve_getaddr),
-
-  # folders
-  (UPat({Ops.BUFFER, Ops.SLICE, Ops.MSTACK}, name="buf").store(UPat(Ops.BINARY, name="blob")), fold_blob_store),
-  (UPat(Ops.SHRINK, src=(UPat({Ops.BUFFER, Ops.SLICE, Ops.MSTACK}, name="buf"), UPat.cvar("off"), UPat(Ops.CONST))).bitcast()
-    .store(UPat.any(UPat.cvar("val"), UPat(Ops.STACK, name="val"))), fold_const_store),
+  (UPat(Ops.AFTER, src=(UPat((Ops.BUFFER, Ops.PARAM)),), name="buf", allow_any_len=True), resolve_patches)
 ])

-# *****************
-# 8. callify hcq programs
+# replace referenced buffers with noops
+pm_resolve_ref_buffers = PatternMatcher([(UPat((Ops.BUFFER, Ops.BUFFER_VIEW), name="buf"), resolve_ref_buffers)])

-pm_callify_hcq = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="hcq", src=(UPat(Ops.SINK),), name="cf"),
-  lambda cf: cf.replace(src=(to_program(cf.src[0].replace(arg=KernelInfo("hcq_submit"), tag=1), Device["CPU"].renderer),)))])
+pm_callify = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.SINK, name="sink"), hcq_callify)])

-hcq_compile_cache:dict[bytes, tuple[UOp, tuple[UOp, ...]]] = {}
+def hcq_build_host_program(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, linear:UOp, ast:UOp) -> UOp:
+  sink = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_create_host_sink, ctx=ctx, name="hcq: create host sink", walk=True)
+  sink = graph_rewrite(sink, pm_lower_cmdbufs, ctx=ctx, bottom_up=True, name="hcq: lower cmdbufs")
+  sink = graph_rewrite(sink, pm_resolve_patches, ctx=ctx, bottom_up=True, name="hcq: resolve patches")
+  sink = graph_rewrite(sink, pm_resolve_ref_buffers, ctx=ctx, bottom_up=True, name="hcq: resolve ref buffers")
+  sink = graph_rewrite(sink, ctx.dev.pm_lower, ctx=ctx, name="hcq: device lower", walk=True)
+  return graph_rewrite(sink, pm_callify, ctx=ctx, name="hcq: callify")

-@track_rewrites(lambda linear,input_uops,ret: f"HCQ Compile {pluralize('Kernel', len(ret.src))}")
-def hcq_compile(linear:UOp, input_uops:list[UOp]|None=None) -> UOp:
-  if input_uops is not None: linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_replace_buffers, ctx=input_uops, walk=True, enter_calls=True, name="replace buffer")
+# **************** schedule ****************

-  if (final_linear:=(hcq_compile_cache.get(cache_key:=linear.key))) is None:
-    # schedule
-    linear = linear.substitute(back_map:={s.param_like(i): s for i,s in enumerate(input_uops)} if input_uops is not None else {}, walk=True)
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_insert_copy_staging + pm_flatten_linear, name="insert copy staging")
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_tag_hcq_calls, ctx=(enumerator:=itertools.count(0)), walk=True, name="tag hcq calls")
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_sched_sync, ctx=HCQDepsTracker(), walk=True, name="schedule sync")
-    linear = linear.substitute({s: p for p, s in back_map.items()}, walk=True)
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_merge_queues, walk=True, name="merge queues")
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_add_finalizer, ctx=enumerator, walk=True, name="add finalizer")
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_add_global_sync, ctx=set(), walk=True, name="add global sync", enter_calls=True)
+@track_rewrites(name=lambda dev,ctx,linear,ast,**kw: f"hcq schedule {getattr(ast.arg, 'name', ast.op.name.lower())}")
+def hcq_schedule(dev:HCQ2Compiled, ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, linear:UOp, ast:UOp) -> UOp:
+  linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_prep_runtime, ctx=ctx, name="hcq: prepare runtime")
+  linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_hcq_lower + pm_flatten_linear, ctx=ctx, name="hcq: lower to cmdbuf ops")
+  linear = UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (graph_rewrite(linear, dev.pm_lower, ctx=ctx, name="hcq: encode cmdbuf ops"),))
+  return hcq_build_host_program(ctx, linear, ast)

-    # lowering to hcq ir
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_add_inner_loads, ctx=(waited:=set()), walk=True, name="add loads", enter_calls=True)
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_add_inner_stores, ctx=waited, walk=True, name="add stores", enter_calls=True)
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_encode_cmdbufs, walk=True, name="encode cmdbufs", enter_calls=True)
+def _resolve_call(ctx:ExecContext, call:UOp, ast:UOp) -> UOp:
+  from tinygrad.engine.realize import resolve_params
+  return call.replace(src=(ast,) + tuple(resolve_params(call, ctx.input_uops)) + tuple(s for s in call.src[1:] if s.op is Ops.BIND))

-    # pie
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_early_simplify + symbolic, bottom_up=False, name="early simplify patches")
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_replace_params, walk=True, name="replace params")
-    linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_split_patches, walk=True, name="split patches")
+def _run_host_call(ctx:ExecContext, call:UOp, dev:HCQ2Compiled, host_call:UOp, bufs:list[Buffer], ts_buf:Buffer) -> float:
+  from tinygrad.engine.realize import run_linear
+  with track_stats(ctx, call, dev.device, bufs, ctx.var_vals) as tm:
+    run_linear(UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (host_call,)), var_vals=ctx.var_vals, jit=True, update_stats=DEBUG>=3)
+    if ctx.wait:
+      dev.synchronize()
+      tss = ts_buf._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('Q')
+      tm[0] = (tss[1] - tss[0]) / dev.timestamp_divider / 1e6
+  return tm[0] if tm[0] is not None else 0.0

-    # and compile it
-    final_linear = hcq_compile_cache[cache_key] = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_callify_hcq, name="callify hcq", enter_calls=True)
+def hcq_exec_program(ctx:ExecContext, call:UOp, ast:UOp) -> float|None:
+  if ast.src[1].arg.split(":")[0] != "AMD": return None
+  dev, resolved_call = Device[ast.src[1].arg], _resolve_call(ctx, call, ast)
+  hcq_ctx = HCQ2LowerCtx(dev=dev, name="submit_program",
+                         kernargs_host=UOp.from_buffer(dev.kernargs_buf, dev.device),
+                         kernargs_gpu=UOp.const(dtypes.uint64, dev.kernargs_buf.get_buf(dev.device).va_addr),
+                         kernargs_allocator=dev.kernargs_offset_allocator, # allocator is passed and it will rotate kernargs
+                         timestamps_gpu=UOp.const(dtypes.uint64, dev.timestamps_buf.get_buf(dev.device).va_addr))
+  host_call = hcq_schedule(dev, hcq_ctx, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (resolved_call,), arg="COMPUTE"), ast)
+  prg_bufs = [cast(Buffer, resolved_call.src[1+gi].buffer) for gi in ast.arg.globals]
+  return _run_host_call(ctx, call, dev, host_call, prg_bufs, ts_buf=dev.timestamps_buf)

-  return final_linear
+def hcq_exec_copy(ctx:ExecContext, call:UOp, ast:UOp) -> float|None:
+  if ast.src[1].arg.split(":")[0] != "AMD": return None
+  dev, resolved_call = Device[ast.src[1].arg], _resolve_call(ctx, call, ast)
+  hcq_ctx = HCQ2LowerCtx(name="submit_copy", dev=dev, timestamps_gpu=UOp.const(dtypes.uint64, dev.timestamps_buf.get_buf(dev.device).va_addr))
+  src_buf = resolved_call.src[2].buffer
+  try: src_buf.get_buf(dev.device)
+  except Exception:
+    (cpubuf := Buffer("CPU", src_buf.nbytes, dtypes.uint8, preallocate=True)).copyin(src_buf.ensure_allocated().as_memoryview())
+    hcq_ctx.holds.append(buf_uop:=UOp.from_buffer(cpubuf, dev.device))
+    resolved_call = resolved_call.replace(src=resolved_call.src[:2] + (buf_uop,) + resolved_call.src[3:])
+  host_call = hcq_schedule(dev, hcq_ctx, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (resolved_call,), arg="COPY"), ast)
+  bufs = [cast(Buffer, resolved_call.src[1].buffer), cast(Buffer, resolved_call.src[2].buffer)]
+  return _run_host_call(ctx, call, dev, host_call, bufs, ts_buf=dev.timestamps_buf)

-@track_rewrites(lambda _,ret: f"HCQ Link {pluralize('Kernel', len(ret.src))}")
-def hcq_link(linear:UOp) -> UOp:
-  linear = graph_rewrite(linear, pm_bufferize, bottom_up=True, walk=True, name="bufferize placeholders")
-  return graph_rewrite(linear, pm_resolve_patches + symbolic, bottom_up=False, name="simplify patches")
+pm_hcq_exec = PatternMatcher([
+  # TODO: use upat device=?
+  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, name="ast"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), hcq_exec_program),
+  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.COPY, name="ast"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), hcq_exec_copy),
+])
@@ -1,295 +1,275 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
-from typing import cast, Any, Callable
+from typing import cast
 import os, ctypes, struct, hashlib, functools, importlib, mmap, errno, array, contextlib, sys, weakref, itertools, collections, atexit
 assert sys.platform != 'win32'
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from extra.hcq2.hcq2 import HCQ2Compiled, HCQAllocator, HCQ2Buffer, encode_kernargs_clike, make_getaddr, make_ins, make_cmdbuf, make_placeholder
+from extra.hcq2.hcq2 import HCQ2Compiled, HCQAllocator, HCQ2Buffer, HCQEncoder
 from tinygrad.uop.ops import sint, UOp
 from tinygrad.device import Compiled, BufferSpec, Buffer, Device
 from tinygrad.dtype import dtypes
 from tinygrad.helpers import getenv, round_up, data64_le, DEBUG, PROFILE, ProfileEvent, lo32, hi32, colored, prod, ContextVar, TracingKey
-from tinygrad.helpers import VIZ, ceildiv, unwrap, pluralize, to_tuple
+from tinygrad.helpers import VIZ, ceildiv, unwrap, pluralize
 from tinygrad.renderer.cstyle import HIPRenderer, HIPCCRenderer
 from tinygrad.renderer.llvmir import AMDLLVMRenderer
 from tinygrad.runtime.autogen import kfd, hsa, sqtt, amdgpu_kd, amdgpu_drm
 from tinygrad.runtime.autogen.am import am
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.elf import elf_loader
-from tinygrad.runtime.support.hcq import FileIOInterface, HCQBuffer, MMIOInterface, hcq_filter_visible_devices
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.am.amdev import AMDev, AMMemoryManager
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.amd import AMDReg, AMDIP, import_module, import_soc, import_pmc
-from tinygrad.runtime.support.system import PCIIfaceBase, PCIAllocationMeta, USBPCIDevice, MAP_FIXED, MAP_NORESERVE
+from tinygrad.runtime.support.system import System, PCIIfaceBase, PCIAllocationMeta, USBPCIDevice, MAP_FIXED, MAP_NORESERVE
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.usb import USB3
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.memory import AddrSpace, BumpAllocator
+from tinygrad.runtime.support.hcq import MMIOInterface
 from tinygrad.runtime.ops_amd import SQTT, SQTT_ITRACE_SE_MASK, SQTT_LIMIT_SE, SQTT_SIMD_SEL, SQTT_TOKEN_EXCLUDE, PMC
 from tinygrad.runtime.ops_amd import EVENT_INDEX_PARTIAL_FLUSH, WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_EQ, WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_NEQ, WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_GEQ
 if getenv("IOCTL"): import extra.hip_gpu_driver.hip_ioctl  # noqa: F401 # pylint: disable=unused-import

-from tinygrad.engine.realize import get_runtime, pm_flatten_linear
-from tinygrad.uop import FastEnum, auto
+from extra.hcq2.hcq2 import HCQ2LowerCtx
+from tinygrad.engine.realize import get_runtime
 from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops, UPat, PatternMatcher, graph_rewrite

-# *****************
-# PM4
+class AMDComputeQueue(HCQEncoder):
+  def __init__(self, ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx):
+    super().__init__(ctx)
+    self.pm4, self.gc, self.nbio, self.soc = self.dev.pm4, self.dev.gc, self.dev.nbio, self.dev.soc

-class PM4Ops(FastEnum):
-  SET_SH_REG = auto(); SET_UCONFIG_REG = auto(); WAIT_REG_MEM = auto(); ACQUIRE_MEM = auto()  # noqa: E702
-  RELEASE_MEM = auto(); DISPATCH_DIRECT = auto(); EVENT_WRITE = auto()  # noqa: E702
+  def pkt3(self, cmd, *vals): self.q(self.pm4.PACKET3(cmd, len(vals) - 1), *vals)

-def pkt3(ctx, op:PM4Ops, *vals): return make_ins(op, ctx.pm4.PACKET3(getattr(ctx.pm4, f"PACKET3_{op.name}"), len(vals) - 1), *vals)
+  def wreg(self, reg:AMDReg, *args:sint, **kwargs:int):
+    if bool(args) == bool(kwargs): raise RuntimeError('One (and only one) of *args or **kwargs must be specified')
+    if self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG_START <= reg.addr[0] < self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG_END:
+      set_packet, set_packet_start = self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG, self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG_START
+    elif self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG_START <= reg.addr[0] < self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG_START + 2**16-1:
+      set_packet, set_packet_start = self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG, self.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG_START
+    else: raise RuntimeError(f'Cannot set {reg.name} ({reg.addr[0]}) via pm4 packet')
+    self.pkt3(set_packet, reg.addr[0] - set_packet_start, *(args or (reg.encode(**kwargs),)))

-def wreg(ctx, reg:AMDReg, *args:sint, **kwargs:int):
-  if bool(args) == bool(kwargs): raise RuntimeError('One (and only one) of *args or **kwargs must be specified')
-  if ctx.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG_START <= reg.addr[0] < ctx.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG_END:
-    op, set_packet_start = PM4Ops.SET_SH_REG, ctx.pm4.PACKET3_SET_SH_REG_START
-  elif ctx.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG_START <= reg.addr[0] < ctx.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG_START + 2**16-1:
-    op, set_packet_start = PM4Ops.SET_UCONFIG_REG, ctx.pm4.PACKET3_SET_UCONFIG_REG_START
-  else: raise RuntimeError(f'Cannot set {reg.name} ({reg.addr[0]}) via pm4 packet')
-  return pkt3(ctx, op, reg.addr[0] - set_packet_start, *(args or (reg.encode(**kwargs),)))
+  def wait_reg_mem(self, value, mask=0xffffffff, mem=None, reg=None, reg_done=0, op=WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_GEQ):
+    wrm_info_dw = self.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_MEM_SPACE(int(mem is not None)) | self.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_OPERATION(int(mem is None and reg_done > 0)) \
+                | self.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION(op) | self.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_ENGINE(0)
+    self.pkt3(self.pm4.PACKET3_WAIT_REG_MEM, wrm_info_dw, *(data64_le(mem) if mem is not None else (reg, reg_done)), value, mask, 4)

-def wait_reg_mem(ctx, value, mask=0xffffffff, mem=None, reg=None, reg_done=0, op=WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_GEQ):
-  wrm_info_dw = ctx.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_MEM_SPACE(int(mem is not None)) | ctx.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_OPERATION(int(mem is None and reg_done > 0)) \
-              | ctx.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION(op) | ctx.pm4.WAIT_REG_MEM_ENGINE(0)
-  return pkt3(ctx, PM4Ops.WAIT_REG_MEM, wrm_info_dw, *(data64_le(mem) if mem is not None else (reg, reg_done)), value, mask, 4)
+  def acquire_mem(self, addr=0x0, sz=(1 << 64)-1, gli=1, glm=1, glk=1, glv=1, gl1=1, gl2=1):
+    if self.dev.target[0] != 9:
+      cache_flags_dw = self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLI_INV(gli) \
+                     | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLM_INV(glm) | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLM_WB(glm) \
+                     | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLK_INV(glk) | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLK_WB(glk) \
+                     | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLV_INV(glv) | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GL1_INV(gl1) \
+                     | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GL2_INV(gl2) | self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GL2_WB(gl2)
+      self.pkt3(self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM, 0, *data64_le(sz), *data64_le(addr), 0, cache_flags_dw)
+    else:
+      cp_coher_cntl = self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_SH_ICACHE_ACTION_ENA(gli) | \
+                      self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_SH_KCACHE_ACTION_ENA(glk) | \
+                      self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_TC_ACTION_ENA(gl2) | \
+                      self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_TCL1_ACTION_ENA(gl1) | \
+                      self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_TC_WB_ACTION_ENA(gl2)
+      self.pkt3(self.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM, cp_coher_cntl, *data64_le(sz), *data64_le(addr), 0x0000000A)

-def acquire_mem(ctx, addr=0x0, sz=(1 << 64)-1, gli=1, glm=1, glk=1, glv=1, gl1=1, gl2=1):
-  if ctx.target[0] != 9:
-    cache_flags_dw = ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLI_INV(gli) \
-                   | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLM_INV(glm) | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLM_WB(glm) \
-                   | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLK_INV(glk) | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLK_WB(glk) \
-                   | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GLV_INV(glv) | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GL1_INV(gl1) \
-                   | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GL2_INV(gl2) | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_GCR_CNTL_GL2_WB(gl2)
-    return pkt3(ctx, PM4Ops.ACQUIRE_MEM, 0, *data64_le(sz), *data64_le(addr), 0, cache_flags_dw)
-  cp_coher_cntl = ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_SH_ICACHE_ACTION_ENA(gli) | \
-                  ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_SH_KCACHE_ACTION_ENA(glk) | \
-                  ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_TC_ACTION_ENA(gl2) | \
-                  ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_TCL1_ACTION_ENA(gl1) | \
-                  ctx.pm4.PACKET3_ACQUIRE_MEM_CP_COHER_CNTL_TC_WB_ACTION_ENA(gl2)
-  return pkt3(ctx, PM4Ops.ACQUIRE_MEM, cp_coher_cntl, *data64_le(sz), *data64_le(addr), 0x0000000A)
+  def release_mem(self, address=0x0, value=0, data_sel=0, int_sel=2, ctxid=0, cache_flush=False):
+    if self.dev.target[0] != 9:
+      cache_flags_dw = 0 if not cache_flush else (self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GLV_INV | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GL1_INV \
+                     | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GL2_INV | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GLM_WB \
+                     | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GLM_INV | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GL2_WB | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_SEQ)
+      event_dw = self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_EVENT_TYPE(self.pm4.CACHE_FLUSH_AND_INV_TS_EVENT) \
+               | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_EVENT_INDEX(self.pm4.event_index__mec_release_mem__end_of_pipe)
+      memsel_dw = self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_DATA_SEL(data_sel) | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_INT_SEL(int_sel) \
+                | self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_DST_SEL(0)
+    else:
+      cache_flags_dw = 0 if not cache_flush else (self.pm4.EOP_TC_WB_ACTION_EN | self.pm4.EOP_TC_NC_ACTION_EN)
+      event_dw = self.pm4.EVENT_TYPE(self.pm4.CACHE_FLUSH_AND_INV_TS_EVENT) | self.pm4.EVENT_INDEX(self.pm4.event_index__mec_release_mem__end_of_pipe)
+      memsel_dw = self.pm4.DATA_SEL(data_sel) | self.pm4.INT_SEL(int_sel)
+      ctxid = 0
+    self.pkt3(self.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM, event_dw | cache_flags_dw, memsel_dw, *data64_le(address), *data64_le(value), ctxid)

-def release_mem(ctx, address=0x0, value=0, data_sel=0, int_sel=2, ctxid=0, cache_flush=False):
-  if ctx.target[0] != 9:
-    cache_flags_dw = 0 if not cache_flush else (ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GLV_INV | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GL1_INV \
-                   | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GL2_INV | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GLM_WB \
-                   | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GLM_INV | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_GL2_WB | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_GCR_SEQ)
-    event_dw = ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_EVENT_TYPE(ctx.pm4.CACHE_FLUSH_AND_INV_TS_EVENT) \
-             | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_EVENT_INDEX(ctx.pm4.event_index__mec_release_mem__end_of_pipe)
-    memsel_dw = ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_DATA_SEL(data_sel) | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_INT_SEL(int_sel) \
-              | ctx.pm4.PACKET3_RELEASE_MEM_DST_SEL(0)
-  else:
-    cache_flags_dw = 0 if not cache_flush else (ctx.pm4.EOP_TC_WB_ACTION_EN | ctx.pm4.EOP_TC_NC_ACTION_EN)
-    event_dw = ctx.pm4.EVENT_TYPE(ctx.pm4.CACHE_FLUSH_AND_INV_TS_EVENT) | ctx.pm4.EVENT_INDEX(ctx.pm4.event_index__mec_release_mem__end_of_pipe)
-    memsel_dw = ctx.pm4.DATA_SEL(data_sel) | ctx.pm4.INT_SEL(int_sel)
-    ctxid = 0
-  return pkt3(ctx, PM4Ops.RELEASE_MEM, event_dw | cache_flags_dw, memsel_dw, *data64_le(address), *data64_le(value), ctxid)
+  def memory_barrier(self):
+    pf = '' if self.nbio.version[0] == 2 else '0' if self.nbio.version[:2] != (7, 11) else '1'
+    self.wait_reg_mem(reg=getattr(self.nbio, f'regBIF_BX_PF{pf}_GPU_HDP_FLUSH_REQ').addr[0],
+                      reg_done=getattr(self.nbio, f'regBIF_BX_PF{pf}_GPU_HDP_FLUSH_DONE').addr[0], value=0xffffffff)
+    self.acquire_mem()

-def memory_barrier(ctx):
-  pf = '' if ctx.nbio.version[0] == 2 else '0' if ctx.nbio.version[:2] != (7, 11) else '1'
-  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (
-    wait_reg_mem(ctx, reg=getattr(ctx.nbio, f'regBIF_BX_PF{pf}_GPU_HDP_FLUSH_REQ').addr[0],
-                 reg_done=getattr(ctx.nbio, f'regBIF_BX_PF{pf}_GPU_HDP_FLUSH_DONE').addr[0], value=0xffffffff),
-    acquire_mem(ctx)))
+  def wait(self, x): self.wait_reg_mem(x.src[1], mem=self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0]))

-def pm4_wait(ctx, dst, val): return wait_reg_mem(ctx, val, mem=make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs))
+  def barrier(self, x): self.memory_barrier()

-def pm4_barrier(ctx): return memory_barrier(ctx)
+  def store(self, x):
+    self.release_mem(self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0]), x.src[1], self.pm4.data_sel__mec_release_mem__send_32_bit_low,
+                     self.pm4.int_sel__mec_release_mem__send_interrupt_after_write_confirm, cache_flush=True)

-def pm4_store(ctx, dst, val):
-  if val.op is Ops.BINARY: return None
-  return release_mem(ctx, make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs), val, ctx.pm4.data_sel__mec_release_mem__send_32_bit_low,
-                     ctx.pm4.int_sel__mec_release_mem__send_interrupt_after_write_confirm, cache_flush=True)
+  def timestamp(self, x):
+    self.release_mem(self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0]), 0, self.pm4.data_sel__mec_release_mem__send_gpu_clock_counter,
+                     self.pm4.int_sel__mec_release_mem__none)

-def pm4_timestamp(ctx, dst):
-  return release_mem(ctx, make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs), 0, ctx.pm4.data_sel__mec_release_mem__send_gpu_clock_counter,
-                     ctx.pm4.int_sel__mec_release_mem__none)
+  def program(self, x):
+    data, info = x.arg
+    lib_gpu, args = x.src
+    prog_addr = self.get_dev_addr(lib_gpu) + data.entry_point_offset

-def pm4_program(ctx, call, prg):
-  data, info = prg.arg
-  lib_gpu = prg.src[0]
-  args = encode_kernargs_clike(call, prg, ctx.devs)
-  prog_addr = make_getaddr(lib_gpu, ctx.devs) + data.entry_point_offset
-  scratch_addr = make_getaddr(make_placeholder(ctx.devs, data.private_segment_size, dtypes.uint8, "scratch", unique=False), ctx.devs)
-  args_addr = make_getaddr(args, ctx.devs)
+    self.acquire_mem(gli=0, gl2=0)

-  user_regs = []
-  if data.enable_private_segment_sgpr:
-    scratch_hilo = data64_le(scratch_addr)
-    user_regs = [scratch_hilo[0], scratch_hilo[1] | 1 << 31, 0xffffffff, 0x20c14000]
-  if data.enable_dispatch_ptr: user_regs += [*data64_le(args_addr + data.kernargs_segment_size)]
-  user_regs += [*data64_le(args_addr)]
+    args_addr = self.get_dev_addr(args)
+    user_regs = []
+    if data.enable_private_segment_sgpr:
+      scratch_hilo = data64_le(self.dev.scratch.va_addr)
+      user_regs = [scratch_hilo[0], scratch_hilo[1] | 1 << 31, 0xffffffff, 0x20c14000]
+    if data.enable_dispatch_ptr: user_regs += [*data64_le(args_addr + data.kernargs_segment_size)]
+    user_regs += [*data64_le(args_addr)]

-  dispatch_init = ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_DISPATCH_INITIATOR.encode(
-    **({'cs_w32_en': int(data.wave32)} if ctx.target[0] != 9 else {}), force_start_at_000=1, compute_shader_en=1)
-  ins = [acquire_mem(ctx, gli=0, gl2=0),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_PGM_LO, *data64_le(prog_addr >> 8)),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_PGM_RSRC1, data.rsrc1, data.rsrc2),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_PGM_RSRC3, data.rsrc3),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_TMPRING_SIZE, ctx.tmpring_size(data.private_segment_size))]
-  ins += [wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_DISPATCH_SCRATCH_BASE_LO, *data64_le((scratch_addr + data.private_segment_size // ctx.xccs * xcc_id) >> 8))
-          for xcc_id in range(ctx.xccs)]
-  ins += [wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_RESTART_X, 0, 0, 0),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_USER_DATA_0, *user_regs),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_RESOURCE_LIMITS, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_RESOURCE_LIMITS.encode(waves_per_sh=getenv("WAVES_PER_SH"))),
-    wreg(ctx, ctx.gc.regCOMPUTE_START_X, 0, 0, 0, *(info.local_size or (1, 1, 1)), 0, 0),
-    pkt3(ctx, PM4Ops.DISPATCH_DIRECT, *info.global_size, dispatch_init),
-    pkt3(ctx, PM4Ops.EVENT_WRITE, ctx.pm4.EVENT_TYPE(ctx.soc.CS_PARTIAL_FLUSH) | ctx.pm4.EVENT_INDEX(EVENT_INDEX_PARTIAL_FLUSH))]
-  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, tuple(ins))
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_PGM_LO, *data64_le(prog_addr >> 8))
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_PGM_RSRC1, data.rsrc1, data.rsrc2)
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_PGM_RSRC3, data.rsrc3)
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_TMPRING_SIZE, self.dev.tmpring_size)

-pm_pm4_opsel = PatternMatcher([
-  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, name="prg"),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), pm4_program),
+    for xcc_id in range(self.dev.xccs):
+      scratch_base = self.dev.scratch.va_addr + (self.dev.scratch.size // self.dev.xccs * xcc_id)
+      self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_DISPATCH_SCRATCH_BASE_LO, *data64_le(scratch_base >> 8))

-  (UPat(Ops.WAIT, src=(UPat(name="dst"), UPat(name="val"))), pm4_wait),
-  (UPat(Ops.BARRIER), pm4_barrier),
-  (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="timestamp", src=(UPat(name="dst"),)), pm4_timestamp),
-  (UPat(Ops.STORE, src=(UPat((Ops.BUFFER, Ops.PARAM), name="dst"), UPat(name="val"))), pm4_store),
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_RESTART_X, 0, 0, 0)
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_USER_DATA_0, *user_regs)
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_RESOURCE_LIMITS, self.gc.regCOMPUTE_RESOURCE_LIMITS.encode(waves_per_sh=getenv("WAVES_PER_SH")))
+    self.wreg(self.gc.regCOMPUTE_START_X, 0, 0, 0, *(info.local_size or (1, 1, 1)), 0, 0)
+
+    dispatch_init = self.gc.regCOMPUTE_DISPATCH_INITIATOR.encode(
+      **({'cs_w32_en': int(data.wave32)} if self.dev.target[0] != 9 else {}), force_start_at_000=1, compute_shader_en=1)
+    self.pkt3(self.pm4.PACKET3_DISPATCH_DIRECT, *info.global_size, dispatch_init)
+    self.pkt3(self.pm4.PACKET3_EVENT_WRITE, self.pm4.EVENT_TYPE(self.soc.CS_PARTIAL_FLUSH) | self.pm4.EVENT_INDEX(EVENT_INDEX_PARTIAL_FLUSH))
+
+amd_inner_pm = PatternMatcher([
+  (UPat(Ops.WAIT, name="x"),    lambda ctx, x: ctx.wait(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.BARRIER, name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.barrier(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.program(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="timestamp", name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.timestamp(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.STORE, src=(UPat((Ops.BUFFER, Ops.PARAM)), UPat()), name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.store(x)),
 ])

-def pm4_submit(cmdbuf, devs):
-  size, zero = UOp.const(dtypes.uint32, cmdbuf.nbytes() // dtypes.uint32.itemsize), UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0)
+def amd_lower_pm4(ctx, linear):
+  enc = AMDComputeQueue(ctx)
+  graph_rewrite(linear, amd_inner_pm, ctx=enc, name="amd: encode")
+  return UOp(Ops.BINARY, dtypes.void, arg=enc.blob).rtag("COMPUTE").after(*enc.src)

-  # the compute queue's ring and its host-side ring/write/put pointers (placeholders, resolved in pm_bufferize)
-  for d in devs: q = Device[d].compute_queue
-  ring, wptr, doorbell, put_ptr = (make_placeholder(devs, b.size, b.dtype, ("COMPUTE:0", name), unique=False)
-    for name, b in (("ring", q.ring), ("write_ptr", q.write_ptr), ("doorbell", q.doorbell), ("put_value", q.put_value)))
+def amd_submit_pm4(ctx, cf):
+  bb_param = cf.src[0]
+  q = ctx.dev.compute_queue
+  ring, wptr, doorbell, put_ptr = (ctx.host_param(b) for b in (q.ring, q.write_ptr, q.doorbell, q.put_value))
+  size, ring_dwords = UOp.const(dtypes.uint32, bb_param.dtype.size), q.ring.size

-  # place the cmdbuf at the ring's write offset, wrapping the ring
-  put = put_ptr.index(zero)
+  put = put_ptr[0]
+  i = UOp.range(size, 0, dtype=dtypes.int)
  next_put = put + size.cast(put.dtype)
-  i = UOp.range(size, 0, dtype=dtypes.int, src=(cmdbuf,))
-  ring_idx = ((put + i.cast(put.dtype)) % q.ring.size).cast(dtypes.int)
+  ring_idx = ((put + i.cast(put.dtype)) % ring_dwords).cast(dtypes.int)

-  # copy the cmdbuf into the ring and advance the put/write pointers
-  copy_to_ring = ring.index(ring_idx, ptr=True).store(
-    cmdbuf.index(i*4, ptr=True).cast(dtypes.uint32.ptr()).load()).end(i)
-  bump_put_ptr = put_ptr.index(zero, ptr=True).store(next_put)
-  bump_wptr = wptr.index(zero, ptr=True).store(next_put)
-
-  # ring the doorbell once the copy and pointer bumps have landed
+  copy_to_ring = ring[ring_idx].store(bb_param[i]).end(i)
+  bump_put_ptr = put_ptr[0].store(next_put)
+  bump_wptr = wptr[0].store(next_put)
  flush = UOp.barrier(copy_to_ring, bump_put_ptr, bump_wptr)
-  return doorbell.after(flush).index(zero, ptr=True).store(next_put)
+  return doorbell.after(flush)[0].store(next_put)

-pm_pm4_submit = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="lin"),
-  lambda lin: pm4_submit(make_cmdbuf(lin, to_tuple(lin.arg[0])), to_tuple(lin.arg[0])))])
+class AMDCopyQueue(HCQEncoder):
+  def __init__(self, ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, queue_idx=0):
+    super().__init__(ctx)
+    self.sdma, self.queue_idx, self.max_copy_size = self.dev.sdma, queue_idx, self.dev.max_copy_size

-# *****************
-# SDMA
+  def copy(self, x):
+    dest, src, copy_size = self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0]), self.get_dev_addr(x.src[1]), x.arg
+    copied = 0
+    while copied < copy_size:
+      step = min(copy_size - copied, self.max_copy_size)
+      self.q(self.sdma.SDMA_OP_COPY | self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_COPY_LINEAR_HEADER_SUB_OP(self.sdma.SDMA_SUBOP_COPY_LINEAR),
+             self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_COPY_LINEAR_COUNT_COUNT(step - 1), 0, *data64_le(src + copied), *data64_le(dest + copied))
+      copied += step

-class SDMAOps(FastEnum): COPY = auto(); POLL_REGMEM = auto(); FENCE = auto(); TRAP = auto(); TIMESTAMP = auto()  # noqa: E702
+  def wait(self, x):
+    self.q(self.sdma.SDMA_OP_POLL_REGMEM | self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_HEADER_FUNC(WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_GEQ) | \
+           self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_HEADER_MEM_POLL(1), *data64_le(self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0])), x.src[1], 0xffffffff,
+           self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_DW5_INTERVAL(0x04) | self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_DW5_RETRY_COUNT(0xfff))

-def sdma_copy(ctx, call):
-  dst, src = call.src[1], call.src[2]
-  sz = src.max_numel() * src.dtype.base.itemsize
-  src_addr, dst_addr = make_getaddr(src, ctx.devs), make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs)
-  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, tuple([make_ins(SDMAOps.COPY,
-     ctx.sdma.SDMA_OP_COPY | ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_COPY_LINEAR_HEADER_SUB_OP(ctx.sdma.SDMA_SUBOP_COPY_LINEAR),
-     ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_COPY_LINEAR_COUNT_COUNT(min(sz - off, ctx.max_copy_size) - 1), 0,
-     *data64_le(src_addr + off), *data64_le(dst_addr + off)) for off in range(0, sz, ctx.max_copy_size)]))
+  def store(self, x):
+    fence_flags = self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_FENCE_HEADER_MTYPE(3) if self.dev.target[0] != 9 else 0
+    self.q(self.sdma.SDMA_OP_FENCE | fence_flags, *data64_le(self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0])), x.src[1])
+    self.q(self.sdma.SDMA_OP_TRAP, 0)

-def sdma_wait(ctx, dst, val):
-  op = ctx.sdma.SDMA_OP_POLL_REGMEM | ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_HEADER_FUNC(WAIT_REG_MEM_FUNCTION_GEQ) \
-     | ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_HEADER_MEM_POLL(1)
-  return make_ins(SDMAOps.POLL_REGMEM, op, *data64_le(make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs)), val, 0xffffffff,
-    ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_DW5_INTERVAL(0x04) | ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_POLL_REGMEM_DW5_RETRY_COUNT(0xfff))
+  def timestamp(self, x):
+    self.q(self.sdma.SDMA_OP_TIMESTAMP | self.sdma.SDMA_PKT_TIMESTAMP_GET_HEADER_SUB_OP(self.sdma.SDMA_SUBOP_TIMESTAMP_GET_GLOBAL),
+           *data64_le(self.get_dev_addr(x.src[0])))

-def sdma_store(ctx, dst, val):
-  op = ctx.sdma.SDMA_OP_FENCE | (ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_FENCE_HEADER_MTYPE(3) if ctx.target[0] != 9 else 0)
-  return UOp(Ops.LINEAR, dtypes.void, (
-    make_ins(SDMAOps.FENCE, op, *data64_le(make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs)), val), make_ins(SDMAOps.TRAP, ctx.sdma.SDMA_OP_TRAP, 0)))
+def amd_lower_sdma(ctx, linear):
+  enc = AMDCopyQueue(ctx)
+  graph_rewrite(linear, amd_inner_sdma_pm, ctx=enc, name="amd: encode sdma")
+  return UOp(Ops.BINARY, dtypes.void, arg=enc.blob).rtag("COPY").after(*enc.src)

-def sdma_timestamp(ctx, dst):
-  op = ctx.sdma.SDMA_OP_TIMESTAMP | ctx.sdma.SDMA_PKT_TIMESTAMP_GET_HEADER_SUB_OP(ctx.sdma.SDMA_SUBOP_TIMESTAMP_GET_GLOBAL)
-  return make_ins(SDMAOps.TIMESTAMP, op, *data64_le(make_getaddr(dst, ctx.devs)))
-
-pm_sdma_opsel = PatternMatcher([
-  (UPat(Ops.CALL, src=(UPat(Ops.COPY),), name="call", allow_any_len=True), sdma_copy),
-
-  (UPat(Ops.BARRIER), lambda: UOp(Ops.NOOP, dtypes.void, ())),
-  (UPat(Ops.WAIT, src=(UPat(name="dst"), UPat(name="val"))), sdma_wait),
-  (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="timestamp", src=(UPat(name="dst"),)), sdma_timestamp),
-  (UPat(Ops.STORE, src=(UPat((Ops.BUFFER, Ops.PARAM), name="dst"), UPat(name="val"))), sdma_store),
+amd_inner_sdma_pm = PatternMatcher([
+  (UPat(Ops.WAIT,  name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.wait(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.BARRIER, name="x"), lambda ctx, x: None),
+  (UPat(Ops.COPY,  name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.copy(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="timestamp", name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.timestamp(x)),
+  (UPat(Ops.STORE, src=(UPat((Ops.BUFFER, Ops.PARAM)), UPat()), name="x"), lambda ctx, x: ctx.store(x)),
 ])

-def sdma_submit(cmdbuf, devs):
-  # the cmdbuf to submit + the patch writes that fill it
-  size_dw, zero = cmdbuf.nbytes() // dtypes.uint32.itemsize, UOp.const(dtypes.int, 0)
+def amd_submit_sdma(ctx, cf):
+  bb_param = cf.src[0]
+  q = ctx.dev.sdma_queue(0)
+  ring, wptr, doorbell, put_ptr = (ctx.host_param(b) for b in (q.ring, q.write_ptr, q.doorbell, q.put_value))
+  size_dw, ring_bytes = bb_param.dtype.size, q.ring.size * 4

-  # the sdma queue's ring and its host-side ring/write/put pointers
-  for d in devs: q = Device[d].sdma_queue(0)
-  ring, wptr, doorbell, put_ptr = (make_placeholder(devs, b.size, b.dtype, ("COPY:0", name), unique=False)
-    for name, b in (("ring", q.ring), ("write_ptr", q.write_ptr), ("doorbell", q.doorbell), ("put_value", q.put_value)))
-
-  # sdma needs the cmdbuf contiguous: if it won't fit before the ring end, restart at 0 and zero the tail
-  put_b = put_ptr.index(zero)
-  tail_off_dw = ((put_b % (q.ring.size * 4)) // 4).cast(dtypes.int)
+  put_b = put_ptr[0]
+  tail_off_dw = ((put_b % ring_bytes) // 4).cast(dtypes.int)
  fits = (size_dw <= q.ring.size - tail_off_dw).cast(dtypes.int)
  start_dw = fits * tail_off_dw
  zero_amt_dw = (1 - fits) * (q.ring.size - tail_off_dw)

-  # zero the wrapped tail, then copy the cmdbuf into the ring
-  zi = UOp.range(zero_amt_dw, 0, dtype=dtypes.int, src=(cmdbuf,))
-  zero_tail = ring.index(tail_off_dw + zi, ptr=True).store(UOp.const(dtypes.uint32, 0)).end(zi)
-  i = UOp.range(UOp.const(dtypes.int, size_dw), 0, dtype=dtypes.int, src=(cmdbuf,))
-  copy_to_ring = ring.index(start_dw + i, ptr=True).store(
-    cmdbuf.index(i*4, ptr=True).cast(dtypes.uint32.ptr()).load()).end(i)
+  zi = UOp.range(zero_amt_dw, 0, dtype=dtypes.int)
+  zero_tail = ring[tail_off_dw + zi].store(UOp.const(dtypes.uint32, 0)).end(zi)
+
+  i = UOp.range(UOp.const(dtypes.int, size_dw), 0, dtype=dtypes.int)
+  copy_to_ring = ring[start_dw + i].store(bb_param[i]).end(i)

-  # advance the put/write pointers past the zeroed tail and the cmdbuf
  next_put_b = put_b + ((zero_amt_dw + size_dw) * 4).cast(put_b.dtype)
-  bump_put_ptr = put_ptr.index(zero, ptr=True).store(next_put_b)
-  bump_wptr = wptr.index(zero, ptr=True).store(next_put_b)
-
-  # ring the doorbell once the writes have landed
+  bump_put_ptr = put_ptr[0].store(next_put_b)
+  bump_wptr = wptr[0].store(next_put_b)
  flush = UOp.barrier(zero_tail, copy_to_ring, bump_put_ptr, bump_wptr)
-  return doorbell.after(flush).index(zero, ptr=True).store(next_put_b)
-
-pm_sdma_submit = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="lin"),
-  lambda lin: sdma_submit(make_cmdbuf(lin, to_tuple(lin.arg[0])), to_tuple(lin.arg[0])))])
-
-@dataclass(frozen=True)
-class AMDEncodeCtx:  # encode-time constants for one queue: devs (every cmdbuf address resolves into these) + gfx version + packet/ip modules
-  devs: tuple[str, ...]; target: tuple[int, ...]; pm4: Any; sdma: Any; soc: Any  # noqa: E702
-  gc: AMDIP; nbio: AMDIP; xccs: int; max_copy_size: int; tmpring_size: Callable  # noqa: E702
-
-def encode_queue(q:UOp) -> UOp|None:
-  d = Device[(devs:=to_tuple(q.arg[0]))[0]]
-  ctx = AMDEncodeCtx(devs, d.target, d.pm4, d.sdma, d.soc, d.gc, d.nbio, d.xccs, d.max_copy_size, d.tmpring_size)
-  opsel, submit = (pm_pm4_opsel, pm_pm4_submit) if q.arg[1].startswith("COMPUTE") else (pm_sdma_opsel, pm_sdma_submit)
-  return submit.rewrite(graph_rewrite(q, opsel + pm_flatten_linear, walk=True, ctx=ctx, name=f"{q.arg[1]} opsel"))
+  return doorbell.after(flush)[0].store(next_put_b)

@dataclass(frozen=True)
 class AMDProgramData:
  entry_point_offset:int; rsrc1:int; rsrc2:int; rsrc3:int; wave32:bool
-  private_segment_size:int; kernargs_segment_size:int; kernargs_alloc_size:int
+  kernargs_segment_size:int; kernargs_alloc_size:int
  enable_dispatch_ptr:int; enable_private_segment_sgpr:int

-_amd_program_cache:dict[tuple[bytes,str], tuple[AMDProgramData,bytes]] = {}
-def amd_build_program(prg:UOp) -> UOp:
-  dev = Device[to_tuple(prg.device)[0]] # TODO: rm this
-  if (cached:=_amd_program_cache.get(key:=(lib:=prg.src[3].arg, dev.device))) is None:
+_amd_program_cache:dict[tuple[bytes,str], tuple[AMDProgramData,Buffer]] = {}
+
+def amd_build_program(ctx:HCQ2LowerCtx, prg:UOp) -> UOp:
+  if (cached:=_amd_program_cache.get(key:=(lib:=prg.src[4].arg, ctx.dev.device))) is None:
    image, sections, relocs = elf_loader(lib)
    rodata = next(sh.header.sh_addr for sh in sections if sh.name == ".rodata")
    for off, sym, typ, addent in relocs:
      assert typ == 5, f"unknown AMD reloc {typ}"  # R_AMDGPU_REL64
      image[off:off+8] = struct.pack('<q', sym - off + addent)
+    lib_gpu = Buffer(ctx.dev.device, round_up(image.nbytes, 0x1000), dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(nolru=True), preallocate=True)
+    ctx.dev.allocator._copyin(lib_gpu._buf, image)
+    ctx.dev.synchronize()
    desc = amdgpu_kd.llvm_amdhsa_kernel_descriptor_t.from_buffer_copy(bytes(image[rodata:rodata+ctypes.sizeof(amdgpu_kd.llvm_amdhsa_kernel_descriptor_t)]))
-    if (lds:=((desc.group_segment_fixed_size+511)//512)&0x1FF) > (dev.iface.props['lds_size_in_kb']*1024)//512:
+    if (lds:=((desc.group_segment_fixed_size+511)//512)&0x1FF) > (ctx.dev.iface.props['lds_size_in_kb']*1024)//512:
      raise RuntimeError("Too many resources requested: group_segment_size")
+    ctx.dev._ensure_has_local_memory(desc.private_segment_fixed_size)
    edp = desc.kernel_code_properties & hsa.AMD_KERNEL_CODE_PROPERTIES_ENABLE_SGPR_DISPATCH_PTR
-
-    data = AMDProgramData(entry_point_offset=rodata + desc.kernel_code_entry_byte_offset,
-      rsrc1=desc.compute_pgm_rsrc1 | ((1<<20) if dev.target[0]==11 else 0),  # priv=1 on gfx11 for cwsr
+    cached = _amd_program_cache[key] = (AMDProgramData(
+      entry_point_offset=rodata + desc.kernel_code_entry_byte_offset,
+      rsrc1=desc.compute_pgm_rsrc1 | ((1<<20) if ctx.dev.target[0]==11 else 0),  # priv=1 on gfx11 for cwsr
      rsrc2=desc.compute_pgm_rsrc2 | (lds<<15), rsrc3=desc.compute_pgm_rsrc3,
-      wave32=bool(desc.kernel_code_properties & 0x400), private_segment_size=desc.private_segment_fixed_size, kernargs_segment_size=desc.kernarg_size,
-      kernargs_alloc_size=desc.kernarg_size + (ctypes.sizeof(hsa.hsa_kernel_dispatch_packet_t) if edp else 0), enable_dispatch_ptr=edp,
-      enable_private_segment_sgpr=desc.kernel_code_properties & hsa.AMD_KERNEL_CODE_PROPERTIES_ENABLE_SGPR_PRIVATE_SEGMENT_BUFFER)
-    buf = make_placeholder(prg.device, len(image), dtypes.uint8, "program")
-    cached = _amd_program_cache[key] = prg.replace(src=(buf.after(buf.store(UOp(Ops.BINARY, dtypes.void, src=(), arg=bytes(image)))),), arg=(data, prg.arg))
-  return cached
+      wave32=bool(desc.kernel_code_properties & 0x400),
+      kernargs_segment_size=desc.kernarg_size,
+      kernargs_alloc_size=desc.kernarg_size + (ctypes.sizeof(hsa.hsa_kernel_dispatch_packet_t) if edp else 0),
+      enable_dispatch_ptr=edp,
+      enable_private_segment_sgpr=desc.kernel_code_properties & hsa.AMD_KERNEL_CODE_PROPERTIES_ENABLE_SGPR_PRIVATE_SEGMENT_BUFFER,
+    ), lib_gpu)
+  data, lib_gpu = cached
+  return prg.replace(src=(UOp.from_buffer(lib_gpu, ctx.dev.device),), arg=(data, prg.arg))

 class AMDAllocator(HCQAllocator['AMDDevice']):
  def __init__(self, dev:AMDDevice):
    super().__init__(dev, supports_copy_from_disk=dev.has_sdma_queue, supports_transfer=dev.has_sdma_queue and not dev.is_usb())

  def _alloc(self, size:int, options:BufferSpec) -> HCQ2Buffer:
-    return self.dev.iface.alloc(size, host=options.host, uncached=options.uncached, cpu_access=options.cpu_access or not self.dev.has_sdma_queue)
+    return self.dev.iface.alloc(size, host=True, uncached=options.uncached, cpu_access=True)

  def _do_free(self, opaque, options:BufferSpec): self.dev.iface.free(opaque)

@@ -297,164 +277,36 @@ class AMDAllocator(HCQAllocator['AMDDevice']):

@dataclass
 class AMDQueueDesc:
-  ring: Buffer; read_ptr: Buffer; write_ptr: Buffer; doorbell: Buffer; put_value: Buffer  # noqa: E702
-  eop_buffer: Buffer|None = None; cwsr_buffer: Buffer|None = None; params: tuple|None = None  # noqa: E702
+  ring: Buffer        # uint32[ring_size//4]
+  read_ptr: Buffer    # uint64[1]
+  write_ptr: Buffer   # uint64[1]
+  doorbell: Buffer    # uint64[1]
+  put_value: Buffer   # uint64[1]
+  params: tuple|None = None  # setup_ring params for recovery

-class KFDIface:
-  kfd:FileIOInterface|None = None
-  event_page:HCQBuffer|None = None
-  gpus:list[FileIOInterface] = []
-  count:int = 0
+  @property
+  def ring_mv(self) -> MMIOInterface: return self.ring._buf.view.view(fmt='I')
+  @property
+  def rptr_mv(self) -> MMIOInterface: return self.read_ptr._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')
+  @property
+  def wptr_mv(self) -> MMIOInterface: return self.write_ptr._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')
+  @property
+  def doorbell_mv(self) -> MMIOInterface: return self.doorbell._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')
+  @property
+  def put(self) -> int: return self.put_value._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')[0]
+  @put.setter
+  def put(self, v:int): self.put_value._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')[0] = v

-  def _is_usable_gpu(self, gpu_id):
-    with contextlib.suppress(OSError): return int(gpu_id.read()) != 0
-    return False
-
-  def __init__(self, dev, device_id):
-    self.dev = dev
-
-    kfd_topo_path = "/sys/devices/virtual/kfd/kfd/topology/nodes"
-
-    # Initialize KFD interface during first run
-    if KFDIface.kfd is None:
-      KFDIface.kfd = FileIOInterface("/dev/kfd", os.O_RDWR)
-      gpus = [g for g in FileIOInterface(kfd_topo_path).listdir() if self._is_usable_gpu(FileIOInterface(f"{kfd_topo_path}/{g}/gpu_id"))]
-      KFDIface.gpus = hcq_filter_visible_devices(sorted(gpus, key=lambda x: int(x.split('/')[-1])), "AMD")
-      KFDIface.count = len(KFDIface.gpus)
-
-    if device_id >= len(KFDIface.gpus): raise RuntimeError(f"No device found for {device_id}. Requesting more devices than the system has?")
-
-    self.gpu_id = int(FileIOInterface(f"{kfd_topo_path}/{KFDIface.gpus[device_id]}/gpu_id").read())
-    self.props = {(p:=l.split())[0]: int(p[1]) for l in FileIOInterface(f"{kfd_topo_path}/{KFDIface.gpus[device_id]}/properties").read().splitlines()}
-    self.dev_sysfs_path = f"/sys/class/drm/renderD{self.props['drm_render_minor']}/device"
-    ip_base = f"{self.dev_sysfs_path}/ip_discovery/die/0"
-    id2ip = {am.GC_HWID: am.GC_HWIP, am.SDMA0_HWID: am.SDMA0_HWIP, am.NBIF_HWID: am.NBIF_HWIP}
-    ip_hw = [(id2ip[int(hwid)], int(hwid)) for hwid in FileIOInterface(ip_base).listdir() if hwid.isnumeric() and int(hwid) in id2ip]
-    self.ip_versions = {ip:tuple(int(FileIOInterface(f'{ip_base}/{hw}/0/{part}').read()) for part in ['major','minor','revision']) for ip,hw in ip_hw}
-    self.drm_fd = FileIOInterface(f"/dev/dri/renderD{self.props['drm_render_minor']}", os.O_RDWR)
-
-    self.kfd_ver = ((ver_st:=kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_GET_VERSION(KFDIface.kfd)).major_version, ver_st.minor_version)
-    kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_ACQUIRE_VM(KFDIface.kfd, drm_fd=self.drm_fd.fd, gpu_id=self.gpu_id)
-    if self.kfd_ver >= (1,14): kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_RUNTIME_ENABLE(KFDIface.kfd, mode_mask=0)
-
-    # Set these for our device.
-    if KFDIface.event_page is None:
-      KFDIface.event_page = self.alloc(0x8000, uncached=True)
-      kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_CREATE_EVENT(KFDIface.kfd, event_page_offset=KFDIface.event_page.meta.handle)
-    else: self.map(KFDIface.event_page)
-
-    # Event to wait for queues completion
-    self.dev.queue_event = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_CREATE_EVENT(KFDIface.kfd, event_type=kfd.KFD_IOC_EVENT_SIGNAL, auto_reset=1)
-    self.dev.queue_event_mailbox_ptr = KFDIface.event_page.va_addr + self.dev.queue_event.event_slot_index * 8
-
-    # OS events to collect memory and hardware faults
-    self.mem_fault_event = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_CREATE_EVENT(KFDIface.kfd, event_type=kfd.KFD_IOC_EVENT_MEMORY)
-    self.hw_fault_event = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_CREATE_EVENT(KFDIface.kfd, event_type=kfd.KFD_IOC_EVENT_HW_EXCEPTION)
-
-    self.queue_event_arr = (kfd.struct_kfd_event_data * 3)(kfd.struct_kfd_event_data(event_id=self.dev.queue_event.event_id),
-      kfd.struct_kfd_event_data(event_id=self.mem_fault_event.event_id), kfd.struct_kfd_event_data(event_id=self.hw_fault_event.event_id))
-    self.queue_event_arr_ptr = ctypes.addressof(self.queue_event_arr)
-
-  def alloc(self, size:int, host=False, uncached=False, cpu_access=False, contiguous=False, cpu_addr=None) -> HCQBuffer:
-    flags = kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_WRITABLE | kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_EXECUTABLE | kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_NO_SUBSTITUTE
-
-    if uncached: flags |= kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_COHERENT | kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_UNCACHED | kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_GTT
-    else: flags |= (kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_USERPTR if host else kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_VRAM)
-
-    # Make mapped cpu address to be uncachable
-    if cpu_addr is not None: flags |= kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_COHERENT | kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_UNCACHED
-
-    if cpu_access or host: flags |= kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_PUBLIC
-
-    if flags & kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_USERPTR:
-      buf = addr = cpu_addr or FileIOInterface.anon_mmap(0, size, mmap.PROT_READ | mmap.PROT_WRITE, mmap.MAP_SHARED | mmap.MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0)
-    else: buf, addr = 0, FileIOInterface.anon_mmap(0, size, 0, mmap.MAP_PRIVATE | mmap.MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_NORESERVE, 0)
-
-    try: mem = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEMORY_OF_GPU(self.kfd, va_addr=addr, size=size, gpu_id=self.gpu_id, flags=flags, mmap_offset=buf)
-    except OSError as e:
-      if e.errno == errno.EINVAL and (flags & kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_VRAM) and cpu_access:
-        raise MemoryError("Cannot allocate host-visible VRAM. Ensure the resizable BAR option is enabled on your system.") from e
-      if e.errno == errno.ENOMEM: raise MemoryError(f"Cannot allocate {size} bytes: no memory is available.") from e
+  def signal_doorbell(self, dev, doorbell_value:int|None=None):
+    try:
+      self.wptr_mv[0] = self.put
+      System.memory_barrier()
+      if dev.is_am() and not dev.is_usb(): dev.iface.dev_impl.gmc.flush_hdp()
+      self.doorbell_mv[0] = self.put if doorbell_value is None else doorbell_value
+    except Exception as e:
+      dev.error_state = e
      raise

-    if not (flags & kfd.KFD_IOC_ALLOC_MEM_FLAGS_USERPTR):
-      buf = self.drm_fd.mmap(mem.va_addr, mem.size, mmap.PROT_READ | mmap.PROT_WRITE, mmap.MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, mem.mmap_offset)
-      assert addr == buf == mem.va_addr
-
-    view = MMIOInterface(mem.va_addr, mem.size, fmt='B') if cpu_access or host else None
-    self.map(hcqbuf:=HCQBuffer(mem.va_addr, mem.size, meta=mem, view=view, owner=self.dev))
-    return hcqbuf
-
-  def free(self, mem):
-    gpus = (ctypes.c_int32 * 1)(self.gpu_id)
-    stm = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_UNMAP_MEMORY_FROM_GPU(self.kfd, handle=mem.meta.handle, device_ids_array_ptr=ctypes.addressof(gpus), n_devices=1)
-    assert stm.n_success == 1
-    if mem.owner == self.dev:
-      if mem.va_addr: FileIOInterface.munmap(mem.va_addr, mem.size)
-      kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_FREE_MEMORY_OF_GPU(self.kfd, handle=mem.meta.handle)
-
-  def map(self, mem):
-    if mem.owner is not None and mem.owner._is_cpu(): return self.alloc(mem.size, host=True, cpu_addr=mem.va_addr)
-
-    c_gpus = (ctypes.c_int32 * 1)(self.gpu_id)
-    stm = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_MAP_MEMORY_TO_GPU(self.kfd, handle=mem.meta.handle, device_ids_array_ptr=ctypes.addressof(c_gpus), n_devices=1)
-    assert stm.n_success == 1
-    return HCQBuffer(mem.va_addr, mem.size, meta=mem.meta, owner=mem.owner)
-
-  def create_queue(self, queue_type, ring, gart, rptr, wptr, eop_buffer=None, cwsr_buffer=None, ctl_stack_size=0, ctx_save_restore_size=0,
-                   xcc_id=0, idx=0):
-    queue = kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_CREATE_QUEUE(KFDIface.kfd, ring_base_address=ring._buf.va_addr, ring_size=ring._buf.size, gpu_id=self.gpu_id,
-      queue_type=queue_type, queue_percentage=kfd.KFD_MAX_QUEUE_PERCENTAGE|(xcc_id<<8), queue_priority=getenv("AMD_KFD_QUEUE_PRIORITY", 7),
-      eop_buffer_address=eop_buffer._buf.va_addr if eop_buffer else 0, eop_buffer_size=eop_buffer._buf.size if eop_buffer else 0,
-      ctl_stack_size=ctl_stack_size, ctx_save_restore_address=cwsr_buffer._buf.va_addr if cwsr_buffer else 0, ctx_save_restore_size=ctx_save_restore_size,
-      write_pointer_address=gart._buf.va_addr+wptr, read_pointer_address=gart._buf.va_addr+rptr+8*xcc_id)
-
-    if not hasattr(self, 'doorbells'):
-      self.doorbells_base = queue.doorbell_offset & (~0x1fff) # doorbell is two pages
-      self.doorbells = cast(FileIOInterface, KFDIface.kfd).mmap(0, 0x2000, mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_WRITE, mmap.MAP_SHARED, self.doorbells_base)
-
-    (put_value := Buffer("CPU", 1, dtypes.uint64, preallocate=True))._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')[0] = 0
-    doorbell = Buffer("CPU", 1, dtypes.uint64,
-      options=BufferSpec(external_ptr=self.doorbells + queue.doorbell_offset - self.doorbells_base), preallocate=True)
-    return AMDQueueDesc(ring=ring, doorbell=doorbell, read_ptr=gart.view(1, dtypes.uint64, rptr+8*xcc_id).ensure_allocated(),
-      write_ptr=gart.view(1, dtypes.uint64, wptr).ensure_allocated(), put_value=put_value, eop_buffer=eop_buffer, cwsr_buffer=cwsr_buffer)
-
-  def sleep(self, tm:int):
-    kfd.AMDKFD_IOC_WAIT_EVENTS(KFDIface.kfd, events_ptr=self.queue_event_arr_ptr, num_events=3, wait_for_all=0, timeout=tm)
-    if self.queue_event_arr[1].memory_exception_data.gpu_id or self.queue_event_arr[2].hw_exception_data.gpu_id: self.on_device_hang()
-
-  def on_device_hang(self):
-    def _str(st): return ' '.join(f'{k[0]}={getattr(st, k[0])}' for k in st._real_fields_)
-
-    # try to collect fault info if not already set from sleep().
-    if not self.queue_event_arr[1].memory_exception_data.gpu_id and not self.queue_event_arr[2].hw_exception_data.gpu_id:
-      with contextlib.suppress(RuntimeError): self.sleep(tm=1)
-
-    report = []
-    if self.queue_event_arr[1].memory_exception_data.gpu_id:
-      report += [f"MMU fault: 0x{self.queue_event_arr[1].memory_exception_data.va:X} | {_str(self.queue_event_arr[1].memory_exception_data.failure)}"]
-    if self.queue_event_arr[2].hw_exception_data.gpu_id: report += [f"HW fault: {_str(self.queue_event_arr[2].hw_exception_data)}"]
-
-    raise RuntimeError("\n".join(report))
-
-  def require_profile_mode(self, can_set_mode=True):
-    if self.dev.target[0] == 9: return
-    fn = f'{self.dev_sysfs_path}/power_dpm_force_performance_level'
-    if (perflevel:=FileIOInterface(fn).read().strip()) != 'profile_standard':
-      if can_set_mode:
-        atexit.register(lambda: os.system(f"echo '{perflevel}' | sudo tee {fn} > /dev/null"))
-        os.system(f"echo 'profile_standard' | sudo tee {fn} > /dev/null")
-        self.require_profile_mode(can_set_mode=False)
-      else:
-        raise RuntimeError("PMC/SQTT requires stable power state: run `amd-smi set -l stable_std` for KFD iface")
-
-  @functools.cached_property
-  def drm_dev_info(self) -> amdgpu_drm.struct_drm_amdgpu_info_device:
-    amdgpu_drm.DRM_IOCTL_AMDGPU_INFO(self.drm_fd, query=amdgpu_drm.AMDGPU_INFO_DEV_INFO,
-      return_pointer=ctypes.addressof(inf:=amdgpu_drm.struct_drm_amdgpu_info_device()), return_size=ctypes.sizeof(inf))
-    return inf
-  def is_wgp_active(self, xcc, se, sa, wgp) -> bool: return ((self.drm_dev_info.cu_bitmap[se % 4][sa + (se // 4) * 2] >> (2 * wgp)) & 0x3) == 0x3
-
 class PCIIface(PCIIfaceBase):
  def __init__(self, dev, dev_id):
    super().__init__(dev, dev_id, vendor=0x1002, devices=((0xffff, (0x74a1,0x744c,0x7480,0x7550,0x7551,0x7590,0x75a0)),), vram_bar=0,
@@ -490,27 +342,28 @@ class PCIIface(PCIIfaceBase):

    rcvr_params: tuple
    if queue_type == kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_SDMA:
-      doorbell_index = self.dev_impl.sdma.setup_ring(*(rcvr_params:=(ring._buf.va_addr, ring._buf.size, gart._buf.va_addr+rptr,
-        gart._buf.va_addr+wptr, idx)))
+      doorbell_index = self.dev_impl.sdma.setup_ring(*(rcvr_params:=(ring.va_addr, ring.size, gart.va_addr+rptr, gart.va_addr+wptr, idx)))
    else:
-      doorbell_index = self.dev_impl.gfx.setup_ring(*(rcvr_params:=(ring._buf.va_addr, ring._buf.size, gart._buf.va_addr+rptr,
-        gart._buf.va_addr+wptr, eop_buffer._buf.va_addr, eop_buffer._buf.size, is_aql:=(queue_type==kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_COMPUTE_AQL), is_aql)))
+      doorbell_index = self.dev_impl.gfx.setup_ring(*(rcvr_params:=(ring.va_addr, ring.size, gart.va_addr+rptr, gart.va_addr+wptr,
+        eop_buffer.va_addr, eop_buffer.size, is_aql:=(queue_type==kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_COMPUTE_AQL), is_aql)))

-    (put_value := Buffer("CPU", 1, dtypes.uint64, preallocate=True))._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')[0] = 0
-    doorbell = Buffer("CPU", 1, dtypes.uint64, options=BufferSpec(external_ptr=self.dev_impl.doorbell64.addr + doorbell_index*8), preallocate=True)
-    return AMDQueueDesc(ring=ring, doorbell=doorbell, read_ptr=gart.view(1, dtypes.uint64, rptr).ensure_allocated(),
-      write_ptr=gart.view(1, dtypes.uint64, wptr).ensure_allocated(), put_value=put_value, eop_buffer=eop_buffer, params=rcvr_params)
+    ext = lambda addr,n,dt: Buffer("CPU", n, dt, options=BufferSpec(external_ptr=addr), preallocate=True)
+    return AMDQueueDesc(ring=ext(ring.va_addr, ring.size//4, dtypes.uint32),
+      doorbell=ext(self.dev_impl.doorbell64.addr + doorbell_index*8, 1, dtypes.uint64),
+      read_ptr=ext(gart.va_addr+rptr, 1, dtypes.uint64), write_ptr=ext(gart.va_addr+wptr, 1, dtypes.uint64),
+      put_value=Buffer("CPU", 1, dtypes.uint64, preallocate=True), params=rcvr_params)

  def _collect_interrupts(self, reset=False, drain_only=False):
-    d = self.dev
-    if drain_only: d.iface.dev_impl.ih.drain()
-    else: d.iface.dev_impl.ih.interrupt_handler()
+    devs:list[AMDDevice] = [d for pg in HCQCompiled.peer_groups.values() for d in pg if isinstance(d, AMDDevice) and d.is_am()]
+    for d in devs:
+      if drain_only: d.iface.dev_impl.ih.drain()
+      else: d.iface.dev_impl.ih.interrupt_handler()

-    if reset and d.iface.dev_impl.recover():
-      cq = d.compute_queue
-      for b in (cq.put_value, cq.read_ptr, cq.write_ptr): b._buf.view.view(fmt='Q')[0] = 0
-      d.iface.dev_impl.gfx.setup_ring(*cq.params)
-      d.timeline_signal()._buf.cpu_view().mv.cast('Q')[0] = d.timeline_value().as_memoryview(force_zero_copy=True).cast('Q')[0] - 1
+      if reset and d.iface.dev_impl.recover(force=d.error_state is not None):
+        d.compute_queue.put = d.compute_queue.rptr_mv[0] = d.compute_queue.wptr_mv[0] = 0
+        d.iface.dev_impl.gfx.setup_ring(*d.compute_queue.params)
+        d.timeline_signal.value = d.timeline_value - 1
+        d.error_state = None

  def sleep(self, timeout):
    if hasattr(self.pci_dev, 'irq_poller') and self.pci_dev.irq_poller is not None and (events_cnt:=len(self.pci_dev.irq_poller.poll(timeout))):
@@ -527,17 +380,17 @@ class PCIIface(PCIIfaceBase):
 def _mock(iface, name=None): return type(name or f"MOCK{iface.__name__}", (iface,), {})

 class AMDDevice(HCQ2Compiled):
-  pm_lower = PatternMatcher([
-    # prep program
-    (UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(UPat(), UPat(), UPat(), UPat(Ops.BINARY)), name="prg"), amd_build_program),
-
-    # encoding of cmdbuf
-    (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_cmdbuf", src=(UPat(Ops.LINEAR, name="q"),)), encode_queue),
-  ])
-
  timestamp_divider = 100.0  # AMD GPU clock: ticks/us

-  ifaces = [KFDIface, PCIIface]
+  pm_lower = PatternMatcher([
+    (UPat(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(UPat(), UPat(), UPat(), UPat(), UPat(Ops.BINARY)), name="prg"), amd_build_program),
+    (UPat(Ops.LINEAR, arg="COMPUTE", name="linear"), amd_lower_pm4),
+    (UPat(Ops.LINEAR, arg="COPY", name="linear"), amd_lower_sdma),
+    (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_compute", name="cf"), amd_submit_pm4),
+    (UPat(Ops.CUSTOM_FUNCTION, arg="submit_copy", name="cf"), amd_submit_sdma),
+  ])
+
+  ifaces = [PCIIface]

  def is_am(self) -> bool: return isinstance(self.iface, (PCIIface,))
  def is_usb(self) -> bool: return False
@@ -575,13 +428,14 @@ class AMDDevice(HCQ2Compiled):

    self.max_copy_size = 0x40000000 if self.iface.ip_versions[am.SDMA0_HWIP][0] >= 5 else 0x400000
    self.sdma_queues:dict = {}
-    self.has_sdma_queue = True # self.sdma_queue(0) is not None, TODO: think of this
+    self.has_sdma_queue = self.sdma_queue(0) is not None

-    super().__init__(device, AMDAllocator(self), [HIPRenderer, AMDLLVMRenderer, HIPCCRenderer], None, can_recover=self.is_am(), arch=self.arch)
+    super().__init__(device, AMDAllocator(self), [HIPRenderer, AMDLLVMRenderer, HIPCCRenderer], None,
+                     kernargs_size=16 << 20, can_recover=self.is_am(), arch=self.arch)

    # Scratch setup
    self.max_private_segment_size = 0
-    self.pm_bufferize = PatternMatcher([(UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag="scratch", name="b"), lambda ctx, b: ctx.scratch_buffer(b.max_numel()))]) + self.pm_bufferize
+    self._ensure_has_local_memory(128) # set default scratch size to 128 bytes per thread

    self.pmc_enabled:bool = PROFILE > 0 and PMC > 0
    if self.pmc_enabled:
@@ -608,35 +462,6 @@ class AMDDevice(HCQ2Compiled):
      self.sqtt_wptrs = self.allocator.alloc(round_up(self.se_cnt * self.xccs * 4, 0x1000), BufferSpec(cpu_access=True, nolru=True))
      self.sqtt_next_cmd_id = itertools.count(0)

-  def create_queue(self, queue_type, ring_size, ctx_save_restore_size=0, eop_buffer_size=0, ctl_stack_size=0, debug_memory_size=0, idx=0):
-    ring = Buffer(self.device, ring_size // 4, dtypes.uint32, options=BufferSpec(uncached=True, cpu_access=True), preallocate=True)
-    gart = Buffer(self.device, 0x100, dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(uncached=True, cpu_access=True), preallocate=True)
-
-    if queue_type == kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_COMPUTE_AQL:
-      self.aql_gart = gart
-      self.aql_desc = hsa.amd_queue_t(queue_properties=hsa.AMD_QUEUE_PROPERTIES_IS_PTR64 | hsa.AMD_QUEUE_PROPERTIES_ENABLE_PROFILING,
-        read_dispatch_id_field_base_byte_offset=getattr(hsa.amd_queue_t, 'read_dispatch_id').offset,
-        max_cu_id=(self.cu_cnt * self.xccs) - 1, max_wave_id=self.waves_per_cu - 1)
-      self.aql_gart._buf.cpu_view().view(fmt='B')[:ctypes.sizeof(self.aql_desc)] = bytes(self.aql_desc)
-
-    cwsr_buffer_size = round_up((ctx_save_restore_size + debug_memory_size) * self.xccs, mmap.PAGESIZE)
-    cwsr_buffer = Buffer(self.device, cwsr_buffer_size, dtypes.uint8, preallocate=True) if ctx_save_restore_size else None
-    eop_buffer = Buffer(self.device, eop_buffer_size, dtypes.uint8, preallocate=True) if eop_buffer_size else None
-
-    queue = (self.iface.create_queue(queue_type, ring, gart, rptr=getattr(hsa.amd_queue_t, 'read_dispatch_id').offset,
-             wptr=getattr(hsa.amd_queue_t, 'write_dispatch_id').offset, eop_buffer=eop_buffer, cwsr_buffer=cwsr_buffer,
-             ctx_save_restore_size=ctx_save_restore_size, ctl_stack_size=ctl_stack_size, idx=idx))
-
-    qname = f"{'COPY' if queue_type == kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_SDMA else 'COMPUTE'}:{idx}"
-    self.pm_bufferize = PatternMatcher([
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag={(qname, name)}), lambda ctx, b=getattr(queue, name): b) for name in ["ring", "write_ptr", "doorbell", "put_value"]
-    ] + [
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag={(qname, "timeline_signal")}), lambda ctx, q=qname: ctx.timeline_signal(q)),
-      (UPat(Ops.PARAM, tag={(qname, "timeline_value")}), lambda ctx, q=qname: ctx.timeline_value(q)),
-    ]) + self.pm_bufferize
-
-    return queue
-
  @functools.cached_property
  def compute_queue(self) -> AMDQueueDesc:
    # https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agd5f/linux/-/blob/a1fc9f584c4aaf8bc1ebfa459fc57a3f26a290d8/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_queue.c#L391
@@ -650,6 +475,25 @@ class AMDDevice(HCQ2Compiled):
      ctx_save_restore_size=0 if self.is_am() else wg_data_size + ctl_stack_size, ctl_stack_size=ctl_stack_size,
      debug_memory_size=round_up(self.wave_cnt * 32, 64))

+  def create_queue(self, queue_type, ring_size, ctx_save_restore_size=0, eop_buffer_size=0, ctl_stack_size=0, debug_memory_size=0, idx=0):
+    ring = self.iface.alloc(ring_size, uncached=True, cpu_access=True)
+    gart = self.iface.alloc(0x100, uncached=True, cpu_access=True)
+
+    if queue_type == kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_COMPUTE_AQL:
+      self.aql_gart = gart
+      self.aql_desc = hsa.amd_queue_t(queue_properties=hsa.AMD_QUEUE_PROPERTIES_IS_PTR64 | hsa.AMD_QUEUE_PROPERTIES_ENABLE_PROFILING,
+        read_dispatch_id_field_base_byte_offset=getattr(hsa.amd_queue_t, 'read_dispatch_id').offset,
+        max_cu_id=(self.cu_cnt * self.xccs) - 1, max_wave_id=self.waves_per_cu - 1)
+      self.aql_gart.cpu_view().view(fmt='B')[:ctypes.sizeof(self.aql_desc)] = bytes(self.aql_desc)
+
+    cwsr_buffer_size = round_up((ctx_save_restore_size + debug_memory_size) * self.xccs, mmap.PAGESIZE)
+    cwsr_buffer = self.iface.alloc(cwsr_buffer_size) if ctx_save_restore_size else None
+    eop_buffer = self.iface.alloc(eop_buffer_size) if eop_buffer_size else None
+
+    return (self.iface.create_queue(queue_type, ring, gart, rptr=getattr(hsa.amd_queue_t, 'read_dispatch_id').offset,
+            wptr=getattr(hsa.amd_queue_t, 'write_dispatch_id').offset, eop_buffer=eop_buffer, cwsr_buffer=cwsr_buffer,
+            ctx_save_restore_size=ctx_save_restore_size, ctl_stack_size=ctl_stack_size, idx=idx))
+
  def sdma_queue(self, idx:int):
    if getenv("AMD_DISABLE_SDMA"): return None
    if idx in self.sdma_queues: return self.sdma_queues[idx]
@@ -657,49 +501,38 @@ class AMDDevice(HCQ2Compiled):
      self.sdma_queues[idx] = self.create_queue(kfd.KFD_IOC_QUEUE_TYPE_SDMA, 0x200 if self.is_usb() else (16 << 20), idx=idx)
    return self.sdma_queues.get(idx, None)

-  def tmpring_size(self, private_segment_size):
-    private_segment_size = max(private_segment_size, 128)
+  def _ensure_has_local_memory(self, private_segment_size):
+    if self.max_private_segment_size >= private_segment_size: return

    lanes_per_wave = 64 # wave64
    mem_alignment_size = 256 if self.target[0] != 9 else 1024
    size_per_thread = round_up(private_segment_size, mem_alignment_size // lanes_per_wave)
    size_per_xcc = size_per_thread * lanes_per_wave * self.iface.props['max_slots_scratch_cu'] * self.cu_cnt
+    self.scratch, ok = self._realloc(getattr(self, 'scratch', None), size_per_xcc * self.xccs)
+    if ok:
+      # NOTE: xcc logic is correct only for GFX9.
+      max_scratch_waves = self.cu_cnt * self.iface.props['max_slots_scratch_cu'] * self.xccs
+      wave_scratch = ceildiv(lanes_per_wave * size_per_thread, mem_alignment_size)
+      num_waves = (size_per_xcc // (wave_scratch * mem_alignment_size)) // (self.se_cnt if self.target[0] != 9 else 1)

-    # NOTE: xcc logic is correct only for GFX9.
-    max_scratch_waves = self.cu_cnt * self.iface.props['max_slots_scratch_cu'] * self.xccs
-    wave_scratch = ceildiv(lanes_per_wave * size_per_thread, mem_alignment_size)
-    num_waves = (size_per_xcc // (wave_scratch * mem_alignment_size)) // (self.se_cnt if self.target[0] != 9 else 1)
-
-    tmpring_t = getattr(hsa, f'union_COMPUTE_TMPRING_SIZE{"_GFX"+str(self.target[0]) if self.target[0] != 9 else ""}_bitfields')
-    tmpring = int.from_bytes(tmpring_t(WAVES=min(num_waves, max_scratch_waves), WAVESIZE=wave_scratch), 'little')
-
-    if hasattr(self, 'aql_desc'):
-      gfx9_rsrc = {'NUM_FORMAT':hsa.BUF_NUM_FORMAT_UINT, 'DATA_FORMAT':hsa.BUF_DATA_FORMAT_32, 'ELEMENT_SIZE':1, 'INDEX_STRIDE':3}
-      rsrc = {'DST_SEL_X':hsa.SQ_SEL_X, 'DST_SEL_Y':hsa.SQ_SEL_Y, 'DST_SEL_Z':hsa.SQ_SEL_Z, 'DST_SEL_W':hsa.SQ_SEL_W, 'ADD_TID_ENABLE':1,
-              'TYPE':hsa.SQ_RSRC_BUF, **(gfx9_rsrc if self.target[0] == 9 else {'FORMAT':hsa.BUF_FORMAT_32_UINT, 'OOB_SELECT':2})}
-      rsrc1_t = getattr(hsa, f'union_SQ_BUF_RSRC_WORD1{"_GFX11" if self.target[0] != 9 else ""}_bitfields')
-      rsrc3_t = getattr(hsa, f'union_SQ_BUF_RSRC_WORD3{"_GFX"+str(self.target[0]) if self.target[0] != 9 else ""}_bitfields')
-
-      self.aql_desc.scratch_backing_memory_location = int(self.scratch.get_buf().va_addr)
-      self.aql_desc.scratch_wave64_lane_byte_size = self.max_private_segment_size * lanes_per_wave // 64
-      self.aql_desc.scratch_resource_descriptor[:] = [lo32(self.scratch.get_buf().va_addr),
-        int.from_bytes(rsrc1_t(BASE_ADDRESS_HI=hi32(self.scratch.get_buf().va_addr), SWIZZLE_ENABLE=1), 'little'),
-        lo32(size_per_xcc), int.from_bytes(bytes(rsrc3_t(**rsrc)), 'little')]
-      self.aql_desc.compute_tmpring_size = tmpring
-      self.aql_gart._buf.cpu_view()[:ctypes.sizeof(self.aql_desc)] = bytes(self.aql_desc)
-
-    return tmpring
-
-  def scratch_buffer(self, private_segment_size):
-    private_segment_size = max(private_segment_size, 128)
-    if self.max_private_segment_size < private_segment_size:
-      lanes_per_wave = 64 # wave64
-      mem_alignment_size = 256 if self.target[0] != 9 else 1024
-      size_per_thread = round_up(private_segment_size, mem_alignment_size // lanes_per_wave)
-      size_per_xcc = size_per_thread * lanes_per_wave * self.iface.props['max_slots_scratch_cu'] * self.cu_cnt
-      self.scratch = Buffer(self.device, size_per_xcc * self.xccs, dtypes.uint8, options=BufferSpec(nolru=True), preallocate=True)
+      tmpring_t = getattr(hsa, f'union_COMPUTE_TMPRING_SIZE{"_GFX"+str(self.target[0]) if self.target[0] != 9 else ""}_bitfields')
+      self.tmpring_size = int.from_bytes(tmpring_t(WAVES=min(num_waves, max_scratch_waves), WAVESIZE=wave_scratch), 'little')
      self.max_private_segment_size = private_segment_size
-    return self.scratch
+
+      if hasattr(self, 'aql_desc'):
+        gfx9_rsrc = {'NUM_FORMAT':hsa.BUF_NUM_FORMAT_UINT, 'DATA_FORMAT':hsa.BUF_DATA_FORMAT_32, 'ELEMENT_SIZE':1, 'INDEX_STRIDE':3}
+        rsrc = {'DST_SEL_X':hsa.SQ_SEL_X, 'DST_SEL_Y':hsa.SQ_SEL_Y, 'DST_SEL_Z':hsa.SQ_SEL_Z, 'DST_SEL_W':hsa.SQ_SEL_W, 'ADD_TID_ENABLE':1,
+                'TYPE':hsa.SQ_RSRC_BUF, **(gfx9_rsrc if self.target[0] == 9 else {'FORMAT':hsa.BUF_FORMAT_32_UINT, 'OOB_SELECT':2})}
+        rsrc1_t = getattr(hsa, f'union_SQ_BUF_RSRC_WORD1{"_GFX11" if self.target[0] != 9 else ""}_bitfields')
+        rsrc3_t = getattr(hsa, f'union_SQ_BUF_RSRC_WORD3{"_GFX"+str(self.target[0]) if self.target[0] != 9 else ""}_bitfields')
+
+        self.aql_desc.scratch_backing_memory_location = int(self.scratch.va_addr)
+        self.aql_desc.scratch_wave64_lane_byte_size = self.max_private_segment_size * lanes_per_wave // 64
+        self.aql_desc.scratch_resource_descriptor[:] = [lo32(self.scratch.va_addr),
+          int.from_bytes(rsrc1_t(BASE_ADDRESS_HI=hi32(self.scratch.va_addr), SWIZZLE_ENABLE=1), 'little'),
+          lo32(size_per_xcc), int.from_bytes(bytes(rsrc3_t(**rsrc)), 'little')]
+        self.aql_desc.compute_tmpring_size = self.tmpring_size
+        self.aql_gart.cpu_view()[:ctypes.sizeof(self.aql_desc)] = bytes(self.aql_desc)

  def on_device_hang(self): self.iface.on_device_hang()

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 import functools, pathlib
-from dataclasses import replace
 from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import shape_to_shape_arg
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import Ops
 from tinygrad.runtime.support.compiler_amd import HIPCCCompiler

 FP8_MAX = 448.0
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ NUM_WG, THREADS_PER_WG = 1024, 256
@functools.cache
 def _local_abs_max_fxn(x_p, device):
  x = Tensor(x_p, device=device)
-  inner = Tensor(x.uop.replace(src=(shape_to_shape_arg(x.uop.shard_shape),), arg=replace(x.uop.arg, axis=None))) if x.uop.axis is not None else x
+  inner = Tensor(x.uop.src[0]) if x.uop.op is Ops.MULTI else x
  return (inner.abs().max(),)

 def local_abs_max(x:Tensor) -> Tensor:
@@ -5,23 +5,23 @@ from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo
 from tinygrad.renderer import Estimates
 from extra.llama_kernels import FP8_MAX, NUM_WG, THREADS_PER_WG, compile_cpp, alloc_like, alloc_local, scalar_amax, dname_of

-# module-level mailbox: grad_xw13 UOp -> (grad_xw13_fp8 UOp, inv_scale UOp)
+# module-level mailbox: grad_xw13 UOp -> (grad_xw13_fp8 UOp, inv_scale UOp, new_amax UOp, store_effect)
 # lets cdna_asm_gemm's bwd reuse the fp8 companion produced by the fused silu_mul bwd kernel
 # instead of doing a redundant bf16 -> fp8 quantize.
-_grad_fp8_mailbox:dict[UOp, tuple[UOp, UOp]] = {}
+_grad_fp8_mailbox:dict = {}

@functools.cache
-def _custom_fused_bwd_w13(grad_xw13_fp8:UOp, grad_amax_buf:UOp,
+def _custom_fused_bwd_w13(grad_xw13:UOp, grad_xw13_fp8:UOp, grad_amax_buf:UOp,
                          xw13:UOp, grad_x2:UOp, amax_state:UOp, grad_amax_state:UOp, dname:str) -> UOp:
  hidden = xw13.shape[2] // 2
  n_elems = xw13.shape[0] * xw13.shape[1] * hidden
  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(NUM_WG, "gidx0")
-  mem = n_elems * 2 * 3 + n_elems * 2 + NUM_WG * 4 + 4
-  sink = UOp.sink(grad_xw13_fp8.base, grad_amax_buf.base,
+  mem = n_elems * 2 * 5 + n_elems * 2 + NUM_WG * 4 + 4
+  sink = UOp.sink(grad_xw13.base, grad_xw13_fp8.base, grad_amax_buf.base,
                  xw13.base, grad_x2.base, amax_state.base, grad_amax_state.base, threads, workgroups,
                  arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_silu_mul_bwd_w13_{n_elems}", estimates=Estimates(ops=10*n_elems, mem=mem)))
  src, lib = compile_cpp(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent, "cast_amax_bwd_w13.cpp", n_elems, hidden)
-  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))

@functools.cache
@@ -34,33 +34,31 @@ def _custom_fused_cast_amax_w13(fp8_out:UOp, amax_buf:UOp, xw13:UOp, amax_state:
  sink = UOp.sink(fp8_out.base, amax_buf.base, xw13.base, amax_state.base, threads, workgroups,
                  arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_silu_mul_cast_amax_w13_{n_elems}", estimates=Estimates(ops=5*n_elems, mem=mem)))
  src, lib = compile_cpp(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent, "cast_amax_fwd_w13.cpp", n_elems, hidden)
-  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))

 def _fused_quantize_bwd_w13(gradient:UOp, kernel:UOp):
  _, _, xw13, amax_state, grad_amax_state = kernel.src[1:]
  device = xw13.device
  axis = xw13.axis if isinstance(device, tuple) else None
+  grad_xw13     = alloc_like(xw13.shape, dtypes.bfloat16, device, axis)
  grad_xw13_fp8 = alloc_like(xw13.shape, dtypes.fp8e4m3,  device, axis)
  grad_amax_buf = alloc_local((NUM_WG,), dtypes.float32,  device, axis)
  grad_amax_state_t = Tensor(grad_amax_state, device=device)
  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_bwd_w13, dname=dname_of(device))
-  grad_xw13_fp8, grad_amax_buf, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(
-    grad_xw13_fp8, grad_amax_buf,
+  grad_xw13, grad_xw13_fp8, grad_amax_buf, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(
+    grad_xw13, grad_xw13_fp8, grad_amax_buf,
    Tensor(xw13, device=device), Tensor(gradient, device=device).cast(dtypes.bfloat16),
    Tensor(amax_state, device=device), grad_amax_state_t, fxn=fxn)
-  grad_xw13_uop = grad_xw13_fp8.uop.cast(dtypes.bfloat16)
  inv_scale = (grad_amax_state_t.float() + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX
  new_grad_amax = scalar_amax(grad_amax_buf)
  store_effect = grad_amax_state_t.uop.store(new_grad_amax.uop)
-  assert grad_xw13_fp8.uop.op is Ops.AFTER, f"expected AFTER, got {grad_xw13_fp8.uop.op}"
-  grad_xw13_fp8_uop = grad_xw13_fp8.uop.replace(src=grad_xw13_fp8.uop.src + (store_effect,))
-  # Stash fp8 companion for cdna_asm_gemm's bwd to attach to grad_a.
-  _grad_fp8_mailbox[grad_xw13_uop] = (grad_xw13_fp8_uop, inv_scale.uop)
-  return (None, None, grad_xw13_uop, None, None)
+  # Stash fp8 companion + amax store for cdna_asm_gemm's bwd to attach to grad_a.
+  _grad_fp8_mailbox[grad_xw13.uop] = (grad_xw13_fp8.uop, inv_scale.uop, new_grad_amax.uop, store_effect)
+  return (None, None, grad_xw13.uop, None, None)

-def fused_quantize_fp8_w13(xw13:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, fp8_dtype, grad_amax_state:Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
-  # NOTE: silu(xw1)*xw3 -> fp8 + amax over fused xw13 layout. Returns (fp8, new_amax)
+def fused_quantize_fp8_w13(xw13:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, fp8_dtype, grad_amax_state:Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
+  # NOTE: silu(xw1)*xw3 -> fp8 + amax over fused xw13 layout. Returns (fp8, inv_scale, new_amax)
  # grad_amax_state: delayed amax for grad_xw13 fp8 quantization in the backward.
  assert xw13.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16, f"expected bf16, got {xw13.dtype}"
  MBS, SEQ, H2 = xw13.shape
@@ -72,4 +70,5 @@ def fused_quantize_fp8_w13(xw13:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, fp8_dtype, grad_amax_
  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_cast_amax_w13, dname=dname_of(xw13.device))
  fp8_out, amax_buf, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(fp8_out, amax_buf, xw13, amax_state, grad_amax_state,
                                                fxn=fxn, grad_fxn=_fused_quantize_bwd_w13)
-  return fp8_out, scalar_amax(amax_buf)
+  inv_scale = (amax_state.float() + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX
+  return fp8_out, inv_scale, scalar_amax(amax_buf)
@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@ constexpr float FP8_MAX = 448.0f;
 static_assert(N_ELEMS % VEC == 0, "N_ELEMS must be divisible by VEC");
 static_assert(HIDDEN % VEC == 0, "HIDDEN must be divisible by VEC");

-// fused silu*mul backward, two outputs in a single HBM pass:
-//   1) fp8  grad_xw13_fp8  — delayed-scale quantize using grad_amax_state (mailbox to matmul bwd)
-//   2) fp32 grad_amax_buf  — per-WG partial |grad_xw13|, reduced into next step's grad_amax_state
+// fused silu*mul backward, three outputs in a single HBM pass:
+//   1) bf16 grad_xw13      — consumed by downstream bf16 autograd chain
+//   2) fp8  grad_xw13_fp8  — delayed-scale quantize using grad_amax_state (mailbox to matmul bwd)
+//   3) fp32 grad_amax_buf  — per-WG partial |grad_xw13|, reduced into next step's grad_amax_state
 // grad_amax_state is read for the fp8 scale. The store of new_grad_amax into grad_amax_state's
 // buffer is built in Python as a separate effect and threaded into grad_a via .after(store).
 extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
 fused_silu_mul_bwd_w13(
+    __hip_bfloat16*       __restrict__ grad_xw13_out,        // bf16, 2*N_ELEMS
    __hip_fp8_storage_t*  __restrict__ grad_xw13_fp8_out,    // fp8,  2*N_ELEMS
    float*                __restrict__ grad_amax_buf,        // fp32, NUM_WG per-WG partials
    const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ xw13,                 // bf16, 2*N_ELEMS
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ fused_silu_mul_bwd_w13(
    const __hip_bfloat16 *x3 = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&x3_raw);
    const __hip_bfloat16 *gv = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&g_raw);

+    __hip_bfloat16 out1[VEC], out3[VEC];
    __hip_fp8_storage_t fp8_1[VEC], fp8_3[VEC];
    #pragma unroll
    for (int i = 0; i < VEC; i++) {
@@ -72,11 +75,15 @@ fused_silu_mul_bwd_w13(
      const float gs = fg * scale;
      const float g1 = gs * silu_prime * f3;
      const float g3 = gs * silu;
+      out1[i] = static_cast<__hip_bfloat16>(g1);
+      out3[i] = static_cast<__hip_bfloat16>(g3);
      local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fmaxf(fabsf(g1), fabsf(g3)));
      fp8_1[i] = __hip_cvt_float_to_fp8(fmaxf(-FP8_MAX, fminf(FP8_MAX, g1 * g_scale)), __HIP_SATFINITE, __HIP_E4M3);
      fp8_3[i] = __hip_cvt_float_to_fp8(fmaxf(-FP8_MAX, fminf(FP8_MAX, g3 * g_scale)), __HIP_SATFINITE, __HIP_E4M3);
    }

+    *reinterpret_cast<float4*>(&grad_xw13_out[xw1_off]) = *reinterpret_cast<float4*>(out1);
+    *reinterpret_cast<float4*>(&grad_xw13_out[xw3_off]) = *reinterpret_cast<float4*>(out3);
    *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(&grad_xw13_fp8_out[xw1_off]) = *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(fp8_1);
    *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(&grad_xw13_fp8_out[xw3_off]) = *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(fp8_3);
  }
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+import functools, pathlib
+from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo
+from tinygrad.renderer import Estimates
+from extra.llama_kernels import THREADS_PER_WG, alloc_like, dname_of, compile_hip
+
+TILE = 64
+
+@functools.cache
+def _custom_fp8_transpose(out:UOp, inp:UOp, dname:str) -> UOp:
+  M, N = inp.shape
+  num_wg = (M // TILE) * (N // TILE)
+  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(num_wg, "gidx0")
+  mem = M * N * 2  # one byte read + one byte write per element
+  sink = UOp.sink(out.base, inp.base, threads, workgroups,
+                  arg=KernelInfo(f"fp8_transpose_{M}_{N}",
+                                 estimates=Estimates(ops=M*N, mem=mem)))
+  src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"fp8_transpose.cpp").read_text()
+  defines = [f"-DM_DIM={M}", f"-DN_DIM={N}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}"]
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))
+
+def fast_fp8_transpose(t:Tensor) -> Tensor:
+  assert t.ndim == 2, f"fast_fp8_transpose needs 2D input, got shape {t.shape}"
+  assert t.dtype in dtypes.fp8s, f"fast_fp8_transpose needs fp8 dtype, got {t.dtype}"
+  M, N = t.shape
+  assert M % TILE == 0 and N % TILE == 0, f"M={M}, N={N} must be multiples of {TILE}"
+
+  device = t.device
+  axis = t.uop.axis if isinstance(device, tuple) else None
+  out_axis = None
+  if axis == 0: out_axis = 1
+  elif axis == 1: out_axis = 0
+  elif axis is not None:
+    raise ValueError(f"fast_fp8_transpose: unsupported axis {axis}")
+
+  out = alloc_like((N, M), t.dtype, device, out_axis)
+  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fp8_transpose, dname=dname_of(device))
+  out, _ = Tensor.custom_kernel(out, t, fxn=fxn)
+  return out
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+
+// LDS-staged 64x64 fp8 transpose.
+//   in : (M_DIM, N_DIM) fp8 contiguous
+//   out: (N_DIM, M_DIM) fp8 contiguous, out[c][r] = in[r][c]
+//
+// One WG processes one 64x64 output tile.  Each thread reads one uint4 (16 fp8) coalesced
+// from input rows, stages into LDS, then writes one uint4 coalesced to the output (whose
+// 16 fp8 come from 16 different input rows via in-LDS gather).
+//
+// LDS layout: lds[64][LDS_STRIDE] with LDS_STRIDE=65 (1 byte pad) to mitigate bank conflicts
+// during the column-direction read of the write phase.
+
+#ifndef M_DIM
+#define M_DIM 16384
+#endif
+#ifndef N_DIM
+#define N_DIM 28672
+#endif
+#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
+#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
+#endif
+
+constexpr int TILE = 64;
+constexpr int VEC = 16;                    // fp8 per uint4 (128-bit) load/store
+constexpr int LDS_PAD = 1;
+constexpr int LDS_STRIDE = TILE + LDS_PAD; // 65 fp8 per row
+
+static_assert(THREADS_PER_WG * VEC == TILE * TILE, "256 threads * 16 fp8 = 64*64");
+static_assert(M_DIM % TILE == 0, "M_DIM must be a multiple of 64");
+static_assert(N_DIM % TILE == 0, "N_DIM must be a multiple of 64");
+
+constexpr int N_TILES_N = N_DIM / TILE;
+
+struct alignas(16) fp8x16 { uint8_t v[16]; };
+
+extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
+fp8_transpose(uint8_t* __restrict__ out,         // (N_DIM, M_DIM)
+              const uint8_t* __restrict__ in)    // (M_DIM, N_DIM)
+{
+  __shared__ uint8_t lds[TILE * LDS_STRIDE];
+
+  const int tid     = threadIdx.x;
+  const int wg_id   = blockIdx.x;
+  const int tile_r  = wg_id / N_TILES_N;       // tile index along M dim of input
+  const int tile_c  = wg_id % N_TILES_N;       // tile index along N dim of input
+
+  const int a = tid / (TILE / VEC);            // 0..63 (row within tile during read; col within tile during write)
+  const int b = tid % (TILE / VEC);            // 0..3
+  const int b16 = b * VEC;                     // 0,16,32,48
+
+  // ---- Read phase: input rows -> LDS rows
+  {
+    const long long src = (long long)(tile_r * TILE + a) * (long long)N_DIM
+                        + (long long)(tile_c * TILE + b16);
+    fp8x16 v = *reinterpret_cast<const fp8x16*>(&in[src]);
+    *reinterpret_cast<fp8x16*>(&lds[a * LDS_STRIDE + b16]) = v;
+  }
+  __syncthreads();
+
+  // ---- Write phase: LDS columns (gathered) -> output rows
+  // out[(tile_c*TILE + a)][(tile_r*TILE + b16 + i)] = in[(tile_r*TILE + b16 + i)][(tile_c*TILE + a)]
+  //                                                  = lds[b16 + i][a]
+  {
+    fp8x16 v;
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0; i < VEC; ++i) {
+      v.v[i] = lds[(b16 + i) * LDS_STRIDE + a];
+    }
+    const long long dst = (long long)(tile_c * TILE + a) * (long long)M_DIM
+                        + (long long)(tile_r * TILE + b16);
+    *reinterpret_cast<fp8x16*>(&out[dst]) = v;
+  }
+}
@@ -1,66 +1,64 @@
-import functools
+from __future__ import annotations
+import functools, pathlib
 from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo, AxisType
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo
+from tinygrad.renderer import Estimates
+from tinygrad.runtime.support.compiler_amd import HIPCCCompiler
+
+THREADS_PER_WG = 256

@functools.cache
 def _custom_fused_ce_loss_fwd(loss_out:UOp, max_out:UOp, lse_out:UOp, logits:UOp, targets:UOp,
-                              vocab:int, rows:int, seq:int, label_smoothing:float) -> UOp:
-  row = UOp.range(rows, 0)
-  b = row // seq
-  s = row % seq
-
-  v_max = UOp.range(vocab, 1, axis_type=AxisType.REDUCE)
-  row_max = logits[b, s, v_max].cast(dtypes.float).reduce(v_max, arg=Ops.MAX)
-
-  v_lse = UOp.range(vocab, 2, axis_type=AxisType.REDUCE)
-  row_lse = (logits[b, s, v_lse].cast(dtypes.float) - row_max).exp().reduce(v_lse, arg=Ops.ADD).log() + row_max
-
-  v_smooth = UOp.range(vocab, 3, axis_type=AxisType.REDUCE)
-  target = logits[b, s, targets[row].cast(dtypes.weakint)].cast(dtypes.float)
-  mean_logits = logits[b, s, v_smooth].cast(dtypes.float).reduce(v_smooth, arg=Ops.ADD) / vocab
-  loss = row_lse - (1.0 - label_smoothing) * target - label_smoothing * mean_logits
-  stores = UOp.group(loss_out[row].store(loss), max_out[row].store(row_max), lse_out[row].store(row_lse))
-
-  return stores.end(row).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_ce_loss_fwd_{rows}_{vocab}"))
+                              dname:str, vocab:int, rows:int, label_smoothing:float) -> UOp:
+  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(rows, "gidx0")
+  mem = rows * vocab * 2 + rows * 12 + rows * 4
+  sink = UOp.sink(loss_out.base, max_out.base, lse_out.base, logits.base, targets.base,
+                  threads, workgroups,
+                  arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_ce_loss_fwd", estimates=Estimates(ops=6*rows*vocab, mem=mem)))
+  src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"fused_ce_loss.cpp").read_text()
+  defines = [f"-DVOCAB={vocab}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}",
+             f"-DLABEL_SMOOTHING={label_smoothing}f"]
+  lib = HIPCCCompiler("gfx950", ["-std=c++20", "-ffast-math", *defines]).compile_cached(src)
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))

@functools.cache
 def _custom_fused_ce_loss_bwd(d_logits:UOp, logits:UOp, lse:UOp, targets:UOp, scale:UOp,
-                              vocab:int, rows:int, seq:int, label_smoothing:float) -> UOp:
-  row = UOp.range(rows, 0)
-  v = UOp.range(vocab, 1)
-  b = row // seq
-  s = row % seq
-
-  prob = (logits[b, s, v].cast(dtypes.float) - lse[row]).exp()
-  target = v.eq(targets[row].cast(dtypes.weakint)).where(1.0 - label_smoothing, 0.0)
-  smooth = label_smoothing / vocab
-  grad = (prob - target - smooth) * scale[0]
-
-  return d_logits[b, s, v].store(grad.cast(d_logits.dtype.base)).end(v, row).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_ce_loss_bwd_{rows}_{vocab}"))
+                              dname:str, vocab:int, rows:int, label_smoothing:float) -> UOp:
+  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(rows, "gidx0")
+  mem = rows * vocab * 4 + rows * 8 + 4
+  sink = UOp.sink(d_logits.base, logits.base, lse.base, targets.base, scale.base,
+                  threads, workgroups,
+                  arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_ce_loss_bwd", estimates=Estimates(ops=4*rows*vocab, mem=mem)))
+  src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"fused_ce_loss_bwd.cpp").read_text()
+  defines = [f"-DVOCAB={vocab}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}",
+             f"-DLABEL_SMOOTHING={label_smoothing}f"]
+  lib = HIPCCCompiler("gfx950", ["-std=c++20", "-ffast-math", *defines]).compile_cached(src)
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=lib)))

 def _fused_ce_loss_bwd(gradient:UOp, kernel:UOp, label_smoothing:float):
  # NOTE: forward inputs are (loss_out, max_out, lse_out, logits, targets)
  # gradient is the upstream grad w.r.t. per-row loss (shape: (rows,) fp32)
  _, _, lse_u, logits_u, targets_u = kernel.src[1:]
  device = logits_u.device
-  MBS, SEQ, VOCAB = logits_u.shape
+  rows, VOCAB = logits_u.shape  # (rows, VOCAB) after reshape
  if isinstance(device, tuple):
    axis = logits_u.axis
    ndev = len(device)
-    local_shape = tuple(s//ndev if i == axis else s for i,s in enumerate((MBS, SEQ, VOCAB)))
-    d_logits = Tensor(Tensor.invalids(*local_shape, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16, device=device).uop.multi(axis), device=device)
-    rows_per_dev = local_shape[0] * local_shape[1]
-    seq_per_dev = local_shape[1]
+    d_logits = Tensor(Tensor.invalids(rows // ndev, VOCAB, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16, device=device).uop.multi(axis), device=device)
+    dname = device[0].split(":")[0]
+    rows_per_dev = rows // ndev
  else:
-    d_logits = Tensor.invalids(MBS, SEQ, VOCAB, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16, device=device)
-    rows_per_dev = MBS * SEQ
-    seq_per_dev = SEQ
+    d_logits = Tensor.invalids(rows, VOCAB, dtype=dtypes.bfloat16, device=device)
+    dname = device.split(":")[0] if isinstance(device, str) else device
+    rows_per_dev = rows
  # NOTE: .mean() backward gives same grad per row (1/N), so broadcast is safe; take scalar
  scale = Tensor(gradient, device=device).float().reshape(-1)[0:1].contiguous()
  logits_t = Tensor(logits_u.after(kernel), device=device)
  lse_t = Tensor(lse_u.after(kernel), device=device)
  targets_t = Tensor(targets_u, device=device)
-  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_ce_loss_bwd, vocab=VOCAB, rows=rows_per_dev, seq=seq_per_dev, label_smoothing=label_smoothing)
+  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_ce_loss_bwd, dname=dname, vocab=VOCAB, rows=rows_per_dev, label_smoothing=label_smoothing)
  d_logits, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(d_logits, logits_t, lse_t, targets_t, scale, fxn=fxn)
  return (None, None, None, d_logits.uop, None)

@@ -80,19 +78,19 @@ def fused_ce_loss(logits:Tensor, targets:Tensor, label_smoothing:float=0.1) -> T
                      device=logits.device)
    lse_out  = Tensor(Tensor.invalids(rows // ndev, dtype=dtypes.float32, device=logits.device).uop.multi(0),
                      device=logits.device)
-    local_shape = tuple(s//ndev if i == axis else s for i,s in enumerate(logits.shape))
-    rows_per_dev = local_shape[0] * local_shape[1]
-    seq_per_dev = local_shape[1]
+    dname = logits.device[0].split(":")[0]
+    rows_per_dev = rows // ndev
  else:
    loss_out = Tensor.invalids(rows, dtype=dtypes.float32, device=logits.device)
    max_out  = Tensor.invalids(rows, dtype=dtypes.float32, device=logits.device)
    lse_out  = Tensor.invalids(rows, dtype=dtypes.float32, device=logits.device)
+    dname = logits.device.split(":")[0] if isinstance(logits.device, str) else logits.device
    rows_per_dev = rows
-    seq_per_dev = SEQ
+  logits_flat = logits.reshape(rows, VOCAB)
  targets_flat = targets.reshape(-1).cast(dtypes.int32)
-  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_ce_loss_fwd, vocab=VOCAB, rows=rows_per_dev, seq=seq_per_dev,
+  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_ce_loss_fwd, dname=dname, vocab=VOCAB, rows=rows_per_dev,
                          label_smoothing=label_smoothing)
  loss_out, max_out, lse_out, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(
-    loss_out, max_out, lse_out, logits, targets_flat,
+    loss_out, max_out, lse_out, logits_flat, targets_flat,
    fxn=fxn, grad_fxn=functools.partial(_fused_ce_loss_bwd, label_smoothing=label_smoothing))
  return loss_out.mean()
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+#include <hip/hip_bf16.h>
+
+// Fused forward sparse-CE with label smoothing.
+// SINGLE-PASS online softmax + vectorized 8-wide bf16 loads for HBM coalescing.
+
+#ifndef VOCAB
+#define VOCAB 128256
+#endif
+#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
+#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
+#endif
+#ifndef LABEL_SMOOTHING
+#define LABEL_SMOOTHING 0.1f
+#endif
+
+constexpr int VEC = 8;
+
+extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
+fused_ce_loss_fwd(
+    float*                __restrict__ loss_out,  // out: fp32, ROWS
+    float*                __restrict__ max_out,   // out: fp32, ROWS
+    float*                __restrict__ lse_out,   // out: fp32, ROWS
+    const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ logits,    // in:  bf16, ROWS*VOCAB
+    const int*            __restrict__ targets)   // in:  int32, ROWS
+{
+  __shared__ float sdata_m[THREADS_PER_WG];
+  __shared__ float sdata_s[THREADS_PER_WG];
+  __shared__ float sdata_sumx[THREADS_PER_WG];
+  __shared__ float sdata_tgt[THREADS_PER_WG];
+
+  const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+  const int row = blockIdx.x;
+  const int target = targets[row];
+  const __hip_bfloat16* row_logits = logits + (size_t)row * VOCAB;
+
+  float m = -INFINITY;
+  float s = 0.0f;
+  float sum_x = 0.0f;
+  float target_logit = 0.0f;
+  constexpr bool needs_sum_x = (LABEL_SMOOTHING != 0.0f);
+
+  // Vectorized stride: each iter loads 8 bf16 = 16 bytes. Warp loads 32*16 = 512 bytes (4 cache lines).
+  const int VOCAB_VEC = VOCAB & ~(VEC - 1);  // round down to multiple of VEC
+  for (int i = tid * VEC; i < VOCAB_VEC; i += THREADS_PER_WG * VEC) {
+    float4 raw = *reinterpret_cast<const float4*>(&row_logits[i]);
+    const __hip_bfloat16* xi = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&raw);
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int k = 0; k < VEC; k++) {
+      const float x = static_cast<float>(xi[k]);
+      if constexpr (needs_sum_x) sum_x += x;
+      if (i + k == target) target_logit = x;
+      if (x > m) {
+        s = s * __expf(m - x) + 1.0f;
+        m = x;
+      } else {
+        s += __expf(x - m);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  // tail (VOCAB not divisible by VEC):
+  for (int i = VOCAB_VEC + tid; i < VOCAB; i += THREADS_PER_WG) {
+    const float x = static_cast<float>(row_logits[i]);
+    if constexpr (needs_sum_x) sum_x += x;
+    if (i == target) target_logit = x;
+    if (x > m) { s = s * __expf(m - x) + 1.0f; m = x; }
+    else        { s += __expf(x - m); }
+  }
+
+  sdata_m[tid] = m;
+  sdata_s[tid] = s;
+  sdata_sumx[tid] = sum_x;
+  sdata_tgt[tid] = target_logit;
+  __syncthreads();
+
+  for (int step = THREADS_PER_WG / 2; step > 0; step >>= 1) {
+    if (tid < step) {
+      const float m1 = sdata_m[tid];
+      const float m2 = sdata_m[tid + step];
+      const float s1 = sdata_s[tid];
+      const float s2 = sdata_s[tid + step];
+      const float m_new = fmaxf(m1, m2);
+      const float s_new = s1 * __expf(m1 - m_new) + s2 * __expf(m2 - m_new);
+      sdata_m[tid] = m_new;
+      sdata_s[tid] = s_new;
+      sdata_sumx[tid] += sdata_sumx[tid + step];
+      sdata_tgt[tid]  += sdata_tgt[tid + step];
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+  }
+
+  if (tid == 0) {
+    const float row_max = sdata_m[0];
+    const float row_sum_exp = sdata_s[0];
+    const float row_sum_x = sdata_sumx[0];
+    const float tgt = sdata_tgt[0];
+    const float row_lse = logf(row_sum_exp) + row_max;
+    const float mean_logits = row_sum_x / static_cast<float>(VOCAB);
+    const float loss = row_lse - (1.0f - LABEL_SMOOTHING) * tgt - LABEL_SMOOTHING * mean_logits;
+    loss_out[row] = loss;
+    max_out[row]  = row_max;
+    lse_out[row]  = row_lse;
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+#include <hip/hip_bf16.h>
+
+// Vectorized CE bwd: 8-wide bf16 loads + stores.
+
+#ifndef VOCAB
+#define VOCAB 128256
+#endif
+#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
+#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
+#endif
+#ifndef LABEL_SMOOTHING
+#define LABEL_SMOOTHING 0.1f
+#endif
+
+constexpr int VEC = 8;
+
+extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
+fused_ce_loss_bwd(
+    __hip_bfloat16*       __restrict__ d_logits,
+    const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ logits,
+    const float*          __restrict__ lse,
+    const int*            __restrict__ targets,
+    const float*          __restrict__ scale_in)
+{
+  const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+  const int row = blockIdx.x;
+  const int target = targets[row];
+  const float lse_r = lse[row];
+  const __hip_bfloat16* row_logits  = logits   + (size_t)row * VOCAB;
+  __hip_bfloat16*       row_dlogits = d_logits + (size_t)row * VOCAB;
+  const float inv_vocab = 1.0f / static_cast<float>(VOCAB);
+  const float scale = *scale_in;
+  const float ls_term = LABEL_SMOOTHING * inv_vocab;
+
+  const int VOCAB_VEC = VOCAB & ~(VEC - 1);
+  for (int i = tid * VEC; i < VOCAB_VEC; i += THREADS_PER_WG * VEC) {
+    float4 raw = *reinterpret_cast<const float4*>(&row_logits[i]);
+    const __hip_bfloat16* xi = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&raw);
+    __hip_bfloat16 out[VEC];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int k = 0; k < VEC; k++) {
+      const float x = static_cast<float>(xi[k]);
+      float g = __expf(x - lse_r);
+      if (i + k == target) g -= (1.0f - LABEL_SMOOTHING);
+      g -= ls_term;
+      out[k] = static_cast<__hip_bfloat16>(g * scale);
+    }
+    *reinterpret_cast<float4*>(&row_dlogits[i]) = *reinterpret_cast<float4*>(out);
+  }
+  for (int i = VOCAB_VEC + tid; i < VOCAB; i += THREADS_PER_WG) {
+    const float x = static_cast<float>(row_logits[i]);
+    float g = __expf(x - lse_r);
+    if (i == target) g -= (1.0f - LABEL_SMOOTHING);
+    g -= ls_term;
+    row_dlogits[i] = static_cast<__hip_bfloat16>(g * scale);
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+import functools, pathlib
+from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo
+from tinygrad.renderer import Estimates
+from extra.llama_kernels import THREADS_PER_WG, dname_of, compile_hip
+
+ELEMS_PER_THREAD = 8  # vectorized 16-byte load (uint4 = 8 bf16)
+
+def _build_src(n_chunks:int) -> str:
+  template = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"fused_pad_grad_accum.cpp").read_text()
+  params = "".join(f",\n    const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ chunk{i}" for i in range(n_chunks))
+  dispatch = "\n    ".join(f"case {i}: chunk_ptr = chunk{i}; break;" for i in range(n_chunks))
+  return (template.replace("__FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM_PARAMS", params)
+                  .replace("__FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM_DISPATCH", dispatch))
+
+@functools.cache
+def _custom_fused_pad_grad_accum(grad_buf:UOp, *chunk_uops, dname:str, n_chunks:int, chunk_size:int) -> UOp:
+  total = n_chunks * chunk_size
+  elems_per_block = THREADS_PER_WG * ELEMS_PER_THREAD
+  assert chunk_size % elems_per_block == 0, f"chunk_size {chunk_size} must be multiple of {elems_per_block}"
+  num_wg = total // elems_per_block
+  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(num_wg, "gidx0")
+  mem = total * 2 * 3
+  sink = UOp.sink(grad_buf.base, *(c.base for c in chunk_uops), threads, workgroups,
+                  arg=KernelInfo(f"fused_pad_grad_accum_n{n_chunks}_c{chunk_size}",
+                                 estimates=Estimates(ops=2*total, mem=mem)))
+  src = _build_src(n_chunks)
+  defines = [f"-DCHUNK_SIZE={chunk_size}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}", f"-DELEMS_PER_THREAD={ELEMS_PER_THREAD}"]
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))
+
+def can_fused_pad_grad_accum(grad_buf:Tensor, chunks:list[Tensor]) -> bool:
+  if not chunks or grad_buf.dtype != dtypes.bfloat16: return False
+  if any(c.dtype != dtypes.bfloat16 for c in chunks): return False
+  chunk_shape = chunks[0].shape
+  if any(c.shape != chunk_shape for c in chunks): return False
+  chunk_size, total = 1, 1
+  for d in chunk_shape: chunk_size *= d
+  for d in grad_buf.shape: total *= d
+  return total == len(chunks) * chunk_size and chunk_size % (THREADS_PER_WG * ELEMS_PER_THREAD) == 0
+
+def fused_pad_grad_accum(grad_buf:Tensor, chunks:list[Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+  # NOTE: grad_buf += cat(*chunks, dim=0) in one HBM pass (in-place add). Returns new grad_buf Tensor.
+  # Requires uniform chunk shapes and chunk_size % (THREADS_PER_WG*ELEMS_PER_THREAD) == 0.
+  assert chunks and grad_buf.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16
+  for c in chunks: assert c.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16, f"chunk dtype must be bf16, got {c.dtype}"
+  chunk_size, total = 1, 1
+  for d in chunks[0].shape: chunk_size *= d
+  for d in grad_buf.shape: total *= d
+  assert total == len(chunks) * chunk_size, f"grad_buf size {total} != n_chunks {len(chunks)} * chunk_size {chunk_size}"
+  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fused_pad_grad_accum, dname=dname_of(grad_buf.device),
+                          n_chunks=len(chunks), chunk_size=chunk_size)
+  out, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(grad_buf, *chunks, fxn=fxn)
+  return out
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+// Fused custom kernel: grad_buf += cat(*chunks, dim=0) in one HBM pass.
+//
+// Template source — chunk parameter list and switch dispatch are filled by codegen
+// in cast_amax.py:_build_fused_pad_grad_accum_src to support arbitrary N.
+//
+// Defines required at compile time:
+//   CHUNK_SIZE       elements per chunk (must be multiple of THREADS_PER_WG * ELEMS_PER_THREAD)
+//   THREADS_PER_WG
+//   ELEMS_PER_THREAD (8 = one uint4 per thread = 16-byte vectorized load)
+//
+// Layout: one block-per-(slice-of-chunk) — blockIdx.x / BLOCKS_PER_CHUNK selects the chunk.
+// All threads in a block read the same chunk → switch is uniform → no warp divergence.
+
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+#include <hip/hip_bf16.h>
+
+#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
+#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
+#endif
+#ifndef ELEMS_PER_THREAD
+#define ELEMS_PER_THREAD 8
+#endif
+
+#define ELEMS_PER_BLOCK (THREADS_PER_WG * ELEMS_PER_THREAD)
+#define BLOCKS_PER_CHUNK (CHUNK_SIZE / ELEMS_PER_BLOCK)
+
+extern "C" __attribute__((global))
+__attribute__((amdgpu_flat_work_group_size(1, THREADS_PER_WG)))
+void fused_pad_grad_accum(
+    __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ grad_buf
+    __FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM_PARAMS
+) {
+  const int bid = blockIdx.x;
+  const int chunk_idx = bid / BLOCKS_PER_CHUNK;
+  const int block_in_chunk = bid - chunk_idx * BLOCKS_PER_CHUNK;
+  const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+
+  const __hip_bfloat16* chunk_ptr;
+  switch (chunk_idx) {
+    __FUSED_PAD_GRAD_ACCUM_DISPATCH
+    default: chunk_ptr = (const __hip_bfloat16*)0; break;  // unreachable
+  }
+
+  // int64 for global_offset: at 32 chunks × 117M elements = 3.6B, int32 overflows → MEMVIOL.
+  const int local_offset = block_in_chunk * ELEMS_PER_BLOCK + tid * ELEMS_PER_THREAD;
+  const long long global_offset = (long long)chunk_idx * (long long)CHUNK_SIZE + (long long)local_offset;
+
+  // Vectorized 16-byte load (uint4 = 8 bf16). Requires CHUNK_SIZE % 8 == 0 and 16-byte alignment.
+  const uint4 chunk_v = *reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(&chunk_ptr[local_offset]);
+  const uint4 grad_v  = *reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(&grad_buf[global_offset]);
+  uint4 out_v;
+
+  const __hip_bfloat16* chunk_bf = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&chunk_v);
+  const __hip_bfloat16* grad_bf  = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&grad_v);
+  __hip_bfloat16*       out_bf   = reinterpret_cast<__hip_bfloat16*>(&out_v);
+
+  #pragma unroll
+  for (int i = 0; i < ELEMS_PER_THREAD; i++) {
+    out_bf[i] = (__hip_bfloat16)((float)grad_bf[i] + (float)chunk_bf[i]);
+  }
+
+  *reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(&grad_buf[global_offset]) = out_v;
+}
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def _custom_fwd(fp8_out:UOp, x_normed_out:UOp, rrms_out:UOp, amax_buf:UOp,
  defines = [f"-DN_ELEMS={n_elems}", f"-DHIDDEN={HIDDEN}", f"-DNUM_WG={NUM_WG}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}",
             f"-DEPS_LITERAL={eps_val}f"]
  src = _src()
-  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))

@functools.cache
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def _custom_fwd_add(fp8_out:UOp, h_out:UOp, x_normed_out:UOp, rrms_out:UOp, amax
  defines = [f"-DN_ELEMS={n_elems}", f"-DHIDDEN={HIDDEN}", f"-DNUM_WG={NUM_WG}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}",
             f"-DEPS_LITERAL={eps_val}f", f"-DHAS_RESIDUAL=1"]
  src = _src()
-  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))

@functools.cache
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def _custom_bwd(grad_x:UOp, grad_weight_partial:UOp,
                                 estimates=Estimates(ops=8*n_elems, mem=mem)))
  defines = [f"-DN_ELEMS={n_elems}", f"-DHIDDEN={HIDDEN}", f"-DNUM_WG={NUM_WG}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}"]
  src = _src_bwd()
-  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))

 def _bwd_common(fp8_grad_u, h_grad_u, x_u, x_normed_u, rrms_u, weight_u, amax_state_u, kernel:UOp):
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ def _fused_add_bwd(*args, **kwargs):
  grad_h, grad_w = _bwd_common(fp8_grad_u, h_grad_u, x_u, x_normed_u, rrms_u, weight_u, amax_state_u, kernel)
  return (None, None, None, None, None, grad_h, grad_h, grad_w, None)

-def fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x:Tensor, weight:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, eps:float, fp8_dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
-  # NOTE: rmsnorm(x) * weight -> fp8 + amax. Returns (fp8, new_amax, x_normed, rrms).
+def fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x:Tensor, weight:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, eps:float, fp8_dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
+  # NOTE: rmsnorm(x) * weight -> fp8 + amax. Returns (fp8, inv_scale, new_amax, x_normed, rrms).
  # x_normed + rrms are saved for the rmsnorm backward (also recomputed here from x regs).
  assert x.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16 and weight.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16
  assert x.shape[-1] == weight.shape[-1], f"HIDDEN mismatch: x={x.shape}, weight={weight.shape}"
@@ -127,12 +127,13 @@ def fused_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x:Tensor, weight:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, e
  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_fwd, dname=dname_of(x.device), eps_val=eps)
  fp8_out, x_normed_out, rrms_out, amax_buf, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(
    fp8_out, x_normed_out, rrms_out, amax_buf, x, weight, amax_state, fxn=fxn, grad_fxn=_fused_bwd)
-  return fp8_out, scalar_amax(amax_buf), x_normed_out, rrms_out
+  inv_scale = (amax_state.float() + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX
+  return fp8_out, inv_scale, scalar_amax(amax_buf), x_normed_out, rrms_out

 def fused_add_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x:Tensor, residual:Tensor, weight:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor,
-                                       eps:float, fp8_dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
+                                       eps:float, fp8_dtype) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
  # NOTE: h = x + residual; y_normed = rmsnorm(h); fp8 = quantize(y_normed * weight).
-  # Returns (fp8, new_amax, h, x_normed, rrms). h is also written so downstream can
+  # Returns (fp8, inv_scale, new_amax, h, x_normed, rrms). h is also written so downstream can
  # reuse it without recomputing x+residual — eliminates the separate residual-add kernel.
  assert x.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16 and residual.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16 and weight.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16
  assert x.shape == residual.shape
@@ -148,4 +149,5 @@ def fused_add_rmsnorm_mul_quantize_fp8(x:Tensor, residual:Tensor, weight:Tensor,
  fp8_out, h_out, x_normed_out, rrms_out, amax_buf, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(
    fp8_out, h_out, x_normed_out, rrms_out, amax_buf, x, residual, weight, amax_state,
    fxn=fxn, grad_fxn=_fused_add_bwd)
-  return fp8_out, scalar_amax(amax_buf), h_out, x_normed_out, rrms_out
+  inv_scale = (amax_state.float() + 1e-8) / FP8_MAX
+  return fp8_out, inv_scale, scalar_amax(amax_buf), h_out, x_normed_out, rrms_out
@@ -1,104 +0,0 @@
-import functools
-from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo, AxisType
-from extra.llama_kernels import FP8_MAX, THREADS_PER_WG, alloc_like
-
-BLK = 32
-PACK = 4
-LOG2E = 1.4426950408889634
-
-@functools.cache
-def _custom_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8(fp8_out:UOp, e8_out:UOp, si_out:UOp, x_w1:UOp, x_w3:UOp) -> UOp:
-  rows, K = x_w1.shape
-  scale_K = K // BLK
-  n_elems = rows * K
-  n_super = n_elems // (BLK * PACK)
-  sk4 = scale_K // PACK
-  assert n_super % THREADS_PER_WG == 0, f"{n_super=} must divide over {THREADS_PER_WG=}"
-  nwg = n_super // THREADS_PER_WG
-
-  x_w1, x_w3 = x_w1.reshape(n_elems), x_w3.reshape(n_elems)
-  fp8_out = fp8_out.reshape(n_elems)
-  e8_out = e8_out.reshape(rows * scale_K)
-  si_out = si_out.reshape(sk4 * rows)
-
-  wg = UOp.range(nwg, 0, AxisType.GLOBAL)
-  tid = UOp.range(THREADS_PER_WG, 1, AxisType.LOCAL)
-  sb = UOp.range(PACK, 2, AxisType.UNROLL)
-  lane = UOp.range(BLK, 3, AxisType.UNROLL)
-
-  super_idx = wg * THREADS_PER_WG + tid
-  idx = super_idx * (BLK * PACK) + sb * BLK + lane
-
-  w1 = x_w1[idx].cast(dtypes.float)
-  w3 = x_w3[idx].cast(dtypes.float)
-  sig = (1.0 + (w1 * -LOG2E).exp2()).reciprocal()
-  act = w1 * sig * w3
-  abs_a = (act < 0.0).where(-act, act)
-  blk_max = abs_a.reduce(lane, arg=Ops.MAX)
-  e8f = (blk_max.maximum(1e-38).log2().floor() + 127.0).maximum(0.0).minimum(254.0)
-  qscale = (127.0 - e8f).exp2()
-  scaled = (act * qscale).maximum(-FP8_MAX).minimum(FP8_MAX)
-  e8u8 = e8f.cast(dtypes.uint8)
-
-  fp8_store = fp8_out[idx].store(scaled.cast(fp8_out.dtype.base)).end(lane)
-  e8_store = e8_out.after(fp8_store)[super_idx * PACK + sb].store(e8u8)
-  packed = (e8u8.cast(dtypes.uint32) << (sb.cast(dtypes.uint32) * 8)).reduce(sb, arg=Ops.ADD)
-  row, col4 = super_idx // sk4, super_idx % sk4
-  si_store = si_out.after(e8_store.end(sb))[col4 * rows + row].store(packed)
-  return si_store.end(tid, wg).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8_{n_elems}", opts_to_apply=()))
-
-@functools.cache
-def _custom_silu_mul_bwd_mxfp8(gx1_out:UOp, gx3_out:UOp, x_w1:UOp, x_w3:UOp, grad_aq:UOp, e8:UOp) -> UOp:
-  rows, K = x_w1.shape
-  scale_K = K // BLK
-  n_elems = rows * K
-  VEC = 8
-  assert n_elems % (THREADS_PER_WG * VEC) == 0, f"{n_elems=} must divide {THREADS_PER_WG*VEC=}"
-  nwg = n_elems // (THREADS_PER_WG * VEC)
-  x_w1, x_w3, grad_aq = x_w1.reshape(n_elems), x_w3.reshape(n_elems), grad_aq.reshape(n_elems)
-  gx1_out, gx3_out, e8 = gx1_out.reshape(n_elems), gx3_out.reshape(n_elems), e8.reshape(rows * scale_K)
-
-  wg = UOp.range(nwg, 0, AxisType.GLOBAL)
-  tid = UOp.range(THREADS_PER_WG, 1, AxisType.LOCAL)
-  lane = UOp.range(VEC, 2, AxisType.UNROLL)
-  idx = (wg * THREADS_PER_WG + tid) * VEC + lane
-
-  e8v = e8[idx // BLK].cast(dtypes.float)
-  qscale = (127.0 - e8v).exp2()
-  ga = grad_aq[idx].cast(dtypes.float) * qscale
-  w1 = x_w1[idx].cast(dtypes.float)
-  w3 = x_w3[idx].cast(dtypes.float)
-  sig = (1.0 + (w1 * -LOG2E).exp2()).reciprocal()
-  s = w1 * sig
-  sprime = sig * (1.0 + w1 * (1.0 - sig))
-  gx1 = gx1_out[idx].store((ga * sprime * w3).cast(gx1_out.dtype.base))
-  gx3 = gx3_out.after(gx1)[idx].store((ga * s).cast(gx3_out.dtype.base))
-  return gx3.end(lane, tid, wg).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"silu_mul_bwd_mxfp8_{n_elems}", opts_to_apply=()))
-
-def _silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8_bwd(gradient:UOp, kernel:UOp):
-  _, e8_out, _, x_w1, x_w3 = kernel.src[1:]
-  device = x_w1.device
-  rows, K = x_w1.shape
-  axis = x_w1.axis if isinstance(device, tuple) else None
-  gx1 = alloc_like((rows, K), dtypes.bfloat16, device, axis)
-  gx3 = alloc_like((rows, K), dtypes.bfloat16, device, axis)
-  gx1, gx3, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(gx1, gx3, Tensor(x_w1, device=device), Tensor(x_w3, device=device),
-                                      Tensor(gradient, device=device).cast(dtypes.bfloat16), Tensor(e8_out.after(kernel), device=device),
-                                      fxn=_custom_silu_mul_bwd_mxfp8)
-  return (None, None, None, gx1.uop, gx3.uop)
-
-def fused_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8(x_w1:Tensor, x_w3:Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
-  assert x_w1.shape == x_w3.shape, f"{x_w1.shape} != {x_w3.shape}"
-  assert x_w1.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16 and x_w3.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16
-  assert x_w1.ndim == 2, f"expected 2d, got {x_w1.shape}"
-  from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import FP8_DTYPE
-  rows, K = x_w1.shape
-  scale_K = K // BLK
-  axis = x_w1.uop.axis if isinstance(x_w1.device, tuple) else None
-  fp8_out = alloc_like((rows, K), FP8_DTYPE, x_w1.device, axis)
-  e8_out = alloc_like((rows, scale_K), dtypes.uint8, x_w1.device, axis)
-  si_out = alloc_like((scale_K // PACK, rows), dtypes.uint32, x_w1.device, None if axis is None else (1 if axis == 0 else 0))
-  fp8_out, e8_out, si_out, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(fp8_out, e8_out, si_out, x_w1, x_w3,
-                                                     fxn=_custom_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8, grad_fxn=_silu_mul_quantize_mxfp8_bwd)
-  return fp8_out, e8_out, si_out
@@ -1,64 +1,35 @@
-import functools
+from __future__ import annotations
+import functools, pathlib
 from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.dtype import AddrSpace
-from tinygrad.helpers import prod
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo, AxisType
-from extra.llama_kernels import FP8_MAX, NUM_WG, THREADS_PER_WG, alloc_like, alloc_local, scalar_amax
+from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo
+from tinygrad.renderer import Estimates
+from extra.llama_kernels import FP8_MAX, NUM_WG, THREADS_PER_WG, alloc_like, alloc_local, scalar_amax, dname_of, compile_hip

@functools.cache
-def _custom_quantize_fp8_with_amax(fp8_out:UOp, amax_partial:UOp, x:UOp, amax_state:UOp) -> UOp:
-  VEC = 8
-  n_elems = prod(x.shape)
-  assert n_elems % (NUM_WG * THREADS_PER_WG * VEC) == 0
-  assert amax_partial.shape[0] == NUM_WG
-
-  x = x.reshape(n_elems)
-  fp8_out = fp8_out.reshape(n_elems)
-
-  wg = UOp.range(NUM_WG, 0, AxisType.GLOBAL)
-  tid = UOp.range(THREADS_PER_WG, 1, AxisType.LOCAL)
-  it = UOp.range((n_elems // VEC) // (NUM_WG * THREADS_PER_WG), 2, AxisType.LOOP)
-  lane = UOp.range(VEC, 3, AxisType.UNROLL)
-
-  idx = (((it * NUM_WG + wg) * THREADS_PER_WG + tid) * VEC) + lane
-
-  scale = FP8_MAX / (amax_state[0].cast(dtypes.float) + 1e-8)
-  x_f = x[idx].cast(dtypes.float)
-  abs_x = (x_f < 0.0).where(-x_f, x_f)
-  scaled = (x_f * scale).maximum(-FP8_MAX).minimum(FP8_MAX)
-
-  fp8_store = fp8_out[idx].store(scaled.cast(fp8_out.dtype.base)).end(lane)
-  lane_max = abs_x.reduce(lane, arg=Ops.MAX)
-
-  lmax = UOp.placeholder((1,), dtypes.float, slot=1, addrspace=AddrSpace.REG)
-  lmax_init = lmax.after(wg, tid)[0].store(0.0)
-  lmax_prev = lmax.after(lmax_init, it)[0]
-  lmax_store = lmax.after(fp8_store)[0].store(lmax_prev.maximum(lane_max))
-  lmax_val = lmax.after(lmax_store.end(it))[0]
-
-  lds = UOp.placeholder((THREADS_PER_WG,), dtypes.float, slot=0, addrspace=AddrSpace.LOCAL)
-  lds = lds.after(lds[tid].store(lmax_val).barrier())
-
-  step = THREADS_PER_WG // 2
-  while step:
-    active = tid < step
-    other = lds[(tid + step).valid(active)].load()
-    lds = lds.after(lds[tid.valid(active)].store(lds[tid].maximum(other)).barrier())
-    step //= 2
-
-  amax_store = amax_partial[tid.eq(0).where(wg, UOp.invalid())].store(lds[0])
-  return amax_store.end(tid, wg).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"quantize_fp8_with_amax_{n_elems}", opts_to_apply=()))
+def _custom_quantize_fp8_with_amax(fp8_out:UOp, amax_partial:UOp, x:UOp, amax_state:UOp, dname:str) -> UOp:
+  n_elems = 1
+  for d in x.shape: n_elems *= d
+  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(NUM_WG, "gidx0")
+  mem = n_elems * 2 + n_elems + 4 + NUM_WG * 4
+  sink = UOp.sink(fp8_out.base, amax_partial.base, x.base, amax_state.base, threads, workgroups,
+                  arg=KernelInfo(f"quantize_fp8_with_amax_{n_elems}", estimates=Estimates(ops=3*n_elems, mem=mem)))
+  src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"quantize_fp8_with_amax.cpp").read_text()
+  defines = [f"-DN_ELEMS={n_elems}", f"-DNUM_WG={NUM_WG}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}"]
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))

@functools.cache
-def _custom_quantize_fp8_scalar(fp8_out:UOp, x:UOp, amax_state:UOp) -> UOp:
-  n_elems = prod(x.shape)
-  i = UOp.range(n_elems, 0)
-
-  x_f = x.reshape(n_elems)[i].cast(dtypes.float)
-  scale = FP8_MAX / (amax_state[0].cast(dtypes.float) + 1e-8)
-  store = fp8_out.reshape(n_elems)[i].store((x_f * scale).cast(fp8_out.dtype.base))
-
-  return store.end(i).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"quantize_fp8_scalar_{n_elems}"))
+def _custom_quantize_fp8_scalar(fp8_out:UOp, x:UOp, amax_state:UOp, dname:str) -> UOp:
+  n_elems = 1
+  for d in x.shape: n_elems *= d
+  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(NUM_WG, "gidx0")
+  mem = n_elems * 2 + n_elems
+  sink = UOp.sink(fp8_out.base, x.base, amax_state.base, threads, workgroups,
+                  arg=KernelInfo(f"quantize_fp8_scalar_{n_elems}", estimates=Estimates(ops=2*n_elems, mem=mem)))
+  src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"quantize_fp8_scalar.cpp").read_text()
+  defines = [f"-DN_ELEMS={n_elems}", f"-DNUM_WG={NUM_WG}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}"]
+  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=dname), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
+                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))

 def _quantize_fp8_delayed_bwd(gradient:UOp, kernel:UOp):
  # NOTE: STE-equivalent backward — grad_x = grad_fp8 * scale, scale = FP8_MAX / amax_state.
@@ -78,10 +49,8 @@ def quantize_fp8_delayed(x:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, fp8_dtype=dtypes.fp8e4m3)
  assert x.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16, f"expected bf16, got {x.dtype}"
  axis = x.uop.axis if isinstance(x.device, tuple) else None
  fp8_out      = alloc_like(x.shape,  fp8_dtype,      x.device, axis)
-  n_elems = prod(x.uop.shard_shape)
-  assert n_elems % NUM_WG == 0, f"{n_elems=} must divide over {NUM_WG=}"
  amax_partial = alloc_local((NUM_WG,), dtypes.float32, x.device, axis)
-  fxn = _custom_quantize_fp8_with_amax
+  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_quantize_fp8_with_amax, dname=dname_of(x.device))
  fp8_out, amax_partial, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(fp8_out, amax_partial, x, amax_state,
                                                    fxn=fxn, grad_fxn=_quantize_fp8_delayed_bwd)
  new_amax = scalar_amax(amax_partial)
@@ -93,6 +62,6 @@ def quantize_fp8_scalar(x:Tensor, amax_state:Tensor, fp8_dtype=dtypes.fp8e4m3) -
  # NOTE: pure one-pass bf16 -> fp8 quantize with delayed scalar scale. No amax computation.
  axis = x.uop.axis if isinstance(x.device, tuple) else None
  fp8_out = alloc_like(x.shape, fp8_dtype, x.device, axis)
-  fxn = _custom_quantize_fp8_scalar
+  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_quantize_fp8_scalar, dname=dname_of(x.device))
  fp8_out, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(fp8_out, x, amax_state, fxn=fxn)
  return fp8_out
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+#include <hip/hip_bf16.h>
+#include <hip/hip_fp8.h>
+
+// Pure one-pass bf16 -> fp8 quantize with delayed scalar scale. No amax computation.
+
+#ifndef N_ELEMS
+#define N_ELEMS 67108864
+#endif
+#ifndef NUM_WG
+#define NUM_WG 1024
+#endif
+#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
+#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
+#endif
+
+constexpr int VEC = 8;
+constexpr float FP8_MAX = 448.0f;
+
+static_assert(N_ELEMS % VEC == 0, "N_ELEMS must be divisible by VEC");
+
+extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
+quantize_fp8_scalar(
+    __hip_fp8_storage_t*  __restrict__ fp8_out,         // fp8, N_ELEMS
+    const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ x,               // bf16, N_ELEMS
+    const float*          __restrict__ amax_state)      // fp32 scalar (delayed)
+{
+  const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+  const int wg  = blockIdx.x;
+  const int gid = wg * THREADS_PER_WG + tid;
+  const int stride_elems = NUM_WG * THREADS_PER_WG * VEC;
+
+  const float scale = FP8_MAX / (static_cast<float>(*amax_state) + 1e-8f);
+
+  for (int base = gid * VEC; base < N_ELEMS; base += stride_elems) {
+    float4 x_raw = *reinterpret_cast<const float4*>(&x[base]);
+    const __hip_bfloat16 *xi = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&x_raw);
+
+    __hip_fp8_storage_t out[VEC];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0; i < VEC; i++) {
+      const float v = static_cast<float>(xi[i]);
+      const float scaled = fmaxf(-FP8_MAX, fminf(FP8_MAX, v * scale));
+      out[i] = __hip_cvt_float_to_fp8(scaled, __HIP_SATFINITE, __HIP_E4M3);
+    }
+    *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(&fp8_out[base]) = *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(out);
+  }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
+#include <hip/hip_bf16.h>
+#include <hip/hip_fp8.h>
+
+// One-pass bf16 -> fp8 quantize using a scalar delayed amax state,
+// AND simultaneously computes per-WG |x| max partials for the next step's amax state.
+// Saves one full HBM pass over the grad tensor vs. doing quantize + separate abs().max().
+
+#ifndef N_ELEMS
+#define N_ELEMS 67108864
+#endif
+#ifndef NUM_WG
+#define NUM_WG 1024
+#endif
+#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
+#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
+#endif
+
+constexpr int VEC = 8;
+constexpr float FP8_MAX = 448.0f;
+
+static_assert(N_ELEMS % VEC == 0, "N_ELEMS must be divisible by VEC");
+
+extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
+quantize_fp8_with_amax(
+    __hip_fp8_storage_t*  __restrict__ fp8_out,       // out: fp8, N_ELEMS
+    float*                __restrict__ amax_partial,  // out: fp32, NUM_WG per-WG partials
+    const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ x,             // in:  bf16, N_ELEMS
+    const float*          __restrict__ amax_state)    // in:  fp32 scalar (delayed)
+{
+  __shared__ float sdata[THREADS_PER_WG];
+
+  const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+  const int wg  = blockIdx.x;
+  const int gid = wg * THREADS_PER_WG + tid;
+  const int stride_elems = NUM_WG * THREADS_PER_WG * VEC;
+
+  const float scale = FP8_MAX / (static_cast<float>(*amax_state) + 1e-8f);
+  float local_max = 0.0f;
+
+  for (int base = gid * VEC; base < N_ELEMS; base += stride_elems) {
+    float4 x_raw = *reinterpret_cast<const float4*>(&x[base]);
+    const __hip_bfloat16 *xi = reinterpret_cast<const __hip_bfloat16*>(&x_raw);
+
+    __hip_fp8_storage_t out[VEC];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0; i < VEC; i++) {
+      const float v = static_cast<float>(xi[i]);
+      local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fabsf(v));
+      const float scaled = fmaxf(-FP8_MAX, fminf(FP8_MAX, v * scale));
+      out[i] = __hip_cvt_float_to_fp8(scaled, __HIP_SATFINITE, __HIP_E4M3);
+    }
+    *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(&fp8_out[base]) = *reinterpret_cast<uint64_t*>(out);
+  }
+
+  sdata[tid] = local_max;
+  __syncthreads();
+  for (int s = THREADS_PER_WG / 2; s > 0; s >>= 1) {
+    if (tid < s) sdata[tid] = fmaxf(sdata[tid], sdata[tid + s]);
+    __syncthreads();
+  }
+  if (tid == 0) amax_partial[wg] = sdata[0];
+}
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-import functools
-from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.helpers import prod
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo, AxisType
-from extra.llama_kernels import FP8_MAX, THREADS_PER_WG, alloc_like
-
-BLK = 32
-PACK = 4
-
-@functools.cache
-def _custom_quantize_mxfp8(fp8_out:UOp, e8_out:UOp, si_out:UOp, x:UOp) -> UOp:
-  rows, K = x.shape
-  scale_K = K // BLK
-  n_elems = rows * K
-  n_super = n_elems // (BLK * PACK)
-  sk4 = scale_K // PACK
-  assert n_super % THREADS_PER_WG == 0, f"{n_super=} must divide over {THREADS_PER_WG=}"
-  nwg = n_super // THREADS_PER_WG
-
-  x = x.reshape(n_elems)
-  fp8_out = fp8_out.reshape(n_elems)
-  e8_out = e8_out.reshape(rows * scale_K)
-  si_out = si_out.reshape(sk4 * rows)
-
-  wg = UOp.range(nwg, 0, AxisType.GLOBAL)
-  tid = UOp.range(THREADS_PER_WG, 1, AxisType.LOCAL)
-  sb = UOp.range(PACK, 2, AxisType.UNROLL)
-  lane = UOp.range(BLK, 3, AxisType.UNROLL)
-
-  super_idx = wg * THREADS_PER_WG + tid
-  idx = super_idx * (BLK * PACK) + sb * BLK + lane
-
-  x_f = x[idx].cast(dtypes.float)
-  abs_x = (x_f < 0.0).where(-x_f, x_f)
-  blk_max = abs_x.reduce(lane, arg=Ops.MAX)
-  e8f = (blk_max.maximum(1e-38).log2().floor() + 127.0).maximum(0.0).minimum(254.0)
-  qscale = (127.0 - e8f).exp2()
-  scaled = (x_f * qscale).maximum(-FP8_MAX).minimum(FP8_MAX)
-  e8u8 = e8f.cast(dtypes.uint8)
-
-  fp8_store = fp8_out[idx].store(scaled.cast(fp8_out.dtype.base)).end(lane)
-  e8_store = e8_out.after(fp8_store)[super_idx * PACK + sb].store(e8u8)
-
-  # pack the 4 e8 of this super-block into one uint32 (little-endian: byte sb), write transposed (sk4, row)
-  packed = (e8u8.cast(dtypes.uint32) << (sb.cast(dtypes.uint32) * 8)).reduce(sb, arg=Ops.ADD)
-  row, col4 = super_idx // sk4, super_idx % sk4
-  si_store = si_out.after(e8_store.end(sb))[col4 * rows + row].store(packed)
-  return si_store.end(tid, wg).sink(arg=KernelInfo(f"quantize_mxfp8_{n_elems}", opts_to_apply=()))
-
-def _quantize_mxfp8_fused_bwd(gradient:UOp, kernel:UOp):
-  _, e8_out, _, x = kernel.src[1:]
-  device = x.device
-  rows, K = x.shape
-  scale_K = K // BLK
-  e8 = Tensor(e8_out, device=device).reshape(rows, scale_K)
-  qscale = (127.0 - e8.cast(dtypes.float32)).exp2().reshape(rows, scale_K, 1).expand(rows, scale_K, BLK).reshape(rows, K)
-  grad_x = (Tensor(gradient, device=device).float() * qscale).cast(dtypes.bfloat16)
-  return (None, None, None, grad_x.uop)
-
-def quantize_mxfp8_fused(x:Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
-  assert x.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16, f"expected bf16, got {x.dtype}"
-  assert x.ndim == 2, f"expected 2d (rows, K), got {x.shape}"
-  from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import FP8_DTYPE
-  rows, K = x.shape
-  scale_K = K // BLK
-  axis = x.uop.axis if isinstance(x.device, tuple) else None
-  fp8_out = alloc_like((rows, K), FP8_DTYPE, x.device, axis)
-  e8_out = alloc_like((rows, scale_K), dtypes.uint8, x.device, axis)
-  si_out = alloc_like((scale_K // PACK, rows), dtypes.uint32, x.device, None if axis is None else (1 if axis == 0 else 0))
-  fp8_out, e8_out, si_out, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(fp8_out, e8_out, si_out, x, fxn=_custom_quantize_mxfp8, grad_fxn=_quantize_mxfp8_fused_bwd)
-  return fp8_out, e8_out, si_out
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import annotations
-import functools, pathlib
-from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, KernelInfo
-from tinygrad.renderer import Estimates
-from extra.llama_kernels import THREADS_PER_WG, alloc_like, dname_of, compile_hip
-
-TILE_N = THREADS_PER_WG   # 256
-BLK = 32
-
-@functools.cache
-def _custom_transpose_quantize_mxfp8(q:UOp, e8:UOp, g:UOp, dname:str) -> UOp:
-  M, N = g.shape
-  num_wg = (M // BLK) * (N // TILE_N)
-  threads, workgroups = UOp.special(THREADS_PER_WG, "lidx0"), UOp.special(num_wg, "gidx0")
-  mem = M * N * 2 + M * N + (M // BLK) * N   # read bf16, write fp8 + e8
-  sink = UOp.sink(q.base, e8.base, g.base, threads, workgroups,
-                  arg=KernelInfo(f"transpose_quantize_mxfp8_{M}_{N}", estimates=Estimates(ops=M*N, mem=mem)))
-  src = (pathlib.Path(__file__).parent/"transpose_quantize_mxfp8.cpp").read_text()
-  defines = [f"-DM_DIM={M}", f"-DN_DIM={N}", f"-DTHREADS_PER_WG={THREADS_PER_WG}"]
-  return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=(*sink.src, sink)),
-                               UOp(Ops.SOURCE, arg=src), UOp(Ops.BINARY, arg=compile_hip(src, defines))))
-
-def transpose_quantize_mxfp8(g:Tensor) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor, Tensor]:
-  # fused g.T quantize: returns (q, e8, si) == quantize_mxfp8(g.T) — q (N,M) fp8, e8 (N, M/32), si packed (M/128, N)
-  assert g.ndim == 2 and g.dtype == dtypes.bfloat16, f"{g.shape} {g.dtype}"
-  from extra.gemm.cdna_asm_gemm import FP8_DTYPE, mx_pack
-  M, N = g.shape
-  assert M % BLK == 0 and N % TILE_N == 0, f"M={M} must%{BLK}, N={N} must%{TILE_N}"
-  device = g.device
-  axis = g.uop.axis if isinstance(device, tuple) else None
-  out_axis = None if axis is None else (1 if axis == 0 else 0)
-  q = alloc_like((N, M), FP8_DTYPE, device, out_axis)
-  e8 = alloc_like((N, M // BLK), dtypes.uint8, device, out_axis)
-  fxn = functools.partial(_custom_transpose_quantize_mxfp8, dname=dname_of(device))
-  q, e8, *_ = Tensor.custom_kernel(q, e8, g, fxn=fxn)
-  return q, e8, mx_pack(e8)
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-#include <hip/hip_runtime.h>
-#include <hip/hip_fp8.h>
-#include <hip/hip_bf16.h>
-
-#ifndef M_DIM
-#define M_DIM 8192
-#endif
-#ifndef N_DIM
-#define N_DIM 14336
-#endif
-#ifndef THREADS_PER_WG
-#define THREADS_PER_WG 256
-#endif
-
-constexpr int BLK = 32;
-constexpr int TILE_M = BLK;                 // one mxfp8 block along M per tile
-constexpr int TILE_N = THREADS_PER_WG;      // 256, one output column per thread
-constexpr int LDS_STRIDE = TILE_N + 1;      // +1 pad: stride 257 ≡ 1 (mod 32) -> conflict-free column reads
-constexpr int N_TILES_N = N_DIM / TILE_N;
-constexpr float FP8_MAX = 448.0f;
-
-static_assert(M_DIM % TILE_M == 0, "M_DIM must be a multiple of 32");
-static_assert(N_DIM % TILE_N == 0, "N_DIM must be a multiple of 256");
-
-extern "C" __global__ __launch_bounds__(THREADS_PER_WG) void
-transpose_quantize_mxfp8(__hip_fp8_storage_t* __restrict__ q,        // (N_DIM, M_DIM)
-                         uint8_t* __restrict__ e8_out,               // (N_DIM, M_DIM/32)
-                         const __hip_bfloat16* __restrict__ g)       // (M_DIM, N_DIM)
-{
-  __shared__ __hip_bfloat16 lds[TILE_M * LDS_STRIDE];
-  const int tid    = threadIdx.x;
-  const int tile_m = blockIdx.x / N_TILES_N;     // which 32-block along M
-  const int tile_n = blockIdx.x % N_TILES_N;
-
-  #pragma unroll
-  for (int mm = 0; mm < TILE_M; mm++)
-    lds[mm * LDS_STRIDE + tid] = g[(long long)(tile_m * TILE_M + mm) * N_DIM + (tile_n * TILE_N + tid)];
-  __syncthreads();
-
-  float vals[TILE_M];
-  float amax = 0.0f;
-  #pragma unroll
-  for (int mm = 0; mm < TILE_M; mm++) {
-    float v = (float)lds[mm * LDS_STRIDE + tid];
-    vals[mm] = v;
-    amax = fmaxf(amax, fabsf(v));
-  }
-  int e8 = (int)floorf(log2f(fmaxf(amax, 1e-38f))) + 127;
-  e8 = max(0, min(254, e8));
-  float qscale = exp2f((float)(127 - e8));
-
-  const long long n = tile_n * TILE_N + tid;
-  __hip_fp8_storage_t out[TILE_M];
-  #pragma unroll
-  for (int mm = 0; mm < TILE_M; mm++)
-    out[mm] = __hip_cvt_float_to_fp8(fmaxf(-FP8_MAX, fminf(FP8_MAX, vals[mm] * qscale)), __HIP_SATFINITE, __HIP_E4M3);
-  // 32 contiguous fp8 along M -> two 16-byte vector stores
-  long long obase = n * M_DIM + (long long)(tile_m * TILE_M);
-  *reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(&q[obase])      = *reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(&out[0]);
-  *reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(&q[obase + 16]) = *reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(&out[16]);
-  e8_out[n * (M_DIM / BLK) + tile_m] = (uint8_t)e8;
-}
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
 class LR_Scheduler:
  def __init__(self, optimizer: Optimizer):
    self.optimizer = optimizer
-    self.epoch_counter = Tensor([0], device=self.optimizer.device)
+    self.epoch_counter = Tensor([0], requires_grad=False, device=self.optimizer.device)

  def get_lr(self): pass

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def launchBenchmark(instruction, vgprIndices, dense=True, accum=False, **kwargs)
    gidx = UOp.special(NUM_WORKGROUPS, "gidx0")
    FLOPs = FLOPS_PER_MATMUL * NUM_WAVES * NUM_WORKGROUPS * INTERNAL_LOOP * INSTRUCTIONS_PER_LOOP
    sink = UOp.sink(A.base, threads, gidx, arg=KernelInfo(inst.op.name.lower(), estimates=Estimates(ops=FLOPs, mem=0)))
-    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in insts]))))
+    return UOp(Ops.PROGRAM, src=(sink, UOp(Ops.DEVICE, arg=Device.DEFAULT), UOp(Ops.LINEAR, src=tuple([UOp(Ops.INS, arg=x) for x in insts]))))
  dummy = Tensor.zeros(1).contiguous().realize()
  out = Tensor.custom_kernel(dummy, fxn=fxn)[0]
  linear = out.schedule_linear()
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class BertForPretraining:
  # Reference has residual on denominator: https://github.com/mlcommons/training/blob/master/language_model/tensorflow/bert/run_pretraining.py#L315
  def sparse_categorical_crossentropy(self, predictions:Tensor, labels:Tensor, ignore_index=-1):
    log_probs, loss_mask = predictions.log_softmax(dtype=dtypes.float), (labels != ignore_index)
-    y_counter = Tensor.arange(predictions.shape[-1]).unsqueeze(0).expand(labels.numel(), predictions.shape[-1])
+    y_counter = Tensor.arange(predictions.shape[-1], requires_grad=False, device=predictions.device).unsqueeze(0).expand(labels.numel(), predictions.shape[-1])
    y = ((y_counter == labels.flatten().reshape(-1, 1)) * loss_mask.reshape(-1, 1)).reshape(*labels.shape, predictions.shape[-1])
    return -((log_probs * y).sum()) / (loss_mask.sum() + 1e-5) # Small constant to avoid division by zero

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class BertPooler:
    return self.dense(hidden_states[:, 0]).tanh()

 def gather(prediction_logits:Tensor, masked_lm_positions:Tensor):
-  counter = Tensor.arange(prediction_logits.shape[1]).reshape(1, 1, prediction_logits.shape[1]).expand(*masked_lm_positions.shape, prediction_logits.shape[1])
+  counter = Tensor.arange(prediction_logits.shape[1], device=prediction_logits.device, requires_grad=False).reshape(1, 1, prediction_logits.shape[1]).expand(*masked_lm_positions.shape, prediction_logits.shape[1])
  onehot = counter == masked_lm_positions.unsqueeze(2).expand(*masked_lm_positions.shape, prediction_logits.shape[1])
  return onehot @ prediction_logits

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ class BertEmbeddings:
    input_shape = input_ids.shape
    seq_length = input_shape[1]

-    position_ids = Tensor.arange(seq_length).unsqueeze(0).expand(*input_shape)
+    position_ids = Tensor.arange(seq_length, requires_grad=False, device=input_ids.device).unsqueeze(0).expand(*input_shape)
    words_embeddings = self.word_embeddings(input_ids)
    position_embeddings = self.position_embeddings(position_ids)
    token_type_embeddings = self.token_type_embeddings(token_type_ids)
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ class OpenClipEncoder:
    x = x + self.positional_embedding
    x = self.transformer(x, attn_mask=self.attn_mask)
    x = self.ln_final(x)
-    x = x[Tensor.arange(x.shape[0]), tokens.argmax(axis=-1)]
+    x = x[Tensor.arange(x.shape[0], device=x.device), tokens.argmax(axis=-1)]
    x = x @ self.text_projection
    return x

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from tinygrad.tensor import Tensor
 from tinygrad.nn import Conv2d, LayerNorm, LayerNorm2d, Linear
-from tinygrad.helpers import fetch, get_child, Context
+from tinygrad.helpers import fetch, get_child

 class Block:
  def __init__(self, dim):
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
  from test.models.test_efficientnet import chicken_img, preprocess, _LABELS
  img = Tensor(preprocess(chicken_img))

-  with Context(TRAINING=0):
-    out = model(img).numpy()
+  Tensor.training = False
+
+  out = model(img).numpy()
  print(_LABELS[out.argmax()])
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ def sample(logits: Tensor, temp: float, k: int, p: float, af: float, ap: float):
  # softmax
  t = (logits / temp).softmax()

-  counter, counter2 = Tensor.arange(t.numel()).contiguous(), Tensor.arange(t.numel() - 1, -1, -1).contiguous()
+  counter, counter2 = Tensor.arange(t.numel(), device=logits.device).contiguous(), Tensor.arange(t.numel() - 1, -1, -1, device=logits.device).contiguous()
  # top k
  if k:
    output, output_indices = Tensor.zeros(k, device=logits.device).contiguous(), Tensor.zeros(k, device=logits.device, dtype=dtypes.int32).contiguous()
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class Transformer:
    self.tok_embeddings = embedding(vocab_size, dim)
    self.output = nn.Linear(dim, vocab_size, bias=False) if embedding == nn.Embedding else linear(dim, vocab_size, bias=False)
    self.max_context = max_context
-    self.freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(dim // n_heads, self.max_context * 2, rope_theta).contiguous().is_param_(False)
+    self.freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(dim // n_heads, self.max_context * 2, rope_theta).contiguous().requires_grad_(False)
    self.forward_jit = TinyJit(self.forward) if jit else None

  def forward(self, tokens:Tensor, start_pos:Union[Variable,int], temperature:float, top_k:int, top_p:float, alpha_f:float, alpha_p:float):
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import numpy as np
 from pathlib import Path
 from tinygrad import nn, Tensor, dtypes
 from tinygrad.tensor import _to_np_dtype
-from tinygrad.helpers import get_child, fetch, TRAINING
+from tinygrad.helpers import get_child, fetch
 from tinygrad.nn.state import torch_load
 from examples.mlperf.helpers import BoxCoder
 from extra.models.resnet import ResNet
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def tensor_getitem(tensor, *keys):
 # for gather with indicies only on axis=0
 def tensor_gather(tensor, indices):
  if not isinstance(indices, Tensor):
-    indices = Tensor(indices)
+    indices = Tensor(indices, requires_grad=False)
  if len(tensor.shape) > 2:
    rem_shape = list(tensor.shape)[1:]
    tensor = tensor.reshape(tensor.shape[0], -1)
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ def _bilinear_interpolate(
      y = Tensor.where(ymask[:, None, :], y, 0)
      x = Tensor.where(xmask[:, None, :], x, 0)
    key1 = roi_batch_ind[:, None, None, None, None, None]
-    key2 = Tensor.arange(channels)[None, :, None, None, None, None]
+    key2 = Tensor.arange(channels, device=input.device)[None, :, None, None, None, None]
    key3 = y[:, None, :, None, :, None]
    key4 = x[:, None, None, :, None, :]
    return tensor_getitem(input,key1,key2,key3,key4)  # [K, C, PH, PW, IY, IX]
@@ -802,8 +802,8 @@ def _bilinear_interpolate(
 def _roi_align(input, rois, spatial_scale, pooled_height, pooled_width, sampling_ratio, aligned):
  orig_dtype = input.dtype
  _, _, height, width = input.shape
-  ph = Tensor.arange(pooled_height)
-  pw = Tensor.arange(pooled_width)
+  ph = Tensor.arange(pooled_height, device=input.device)
+  pw = Tensor.arange(pooled_width, device=input.device)

  roi_batch_ind = rois[:, 0].cast(dtypes.int32).contiguous()
  offset = 0.5 if aligned else 0.0
@@ -827,14 +827,14 @@ def _roi_align(input, rois, spatial_scale, pooled_height, pooled_width, sampling

  if exact_sampling:
    count = max(roi_bin_grid_h * roi_bin_grid_w, 1)
-    iy = Tensor.arange(roi_bin_grid_h)
-    ix = Tensor.arange(roi_bin_grid_w)
+    iy = Tensor.arange(roi_bin_grid_h, device=input.device)
+    ix = Tensor.arange(roi_bin_grid_w, device=input.device)
    ymask = None
    xmask = None
  else:
    count = (roi_bin_grid_h * roi_bin_grid_w).maximum(1)
-    iy = Tensor.arange(height)
-    ix = Tensor.arange(width)
+    iy = Tensor.arange(height, device=input.device)
+    ix = Tensor.arange(width, device=input.device)
    ymask = iy[None, :] < roi_bin_grid_h[:, None]
    xmask = ix[None, :] < roi_bin_grid_w[:, None]

@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ class RoIBoxHead:
  def __call__(self, features, proposals, targets=None):
    x = self.feature_extractor(features, proposals)
    class_logits, box_regression = self.predictor(x)
-    if not TRAINING:
+    if not Tensor.training:
      result = self.post_processor((class_logits, box_regression), proposals)
      return x, result, {}

@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ class Mask:
    x = self.feature_extractor(features, proposals)
    if x is not None:
      mask_logits = self.predictor(x)
-      if not TRAINING:
+      if not Tensor.training:
        result = self.post_processor(mask_logits, proposals)
        return x, result, {}
    return x, [], {}
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import math
 from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes
-from tinygrad.helpers import flatten, get_child, TRAINING
+from tinygrad.helpers import flatten, get_child
 from examples.mlperf.helpers import generate_anchors, BoxCoder
 from examples.mlperf.losses import sigmoid_focal_loss, l1_loss
 from extra.models.resnet import ResNet
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class ClassificationHead:
    out = [self.cls_logits(feat.sequential(self.conv)).permute(0, 2, 3, 1).reshape(feat.shape[0], -1, self.num_classes) for feat in x]
    out = out[0].cat(*out[1:], dim=1)

-    if TRAINING:
+    if Tensor.training:
      assert labels is not None and matches is not None, "labels and matches should be passed in when training"
      return self._compute_loss(out.cast(dtypes.float32), labels, matches)

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ class RegressionHead:
    out = [self.bbox_reg(feat.sequential(self.conv)).permute(0, 2, 3, 1).reshape(feat.shape[0], -1, 4) for feat in x]
    out = out[0].cat(*out[1:], dim=1)

-    if TRAINING:
+    if Tensor.training:
      assert bboxes is not None and matches is not None and anchors is not None, "bboxes, matches, and anchors should be passed in when training"
      return self._compute_loss(out, bboxes, matches, anchors)

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class RetinaHead:
    self.regression_head = RegressionHead(in_channels, num_anchors)

  def __call__(self, x:Tensor, **kwargs) -> Tensor|dict[str, Tensor]:
-    if TRAINING:
+    if Tensor.training:
      return {
        "classification_loss": self.classification_head(x, labels=kwargs["labels"], matches=kwargs["matches"]),
        "regression_loss": self.regression_head(x, bboxes=kwargs["bboxes"], matches=kwargs["matches"], anchors=kwargs["anchors"])
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class RNNT:
  @TinyJit
  def __call__(self, x, y, hc=None):
    f, _ = self.encoder(x, None)
-    g, _ = self.prediction(y, hc, Tensor.ones(1))
+    g, _ = self.prediction(y, hc, Tensor.ones(1, requires_grad=False))
    out = self.joint(f, g)
    return out.realize()

@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ class RNNT:
    return outputs

  def _greedy_decode(self, logits, logit_len):
-    hc = Tensor.zeros(self.prediction.rnn.layers, 2, self.prediction.hidden_size)
+    hc = Tensor.zeros(self.prediction.rnn.layers, 2, self.prediction.hidden_size, requires_grad=False)
    labels = []
-    label = Tensor.zeros(1, 1)
-    mask = Tensor.zeros(1)
+    label = Tensor.zeros(1, 1, requires_grad=False)
+    mask = Tensor.zeros(1, requires_grad=False)
    for time_idx in range(logit_len):
      logit = logits[time_idx, :, :].unsqueeze(0)
      not_blank = True
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class RNNT:
      while not_blank and added < 30:
        if len(labels) > 0:
          mask = (mask + 1).clip(0, 1)
-          label = Tensor([[labels[-1] if labels[-1] <= 28 else labels[-1] - 1]]) + 1 - 1
+          label = Tensor([[labels[-1] if labels[-1] <= 28 else labels[-1] - 1]], requires_grad=False) + 1 - 1
        jhc = self._pred_joint(Tensor(logit.numpy()), label, hc, mask)
        k = jhc[0, 0, :29].argmax(axis=0).numpy()
        not_blank = k != 28
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class LSTM:
      return self.do_step(x_, hc_)

    if hc is None:
-      hc = Tensor.zeros(self.layers, 2 * x.shape[1], self.hidden_size).contiguous().realize()
+      hc = Tensor.zeros(self.layers, 2 * x.shape[1], self.hidden_size, requires_grad=False).contiguous().realize()

    output = None
    for t in range(x.shape[0]):
@@ -164,10 +164,12 @@ class T5Attention:
    relative_buckets += Tensor.where(is_small, relative_position, relative_position_if_large)
    return relative_buckets

-  def compute_bias(self, query_length, key_length) -> Tensor:
+  def compute_bias(self, query_length, key_length, device=None) -> Tensor:
    """Compute binned relative position bias"""
-    context_position = Tensor.arange(query_length, dtype=dtypes.long)[:, None]
-    memory_position = Tensor.arange(key_length, dtype=dtypes.long)[None, :]
+    if device is None:
+      device = self.relative_attention_bias.weight.device
+    context_position = Tensor.arange(query_length, dtype=dtypes.long, device=device)[:, None]
+    memory_position = Tensor.arange(key_length, dtype=dtypes.long, device=device)[None, :]
    relative_position = memory_position - context_position  # shape (query_length, key_length)
    relative_position_bucket = self._relative_position_bucket(
        relative_position,  # shape (query_length, key_length)
@@ -210,7 +212,7 @@ class T5Attention:
    scores = Tensor.matmul(query_states, key_states.transpose(3, 2))

    if position_bias is None:
-      position_bias = self.compute_bias(key_length, key_length)
+      position_bias = self.compute_bias(key_length, key_length, device=scores.device)

    scores += position_bias
    attn_weights = Tensor.softmax(scores.float(), axis=-1).cast(scores.dtype)  # (batch_size, n_heads, seq_length, key_length)
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class TransformerBlock:
 class Transformer:
  def __init__(self, syms, maxlen, layers, embed_dim, num_heads, ff_dim):
    self.maxlen, self.syms = maxlen, syms
-    self.embed = Tensor.scaled_uniform(maxlen+syms, embed_dim).is_param_(False)
+    self.embed = Tensor.scaled_uniform(maxlen+syms, embed_dim, requires_grad=False)
    self.tbs = [TransformerBlock(embed_dim, num_heads, ff_dim) for _ in range(layers)]
    self.final = Tensor.scaled_uniform(embed_dim, syms)

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from tinygrad import Tensor, Device, dtypes, nn
+from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes, nn
+from tinygrad.device import is_dtype_supported
 from typing import Optional, Union, List, Any, Tuple, Callable
 import math

@@ -9,10 +10,10 @@ attention, gelu, mixed_precision_dtype = Tensor.scaled_dot_product_attention, Te
 # https://github.com/Stability-AI/generative-models/blob/fbdc58cab9f4ee2be7a5e1f2e2787ecd9311942f/sgm/modules/diffusionmodules/util.py#L207
 def timestep_embedding(timesteps:Tensor, dim:int, max_period=10000):
  half = dim // 2
-  freqs = (-math.log(max_period) * Tensor.arange(half) / half).exp()
+  freqs = (-math.log(max_period) * Tensor.arange(half, device=timesteps.device) / half).exp()
  args = timesteps.unsqueeze(1) * freqs.unsqueeze(0)
  out = Tensor.cat(args.cos(), args.sin(), dim=-1)
-  return out.cast(mixed_precision_dtype) if mixed_precision_dtype in Device[Device.DEFAULT].renderer.supported_dtypes() else out
+  return out.cast(mixed_precision_dtype) if is_dtype_supported(mixed_precision_dtype) else out

 class ResBlock:
  def __init__(self, channels:int, emb_channels:int, out_channels:int, num_groups:int=32):
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ class UNetModel:
      assert y.shape[0] == x.shape[0]
      emb = emb + y.sequential(self.label_emb[0])

-    if mixed_precision_dtype in Device[Device.DEFAULT].renderer.supported_dtypes():
+    if is_dtype_supported(mixed_precision_dtype):
      emb = emb.cast(mixed_precision_dtype)
      ctx = ctx.cast(mixed_precision_dtype)
      x   = x  .cast(mixed_precision_dtype)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import unittest
 import numpy as np

-from tinygrad.helpers import BEAM, Timing, prod
+from tinygrad.helpers import BEAM, Timing, CI, prod
 from tinygrad import Variable, Device, Tensor
 from tinygrad.nn import Conv2d
 from tinygrad.uop.ops import AxisType, Ops
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class TestBeamSearch(unittest.TestCase):
    actual = a.numpy()
    np.testing.assert_allclose(actual, desired)

-  @unittest.skip("flaky. CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES")
+  @unittest.skipIf(CI, "flaky. CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES")
  def test_conv_beam(self):
    c = Conv2d(3, 16, (3,3))
    x = rand(1,3,32,32)
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ def serve(conn:socket.socket):
      conn.sendall(resp_err(str(e)))

 if __name__ == "__main__":
+  if not OSX: System.reserve_hugepages(128) # for sysmem allocations
+
  port = int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 6667
  server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  server.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 install_loc="$HOME/.local/bin"
-docker pull --platform=linux/amd64 rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:7.1.1
-docker tag rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:7.1.1 rocm-hipcc:7.1.1
+docker build --platform=linux/amd64 -t rocm-hipcc:7.2 - <<'EOF'
+FROM ubuntu:22.04
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ENV TZ=Etc/UTC
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends wget ca-certificates gnupg tzdata && \
+  wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/7.2/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_7.2.70200-1_all.deb && \
+  apt-get install -y ./amdgpu-install_7.2.70200-1_all.deb && \
+  amdgpu-install -y --usecase=rocm --no-dkms --no-32 && \
+  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+ENV PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:$PATH
+EOF

 mkdir -p "$install_loc"
 tee "$install_loc/hipccshim" >/dev/null <<'EOF'
@@ -12,7 +21,7 @@ if ! docker inspect --format='{{.State.Running}}' "$cname" 2>/dev/null | grep -q
  docker rm -f "$cname" 2>/dev/null || true
  docker run -d --platform=linux/amd64 --name "$cname" \
    -v /var/folders:/var/folders -v "$HOME":"$HOME" \
-    rocm-hipcc:7.1.1 sleep 300 >/dev/null
+    rocm-hipcc:7.2 sleep 300 >/dev/null
 fi
 exec docker exec "$cname" "$(basename "$0")" "$@"
 EOF
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-install_loc="$HOME/.local/bin"
-docker build -t qemu-hexagon-static:latest - <<'EOF'
-FROM ubuntu:24.04
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends qemu-user-static ca-certificates && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-EOF
-
-mkdir -p "$install_loc"
-tee "$install_loc/qemu-hexagon-static" >/dev/null <<'EOF'
-#!/bin/sh
-set -eu
-exec docker run --rm -i \
-  -v /var/folders:/var/folders -v "$HOME":"$HOME" \
-  qemu-hexagon-static:latest qemu-hexagon-static "$@"
-EOF
-chmod +x "$install_loc/qemu-hexagon-static"
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ EXAMPLES = {
  "empty":"test/backend/test_custom_kernel.py TestCustomKernel.test_empty",
  "plus":"test/test_tiny.py TestTiny.test_plus",
  "gemm":"-c \"from tinygrad import Tensor; (Tensor.empty(N:=32, N)@Tensor.empty(N, N)).realize()\"",
-  "sync":"test/amd/test_asm_kernel.py TestAsmKernel.test_lds_sync",
-  "handwritten":"test/amd/test_asm_kernel.py TestAsmKernel.test_handwritten",
+  "sync":"test/amd/test_custom_kernel.py TestCustomKernel.test_lds_sync",
+  "handwritten":"test/amd/test_custom_kernel.py TestCustomKernel.test_handwritten",
 }

 if __name__ == "__main__":
@@ -1,294 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""
-Self-contained Qualcomm Hexagon **testsig** generator.
-
-Replicates: python2 elfsigner.py -t 0x67489311 -o .
-Dependencies: standard library + cryptography (pip install cryptography).
-Multiple serial numbers: use -t multiple times.
-"""
-
-import argparse, base64, hashlib, os, struct
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
-from cryptography import x509
-from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes, serialization
-from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa
-from cryptography.x509.name import _ASN1Type
-from cryptography.x509.oid import ExtensionOID, NameOID, ObjectIdentifier
-
-# Embedded assets (raw base64) --- no external files needed
-# Compact test_elf_nop.so contents used for signing. Only bytes covered by
-# program headers are needed; section headers and alignment gaps are not.
-ORIG_PHDRS = [
-    {'t': 1, 'o': 0x0000, 'v': 0x0000, 'p': 0x0000, 'fs': 0x02fc, 'ms': 0x02fc, 'fl': 0x4, 'al': 0x1000},
-    {'t': 1, 'o': 0x1000, 'v': 0x1000, 'p': 0x1000, 'fs': 0x0104, 'ms': 0x0104, 'fl': 0x5, 'al': 0x1000},
-    {'t': 1, 'o': 0x2000, 'v': 0x2000, 'p': 0x2000, 'fs': 0x0004, 'ms': 0x0004, 'fl': 0x4, 'al': 0x1000},
-    {'t': 1, 'o': 0x3000, 'v': 0x4000, 'p': 0x4000, 'fs': 0x00d0, 'ms': 0x0100, 'fl': 0x6, 'al': 0x1000},
-    {'t': 2, 'o': 0x3010, 'v': 0x4010, 'p': 0x4010, 'fs': 0x00a8, 'ms': 0x00a8, 'fl': 0x6, 'al': 0x4},
-]
-ORIG_SEGS = {
-    0x0000: base64.b64decode("""
-f0VMRgEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAMApAABAAAAsBAAADQAAACIMQAAAwAAADQAIAAFACgAFQASAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD8AgAA/AIA
-AAQAAAAAEAAAAQAAAAAQAAAAEAAAABAAAAQBAAAEAQAABQAAAAAQAAABAAAAACAAAAAgAAAAIAAABAAAAAQAAAAEAAAAABAAAAEA
-AAAAMAAAAEAAAABAAADQAAAAAAEAAAYAAAAAEAAAAgAAABAwAAAQQAAAEEAAAKgAAACoAAAABgAAAAQAAAADAAAAEwAAABIAAAAR
-AAAADgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACgAAAAAAAAAJAAAACwAAAAwAAAANAAAA
-DwAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAwAFAAAAAACwEAAAAAAAAAMABwAAAAAAwBAAAAAAAAADAAgAAAAA
-AAAgAAAAAAAAAwAJAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAMACgAAAAAACEAAAAAAAAADAAsAAAAAAMxAAAAAAAAAAwAPAAAAAAAAQQAAAAAAAAMA
-EAAPAAAAABAAAGwAAAASAAUAFQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEgAAAGkAAAAAQQAAAAAAABAA8f9KAAAAzEAAAAQAAAARAA8AMQAAAARAAAAA
-AAAAEAAKAAEAAAAIQAAAAAAAABAACwBcAAAAwBAAAEQAAAASAAgAYgAAANBAAAAAAAAAEADx/3UAAAAAQQAAAAAAABAA8f9GAAAA
-sBAAAAQAAAASAAcAAF9fRFRPUl9MSVNUX18AX2luaXQAX19yZWdpc3Rlcl9mcmFtZV9pbmZvX2Jhc2VzAF9fQ1RPUl9FTkRfXwBs
-aWJjLnNvAG5vcABub3BfdmFyAGxpYmdjYy5zbwBfZmluaQBfZWRhdGEAX19ic3Nfc3RhcnQAX2VuZAB0ZXN0X2VsZl9ub3Auc28A
-AADIQAAAIgoAAAAAAAA=
-"""),
-    0x1000: base64.b64decode("""
-AcCdoADbnaEB2J2hGMAJalTP6nH//+pyGNgq8///4HJI3+BxAMAY8wHAgJEIwAEQAkAAeAEoAyg0wABa///7ckz/+3Eb2xjzm//7
-vwDAm5EGwAAQAMCgUPj//1k4wJ2RG0CdkR7AHpAAwJ9SAAAAAMFAAAAcxElqDkKc4k9AnJE8wJyRDkIOjADAnFIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAMBAAAAO1ElqHMCOkQDAnFIAwJ9SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAcCdoADbnaEPwAlqENDqcf//6nIPzyrz///7clD/+3Eb
-2w/zm8AbsADAm5EGwAAQAMCgUPj//1kbQJ2RHsAekADAn1I=
-"""),
-    0x2000: base64.b64decode("AAAAAA=="),
-    0x3000: base64.b64decode("""
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAA+AAAAAQAAAFIAAAAOAAAAegAAAAwAAAAAEAAADQAAAMAQAAAEAAAA1AAAAAUAAABkAgAABgAA
-ADQBAAAKAAAAigAAAAsAAAAQAAAAAwAAALhAAAACAAAADAAAABQAAAAHAAAAFwAAAPACAAABAABwAwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABwEAAACgAAAA==
-"""),
-}
-ORIG_EHDR = ORIG_SEGS[0][:0x34]
-
-ATTESTCA_KEY = base64.b64decode("""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""")
-ATTESTCA_CERT = base64.b64decode("""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""")
-ROOTCA_CERT = base64.b64decode("""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""")
-
-PT_NULL = 0
-PF_OS_PHDR = 0x07000000
-PF_OS_HASH = 0x02200000
-MBN_V3 = 3
-SIG_SIZE = 256
-CC_SIZE = 0x1800
-PAD_FF = b'\xff'
-IPAD = 0x3636363636363636
-OPAD = 0x5C5C5C5C5C5C5C5C
-
-
-def _pad(data, size, pad=PAD_FF):
-  if len(data) > size:
-    raise ValueError("data too large: %d > %d" % (len(data), size))
-  return data + pad * (size - len(data))
-
-
-def _orig_segment_data(ph):
-  off, size = ph['o'], ph['fs']
-  for base_off, data in ORIG_SEGS.items():
-    rel = off - base_off
-    if 0 <= rel and rel + size <= len(data):
-      return data[rel:rel + size]
-  raise KeyError("missing original segment at 0x%x" % off)
-
-
-def _build_ehdr(base_ehdr, num_phdrs):
-  e = bytearray(base_ehdr)
-  struct.pack_into('<I', e, 0x20, 0)
-  struct.pack_into('<H', e, 0x2c, num_phdrs)
-  struct.pack_into('<H', e, 0x30, 0)
-  struct.pack_into('<H', e, 0x32, 0)
-  return bytes(e)
-
-
-def _build_elf(ehdr, phs, segs):
-  phoff = struct.unpack_from('<I', ehdr, 0x1c)[0]
-  d = bytes(ehdr)
-  if len(d) < phoff:
-    d += b'\x00' * (phoff - len(d))
-  for ph in phs:
-    d += struct.pack('<IIIIIIII', ph['t'], ph['o'], ph['v'],
-             ph['p'], ph['fs'], ph['ms'], ph['fl'], ph['al'])
-  for off, sdata in sorted(segs.items()):
-    if len(d) < off:
-      d += b'\x00' * (off - len(d))
-    d = d[:off] + sdata + d[off + len(sdata):]
-  return d
-
-
-def _qti_hmac(data, msm=0, sw=0):
-  def _u(v):
-    return bytes.fromhex(format(v, 'x').zfill(16))
-  Si, So = _u(sw ^ IPAD), _u(msm ^ OPAD)
-  a = hashlib.sha256(data).digest()
-  b = hashlib.sha256(Si + a).digest()
-  c = hashlib.sha256(So + b).digest()
-  return c
-
-
-def _raw_pkcs1_sign(private_key, data):
-  """Raw RSA-PKCS1-v1_5 signing WITHOUT DigestInfo wrapper.
-  This matches OpenSSL:  pkeyutl -sign -pkeyopt rsa_padding_mode:pkcs1"""
-  numbers = private_key.private_numbers()
-  d = numbers.d
-  n = numbers.public_numbers.n
-  key_len = (n.bit_length() + 7) // 8
-  pad_len = key_len - 3 - len(data)
-  if pad_len < 8:
-    raise ValueError("data too long for key size")
-  em = b'\x00\x01' + b'\xff' * pad_len + b'\x00' + data
-  m_int = int.from_bytes(em, 'big')
-  sig_int = pow(m_int, d, n)
-  return sig_int.to_bytes(key_len, 'big')
-
-
-def _new_cert(ca_key, ca_cert, attrs):
-  k = rsa.generate_private_key(public_exponent=3, key_size=2048)
-  def _na(oid, value, typ):
-    return x509.NameAttribute(oid, value, _type=typ)
-
-  # Match the SecTools/OpenSSL attestation cert profile accepted by DSP loaders.
-  n = [
-    _na(NameOID.COUNTRY_NAME, "US", _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-    _na(NameOID.COMMON_NAME, "SecTools Test User", _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-    _na(NameOID.LOCALITY_NAME, "San Diego", _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATION_NAME, "SecTools", _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-    _na(NameOID.STATE_OR_PROVINCE_NAME, "California", _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "01 %.16X SW_ID" % attrs['sw'], _ASN1Type.T61String),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "02 %.16X HW_ID" % attrs['hw'], _ASN1Type.T61String),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "04 %.4X OEM_ID" % attrs['oid'], _ASN1Type.T61String),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "05 %.8X SW_SIZE" % attrs['sz'], _ASN1Type.T61String),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "06 %.4X MODEL_ID" % attrs['mid'], _ASN1Type.T61String),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "07 0001 %s" % attrs['ha'], _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-    _na(NameOID.ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT_NAME, "03 %.16X DEBUG" % attrs['dbg'], _ASN1Type.PrintableString),
-  ]
-
-  nvb = datetime.now(timezone.utc).replace(microsecond=0)
-  nva = nvb + timedelta(days=20 * 365)
-  b = (x509.CertificateBuilder()
-     .subject_name(x509.Name(n))
-     .issuer_name(ca_cert.subject)
-     .public_key(k.public_key())
-     .serial_number(1)
-     .not_valid_before(nvb)
-     .not_valid_after(nva))
-  b = b.add_extension(x509.AuthorityKeyIdentifier.from_issuer_public_key(ca_key.public_key()), False)
-  b = b.add_extension(x509.UnrecognizedExtension(ExtensionOID.BASIC_CONSTRAINTS, b'\x30\x03\x02\x01\x00'), False)
-  b = b.add_extension(x509.KeyUsage(
-    digital_signature=True,
-    content_commitment=False,
-    key_encipherment=False,
-    data_encipherment=False,
-    key_agreement=False,
-    key_cert_sign=False,
-    crl_sign=False,
-    encipher_only=False,
-    decipher_only=False,
-  ), False)
-  b = b.add_extension(x509.UnrecognizedExtension(ObjectIdentifier("1.3.6.1.4.1.1449.9.6.3"), b'\x00\x01\xe2\x40\x00\x01\xe2\x40'), False)
-  return k, b.sign(ca_key, hashes.SHA256())
-
-
-def _build_chain(attest, ca, root):
-  c = (attest.public_bytes(serialization.Encoding.DER) +
-     ca.public_bytes(serialization.Encoding.DER) +
-     root.public_bytes(serialization.Encoding.DER))
-  return _pad(c, CC_SIZE, b'\xff')
-
-
-def _sign(serial_num, out_dir):
-  orig = ORIG_PHDRS
-  base_ehdr = ORIG_EHDR
-
-  nph = len(orig) + 2
-  phsz = nph * 32
-  ehsz = len(base_ehdr)
-  phoff = struct.unpack_from('<I', base_ehdr, 0x1c)[0]
-  hv = 0x5000
-  ho = 0x1000
-  hfs = 0x1a08
-
-  prog = {'t': PT_NULL, 'o': 0, 'v': 0, 'p': 0,
-      'fs': ehsz + phsz, 'ms': 0, 'fl': PF_OS_PHDR, 'al': 0}
-  hph = {'t': PT_NULL, 'o': ho, 'v': hv, 'p': hv,
-       'fs': hfs, 'ms': 0x2000, 'fl': PF_OS_HASH, 'al': 0x1000}
-  shifted = [dict(ph, o=ph['o'] + 0x3000) for ph in orig]
-  allph = [prog, hph] + shifted
-
-  # Temporary ELF for hash 0
-  tmp_segs = {}
-  for i, ph in enumerate(shifted):
-    tmp_segs[ph['o']] = _orig_segment_data(orig[i])
-  ehdr = _build_ehdr(base_ehdr, nph)
-  tmp = _build_elf(ehdr, allph, tmp_segs)
-
-  phb = tmp[phoff:phoff + phsz]
-  hash0 = hashlib.sha256(ehdr + phb).digest()
-  hash1 = struct.pack('<I', serial_num) + b'\x00' * 28
-  hs = [hash0, hash1]
-  for ph in orig:
-    hs.append(hashlib.sha256(_orig_segment_data(ph)).digest())
-  ht = b''.join(hs)
-
-  cs, ss, ccs = len(ht), SIG_SIZE, CC_SIZE
-  dst = hv + 40
-  sp = dst + cs
-  cp = sp + ss
-  isz = cs + ss + ccs
-
-  mbn = struct.pack('<IIIIIIIIII',
-            0, MBN_V3, 0, dst, isz, cs, sp, ss, cp, ccs)
-  dts = mbn + ht
-  hmac = _qti_hmac(dts)
-
-  ca_key = serialization.load_pem_private_key(ATTESTCA_KEY, password=None)
-  ca_cert = x509.load_der_x509_certificate(ATTESTCA_CERT)
-  root_cert = x509.load_der_x509_certificate(ROOTCA_CERT)
-
-  attrs = {'sw': 0, 'hw': 0, 'oid': 0, 'mid': 0,
-       'sz': len(dts), 'ha': 'SHA256', 'dbg': 2}
-  nk, ac = _new_cert(ca_key, ca_cert, attrs)
-  sig = _raw_pkcs1_sign(nk, hmac)
-  sig = _pad(sig, SIG_SIZE, b'\x00')
-  cc = _build_chain(ac, ca_cert, root_cert)
-
-  hseg = mbn + ht + sig + cc
-  if len(hseg) != hfs:
-    raise RuntimeError("hash seg size mismatch %d vs %d" % (len(hseg), hfs))
-
-  segs = {ho: hseg}
-  for i, ph in enumerate(shifted):
-    segs[ph['o']] = _orig_segment_data(orig[i])
-
-  final = _build_elf(ehdr, allph, segs)
-
-  os.makedirs(out_dir, exist_ok=True)
-  out = os.path.join(out_dir, "testsig-0x%08x.so" % serial_num)
-  with open(out, 'wb') as f:
-    f.write(final)
-  print("Signing complete! Output saved at %s" % out)
-  return out
-
-
-def main():
-  p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Qualcomm testsig generator")
-  p.add_argument("-t", "--testsig", action="append", default=None,
-           help="serial number (e.g. 0x67489311); repeatable. Defaults to value from /sys/devices/soc0/serial_number")
-  p.add_argument("-o", "--output_dir", default=".")
-  args = p.parse_args()
-
-  serials = args.testsig if args.testsig else []
-
-  if not serials:
-    # Read default serial number from device
-    try:
-      with open('/sys/devices/soc0/serial_number', 'r') as f:
-        serial_str = f.read().strip()
-      serials = [serial_str]
-      print("Using serial number from /sys/devices/soc0/serial_number: %s" % serial_str)
-    except FileNotFoundError:
-      raise SystemExit("Error: No serial number provided (-t) and /sys/devices/soc0/serial_number not found.")
-    except PermissionError:
-      raise SystemExit("Error: Cannot read /sys/devices/soc0/serial_number (permission denied).")
-
-  for s in serials:
-    v = int(s.strip(), 0)
-    if not (0 <= v <= 0xFFFFFFFF):
-      raise ValueError("bad serial %r" % s)
-    _sign(v, args.output_dir)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-  main()
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