ci : onboard AMD ROCm CI with gfx1151 fixes (#26544)

* ci: prepare for amd rocm ci

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>

* ci: fix editorconfig-checker

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>

* ci: fix device not recognised

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>

* ci: rename gpu-amd to gpu-hip

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>

* ci: gpu-hip to gpu-rocm

haha

Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>

* CUDA: allow integrated-GPU host output buffer in debug assert

On integrated GPUs (APUs), the scheduler can legitimately place a graph
node's output on the host-visible buffer, which ggml_cuda_compute_forward
already handles. The debug assert in ggml_cuda_graph_evaluate_and_capture
required every node output to be on the device buffer, so a debug build
aborts on such a node (e.g. attn_residual ADD -> ROCm_Host on RDNA3.5).
The source-tensor assert directly below already permits this via the
integrated + cuda_host exception; apply the same exception to the node's
own output buffer. Debug-only; no effect on release/compute.

Fixes test-recurrent-state-rollback on gfx1151 (Strix Halo).

* ci: enable unified memory for ROCm gfx1151 job

Work around a coherence issue on integrated RDNA3.5 (gfx1151) where GPU
kernels reading mmap-loaded weights can return incorrect output, which
makes test-llama-archs (and real inference) intermittently wrong.
GGML_CUDA_ENABLE_UNIFIED_MEMORY=1 uses managed memory, which restores
coherence. Remove once the underlying ROCm/HIP issue is fixed.

* test-llama-archs: skip jamba on HIP backend

jamba produces incorrect output (~0.55 NMSE vs CPU) on the HIP backend on
RDNA3.5 (gfx1151); the SSM kernels need separate investigation. Skip it
for now, matching the existing per-backend carve-outs (WebGPU), so the
ROCm CI can run the test for the remaining architectures.

* ci: use HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING for ROCm gfx1151 job

The gfx1151 ROCm CI job produced incorrect inference output (qwen3 perplexity ~88 vs ~9.4) due to an async-execution correctness issue in the HIP path. Serializing kernel launches with HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1 restores correctness. This replaces the earlier GGML_CUDA_ENABLE_UNIFIED_MEMORY workaround, which did not fix batched inference.

* test-backend-sampler: skip top-k subtests on HIP backend

The ROCm backend does not support the TOP_K/ARGSORT op at vocab scale (no CUB; bitonic argsort is capped at ncols <= 1024), so top-k/top-p backend samplers cannot be offloaded. The penalties, set_sampler, mixed, and top_p subtests assert that offload happened, so they fail on HIP. Skip them until TOP_K is supported on the ROCm backend.

* Update tests/test-backend-sampler.cpp

Co-authored-by: Aaron Teo <taronaeo@gmail.com>

* Update tests/test-backend-sampler.cpp

Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Teo <aaron.teo1@ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Jim Wu <ywu@xilinx.com>
Co-authored-by: Aaron Teo <taronaeo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Georgi Gerganov <ggerganov@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/build-self-hosted.yml

@@ -71,6 +71,26 @@ jobs:
           nvidia-smi
           GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
 
+  gpu-rocm:
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, AMD]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clone
+        id: checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Test
+        id: ggml-ci
+        # HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1: workaround for an async-execution correctness
+        # issue on integrated RDNA3.5 (gfx1151) where batched inference returns
+        # incorrect output (perplexity ~88 vs ~9.4). Serializing kernel launches
+        # restores correctness. Remove once the underlying ROCm/HIP issue is fixed.
+        env:
+          HIP_LAUNCH_BLOCKING: "1"
+        run: |
+          rocminfo
+          GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS=gfx1151 bash ./ci/run.sh ~/results/llama.cpp ~/mnt/llama.cpp
+
   gpu-vulkan-nvidia-cm:
     runs-on: [self-hosted, Linux, NVIDIA]
 

ci/run.sh

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 # # with CUDA support
 # GG_BUILD_CUDA=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
 #
+# # with ROCm support
+# GG_BUILD_ROCM=1 GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS=gfx1151 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
+#
 # # with SYCL support
 # GG_BUILD_SYCL=1 bash ./ci/run.sh ./tmp/results ./tmp/mnt
 #
@@ -89,7 +92,7 @@ if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_CUDA} ]; then
 fi
 
 if [ ! -z ${GG_BUILD_ROCM} ]; then
-    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DGGML_HIP=ON"
+    CMAKE_EXTRA="${CMAKE_EXTRA} -DCMAKE_HIP_COMPILER=$(hipconfig -l)/clang -DGGML_HIP=ON -DGGML_HIP_ROCWMMA_FATTN=ON"
     if [ -z ${GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS} ]; then
         echo "Missing GG_BUILD_AMDGPU_TARGETS, please set it to your GPU architecture (e.g. gfx90a, gfx1100, etc.)"
         exit 1

ggml/src/ggml-cuda/ggml-cuda.cu

@@ -4033,7 +4033,11 @@ static void ggml_cuda_graph_evaluate_and_capture(ggml_backend_cuda_context * cud
                     continue;
                 }
 #ifndef NDEBUG
-                assert(node->buffer->buft == ggml_backend_cuda_buffer_type(cuda_ctx->device));
+                // On integrated GPUs (APUs, e.g. RDNA3.5) the scheduler may place a
+                // node's output on the host-visible buffer, which the compute path
+                // handles. Allow that here, mirroring the src-tensor check below.
+                assert(node->buffer->buft == ggml_backend_cuda_buffer_type(cuda_ctx->device) ||
+                       (integrated && ggml_backend_buft_is_cuda_host(node->buffer->buft)));
                 for (int j = 0; j < GGML_MAX_SRC; j++) {
                     if (node->src[j] != nullptr) {
                         assert(node->src[j]->buffer);

tests/test-backend-sampler.cpp

@@ -1668,9 +1668,18 @@ static std::vector<const backend_test_case *> collect_tests_to_run(const std::st
         }
     } else {
         for (const auto & test : BACKEND_TESTS) {
-            if (test.enabled_by_default) {
-                selected.push_back(&test);
+            if (!test.enabled_by_default) {
+                continue;
             }
+#ifdef GGML_USE_HIP
+            // TODO: remove this when https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/26592 is merged
+            if (test.name == "penalties" || test.name == "set_sampler" ||
+                test.name == "mixed"     || test.name == "top_p") {
+                fprintf(stderr, "Skipping test '%s' on HIP backend (no backend TOP_K support)\n", test.name.c_str());
+                continue;
+            }
+#endif // GGML_USE_HIP
+            selected.push_back(&test);
         }
     }
 

tests/test-llama-archs.cpp

@@ -437,6 +437,14 @@ static bool arch_supported(const llm_arch arch) {
     }
 #endif // GGML_USE_WEBGPU
 
+    // FIXME: jamba produces incorrect output (~0.55 NMSE vs CPU) on the HIP
+    // backend on RDNA3.5 (gfx1151); the SSM kernels need investigation.
+#ifdef GGML_USE_HIP
+    if (arch == LLM_ARCH_JAMBA) {
+        return false;
+    }
+#endif // GGML_USE_HIP
+
     return true;
 }