Fix: make host logging consumers self-contained

[indigo1973]

Address item 4 of #1792 by removing the standalone logger artifact and
binding process-owned state into each consumer's private implementation.

• Compile host logging into every consumer from one shared CMake source
  list and resolve the validated state binder through one loader helper.
• Share the live threshold and clock-anchor ownership state across bound
  host modules; device logger thresholds remain initialization-only.
• Retain the simulator context in a process-wide registry, preserve the
  existing ChipWorker C++ call shape, and keep sim/onboard binding
  policy explicit.
• Convert host STRACE timestamps to wall time from per-process anchors,
  warn on duplicate anchors, and document cross-DSO PIPE_BUF guarantees.
• Preserve the simpler_init ABI and cover state validation, lifecycle,
  build wiring, trace conversion, and 64-bit span fields with tests.

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Walkthrough

The change replaces global libsimpler_log.so loading with process-owned SimplerHostLogState. Host consumers compile private logger implementations and bind shared state during loading. ChipWorker now manages simulator-context loading and cleanup. Trace tools add clock-anchor wall-time conversion.

Changes

Host logging refactor

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared logging state and span ABI src/common/log/*	Adds validated cross-DSO host-log state binding, atomic threshold and clock-anchor sharing, and direct unified host-span emission.
Python and runtime initialization python/simpler/*, python/bindings/*, src/common/worker/*	Initializes logging state in Python, passes simulator-context paths, binds loaded libraries, and uses RAII for library ownership.
Runtime consumer integration src/a2a3/*, src/a5/*, src/common/platform/*	Compiles host logging into runtime consumers and validates state binding for AICPU, AICore, host, and orchestration libraries.
Build and packaging updates CMakeLists.txt, simpler_setup/*	Removes standalone logger builds and packaging. Host orchestration compilation now includes logger sources, headers, and required pthread flags.
Trace conversion simpler_setup/tools/strace_timing.py	Maps host timestamps through CLOCK_ANCHOR records and emits wall-time metadata in Chrome and swimlane outputs.
Tests and documentation tests/*, docs/*, .claude/rules/project-layout.md	Updates ABI, build, lifecycle, worker, and trace tests. Documentation describes state ownership, binding order, and per-DSO logging.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 73216

The PR changes logger packaging and initialization across host and simulation consumers and updates timestamp conversion. It is mergeable with owner awareness: the package exclusion may still allow a standalone logger library, several embedded logging paths need linkage and initialization confirmation, and one logging documentation statement needs qualification.

Possibly related issues

• [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 — Directly covers the per-consumer host logger, shared state, and removal of standalone logger loading.

Possibly related PRs

• hw-native-sys/simpler#1691 — Changes related host-log emission and forked-process behavior.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1730 — Introduces the host-span logging mechanisms refactored here.
• hw-native-sys/simpler#1824 — Modifies the host logging and trace implementation used by this change.

Poem

A rabbit hops through logs so bright,
Each DSO keeps its own small light.
Shared state guides the clock and tone,
No global library stands alone.
Anchors turn trace time true—
And tests hop happily too! 🐇

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In `@CMakeLists.txt`:
- Around line 72-75: Update the install packaging exclusion in the OPTIONAL
block to match all standalone logger library suffixes, changing the exact
libsimpler_log.so pattern to a libsimpler_log.* pattern while preserving the
existing exclusion behavior.

In `@docs/logging.md`:
- Around line 37-41: Update the logging threshold documentation near the
DEBUG/INFO/TIMING/WARN/ERROR description to qualify NUL: it suppresses host and
simulation AICPU output governed by the native threshold, but does not suppress
onboard AICPU output when ASCEND_GLOBAL_LOG_LEVEL overrides CANN logging; retain
the existing reference to onboard initialization behavior and configuration
timing.

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[ChaoWao]

Reviewed against upstream/main at merge-base 3f4686c1, and separately against the design in #1792 item 4, since that is what this PR implements.

Verdict: request changes — three things below, plus a rebase. The architecture is right and the execution is careful; most of what follows is about the PR's own description over-claiming, and about invariants that changed silently.

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What's well done

• The old surface is completely gone. lsimpler_log|simpler_log_init|SimplerLogEmitHostSpanFn|_bind_host_span_sink|sink_available|_initialize_simpler_log is zero hits repo-wide. Clean removal, no half-migrated state.
• Exact arch parity. Every a2a3 file has an identical-churn a5 twin (24/24, 17/17, 18/18, 5/5, 4/4, 1/1), satisfying codestyle rule 10's same-commit sibling requirement.
• -undefined dynamic_lookup deleted from three macOS targets. That hack existed only because of the RTLD_GLOBAL logger. Removing the cause rather than the symptom is the right shape, and [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 4 did not predict this benefit — I have recorded it there.
• Hidden visibility plus a single exported binder is stronger than the design asked for. [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 said "share only the state by pointer"; it did not say to hide the rest. Hiding is what actually prevents regressing to a global singleton through ELF interposition, and docs/logging.md states that reason. Also recorded upstream.
• Tests earn their keep: the ABI-rejection table (null / bumped version / short size / invalid threshold), per-pid anchor matching covering both negative cases (no anchor for the pid, anchor later than the span), and the 8-way platform × runtime parametrization pinning exactly which orchestration SOs get the logger.
• docs/logging.md scopes honestly — "Folding sim's device logger into the host backend is tracked separately by issue [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 5". No over-claiming in the docs, which is what makes the drop-counter claim in the PR body look like a leftover.

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Design vs. implementation

I checked this PR against #1792 item 4 line by line. Two divergences, and the first one is the issue's fault, not this PR's — I have corrected #1792 accordingly.

The shared-state set differs in both directions, and the design was incomplete

Item 4 said share (threshold, drop counter). This PR shares (threshold, clock_anchor_pid).

The extra field is not a liberty — it is a consequence the issue failed to anticipate. With one singleton, "one [CLOCK_ANCHOR] per process" (an #1730 invariant) was free: clock_anchor_pid_ was just a member. Duplicating the code turns that invariant into shared mutable state needing a protocol to restore, which is exactly the 0 → -pid / -pid → +pid / -pid → 0 CAS you wrote. That protocol is correct — I traced the interleavings including fork, and the release-on-write-failure retry.

So: nothing to change in the code here. #1792 item 4 now names three fields and says why.

"the same mechanism the silicon side already uses" — withdrawn from the issue

Item 4 cited the silicon side as the precedent. I went and read it: the silicon side passes an integer by value through an existing init ABI — init_args.log_level = HostLogger::get_instance().level() in device_runner_base.cpp:510, and set_log_level(int) on the sim AICPU. No shared pointer, no new symbol, no handshake.

Your mechanism is materially heavier than that precedent, and it is better, for a reason the issue itself records at the bottom: pass-by-value is what causes the push-once defect ("each is seeded once at init, so changing the threshold afterwards reaches nothing"). A shared pointer fixes it.

Which means this PR silently half-fixes push-once and does not claim it. Host modules now read state()->threshold per record, so a mid-run set_level reaches all of them. The device side is unchanged — onboard AICPU still gets a one-shot InitArgs.log_level snapshot. Worth a line in the body, correctly scoped, so the next reader does not conclude the whole chain is live.

I have withdrawn the silicon-precedent sentence from #1792.

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Must fix

1. The body and commit message claim a drop counter that is not in the diff

Both say "bind task-interface-owned threshold and drop-counter state". SimplerHostLogState has four fields and none of them counts anything. write_stderr was changed to return bool, but the only consumer of that value is emit_clock_anchor_if_needed, deciding whether to publish or release the anchor claim. grep -rn 'drop' src/common/log/ python/bindings/ python/simpler/_log.py python/simpler/task_interface.py returns one hit — an unrelated comment about escape-unit truncation.

This is not a wording nit. #1792 item 6's first stage is literally "add the drop counter for the failure paths that already exist", so a maintainer reading this body concludes item 6 has started. Either add the field and the increment, or delete the words from the body and the commit message.

2. Sim-context ownership moved into C++, with an unmentioned lifetime change and a source-breaking parameter insertion

None of the three body bullets mentions this. Three things ride along:

• ChipWorker::init gains sim_context_path inserted before device_id, not appended (chip_worker.h:79). Any other C++ caller silently changes meaning or fails to compile. Please append it, or give it a default.
• The dlopen move is defensible — binding the sim context's private logger needs its handle, and the handle was Python-side. But the new dlclose(sim_context_handle_) in finalize() (chip_worker.cpp:472) is not required by that. It shortens the sim context's lifetime from process — the old _log_preload._preloaded_globals registry, commented "Never closed" — to ChipWorker.
• Consequence on a sequential init → finalize → init in one sim process: the refcount reaches zero, g_device_contexts is destroyed and rebuilt, and one pthread_key leaks per cycle, since pthread_key_create(&g_device_id_key, nullptr) (cpu_sim_context.cpp:95) has no paired pthread_key_delete. The null destructor does rule out the classic dlclose-dangling-TLS-destructor crash, so this is a leak and a state reset, not a fault.

Please say whether the shortened lifetime is intended, and why closing beats leaving the handle open as before.

3. The process-wide write mutex is gone and the replacement invariant is unstated

One HostLogger used to mean one mutex_ serializing every host record in the process. Now each DSO has its own, so cross-module atomicity rests solely on the single ≤PIPE_BUF write(2).

That holds for [STRACE] — static_assert(kHostSpanNameCapacity + kHostSpanAttributesCapacity <= _POSIX_PIPE_BUF - 256) bounds a span record to 512 bytes. It does not hold for ordinary records: kRecordStackCapacity = 2048, and its own comment says so outright — "This capacity is not an atomic-write guarantee." Above the stack buffer there is an unbounded std::vector<char> path.

So on macOS (PIPE_BUF 512) a >512-byte LOG_ERROR from host_runtime.so can now interleave with a binding-side record; a heap-path record can interleave anywhere. [STRACE] parsing survives, because parse_spans scans mid-line for adjacent records — so measurements are not corrupted, human-readable long records are.

docs/logging.md already says "module-local mutex", so you know. What's missing is the consequence. Two asks: state the new invariant where the old one was documented, and note that this makes #1792 item 6 more pressing, not less. I've recorded both in #1792 item 6, including that #1851 has now answered its "measure whether a write ever actually blocks" with yes.

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Should fix

4. SIMPLER_CPU_SIM_HOST_LOG_BRIDGE is a new behavior-gating macro

.claude/rules/env-macro-gating.md §1 requires explicit permission before adding one, and explicitly covers "new #ifdef / #if defined(...) blocks (or -D compile flags) that select between behaviors". It is set mechanically for one target (target_compile_definitions(aicpu_kernel PRIVATE SIMPLER_CPU_SIM_HOST_LOG_BRIDGE=1)), which argues platform isolation rather than feature flag — but the rule says ask, and it is worth asking whether an existing sim/onboard condition can carry it instead of a new name.

5. The bind-after-dlopen sequence is hand-rolled six times with four error policies

chip_worker.cpp:74 (helper, throws) · {a2a3,a5}/platform/sim/host/device_runner.cpp (LOG_ERROR + dlclose + return -1) · {a2a3,a5}/runtime/host_build_graph/host/runtime_maker.cpp (same shape, independently written) · {a2a3,a5}/.../aicpu_executor.cpp (also unlink).

#1792's complaint about the logger was "duplicated ownership … no single owner for its clock, its identity fields, its grammar, or its gate." Replacing one RTLD_GLOBAL load with six copies of resolve-check-call-check-cleanup trades one instance of that problem for another. An inline int simpler_bind_host_log_state(void *handle, const char **err) in common/host_log_state.h would collapse all six and make the arch siblings identical structurally rather than identical-by-review.

6. add_hierarchical_test special-cases one test by string comparison

if(NOT name STREQUAL "test_scheduler") (tests/ut/cpp/CMakeLists.txt:240). Rename that test and the build silently links both its capture adapter and the production one; add a second capture-based test and this condition must be remembered. Make it an explicit opt-out argument or a list.

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7. std::scoped_lock → std::lock_guard in HostLogger::emit (two sites) is unrelated style churn against discipline.md §2, and in the less-modern direction.

8. Six copies of "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../../../common/log/host_log.cpp". Four-deep relative paths per target; a shared variable would survive a directory move.

9. {anchor.pid: anchor for anchor in anchors or ()} is silent last-wins. Under the old design two anchors per pid were expected, one per module. Under yours they are a symptom that some module never got bound — which deserves the same treatment as the existing torn-record shortfall warning rather than silence.

10. The deleted chip_worker.h comment documented an ordering property: "any LOG_* macro firing during its dlopen-time constructors must already see the right filter." The new design structurally cannot honor it — a module filters against its own g_module_log_state default until bind_state runs. I checked: grep -rn '__attribute__((constructor))' src/ is empty and TIMING happens to equal the documented default, so nothing breaks today. But the property was deleted rather than restated. I've opened this as [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 7 with the three options; my preference is defaulting the unbound state to NUL so a missed binding shows up as a module with no records rather than wrong-level output. Your call whether to fold that one line in here or leave it to item 7.

11. bind_state validates abi_version, struct_size and threshold but not clock_anchor_pid. A garbage value equal to -getpid() permanently suppresses the anchor via the observed == -pid_value early return, with no writer ever publishing.

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Merge mechanics (blocking)

Branch is 73216d01 on merge-base 3f4686c1 (#1814), 9 commits behind upstream/main. git merge-tree --write-tree upstream/main HEAD reports:

CONFLICT (content): simpler_setup/tools/strace_timing.py
CONFLICT (content): tests/ut/py/test_strace_timing.py

Only #1811 and #1624 touch those files on main. This is not incidental: this PR changes the parser's clock semantics (mono → wall) in the same file where #1811 restructured lane assignment and invocation grouping. The rebase needs a real merge judgement there rather than a mechanical resolution — that is also why mergeable currently reports UNKNOWN.

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pto-isa pin

ℹ️ Advisory only. pto_isa.pin is pinned to 0cefc9a5a1c24c62655cc345d408559595a8af32; this PR changes no pto-isa header references (zero +/- pto includes) and does not touch the pin. Confirm the pinned commit is still adequate; no bump indicated.

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For the design-side corrections I've updated #1792 rather than asking you to carry them: the shared-state set now names three fields and explains why, the silicon-precedent sentence is withdrawn, item 3 is promoted with the reason that this PR deletes the last short-circuit, item 6 records the vanished mutex and #1851's measurement, and item 7 is new. Items 1 and 2 are marked landed.

[indigo1973]

@ChaoWao 感谢详细审查。已 rebase 到最新 upstream/main，并保持 PR 只有一个提交。11 条意见的处理情况如下：

1. 已修复 drop counter 的错误声明。
   PR body 和 commit message 已删除 drop counter 相关表述。当前共享状态是 threshold 和 clock_anchor_pid；drop counter 仍属于 [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 6，本 PR 不宣称实现。

2. 已修复 sim-context 生命周期和参数兼容性问题。
   sim_context_path 已追加到 ChipWorker::init 参数末尾并提供默认值，保留原有 C++ 调用方式。成功加载的 sim context 现在保存在进程级 registry 中，不会在 ChipWorker::finalize() 时 dlclose；初始化失败仍由 RAII 负责清理。文档也明确记录了进程级生命周期。

3. 已补充跨 DSO 写入原子性约束。
   文档明确说明 mutex 只在单个 DSO 内串行化。跨 DSO/进程只有不超过 PIPE_BUF 的单次 write(2) 才保证不可分割；[STRACE] 满足该限制，较长的普通日志属于 best-effort，可能发生跨模块交错。阻塞和 drop accounting 仍由 [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 6 跟踪。

4. 已移除 SIMPLER_CPU_SIM_HOST_LOG_BRIDGE。
   不再增加新的行为门控宏。sim/onboard 差异继续通过已有的平台源文件隔离表达。

5. 已统一 bind-after-dlopen 的公共逻辑。
   新增 common/host_log_binding.h，由 bind_loaded_host_log_state() 统一完成 handle/state 校验、dlsym、错误读取和 ABI binder 调用。各调用点仅保留与自身资源所有权相关的清理策略。

6. 已移除按测试名称进行字符串特判。
   add_hierarchical_test 现在使用显式的 CUSTOM_HOST_SPAN_ADAPTER CMake 参数；test_scheduler 明确声明该选项，后续重命名或增加同类测试不会依赖隐藏的名字约定。

7. 已恢复 std::scoped_lock。
   HostLogger::emit 的 stack-buffer 和 heap-buffer 两条路径都已恢复使用 std::scoped_lock，删除无关风格改动。

8. 已统一 host logger 的 CMake source list。
   新增 cmake/host_log_sources.cmake，集中定义 SIMPLER_HOST_LOG_SOURCES。所有 consumer 通过稳定的 SIMPLER_CMAKE_DIR 加载该模块，不再各自维护四层相对路径；consumer 目录移动时仍可使用同一公共定义。

9. 已为重复 clock anchor 增加诊断。
   strace_timing.py 现在按 PID 统计 anchor；同一 PID 出现多条 [CLOCK_ANCHOR] 时会明确输出 warning，并保留原有 last-wins 行为。对应单元测试已添加。

10. 本 PR 不修改 constructor-time threshold 行为。
    当前仓库没有 DSO constructor，未绑定状态的默认 TIMING 也与项目默认阈值一致，因此当前没有实际回归。这个设计选择已经由 [Code Health] Log subsystem — one clock, one grammar, one gate #1792 item 7 单独跟踪，留待后续统一决定未绑定状态应为 TIMING 还是 NUL。

11. 本 PR 不增加 clock_anchor_pid 的 bind-time 值校验。
    -getpid() 是 anchor CAS 协议中的合法临时 writer-claim 状态；bind 可能与其他已绑定模块的 anchor 发射并发，单次校验无法区分合法 claim 与损坏值，还会引入 TOCTOU 和误拒绝。该状态由进程内部 _task_interface 所有并初始化为 0，不接受外部任意输入。如需进一步处理异常 writer 永久退出，应设计 claim recovery/lease，而不是在 binder 中进行一次性数值检查。

验证方面，editable wheel 已重新构建，相关 Python/C++、a2a3sim/a5sim 测试均通过；最新提交还完成了 a2a3 上板验证：

• 两卡 test_comm_lifecycle 通过，直接 dlopen self-contained host runtime，不预加载独立 logger。
• HBG vector 两轮通过。
• TMR vector 两轮通过。
• 两个实际场景均正常产生单个进程级 CLOCK_ANCHOR 和可解析的 [STRACE]。