Georgi Gerganov a30273376e metal : clamp K extent in tensor API mat-mat kernel for K not a multiple of 32 (#27450)
The Tensor API mat-mat path of kernel_mul_mm (GGML_METAL_HAS_TENSOR) fed a
static K=32 tile to the matmul2d op on every iteration. On the last, partial
K tile (ne00 % 32 != 0) the src1 slice extends past the K extent of the
tensor, and the op reads those out-of-bounds elements (undefined behavior per
the MSL specification, section 2.22.2). Depending on stale memory contents,
this corrupted the result or produced NaN.

Make the matmul2d op use dynamic_extent for K, and clamp the K extent of both
operand tensor views to the remaining valid K range (min(32, K - loop_k)) per
iteration, so the op reads exactly the valid K range on every iteration
(mirroring the tail handling of the MPP matmul2d examples). On K-aligned
inputs the clamp degenerates to the full 32-wide tile: the only difference
from the static-K op is that the dynamic-K op derives K from the operand
extents and edge-checks the tile against the tensor extents (a handful of
integer ops per iteration).

Add test-backend-ops MUL_MAT cases with K not a multiple of 32 to exercise
the unaligned K path.

Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/Qwen3.8-27B
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llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon [In Progress] Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain
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