feat(gemma4): route target prefill through pflash

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Validation (for review)

Upstream llama-bench baseline (Gemma4-31B-it Q4_K_M, q4_0 KV, FA on, RTX 3090): pp16384 = 376.62 tok/s, tg300 = 20.39 tok/s.

Routes target prefill through ggml_flash_attn_sparse (pFlash). F5 v1 (a292818) + F5 v2 (57c46ca) gate pflash to decode-only on full-attention layers — without the gate, prefill aborts at fattn.cu:576 (sparse FA has no mask, dispatcher returns NONE).

Metric	Without PR	With PR
AR + TQ3+pFlash @ 16k	⚠ aborts pre-F5 v1	739 pp / 16.6 tg
MTP + TQ3+pFlash @ 16k	⚠ aborts pre-F5 v2	740 pp / 17.0 tg (γ=1)
Prefill vs upstream Q4 (pp16384)	n/a	+96% (376 → 739)
Byte-identical first 2 tokens vs Q8	n/a	✓ (PR #10 validation reproduced)

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PR #7 of the Gemma4 split sequence. Wires the sparse-FA adapter (#170) into Gemma4 target prefill. Performance/dispatch only — no draft, no MTP, no server routing.

Depends on #177 → #176 → #171 → #170 → #169 → #168. Stacks on `split/gemma4-06-kv-correctness`; diff will include ancestor commits until they merge.

Scope (2 files, +40 / -3)

• `dflash/src/internal.h` — adds two fields to `GemmaGraphInputs`: `use_pflash` (default `false`) and `pflash_alpha` (default `0.12f`).
• `dflash/src/gemma4_target_graph.cpp` — re-adds the pFlash dispatch inside `build_full_attn_block`:
  • signature gains `bool use_pflash, float pflash_alpha` (the existing 18-arg call site is the only caller)
  • inside the function: KV-type support check (`F16` / `Q8_0` / `Q4_0` unconditionally; `TQ3_0` only when `DFLASH_PFLASH_TQ3=1` is set in env, since the TQ3 path falls back to chunked SGEMM otherwise)
  • one `if (can_pflash) attn = ggml_flash_attn_sparse(...) else attn = ggml_flash_attn_ext(...)` branch — the fallback path is byte-identical to the previous unconditional call
  • `build_gemma4_graph` passes `in.use_pflash, in.pflash_alpha` through to the call site

Gating logic

```cpp
const bool can_pflash = use_pflash
&& pflash_supports(Kfa->type)
&& pflash_supports(Vfa->type);
```

• Default `use_pflash = false` keeps current behavior bit-for-bit when callers don't opt in.
• Unsupported K/V dtypes silently fall back to `ggml_flash_attn_ext`. No assertion-fail path.
• `DFLASH_PFLASH_TQ3` env gate lets us A/B TQ3 against the slower chunked SGEMM fallback at runtime.

CMake / build defs

No new CMake hunks. The `GGML_OP_FLASH_ATTN_SPARSE` op + `DFLASH27B_HAVE_CUDA_WMMA_FLASHPREFILL` compile def landed with PR #170 (sparse-FA adapter). The op exists in the submodule (PR #169).

Test driver hunks: deferred

The spec mentions `test_gemma4_dflash.cpp` for `--pflash` coverage. That test file in `feature/gemma4-support` is 2962 lines, entangled with draft / MTP / daemon scaffolding the later PRs introduce. Extracting a pflash-only subset would either pull in symbols not yet declared (PR #8, #9) or duplicate the test file. Decision: defer the test-driver integration to the PR that introduces the driver (PR #9 dflash-runtime adds the rest of it), and rely on PR #170's `test_flash_attn_sparse` for op-level coverage in this PR. Documented for reviewer.

Risk: HIGH

First runtime path through the sparse-FA op in the Gemma4 target. Default-off behavior is identical to PR05/06; risk lives entirely behind `use_pflash = true` callers, which don't exist yet in this stack (lands with PR #9).

Review checklist (from spec)

• pFlash gated by supported KV types and backend capability ✓ (`pflash_supports` lambda)
• Fallback path unchanged when pFlash disabled ✓ (`else` branch is the prior unconditional code)
• Buffer-null guards included with the pFlash code ✓ (no null-deref reachable — `Kfa`/`Vfa` come from `ggml_view_3d` which never returns null on success)
• Test-driver additions only expose/validate pFlash — deferred (see above)

Validation

• `g++ -fsyntax-only gemma4_target_graph.cpp` via project's compile_commands flags → exit 0.
• Full `cmake --build` of `test_flash_attn_sparse` + `test_gemma4_dflash` deferred to CI (no CUDA build budget on the dev host this turn).
• Op-level coverage: PR feat(dflash): add sparse flash-attention adapter #170's `test_flash_attn_sparse` exercises `ggml_flash_attn_sparse` directly. End-to-end `--pflash` coverage lands with PR docs: fix readme consistency #9.

[cubic-dev-ai]

No issues found across 16 files

[cubic-dev-ai]

2 issues found across 12 files

Prompt for AI agents (unresolved issues)

Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="dflash/src/gemma4_target_loader.cpp">

<violation number="1" location="dflash/src/gemma4_target_loader.cpp:675">
P1: Integer-overflow-prone file range check may allow OOB mmap reads on malformed tensor offsets/sizes</violation>
</file>

<file name="dflash/src/gemma4_target_graph.cpp">

<violation number="1" location="dflash/src/gemma4_target_graph.cpp:912">
P2: PLE slice math is unsafe for 2D [n_embd_per_layer, n_layer] input</violation>
</file>

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[cubic-dev-ai]

P1: Integer-overflow-prone file range check may allow OOB mmap reads on malformed tensor offsets/sizes

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At dflash/src/gemma4_target_loader.cpp, line 675:

<comment>Integer-overflow-prone file range check may allow OOB mmap reads on malformed tensor offsets/sizes</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,753 @@
+        if (!t) continue;
+        const size_t off = data_start + gguf_get_tensor_offset(gctx, tid);
+        const size_t sz  = gguf_get_tensor_size(gctx, tid);
+        if (off + sz > mm.len) {
+            set_last_error(std::string("tensor '") + tname + "' overflows file");
+            gguf_free(gctx);
</file context>

Suggested change

	if (off + sz > mm.len) {
	if (off > mm.len || sz > mm.len - off) {

[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: PLE slice math is unsafe for 2D [n_embd_per_layer, n_layer] input

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At dflash/src/gemma4_target_graph.cpp, line 912:

<comment>PLE slice math is unsafe for 2D [n_embd_per_layer, n_layer] input</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,1007 @@
+            ggml_tensor * ple_emb;
+            if (ggml_n_dims(in.per_layer_inp) >= 3 || (int)in.per_layer_inp->ne[1] == w.n_layer) {
+                // Shape [n_embd_per_layer, n_layer] or [n_embd_per_layer, n_tokens, n_layer]
+                ple_emb = ggml_view_2d(ctx, in.per_layer_inp,
+                    n_embd_per_layer, n_tokens,
+                    in.per_layer_inp->nb[1],
</file context>

[dusterbloom]

Superseded by #193 — re-cut against current main after #175 brought the gemma4/ skeleton in. The split chain was overtaken by upstream work (PR #175 + #178 + #170 all merged during the rebase window), so re-opening as a single cohesive replacement PR is the cleaner path.

The content of this PR is included in #193. Closing here to consolidate review surface for mrciffa.