## Summary
- Keep the Python test launcher close to plain `pytest -n auto`, move
nightly tests under `tests/nightly/python`, remove obsolete launchers
and collection bookkeeping, and partition CPU/GPU jobs with explicit
`gpu` marker expressions.
- Repair exact-pointer regressions at their owning boundaries: packed
raw-string ABI values, CUDA/Metal matrix intrinsic pointers, internal TE
extern offsets, MetaSchedule scalar annotations, localized
auto-tensorization scope matching, and typed DLTensor fixture fields.
- Preserve typed workspace calls in TIR and cast pointer-returning
external calls in CodeGenC, covered by a plain-TIRx 1024-byte global
workspace that is compiled as C++.
- Finish phasing out value-bearing Relax `R.Prim` annotations by
requiring an explicit dtype, removing obsolete value-based contracts,
and expressing the DISCO rank-dependent slices as explicit scalar
`call_tir` inputs.
- Gate the distributed callback on the optional DISCO runtime, NCCL, and
at least two GPUs so capability-limited jobs skip instead of failing.
- Remove the non-demonstrating pointer probe, use direct TVMScript
comparison for packed strings, and remove the four designated legacy
testing modules.
The seven repaired CPU categories cover packed raw strings (7 failures),
CUDA/Metal matrix access-pointer types (7), internal TE extern offsets
(1), a typed DLTensor fixture (1), MetaSchedule scalar annotations (1),
CodeGenC workspace return casts (12), and localized auto-tensorization
storage-scope matching (19).
## Validation
- Base: `ded6ad8dd212869c881efb5590f8a33fc972728e`
- Head: `a7277e86dbcfe0638c8c252d36760859c4ab4297`
- All 35 locally available original failing node IDs pass across the
focused runs.
- The full focused TE, TIR builtin-lowering, and CodeGenC files pass: 61
tests.
- The complete touched Relax/TVMScript set plus
PlanAndUpdateBufferAllocationLocation passes with 784 passed, 20
skipped, and 1 expected failure.
- The DISCO callback collects and skips when its runtime or two-GPU
environment is unavailable.
- Six direct mapping tests, twelve tensor-core sketches, and the dp4a
sketch pass unchanged.
- The compiler rebuild, branch-wide pre-commit hooks, and full-range
whitespace checks pass.
- The 13 broad CBLAS/TFLite nodes remain dependency-gated; their owning
TE and generated-C regressions compile.
No merge is included in this change.
Tianqi Chen
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