Fix dictionary concatenate for INT8/INT16 indices - #23889
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`cudf::dictionary::detail::concatenate` read the concatenated indices as `size_type` and wrote the remapped indices through `begin<size_type>()` into a column allocated with the narrow input indices type. With INT8 indices this raised cudaErrorIllegalAddress; with INT16 it silently overran the output buffer (compute-sanitizer reports out-of-bounds reads). Only INT32 indices worked. The remap is now dispatched on the indices type so that the indices are read and written with their real width. The output indices type is the widest of the input indices types, widened further when the concatenated keys no longer fit (e.g. two INT8 dictionaries with 200 distinct keys produce INT16 indices); narrower inputs are cast to that type before the indices are concatenated, which also allows concatenating dictionaries whose indices types differ. Closes NVIDIA#23887
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WalkthroughDictionary concatenation now reads and writes indices at their actual integral widths. It selects the widest input type and widens it when the combined key count exceeds capacity. Tests and benchmarks cover narrow, mixed-width, widened, and empty dictionary indices. ChangesDictionary index-width concatenation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Dictionary concatenation can still perform an out-of-bounds device read when an empty sliced dictionary precedes a nonempty dictionary, potentially causing failures or memory corruption. This issue should be fixed and covered by a regression test before merging. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@cpp/src/dictionary/detail/concatenate.cu`:
- Line 277: Add a unit benchmark covering dictionary concatenation with INT8
indices, mixed-width indices, and INT8-to-INT16 widening inputs, exercising the
type-dispatch and conditional-cast paths around indices_type and accumulate.
Follow the repository’s existing benchmark conventions and compare
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…ndices Adds an indices axis (int8, int16, int32, mixed, widen) to the dictionary concatenate benchmark so that the type dispatch, the mixed-width cast, and the key-overflow widening paths are measured. Also comments the new regression tests.
An empty (sliced) dictionary view still carries its indices type, so it participates in choosing the concatenated indices type; only views without children are skipped. Adds tests for a non-empty INT8 input widened by an empty INT16 view and for all-empty inputs (which short-circuit to an empty childless dictionary before reaching this code).
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Follow-up in 521701d, prompted by a CodeRabbit finding on a stacked PR (#23890): the output-indices-type selection ignored empty dictionary views, so a non-empty INT8 input concatenated with an empty INT16 view produced INT8 indices instead of the widest input type. Empty views now contribute their indices type; only childless views (an empty dictionary column may carry no children) are skipped. New tests: |
add_element_count feeds NVBench's Elem/s, so counting only the concatenated keys (100-1000) understated throughput by orders of magnitude and made row-count comparisons meaningless. The element count is now the number of processed indices (num_rows * num_cols) and the resulting key count moves to a plain summary column.
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You may be able to reinstate the transform by using the indexalator which normalizes indices to size_type. Side-effect would mean the output indices would always be size_type but I think it would greatly simplify this code.
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Done in 13a25e6 — thanks, this removed the whole dispatch layer. I kept one nuance: reads go through make_input_iterator as you suggested, and writes go through make_output_iterator on the selected output column (the same pattern as encode/set_keys), so the output keeps the narrow indices type chosen by the widening logic instead of always becoming size_type — preserving the narrow output is the point of the PR for downstream memory footprint. COPYING_TEST passes (4,111 tests including the narrow/mixed/widen/empty-view cases).
Replaces the type-dispatched remap functor with an input indexalator for reading and an output indexalator for writing, per review. The output column keeps the selected (possibly narrow) indices type, matching how encode and set_keys write through the output indexalator.
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124-124: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winExclude empty-view keys from
children_offsets.When an empty sliced dictionary precedes a nonempty dictionary,
keys_viewscontributes zero keys for the empty view, but Line 124 addsview.keys_size()to the remap offset. The following nonempty dictionary then indexesfinal_remapwith an offset for keys that do not exist inall_keys. This causes an out-of-bounds device read.Count zero keys when
view.is_empty(). Add a regression test with an emptyINT16sliced view before a nonemptyINT8dictionary.Proposed fix
- return offsets_pair{view.keys_size(), view.size()}; + return offsets_pair{view.is_empty() ? 0 : view.keys_size(), view.size()};As per coding guidelines: “Invalid memory access (out-of-bounds, use-after-free, host/device confusion)”.
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In `@cpp/src/dictionary/detail/concatenate.cu`:
- Line 124: Update the children_offsets calculation to contribute zero keys when
view.is_empty(), while preserving view.size() for the value offset and normal
key counts for nonempty views. Add a regression test covering an empty INT16
sliced view followed by a nonempty INT8 dictionary.
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Summary
Fixes #23887. Dictionary concatenation currently reads and writes narrow
INT8andINT16indices asINT32, causing illegal memory access or silentbuffer overrun.
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INT32behavior is unchanged.Validation
COPYING_TESTtests passed locally.compute-sanitizer --tool memcheckreported no errors forDictionaryConcatTest.*.INT8andINT16reproducers pass on cuDF 26.08.Checklist