refinement: free-memory preflight for every level before any device work

Restores the PeriodicBlockStepper safeguard dropped in 8e1feff, for all
FixedPatchStepper levels: both G buffers, halo pairs and boundary columns
of every level are compared with cuda.mem_get_info() before the stream,
any module or any buffer exists, raising MemoryError('level buffers exceed
free device memory'). Transfer tables are not counted (lower bound).

Tests: the single-level MemoryError case is back beside the param-layout
check (no stream, no allocation); host test_single_level covers depth 1
and depth 2 (no stream, build or allocation) and the wait failure after a
good step (count stays 1). Driver-mocking fixtures report ample free memory.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Claude
2026-10-27 01:10:15 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 8c776309c9
commit 19db7d362f
9 changed files with 57 additions and 8 deletions
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ def mocked_backend(mode="periodic", fail_alloc=None):
stack.enter_context(patch.object(compiler, name))
stack.enter_context(patch.object(compiler, "load_module", return_value=module))
stack.enter_context(patch.object(cuda, "Stream", return_value=stream))
stack.enter_context(patch.object(cuda, "mem_get_info", return_value=(1 << 40, 1 << 40)))
stack.enter_context(patch.object(cuda, "mem_alloc", side_effect=allocate))
stack.enter_context(patch.object(cuda, "memcpy_htod",
side_effect=lambda p, a: uploads.append((p, a))))