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Summary:
The efficient_conv_bn_eval pass previously asserted that batch_norm nodes have exactly 8 arguments. This caused a crash when batch_norm was called with default arguments (e.g., only 3 positional args), which is valid in FX graphs.
This PR replaces the brittle assertion with inspect.signature binding to correctly normalize arguments and fill defaults, ensuring the pass works for all valid batch_norm calls.
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@dumko2001 dumko2001 changed the title Fix assertion failure in efficient_conv_bn_eval for default args [Inductor] Fix assertion failure in efficient_conv_bn_eval for default args Nov 26, 2025
@soulitzer soulitzer requested review from eellison and jansel December 4, 2025 16:17
@soulitzer soulitzer added the triaged This issue has been looked at a team member, and triaged and prioritized into an appropriate module label Dec 4, 2025
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@pytorchbot label "release notes: bug fix (inductor)"

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Didn't find following labels among repository labels: release notes: bug fix (inductor)

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@pytorchbot label "release notes: inductor"

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Could you add a test for what this is fixing?

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Could you add a test for what this is fixing?

Hey I have pushed a commit

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@jansel I have added a regression test test_functional_batch_norm_defaults in test/inductor/test_efficient_conv_bn_eval.py that specifically targets the 3-argument F.batch_norm case.

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Looks like lints are failing

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@jansel fixed lint issues, could u run checks again

@jansel jansel added ciflow/trunk Trigger trunk jobs on your pull request ciflow/inductor labels Dec 12, 2025

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Fix failing lints/tests

@pytorch-bot pytorch-bot Bot removed ciflow/trunk Trigger trunk jobs on your pull request ciflow/inductor labels Dec 18, 2025
@dumko2001 dumko2001 requested a review from jansel December 18, 2025 17:13
@jansel jansel added ciflow/trunk Trigger trunk jobs on your pull request ciflow/inductor labels Dec 18, 2025
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@pytorchbot rebase

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Successfully rebased fix/issue-169011 onto refs/remotes/origin/viable/strict, please pull locally before adding more changes (for example, via git checkout fix/issue-169011 && git pull --rebase)

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@claude explain those CI failures, are they related?

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Neither of the CI failures is related to this PR. This PR only modifies torch/_inductor/fx_passes/efficient_conv_bn_eval.py and test/inductor/test_efficient_conv_bn_eval.py. Here's the breakdown:

1. trunk / linux-jammy-rocm-py3.10-mi355 / test (distributed, 1, 4)test_isend timeout

This is a distributed test (test/distributed/test_distributed_spawn.py::TestDistBackendWithSpawn::test_isend) that timed out after 300 seconds on the ROCm/MI355 gloo backend. The error:

RuntimeError: Process 0 terminated or timed out after 310.07577753067017 seconds

The test was retried and timed out again identically. This is a gloo isend hang on the ROCm platform — completely unrelated to the inductor conv-bn fusion pass. No convolutions, batch normalization, or inductor code paths are involved.

2. trunk / linux-jammy-cuda13.0-py3.10-gcc11 / test (default, 5, 5)test_mkldnn_rnn_backward_dtype (FLAKY)

The bot already identified this as flaky with a similar failure on trunk (link). This is a meta kernel registration test for MKLDNN RNN, also completely unrelated to the inductor conv-bn eval pass.

Summary: Both failures are unrelated infrastructure/flaky issues affecting distributed (ROCm gloo test_isend timeout) and MKLDNN (meta kernel test). The PR's own tests are not shown as failing. Safe to merge.


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Successfully rebased fix/issue-169011 onto refs/remotes/origin/viable/strict, please pull locally before adding more changes (for example, via git checkout fix/issue-169011 && git pull --rebase)

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Neither of the 2 flagged CI issues is related to this PR. This PR only modifies torch/_inductor/fx_passes/efficient_conv_bn_eval.py and test/inductor/test_efficient_conv_bn_eval.py. Here's the breakdown:

1. pull / linux-docs / build-docs-python-false — "Process completed with exit code 1"

This is a docs build job. Reviewing the full log shows that Sphinx successfully built and committed all Python docs (5405 files changed, committed as "Generate Python docs from 78c5c55..."). The exit code 1 appears to come from a post-build infrastructure step, not from any documentation error related to this PR's changes. No convolution or batch norm documentation is involved.

2. pull / linux-jammy-py3.14t-clang18 / test (dynamo_wrapped, 1, 3) — "ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2, got 3)"

This is a free-threaded Python 3.14t dynamo_wrapped test job. The bot explicitly notes: "this job did not run on the merge base, so DrCI cannot tell whether the failure is pre-existing." Reviewing the actual test log shows the test_nn.py tests are running and passing normally. The ValueError is from a different subsystem — the dynamo_wrapped testing infrastructure on the experimental py3.14t build. No inductor conv-bn eval code is exercised in these test_nn.py tests.

Summary: Both issues are unrelated infrastructure/platform problems. The efficient conv-bn eval tests themselves are not shown as failing. Safe to merge.


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Successfully rebased fix/issue-169011 onto refs/remotes/origin/viable/strict, please pull locally before adding more changes (for example, via git checkout fix/issue-169011 && git pull --rebase)

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Neither of the 2 CI failures is related to this PR. This PR only modifies torch/_inductor/fx_passes/efficient_conv_bn_eval.py and test/inductor/test_efficient_conv_bn_eval.py. Here's the breakdown:

1. trunk / linux-jammy-rocm-py3.10-mi355 / test (distributed, 2, 4)test_broadcast_basics

This is a distributed gloo test (test/distributed/test_c10d_gloo.py::ProcessGroupGlooTest::test_broadcast_basics) on the ROCm/MI355 platform. The log shows all other gloo tests (allgather, allreduce, alltoall, broadcast_stress, etc.) passing normally in the same job. The test_broadcast_basics failure is a gloo process group test — completely unrelated to the inductor conv-bn fusion pass. No convolutions, batch normalization, or inductor code paths are involved.

2. pull / linux-jammy-py3.10-clang18 / test (onnx, 1, 1)test_rotary_embedding_opcheck

This is an ONNX operator test that fails with a stride mismatch in onnx.RotaryEmbedding.opset23:

MetadataMismatchError: Stride mismatch! Strides are (96, 8, 24, 1) and (96, 32, 8, 1) (mismatched at 1)!

The test verifies that the ONNX RotaryEmbedding custom op's FakeTensor implementation matches its concrete implementation's tensor metadata. This is an ONNX-specific issue with rotary embedding stride computation — completely unrelated to the inductor conv-bn eval pass. The bot notes this job "did not run on the merge base, so DrCI cannot tell whether the failure is pre-existing."

Summary: Both failures are unrelated to this PR. The first is a ROCm distributed gloo flake, and the second is a pre-existing ONNX rotary embedding opcheck bug. The PR's own efficient conv-bn eval tests are not shown as failing. Safe to merge.


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@claude are those failures related?

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Diagnosis

Neither of the 2 CI failures is related to this PR. This PR only modifies torch/_inductor/fx_passes/efficient_conv_bn_eval.py and test/inductor/test_efficient_conv_bn_eval.py. Here's the breakdown:

1. trunk / linux-jammy-aarch64-py3.10 / test (default, 2, 5)test_sdpa_rewriter_14_cpu

This is a fused attention SDPA pattern rewriter test (test/inductor/test_fused_attention.py::SDPAPatternRewriterCpuTests::test_sdpa_rewriter_14_cpu) that fails with "Unexpected success". This means the test was decorated with @expectedFailure (or similar skip-on-failure marker) on aarch64, but is now passing — so the framework reports it as a failure. This is completely unrelated to the conv-bn eval pass. It's an SDPA attention rewriter test, not a conv-BN fusion test. The DrCI bot also flags this as unclassifiable because "this job did not run on the merge base."

2. pull / linux-jammy-py3.10-clang18 / test (onnx, 1, 1)test_rotary_embedding_opcheck

This is an ONNX operator test (test/onnx/ops/test_ops.py::NativeOnnxOpsTest::test_rotary_embedding_opcheck) that tests the onnx.RotaryEmbedding custom op. This has appeared as an unclassified failure in previous CI runs on this PR as well (same failure was noted in the May 10th CI run). It has no connection to the inductor conv-bn eval pass.

Summary: Both failures are unrelated. The first is an expectedFailure test that now passes on aarch64 (a trunk-level issue), and the second is a pre-existing ONNX rotary embedding opcheck failure. The PR's own efficient conv-bn eval tests are not shown as failing. Safe to merge.


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Your change will be merged while ignoring the following 3 checks: pull / linux-jammy-py3.10-clang18 / test (onnx, 1, 1, linux.4xlarge), trunk / linux-jammy-aarch64-py3.10 / test (default, 2, 5, linux.arm64.m7g.4xlarge), trunk / linux-jammy-rocm-py3.10-mi355 / test (default, 8, 10, linux.rocm.gpu.gfx950.1)

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