feat: Implement GFX906 backend infrastructure for AMD Instinct MI50

- Add GFX906-specific configuration header with hardware specs
  * 60 CUs, 64KB LDS, wave size 64 configuration
  * Hardware capability detection and optimization helpers
  * V_DOT4_I32_I8 and V_DOT2_F32_F16 instruction support

- Implement device detection and initialization module
  * Automatic GFX906 device discovery
  * Stream pool management (4 default streams, up to 16)
  * Performance counters for profiling
  * Memory pool management with HBM2 optimization

- Integrate with existing HIP backend
  * Modified CMakeLists.txt to include GFX906 sources when targeting gfx906
  * Added initialization hooks in ggml-cuda.cu
  * Updated common.cuh to include GFX906 configuration

- Add comprehensive test suite
  * Device detection tests
  * Stream management validation
  * Memory allocation tests
  * Configuration verification

This implementation provides the core infrastructure needed for GFX906
(AMD Instinct MI50) support as specified in issue #1, including device
detection, stream management, and proper configuration for the hardware's
60 CUs, 64KB LDS, and wave size of 64.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>

Author: larkinwc

CLAUDE.md

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ llama.cpp-gfx906 is a high-performance C/C++ implementation for LLM inference wi
 
 ### Standard CPU Build
 ```bash
+# Initialize submodules (required for ggml)
+git submodule update --init --recursive
+
 cmake -B build
 cmake --build build --config Release
 ```
@@ -17,11 +20,21 @@ cmake --build build --config Release
 ```bash
 cmake -B build -DGGML_HIP=ON -DAMDGPU_TARGETS=gfx906
 cmake --build build --config Release
+
+# GFX906-optimized build (when available)
+cmake -B build -DGGML_HIP=ON -DGGML_HIP_GFX906_OPTIMIZED=ON -DAMDGPU_TARGETS=gfx906
+cmake --build build --config Release
+```
+
+### Debug Build
+```bash
+cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
+cmake --build build
 ```
 
 ## Testing
 
-### Run All Tests
+### Build and Run All Tests
 ```bash
 cmake -B build -DLLAMA_BUILD_TESTS=ON
 cmake --build build --config Release
@@ -41,16 +54,25 @@ ctest -L model    # Model loading
 ./build/bin/test-tokenizer-0 ./models/ggml-vocab-llama-bpe.gguf
 ```
 
-## Code Formatting
-Use clang-format for all C/C++ code. The repository follows 4-space indentation (configured in .ecrc).
+### Running Benchmarks
+```bash
+# Performance benchmark
+./build/bin/llama-bench -m model.gguf
+
+# Perplexity testing
+./build/bin/llama-perplexity -m model.gguf -f file.txt
+
+# Profile with rocprof (AMD GPU)
+rocprof --stats --hip-trace ./build/bin/llama-cli -m model.gguf -p "prompt" -n 100
+```
 
 ## Architecture
 
 ### Layer Structure
 1. **GGML Layer** (`ggml/`): Low-level tensor operations and backend implementations
    - `ggml/src/ggml.c`: Core tensor library
    - `ggml/src/ggml-cuda/`: NVIDIA GPU kernels
-   - `ggml/src/ggml-hip/`: AMD GPU kernels
+   - `ggml/src/ggml-hip/`: AMD GPU kernels (GFX906 optimizations)
    - `ggml/src/ggml-backend.c`: Backend abstraction layer
 
 2. **LLaMA Layer** (`src/`): Model implementation and inference engine
@@ -60,9 +82,11 @@ Use clang-format for all C/C++ code. The repository follows 4-space indentation
    - `src/llama-sampling.*`: Sampling strategies (greedy, top-k, top-p, etc.)
 
 3. **Tools Layer** (`tools/`): User-facing applications
-   - `tools/main/`: CLI tool for model inference
-   - `tools/server/`: HTTP server with OpenAI API compatibility
-   - `tools/quantize/`: Model quantization utilities
+   - `tools/main/`: CLI tool for model inference (`llama-cli`)
+   - `tools/server/`: HTTP server with OpenAI API compatibility (`llama-server`)
+   - `tools/quantize/`: Model quantization utilities (`llama-quantize`)
+   - `tools/perplexity/`: Model quality metrics (`llama-perplexity`)
+   - `tools/llama-bench/`: Performance benchmarking (`llama-bench`)
 
 ### Key Design Patterns
 - **Backend Abstraction**: All compute operations go through ggml-backend interface, allowing seamless switching between CPU/CUDA/HIP/Vulkan
@@ -77,17 +101,24 @@ Use clang-format for all C/C++ code. The repository follows 4-space indentation
 - New sampling methods belong in `src/llama-sampling.cpp`
 - Backend kernels should be added to respective backend directories under `ggml/src/`
 
+### GFX906 Specific Development
+- GFX906 optimizations are in `docs/gfx906/` documentation
+- Key hardware features: V_DOT4_I32_I8, V_DOT2_F32_F16, 64KB LDS
+- Refer to `docs/gfx906/optimization_plan.md` for optimization strategy
+- Check `docs/gfx906/implementation_guide.md` for kernel implementations
+
 ### Before Committing
 1. Run clang-format on modified files
 2. Build with tests enabled and run ctest
 3. Test with both CPU and GPU builds if modifying backend code
-4. Check performance impact with perplexity tool
+4. Check performance impact with llama-bench and perplexity tools
 
 ### Common Development Tasks
 - **Add new model architecture**: Modify `llm_load_arch()` and `llm_build_*()` functions in `src/llama.cpp`
 - **Implement new operator**: Add to `ggml/src/ggml.c` and implement in relevant backends
 - **Add sampling method**: Extend `src/llama-sampling.cpp` with new sampling strategy
 - **Debug tokenization**: Use `tools/test-tokenizer-*.cpp` utilities
+- **Optimize for GFX906**: Follow patterns in `ggml/src/ggml-hip/` and reference `docs/gfx906/`
 
 ## Important Configuration
 - C++17 required

ggml

@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ if (NOT WIN32 OR NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
     llama_build_and_test(test-grammar-integration.cpp)
     llama_build_and_test(test-llama-grammar.cpp)
     llama_build_and_test(test-chat.cpp)
+    
+    # GFX906 backend infrastructure test
+    if (GGML_HIP AND (CMAKE_HIP_ARCHITECTURES MATCHES "gfx906" OR AMDGPU_TARGETS MATCHES "gfx906"))
+        llama_build_and_test(test-gfx906-backend.cpp LABEL "backend")
+    endif()
+    
     # TODO: disabled on loongarch64 because the ggml-ci node lacks Python 3.8
     if (NOT ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "loongarch64")
         llama_build_and_test(test-json-schema-to-grammar.cpp   WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})

tests/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+#include "ggml-cuda.h"
+
+#include <cassert>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstring>
+
+// External functions from GFX906 backend
+extern "C" {
+bool ggml_cuda_gfx906_init();
+bool ggml_cuda_gfx906_init_streams(int device_id);
+void ggml_cuda_gfx906_cleanup();
+void ggml_cuda_gfx906_print_perf_stats();
+}
+
+// Test device detection
+bool test_device_detection() {
+    printf("Testing GFX906 device detection...\n");
+
+    // Get CUDA device info
+    int device_count = ggml_cuda_get_device_count();
+    printf("  Total CUDA devices: %d\n", device_count);
+
+    if (device_count == 0) {
+        printf("  No CUDA devices found\n");
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Initialize GFX906 backend
+    bool gfx906_found = ggml_cuda_gfx906_init();
+
+    if (!gfx906_found) {
+        printf("  No GFX906 devices found (this is OK if you don't have an MI50)\n");
+        return true;  // Not an error, just no GFX906 hardware
+    }
+
+    printf("  GFX906 device detection: PASSED\n");
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Test stream management
+bool test_stream_management() {
+    printf("Testing GFX906 stream management...\n");
+
+    // Check if we have a GFX906 device
+    if (!ggml_cuda_gfx906_init()) {
+        printf("  Skipping stream test (no GFX906 device)\n");
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    // Initialize streams for device 0
+    bool result = ggml_cuda_gfx906_init_streams(0);
+
+    if (!result) {
+        printf("  Failed to initialize streams\n");
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    printf("  Stream management: PASSED\n");
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Test memory allocation
+bool test_memory_allocation() {
+    printf("Testing GFX906 memory allocation...\n");
+
+    int device_count = ggml_cuda_get_device_count();
+    if (device_count == 0) {
+        printf("  Skipping memory test (no CUDA devices)\n");
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    // Test basic CUDA memory allocation
+    void * ptr  = nullptr;
+    size_t size = 1024 * 1024;  // 1 MB
+
+    cudaError_t err = cudaMalloc(&ptr, size);
+    if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+        printf("  Failed to allocate memory: %s\n", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Test memory operations
+    err = cudaMemset(ptr, 0, size);
+    if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+        printf("  Failed to set memory: %s\n", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+        cudaFree(ptr);
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // Free memory
+    err = cudaFree(ptr);
+    if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+        printf("  Failed to free memory: %s\n", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    printf("  Memory allocation: PASSED\n");
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Test configuration values
+bool test_configuration() {
+    printf("Testing GFX906 configuration...\n");
+
+#ifdef GGML_HIP_GFX906_OPTIMIZED
+    printf("  GGML_HIP_GFX906_OPTIMIZED is defined\n");
+
+#    ifdef __gfx906__
+    printf("  __gfx906__ is defined\n");
+    printf("  Expected configuration:\n");
+    printf("    - 60 Compute Units\n");
+    printf("    - 64KB LDS per CU\n");
+    printf("    - Wave size: 64\n");
+#    else
+    printf("  __gfx906__ is NOT defined (OK if not compiling for GFX906)\n");
+#    endif
+#else
+    printf("  GGML_HIP_GFX906_OPTIMIZED is NOT defined\n");
+#endif
+
+    printf("  Configuration test: PASSED\n");
+    return true;
+}
+
+// Main test runner
+int main() {
+    printf("========================================\n");
+    printf("GFX906 Backend Infrastructure Test Suite\n");
+    printf("========================================\n\n");
+
+    int tests_passed = 0;
+    int tests_failed = 0;
+
+    // Run tests
+    if (test_device_detection()) {
+        tests_passed++;
+    } else {
+        tests_failed++;
+    }
+
+    if (test_stream_management()) {
+        tests_passed++;
+    } else {
+        tests_failed++;
+    }
+
+    if (test_memory_allocation()) {
+        tests_passed++;
+    } else {
+        tests_failed++;
+    }
+
+    if (test_configuration()) {
+        tests_passed++;
+    } else {
+        tests_failed++;
+    }
+
+    // Print performance stats if available
+#ifdef GGML_HIP_GFX906_OPTIMIZED
+    ggml_cuda_gfx906_print_perf_stats();
+#endif
+
+    // Cleanup
+#ifdef GGML_HIP_GFX906_OPTIMIZED
+    ggml_cuda_gfx906_cleanup();
+#endif
+
+    // Print summary
+    printf("\n========================================\n");
+    printf("Test Summary:\n");
+    printf("  Tests passed: %d\n", tests_passed);
+    printf("  Tests failed: %d\n", tests_failed);
+
+    if (tests_failed == 0) {
+        printf("  Result: ALL TESTS PASSED\n");
+    } else {
+        printf("  Result: SOME TESTS FAILED\n");
+    }
+    printf("========================================\n");
+
+    return tests_failed;
+}
+