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authorArthur Hanson Rasmusson <arthur@vgpu.io>2026-10-06 15:18:39 -0400
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docs: add the GR compute-launch frontier page and align execution status across the tree
New page docs/04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md describes the chain that must fire for a guest CUDA launch (guest push -> GPFIFO/front-end -> inline launch-descriptor install -> engine read/dispatch -> completion), where the leading edge is (the descriptor install path), how we know (front-end vs engine-authored observables and their limits), what is exonerated (context validity at dispatch, destination window mapping, fetch alignment, shared-buffer rule, parenting), the ranked issues (verbatim prelude targets, missing descriptor-virtualization control, sentinel hygiene), live investigation lines and labelled theories. Align every page that still said GR execution is blocked on engine-context validity to the current frontier, and add the new page to the README reading order (row 15, later rows renumbered). Docs only; no code.
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@@ -185,6 +185,13 @@ push faults with an uncommitted GR context (`CTXNOTVALID`), and the
the designed locked fail-safe (see
[`08-physical-gpu-integration.md`](08-physical-gpu-integration.md) §7/§8).
+**Update (2026-10-06):** the GR frontier has moved past the context-commit
+stage. A forwarded guest CUDA launch now reaches the front-end (ring entry
+fetched, methods executed) but the inline launch-descriptor install has not
+been observed and no grid has dispatched; context validity at dispatch is ruled
+out. See
+[`../04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md`](../04-implementation/03-execution-frontier.md).
+
**Log signatures (guest side):**
```
nvidia-uvm: ... Tracker entry for value N (sema VA 0x...) channel ID ... CE ...