"""Brief side-channel probe: does ring-submit latency distinguish code paths? Over USB each fence poll is a USB round trip, so resolution is coarse, but a path difference of even one extra poll should separate the medians. """ import ctypes, time, statistics from tinygrad import Device from tinygrad.runtime.autogen.am import am d = Device["AMD"]; adev = d.iface.dev_impl; psp = adev.psp SZ = ctypes.sizeof(am.struct_psp_gfx_cmd_resp); C = 28 N = 25 def timed(cid, words): adev.vram.view(psp.cmd_paddr, SZ)[:] = b"\x00" * SZ c = am.struct_psp_gfx_cmd_resp(cmd_id=cid) buf = bytearray(memoryview(c).cast('B')) for i, v in words.items(): buf[C+i*4:C+4+i*4] = int(v & 0xFFFFFFFF).to_bytes(4, 'little') cmd = am.struct_psp_gfx_cmd_resp.from_buffer_copy(bytes(buf)) t0 = time.perf_counter() try: psp._ring_submit(cmd) except Exception: pass return (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1e3 cases = [ ("0x7e invalid cmd", 0x7e, {}), ("0x0d accepted idx=5", 0x0d, {0: 5, 1: 0, 2: 1}), ("0x0d REJECTED idx=0xF", 0x0d, {0: 0xF}), ("0x0d accepted idx=0", 0x0d, {0: 0}), ("0x0c accepted idx=0", 0x0c, {0: 0}), ("0x0c REJECTED idx=4", 0x0c, {0: 4}), ("0x12 (no validation)", 0x12, {}), ("0x24 (no validation)", 0x24, {}), ("0x30 (no validation)", 0x30, {}), ("0x0f GET_FW_ATTESTATION", 0x0f, {}), ] for _ in range(5): timed(0x7e, {}) # warm up print(f"{'case':<26s} {'median':>9s} {'min':>9s} {'p90':>9s} (ms, n={N})") res = {} for label, cid, w in cases: ts = sorted(timed(cid, w) for _ in range(N)) med = statistics.median(ts) res[label] = med print(f"{label:<26s} {med:>9.3f} {ts[0]:>9.3f} {ts[int(.9*len(ts))]:>9.3f}") base = res["0x7e invalid cmd"] print(f"\nrelative to the invalid-command baseline ({base:.3f} ms):") for k, v in res.items(): print(f" {k:<26s} {v-base:+8.3f} ms {'<-- separable' if abs(v-base) > 0.5 else ''}") print("\nsOS alive:", psp.is_sos_alive())