[bodapatisaikrishna]

Description

Closes #25012

Following up on #24791, reader_impl::load_next_stripe_data submits async stripe reads but previously stored them as pairs/tuples, leaving them unguarded if result collection or buffer transfers throw. This decouples the futures from task metadata into dedicated vectors and protects them with cudf::detail::futures_wait_guard so all in-flight reads complete before stack unwinding.

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Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved ORC stripe reading by checking that read results match expected sizes before data is processed. This helps prevent incomplete or invalid reads from being accepted and ensures host-read data is validated before it is copied for further processing.

The ORC stripe reader now tracks host and device read futures separately from their metadata. It waits for host reads and validates their sizes before scheduling copies. It validates device read sizes after stream synchronization. A test checks that multiple guarded future vectors drain during exception unwinding.

Changes: ORC stripe-read lifetime

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guarded stripe-read collection cpp/src/io/orc/reader_impl_chunking.cu, cpp/tests/utilities_tests/io_utilities_tests.cpp	The reader stores host and device read futures separately from expected sizes and host destinations. Wait guards cover both future collections. Host reads are completed and validated before copies are queued; device read sizes are checked after stream synchronization. The test checks that pending futures are drained during exception unwinding.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/cudf#25075: Changes the same function to wait for outstanding ORC reads after errors.
• NVIDIA/cudf#24791: Adds the futures_wait_guard API used by this change.

Suggested labels: cuIO

Suggested reviewers: bdice

Merge Risk: Low · up to c2a61

This change makes ORC stripe reads wait for in-flight reads when an error occurs, which fixes the main lifetime hazard. One narrow error path remains, where a failed copy submission could release a host buffer early. It predates this PR and needs an unusual CUDA failure to trigger. It can be fixed here or in a follow-up.

Architecture risk: Low · up to c2a61

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: cpp

Architecture concerns
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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — cpp (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/tests/utilities_tests/io_utilities_tests.cpp: Adds a test that unwinds through two futures_wait_guard instances protecting separate vectors of std::future<std::size_t> and std::future<std::unique_ptr<int>>. It checks the async task times out while the promises are pending, fulfills all four promises, then confirms collector.get() propagates the simulated std::runtime_error.
• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/src/io/orc/reader_impl_chunking.cu: Adds the host worker pool utility header.
• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/src/io/orc/reader_impl_chunking.cu: Separates the read range and read count from task bookkeeping, and introduces distinct storage for host buffers, host and device futures, expected read sizes, and host-read destinations. Adds wait guards for both future collections.
• observed — Modified behavior in cpp/src/io/orc/reader_impl_chunking.cu: Device reads now store expected sizes alongside their futures, while host reads store futures, expected sizes, and destinations in separate collections. Host futures are all completed and size-validated before buffers are copied to device memory; after the stream synchronizes, device results are checked against their expected sizes. This replaces interleaved host completion, validation, and copy scheduling, and replaces paired device future/size records with separate tracking.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: waiting for in-flight reads when the ORC chunked reader encounters an error.
Description check		The description explains the unguarded asynchronous reads and the change to wait for them before stack unwinding.
Linked Issues check		[ #25012 ] requires load_next_stripe_data to wait for submitted host and device reads before an exception leaves the function. The reviewed code stores futures separately from read metadata and decl…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes in reader_impl_chunking.cu support [ #25012 ] by keeping the futures guardable, reserving storage for read tasks and metadata, and avoiding host-to-device copies before host reads pass v…
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

[ #25012 ] requires load_next_stripe_data to wait for submitted host and device reads before an exception leaves the function. The reviewed code stores futures separately from read metadata and declares a futures_wait_guard for each future vector before submitting reads. The guards wait on valid futures during unwinding. The current changes also reserve the vectors before submission and complete and validate all host reads before queueing host-to-device copies. The added FuturesWaitGuardDrainsMultipleFutureVectors test covers guarded futures in multiple vectors.

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Explanation

The changes in reader_impl_chunking.cu support [ #25012 ] by keeping the futures guardable, reserving storage for read tasks and metadata, and avoiding host-to-device copies before host reads pass validation. The utility test verifies the guard behavior used by this implementation. No unrelated changes are evident.

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[vyasr]

This looks like it will conflict with #25075. Let's coordinate the two.

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#25075 (comment)

[bodapatisaikrishna]

I just pulled in the two-phase host copy and upfront reserve from #25075 so all host reads finish and validate before queuing any device copies. With the guard and unit test already in place here, this should cover everything cleanly.

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Review comments at @cpp/src/io/orc/reader_impl_chunking.cu:
- Around line 562-563: Ensure the error path in the loop over host_read_buffers
waits for previously submitted copies to finish before unwinding and releasing
the host buffers. Use the existing stream-drain mechanism, and preserve normal
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Keep host buffers alive if copy submission fails.

If a later memcpy_async fails, unwinding can release a host buffer before an earlier copy reads it. The future guards do not wait for copies. Drain the stream on this error path before releasing the buffers. This exposure also exists in the base revision.

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Review comment at @cpp/src/io/orc/reader_impl_chunking.cu around lines 562 -
563:
Ensure the error path in the loop over host_read_buffers waits for previously
submitted copies to finish before unwinding and releasing the host buffers. Use
the existing stream-drain mechanism, and preserve normal copy submission
behavior.

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[mhaseeb123]

Duplicates #25075