[jpascucci-nv]

Description

closes #3330

Run cuda-core wheel preparation on an 8 MiB worker-thread stack for Windows coverage builds.

This addresses the stack overflow observed after switching to uv-managed Python, whose executable reserves less stack than the previous official Python build. Restore the previous stack setting after preparation and propagate failures. Other build configurations retain their existing behavior.

Validation: 136 build-hook tests passed, 3 skipped; Ruff and formatting checks passed. Windows coverage CI confirmation remains pending.

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• I have read the Contributing Guidelines.
• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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important: Compare the reserve value, not only the field name. This grep succeeds for any executabl…

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- Line 259: important: Compare the reserve value, not only the field name. This
`grep` succeeds for any executable that contains `size of stack reserve`,
including an unchanged or incorrect value. Require the expected `800000`
hexadecimal value for 8 MiB, or parse and compare it numerically.
([learn.microsoft.com](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/stack?view=msvc-170&utm_source=openai))

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• Chores
  • The Windows wheel-building workflow now configures and verifies an 8 MiB stack reserve for its base Python interpreter before building wheels. This updates the automated packaging process only; it does not change application features, user-facing behavior, or exported interfaces.

The Windows wheel-build workflow sets the base Python executable’s stack reserve to 8 MiB before building wheels, then checks the reserve value with dumpbin.

Changes: Windows coverage wheel build

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set and verify the stack reserve .github/workflows/coverage.yml	The job locates the base Python executable, sets its stack reserve to 8 MiB with editbin, and checks the executable headers with dumpbin.

Assessment against linked issues

Objective	Addressed	Explanation
Build the Windows coverage wheel successfully [#3330]	❓	The workflow sets the stack reserve to 8 MiB, but no successful build result is provided.

Possibly related issues

Suggested reviewers: rluo8, rwgk

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to ae4e2

The Windows coverage workflow should verify the actual stack-reserve value before relying on the build fix.

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Nitpick comments: 1

cuda_core/tests/test_build_hooks.py: 1

280-310: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

suggestion: Assert the worker stack size.

Capture threading.stack_size() inside prepare and assert that the Windows coverage worker observes 8 * 1024 * 1024. Assert the previous value for the other matrix cases. The current test checks thread selection and restoration, but not the stack-size value that prevents the Windows coverage failure.

Suggested fix

        prepared = []
        recorded = []

        def prepare(debug):
-            prepared.append((threading.current_thread(), debug))
+            prepared.append((threading.current_thread(), debug, threading.stack_size()))
            return "prepared-config"
...
-        worker, debug = prepared[0]
+        worker, debug, worker_stack_size = prepared[0]
        assert (worker is not caller) == (platform == "win32" and coverage)
        assert debug is True
+        expected_stack_size = 8 * 1024 * 1024 if platform == "win32" and coverage else previous_stack_size
+        assert worker_stack_size == expected_stack_size
        assert threading.stack_size() == previous_stack_size

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It looks like it worked: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python/actions/runs/41507253249/job/125490017304

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[juenglin]

Suggesting a simpler alternative: leave build_hooks.py alone and raise the base interpreter's stack reserve in coverage.yml. Add this step to the "Build Wheels (Windows)" job after "Set up MSVC":

      - name: Raise the interpreter's stack reserve to 8 MiB
        # Importing the coverage-built cuda.bindings.driver overflows the
        # 2,000,000-byte main-thread stack of python-build-standalone (#3330).
        run: |
          base_py="$(.venv/Scripts/python -c 'import sys; print(sys._base_executable)')"
          editbin -nologo -stack:8388608 "$base_py"
          dumpbin -nologo -headers "$base_py" | grep -i "size of stack reserve"

The venv python.exe is only a launcher for sys._base_executable, so this covers pip's build subprocess and everything else in the job. The interpreter lives under RUNNER_TEMP, so the change is discarded with the runner. Use - flags: Git Bash rewrites /STACK:-style arguments into paths.

I verified this locally on Windows with the CI interpreter (uv 0.13.6, CPython 3.14.10), CUDA_PYTHON_COVERAGE=1, CUDA 13.4, and the coverage-built bindings wheel:

Stack reserve (bytes)	import cuda.bindings.driver	cuda-core wheel build
2,000,000 (stock)	stack overflow	fails, exit code: 3221225725 after "Using cuda-bindings ..."
2,250,000	stack overflow	not run
2,500,000 to 4,000,000	ok	not run
8,388,608 (editbin)	ok	Successfully built cuda-core

So the import needs between 2.25 and 2.5 MB of stack, and python.org's 3,000,000 bytes was not much above that. 8 MiB matches what ci/tools/run_pytest_with_stack.py already uses for the coverage test runs.

Compared with this PR, the workflow step keeps a CI-only problem out of the shipped build backend and its tests. It also covers build_editable and any other hook that imports the bindings, which the worker-thread change does not.

One local difference from CI: I used VS 18 Build Tools (MSVC 14.51) rather than VS 2022.