Define histogram policies and shared memory allocations.

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• Unify the shared memory allocation policy. Calculates a budget that fits the intended number of blocks per SM.
• Let the single target kernel use more than one block when the SM permits, aligns with multi-target policy.

Extracted from #12630 .

Perf

• A100

Features	Targets	Grow policy	c2ca8c9 (s)	48aae24 (s)	Change vs c2ca8c9 (%)
512	1	depthwise	168.09	144.04	-14.30%

For most devices, this is mostly about unifying the code paths, tested on 4070tis the performance is mostly the same. However, this PR fixes the A100 single-target policy. A100 has a different shared memory size (80 KiB instead of 96 KiB) that the existing single-target policy doesn't account for.

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Walkthrough

The change derives single-target histogram launch bounds from the selected architecture’s tuning values. It adds shared-memory sizing helpers that account for block counts, allocation alignment, and device limits. The shared-memory sizing functions are declared in the header and implemented in the CUDA source file.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 11625

The change adapts GPU histogram launch bounds and shared-memory budgets to the selected architecture. No concrete merge-blocking risk was identified, so it looks safe to merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 11625

The change adjusts GPU resource allocation without adding exposed entrypoints or privileges. No introduced security concern was identified, but device-specific execution and failure behavior remain unverified at runtime.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated effect remains GPU resource use and histogram results within the existing training execution path. The inspected changes do not establish broader tenant, service, data-store, or environment reachability; external embedding behavior is outside the available evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Kernel selection and launch remain centralized in the histogram dispatcher and use the existing Context CUDA stream. The resource-policy change does not bypass that launch path or introduce a new trust transition.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Mutable kernel configuration remains explicitly non-thread-safe and expects serialized use. Reset ownership, output clearing, and launch error checks are unchanged. Asynchronous failures have no transactional rollback in the inspected lifecycle; this predates the PR, and concurrent or interrupted execution was not runtime-verified.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/tree/gpu_hist/histogram.cu (1)

156-158: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Guard the per-block budget against signed underflow when min_blocks is large.

n_bytes_per_block is deduced as int. If smem_per_sm / min_blocks is below 128, the rounded value becomes 0 and the result is -reserved. CHECK_GT then fails and aborts the process, instead of falling back to a smaller block count. The current tunings use at most 2 blocks for the multi-target kernel. The single-target StMinBlocks can reach 3 (for HistSm86: 768*2/1024 = 1, for HistSm80: 2). On devices with small shared memory the check is a hard failure. This is an acceptable fail-fast, but the message is not helpful.

Add a message that includes the device values.

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Review comment at @src/tree/gpu_hist/histogram.cu around lines 156 - 158:
Add diagnostic context to the CHECK_GT for n_bytes_per_block, including
smem_per_sm, min_blocks, and reserved so the failure reports the relevant device
and tuning values.

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Review comments at @src/tree/gpu_hist/histogram.cu:
- Around line 156-158: Add diagnostic context to the CHECK_GT for
n_bytes_per_block, including smem_per_sm, min_blocks, and reserved so the
failure reports the relevant device and tuning values.

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