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Summary:
Previous experiment used -n 1 which still spawns an xdist worker
process that buffers all output. The CI logs showed 462 tests' worth of
progress dots flushed at a single timestamp, making it impossible to
identify which test was hanging.

Switch to -p no:xdist so tests run in the main process with
unbuffered output, and add -v so each test name prints as it
starts/completes. Combined with faulthandler_timeout=180, this will
show exactly which test is running when the hang occurs.

Faulthandler dumps from two prior CI runs pointed to the same test
position (~26% through the suite) but caught different XNNPACK passes
mid-retrace (FuseBatchNormPass in one, RemoveRedundantCopyPass in the
other). The common pattern is super().call() retracing large delegate
subgraphs — suspect is test_all_models_with_recipes running ResNet50
/ ViT / DeepLabV3 through the full XNNPACK pass pipeline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude noreply@anthropic.com


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Summary:
The macOS unittest job has been hitting its timeout for several runs in a
row with the progress bar frozen partway through pytest. Add
`pytest-timeout` so a stuck test fails with a nodeid and per-thread stack
trace, and set `faulthandler_timeout=180` so every xdist worker dumps its
threads every 3 minutes while tests are still running -- this surfaces the
hung test as it develops, not just at termination.

Diagnostic runs identified the hang fingerprint: tests stuck inside
`torch._inductor.package._package.__call__` (line 736), the AOTI-packaged
`.so` invocation. The same stack was observed for tests in
`examples/models/llama3_2_vision/{preprocess,vision_encoder}` and almost
certainly affects the other AOTI call sites we ship. Local M1 reruns of
the affected tests with the CI-pinned torch wheel all pass quickly, so
the hang is CI-environment-specific (suspect: AOTI dlopen under heavy
xdist + coverage contention on the macos-m1-stable runner).

Skip every AOTI-invoking test on macOS CI only, via
`unittest-macos-cmake.sh` -- linux, windows, and local dev continue to
run them. The skip covers the three vision tests (whole files) plus the
specific `*_aoti` methods in `extension/llm/modules/test/test_*.py`.
Job timeout drops back to 30 minutes for fast iteration; pytest
`--timeout=1500` gives any single test 25 minutes before it is treated
as hung.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Summary:
Previous experiment used `-n 1` which still spawns an xdist worker
process that buffers all output. The CI logs showed 462 tests' worth of
progress dots flushed at a single timestamp, making it impossible to
identify which test was hanging.

Switch to `-p no:xdist` so tests run in the main process with
unbuffered output, and add `-v` so each test name prints as it
starts/completes. Combined with `faulthandler_timeout=180`, this will
show exactly which test is running when the hang occurs.

Faulthandler dumps from two prior CI runs pointed to the same test
position (~26% through the suite) but caught different XNNPACK passes
mid-retrace (FuseBatchNormPass in one, RemoveRedundantCopyPass in the
other). The common pattern is `super().call()` retracing large delegate
subgraphs — suspect is `test_all_models_with_recipes` running ResNet50
/ ViT / DeepLabV3 through the full XNNPACK pass pipeline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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