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Description

Gets CCCL workflows closer to being executed with different test matrices rather than the one available at the current commit. This PR allows invoking a workflow using a different CI matrix from a different branch.

I thought about just passing the ci matrix in as a single text input, but there's a 65k limit on inputs and figured we might hit that limit in the future.

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  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added reusable CI automation for building configurable test matrices and dispatching Linux and Windows jobs.
    • Added an on-demand custom CI workflow supporting selectable branches and matrix files.
    • Added workflow failure reporting with optional Slack alerts.
  • Improvements

    • Streamlined nightly and weekly CI workflows through shared matrix processing and result verification.

Walkthrough

The reusable workflow centralizes matrix construction, platform dispatch, result verification, failure reporting, and optional Slack alerts. Custom, nightly, and weekly workflows now invoke this shared workflow.

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CI matrix execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Matrix workflow orchestration
.github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml
The reusable workflow accepts matrix configuration, builds the workflow, dispatches Linux and Windows job groups, verifies results, and exposes failure_message.
Custom matrix entry point
.github/workflows/ci-workflow-custom.yml
The custom workflow accepts a branch and matrix path, then invokes the nightly matrix configuration from .private.
Scheduled workflow integration
.github/workflows/ci-workflow-nightly.yml, .github/workflows/ci-workflow-weekly.yml
Nightly and weekly workflows delegate matrix execution and Slack reporting to the reusable workflow. Nightly failure analysis uses its outputs.

Suggested reviewers: elstehle

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 49d52

This PR centralizes CI matrix execution and adds alternate-branch dispatch, but verification can still fail on forks or private mirrors because it runs without the artifact produced by skipped build jobs. Caller permissions may also prevent intended dispatch behavior, and the workflow broadens secret inheritance while using a mutable checkout reference. Merge should wait for the verification guard and an explicit permission decision.


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Actionable comments posted: 2

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.github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml (2)

83-83: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

suggestion: consolidate the four near-identical dispatch jobs.

dispatch-groups-linux-two-stage, dispatch-groups-windows-two-stage, dispatch-groups-linux-standalone, and dispatch-groups-windows-standalone differ only in the matrix key, the called workflow, and the input name (pc-array vs job-array). GitHub Actions cannot parameterize uses: by matrix value, so full deduplication is not possible today. Keep the structure, but note that fromJSON(...)['linux_two_stage']['keys'] is repeated three times per job; a single needs.build-workflow.outputs per-platform key output would reduce the repeated parsing.

Also applies to: 91-91, 94-94


61-61: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Security Misconfiguration (CWE-829): Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult

suggestion: Pin all three actions/checkout uses to full commit SHAs and retain version comments. The current @v6 tag is mutable.

Source: Path instructions

.github/workflows/ci-workflow-custom.yml (1)

40-41: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

suggestion: add the branch input to the concurrency key.

The group is ${{ github.workflow }}-on-${{ github.event_name }}-from-${{ github.ref_name }}. Two dispatches from the same ref with different branch values share one group. Without cancel-in-progress, the second run queues behind the first full matrix. Include inputs.branch so independent matrix branches run in parallel.

 concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-on-${{ github.event_name }}-from-${{ github.ref_name }}
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-on-${{ github.event_name }}-from-${{ github.ref_name }}-matrix-${{ inputs.branch }}

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  • .github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml
  • .github/workflows/ci-workflow-custom.yml
  • .github/workflows/ci-workflow-nightly.yml
  • .github/workflows/ci-workflow-weekly.yml

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verify-workflow:
name: Verify and summarize workflow results
if: ${{ always() && !cancelled() }}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
# Confirm the artifact download in workflow-results has no failure tolerance,
# and check how other workflows in the repo gate result-verification jobs.
fd -t f 'action.yml' .github/actions/workflow-results --exec sed -n '1,60p'
rg -n -B4 -A6 'workflow-results' .github/workflows
rg -n "github.repository == " .github/workflows

Repository: NVIDIA/cccl

Length of output: 8536


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- repository conventions and learnings ---'
find /tmp/coderabbit-repo-knowledge/nvidia-cccl-2f773195 -maxdepth 2 -type f -print
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow structure ---'
sed -n '1,180p' .github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- result verification job context ---'
sed -n '130,175p' .github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow-results action ---'
sed -n '1,55p' .github/actions/workflow-results/action.yml

Repository: NVIDIA/cccl

Length of output: 16752


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow conventions ---'
cat /tmp/coderabbit-repo-knowledge/nvidia-cccl-2f773195/conventions/github-workflows.md
printf '%s\n' '--- CI learnings relevant to this workflow ---'
cat /tmp/coderabbit-repo-knowledge/nvidia-cccl-2f773195/learnings/ci.md

Repository: NVIDIA/cccl

Length of output: 1191


🌐 Web query:

GitHub Actions actions/download-artifact behavior when the named artifact does not exist, and github.repository context in reusable workflow workflow_call

💡 Result:

When using the actions/download-artifact action, the behavior depends on whether a specific artifact name is provided [1][2]. If you specify a name, the action will attempt to find and download that specific artifact [3]. If the artifact does not exist, the action will throw an error and fail the workflow run (e.g., "Artifact 'name' not found") [3][4][5]. If you do not specify a name, the action attempts to download all artifacts for the workflow run [1][2]. As of version 4 of the action, if no artifacts are found, the action will also throw an error and fail the workflow run [6]. This is a departure from earlier versions (v3 and below), which would simply log that no artifacts were found and finish successfully [6]. Regarding the github.repository context in a reusable workflow: Within a reusable workflow triggered by workflow_call, the github.repository context refers to the repository that is calling (or triggering) the workflow, not the repository where the reusable workflow file itself resides [7]. If you need to reference the repository where the reusable workflow is defined, you can use the github.action_repository context instead [7]. This is particularly important when performing cross-repo operations, such as checking out code or accessing files located in the reusable workflow's own repository [8][7].

Citations:


important: Gate verify-workflow with github.repository == 'NVIDIA/cccl'. On forks and private mirrors, build-workflow and its dependent dispatch jobs are skipped, but always() && !cancelled() still runs verify-workflow. The pinned actions/download-artifact step then fails because the required workflow artifact is absent. In this reusable workflow, github.repository resolves to the caller repository.

Source: Path instructions

Comment on lines +35 to +40
matrix-build:
name: Build & dispatch CI matrix
uses: ./.github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml
secrets: inherit
with:
job-array: ${{ toJSON(fromJSON(needs.build-workflow.outputs.workflow)['windows_standalone']['jobs'][matrix.name]) }}

verify-workflow:
name: Verify and summarize workflow results
if: ${{ always() && !cancelled() }}
needs:
- build-workflow
- dispatch-groups-linux-two-stage
- dispatch-groups-windows-two-stage
- dispatch-groups-linux-standalone
- dispatch-groups-windows-standalone
permissions:
contents: read
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
failure_message: ${{ steps.check-workflow.outputs.failure_message }}
steps:
- name: Checkout repo
uses: actions/checkout@v6
with:
persist-credentials: false

- name: Check workflow success
id: check-workflow
uses: ./.github/actions/workflow-results
with:
github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
slack_token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_NOTIFIER_BOT_TOKEN }}
slack_log: ${{ secrets.SLACK_CHANNEL_CI_LOG }}
workflows: nightly

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🧩 Analysis chain

🏁 Script executed:

printf '%s\n' '--- repository conventions ---'
find /tmp/coderabbit-repo-knowledge/nvidia-cccl-2f773195 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.md' -print
printf '%s\n' '--- nightly ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/ci-workflow-nightly.yml | sed -n '1,70p'
printf '%s\n' '--- weekly ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/ci-workflow-weekly.yml | sed -n '1,70p'
printf '%s\n' '--- custom ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/ci-workflow-custom.yml | sed -n '1,65p'
printf '%s\n' '--- reusable workflow permission declarations and callers ---'
rg -n -C 4 'permissions:|id-token:|contents:|workflow_call|ci-matrix-build' .github/workflows/ci-matrix-build.yml .github/workflows/ci-workflow-nightly.yml .github/workflows/ci-workflow-weekly.yml .github/workflows/ci-workflow-custom.yml

Repository: NVIDIA/cccl

Length of output: 26570


🌐 Web query:

GitHub Actions reusable workflow caller permissions cannot elevate id-token write called workflow default permissions

💡 Result:

It is a fundamental principle of GitHub Actions that reusable workflow permissions cannot be elevated by the called (reusable) workflow [1][2][3]. The effective permissions of a called workflow are restricted to the intersection of the permissions granted by the caller and those declared by the callee [4][5][6]. When a reusable workflow requires the id-token: write permission—commonly for OIDC-based cloud authentication—the calling workflow job must explicitly grant this permission [4][7][8]. If the caller does not grant id-token: write, the called workflow will fail at runtime (or during parse-time validation) because it cannot "elevate" its own token permissions beyond what the caller has provided [7][9][10]. To resolve this, you must: 1. Update the calling workflow job to include the permissions block granting id-token: write [4][7][5]. 2. Ensure the reusable workflow also declares id-token: write in the jobs that require it [4][5][6]. Example configuration for the caller: jobs: call-reusable: permissions: id-token: write contents: read uses:./.github/workflows/reusable.yml If the caller omits the permissions block entirely, the workflow will use the repository's default permissions, which are typically insufficient for id-token: write, leading to errors like "The workflow is requesting 'id-token: write', but is only allowed 'id-token: none'" [9][6][10].

Citations:


Security Misconfiguration (CWE-732): Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Theoretical

important: Grant contents: read and id-token: write to the matrix-build job in all three caller workflows. Without these permissions, ci-matrix-build.yml cannot obtain the scopes required by its dispatch jobs.

🧰 Tools
🪛 zizmor (1.29.0)

[warning] 19-180: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

(excessive-permissions)


[warning] 35-40: overly broad permissions (excessive-permissions): default permissions used due to no permissions: block

(excessive-permissions)


[warning] 37-37: secrets unconditionally inherited by called workflow (secrets-inherit): this reusable workflow

(secrets-inherit)

📍 Affects 3 files
  • .github/workflows/ci-workflow-nightly.yml#L35-L40 (this comment)
  • .github/workflows/ci-workflow-weekly.yml#L34-L40
  • .github/workflows/ci-workflow-custom.yml#L45-L48

Sources: Path instructions, Linters/SAST tools

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😬 CI Workflow Results

🟥 Finished in 2h 54m: Pass: 99%/609 | Total: 13d 13h | Max: 2h 53m | Hits: 61%/1311475

See results here.

AI failure analysis

1. C Parallel v2 custom-type transform segfaults during device copy · 1 job

Explanation: The transform test process crashes while evaluating the host-to-device cudaMemcpy in pointer_t's vector constructor. The saved log has no stack trace or CUDA error, so it cannot distinguish a driver/runtime crash from earlier memory corruption that surfaced at this copy; the PR changes only workflow files.

Evidence:

2026-09-01T00:55:59.6389509Z   SIGSEGV - Segmentation violation signal
2026-09-01T00:55:59.6385043Z "Transform works with custom types"(0) - types_441 - 0
2026-09-01T00:55:59.6387766Z C:\cccl\c\parallel\test\test_util.h(733): FAILED:
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Repository: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl
Workflow run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/33453147592
Failure group: C Parallel v2 custom-type transform segfaults during device copy
Affected jobs:
- CCCL C Parallel v2 (HostJIT) nvcc MSVC / [CTK13.3 MSVC14.50] Test(amd64, RTX2080): https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/33453147592/job/99687408508

Investigate the Windows C Parallel v2 HostJIT transform crash under CUDA 13.3 and MSVC 14.50. Reproduce only `cccl.c.parallel.v2.test.transform`, using Catch2 seed `1741972853` and the `Transform works with custom types` filter, then compare running it alone versus after preceding transform cases. Inspect `c/parallel/test/test_transform.cpp` around the custom `pair` test and `c/parallel/test/test_util.h` around `pointer_t`'s cudaMemcpy. Capture a native stack or Windows exception code, verify host/JIT type size and alignment, and add synchronization/error checks immediately after transform execution if an asynchronous CUDA fault is being reported late. Implement the root fix rather than suppressing the test, then run the focused transform target on the same Windows toolchain and a nearby supported configuration.

Jobs:

2. Python segmented_sum example subprocess fails without diagnostics · 1 job

Explanation: Importing the module completes successfully, but the test harness then executes the same top-level example again in a child process, which exits unsuccessfully with empty stderr. Because the harness omits the child return code and stdout from the exception, the log cannot identify whether this was a Python error or a Windows process-level crash.

Evidence:

2026-09-01T00:50:52.3904863Z Exception: Module execution failed: 
2026-09-01T00:50:52.3901782Z Testing Compute - Scan - Segmented Sum...\nSegmented sum result: [(1, 0) (2, 0) (1, 1) (2, 1) (3, 1) (1, 1) (1, 1) (2, 1)]\n  Running compute.examples.scan.segmented_sum as script...\n\u2717 Compute - Scan - Segmented Sum examples failed: Module execution failed: 
2026-09-01T00:50:52.3912264Z FAILED test_examples.py::test_compute_examples_scan_segmented_sum - AssertionError: assert False
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Repository: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl
Workflow run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/33453147592
Failure group: Python segmented_sum example subprocess fails without diagnostics
Affected jobs:
- Python nvcc MSVC / hU / [CTK12.0 MSVC14.44 py3.14 ctk-sysctk] Test cuda.cccl.examples(amd64, L4): https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/33453147592/job/99693793929

Diagnose the Windows Python 3.14 failure of `test_compute_examples_scan_segmented_sum` with CUDA 12.0. Reproduce the exact pytest node and run `tests/compute/examples/scan/segmented_sum.py` directly in the same environment. First improve `python/cuda_cccl/tests/test_examples.py` so subprocess failures report `returncode`, stdout, and stderr, formatting negative or Windows NTSTATUS return codes clearly. Determine whether importing and then redundantly executing this top-level module in a subprocess causes the failure; if so, refactor the runner so each example is executed exactly once while preserving successful `SystemExit` skip handling. Implement the root fix and validate the focused test followed by the examples test suite on Windows.

Jobs:

3. NVBench devcontainer sccache server startup timeout · 1 job

Explanation: The Linux devcontainer exits during initialization because sccache does not become ready within its startup timeout, before the NVBench helper test begins. No sccache server log or lower-level startup error is present, and the workflow-only PR diff does not explain the failure, so this is most consistent with an isolated runner or cache-service initialization failure.

Evidence:

2026-09-01T00:05:20.5211374Z sccache: error: Timed out waiting for server startup
2026-09-01T00:05:10.5166862Z sccache: Starting sccache v0.17.0-rapids.3...
2026-09-01T00:05:20.8149922Z ##[error]Process completed with exit code 2.
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Repository: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl
Workflow run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/33453147592
Failure group: NVBench devcontainer sccache server startup timeout
Affected jobs:
- NVBench Helper nvcc GCC / [CTK12.0 GCC10] Test(amd64, T4): https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/33453147592/job/99687407370

Investigate the CUDA 12.0/GCC 10 Linux devcontainer failure where sccache 0.17.0-rapids.3 times out during startup before `ci/test_nvbench_helper.sh` runs. Retry the job or reproduce only container initialization first; inspect the file configured by `SCCACHE_SERVER_LOG`, process state, socket/cache directories, permissions, and AWS credential initialization. If stale state or slow startup is reproducible, update the shared devcontainer sccache initialization to clean stale state and use a bounded retry that preserves the original diagnostic log. Do not modify NVBench tests unless they can actually be reached. Validate successful container initialization and then run the focused NVBench helper script.

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