Add experimental ggml-hexagon backend for the Hexagon NPU (#16547)

* model: add support for extra bufs for all devices

* hexagon: add experimental ggml-hexagon backend for the Hexagon NPU

This commit introduces a new experimental backend `ggml-hexagon` with support for the Hexagon NPU.

Highlights:
- Supports Hexagon versions: v73, v75, v79, and v81
- Targets Android devices based on Snapdragon SoCs: Gen3, 8-Elite, and 8-Elite Gen5
- Supports Q4_0, Q8_0, MXFP4, and FP32 data types
- Implements core LLM ops: MUL_MAT/MUL_MAT_ID, ADD/SUB/MUL/ADD_ID, RMS_NORM, ROPE, GLU/SWIGLU, SOFTMAX

**Note:** This backend is experimental and may exhibit instability or limited performance across supported devices.
It is intended for early testing and feedback from llama.cpp/ggml developer and user community.

Co-Authored-By: Rajdeep Ganguly <rganguly@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Todor Boinovski <todorb@qti.qualcomm.com>

* hexagon: fix format checker errors

* hexagon: update readme and cmake presets

* ci: add android-ndk-build jobs that build plain ARM64 and Snapdragon versions

* hexagon: add simple graph optimizer for stacking MUL_MAT ops with the same input

* hexagon: move ADB helper scripts into scripts/snapdragon/adb

* hexagon: replace all f/printfs with GGML_LOG_...

* readme: add hexagon to the list supported backends

* hexagon: stack malmuts with quantized inputs only

* hexagon: add TODO for fixing issues in hexagon_graph_optimize

* hexagon: update to hex-sdk 6.4.0 and add scripts for running on QDC

* scripts: fix lint errors

* scripts: update qdc pytest script to make linter happy

* hexagon: add reduce sum in fp32

* hexagon: reduce number of vector stores in matmul output

* hexagon: remove the need for vdelta in reduce-multiply-x8

* hexagon: consistent use of reduce_sum_fp32 for row_sums

* hexagon: some more matmul optimizations and comments

Optimize cases where tensor dims are not multiple of 1024 (e.g in Qwen models).
We've handled those cases already but at a higher overhead.

* hexagon: update cmake presets

* hexagon: add OPMASK support for run-bench.sh wrapper

* hexagon: update to use GGML_BACKEND_API

* hexagon: remove unused logic for setting tensor flags for the views

* hexagon: add asserts to set/get_tensor to make sure we handle complete tensors

Same asserts as the CPU backend.

* hexagon: use cpy_tensor slow path for non-host buffers

* hexagon: error checks in the buffer allocator

* cmake: move include(extProj) under ggml-hexagon

* hexagon: don't forget to delete the backend on free

* hexagon: set/get_tensor size assert apply only to quantized tensors

* hexagon: reintroduce HEX_VERBOSE wrapper for GGML_LOG_DEBUG for now

GGML_LOG_DEBUG is always enabled for test-backend-ops and the output gets in the way.
Ideally we need a bit more finer log levels.

* docs: typos in hexagon developer docs (libggm-...)

* hexagon: overhaul error handling in the session/device allocation

this should handle all failure paths in the session allocation.

* hexagon: update cmake presets to enable fp16 vectors

* hexagon: remove unused time_usec function

* hexagon: don't forget to release buffer contexts

* hexagon: fixed indents in hvx-utils (missed clang-format auto-format failure)

* hexagon: remove custom can_repeat function and use ggml_can_repeat

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Co-authored-by: Rajdeep Ganguly <rganguly@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-authored-by: Todor Boinovski <todorb@qti.qualcomm.com>
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Max Krasnyansky
2025-10-22 13:47:09 -07:00
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include(${HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT}/build/cmake/hexagon_fun.cmake)
include(ExternalProject)
option(GGML_HEXAGON_HTP_DEBUG "ggml-hexagon: enable HTP debug output" OFF)
add_library(htp_iface OBJECT
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/htp_iface_stub.c)
set_target_properties(htp_iface PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
target_include_directories(htp_iface PUBLIC
${HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT}/incs
${HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT}/incs/stddef
${HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT}/utils/examples
${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
build_idl(htp/htp_iface.idl htp_iface)
if (CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES Android)
target_link_options(htp_iface PUBLIC -llog -ldl)
elseif (CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES Windows)
target_precompile_headers(htp_iface PUBLIC <sal.h>)
else()
target_link_options(htp_iface PUBLIC -ldl)
endif()
link_custom_library(htp_iface cdsprpc)
link_custom_library(htp_iface rpcmem)
set(TARGET_NAME ggml-hexagon)
ggml_add_backend_library(${TARGET_NAME}
ggml-hexagon.cpp htp-utils.c htp-utils.h ../../include/ggml-hexagon.h)
target_link_libraries(${TARGET_NAME} PRIVATE htp_iface)
target_include_directories(${TARGET_NAME} PRIVATE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
# Build HTP bits
set(HTP_CMAKE_ARGS
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp/cmake-toolchain.cmake
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
-DHEXAGON_SDK_ROOT=$ENV{HEXAGON_SDK_ROOT}
-DHEXAGON_TOOLS_ROOT=$ENV{HEXAGON_TOOLS_ROOT}
-DHEXAGON_HTP_DEBUG=${GGML_HEXAGON_HTP_DEBUG})
ExternalProject_Add(htp-v73
SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp BUILD_ALWAYS ON
CMAKE_ARGS ${HTP_CMAKE_ARGS} -DDSP_VERSION=v73 -DPREBUILT_LIB_DIR="toolv19_v73")
ExternalProject_Add(htp-v75
SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp BUILD_ALWAYS ON
CMAKE_ARGS ${HTP_CMAKE_ARGS} -DDSP_VERSION=v75 -DPREBUILT_LIB_DIR="toolv19_v75")
ExternalProject_Add(htp-v79
SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp BUILD_ALWAYS ON
CMAKE_ARGS ${HTP_CMAKE_ARGS} -DDSP_VERSION=v79 -DPREBUILT_LIB_DIR="toolv19_v79")
ExternalProject_Add(htp-v81
SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/htp BUILD_ALWAYS ON
CMAKE_ARGS ${HTP_CMAKE_ARGS} -DDSP_VERSION=v81 -DPREBUILT_LIB_DIR="toolv19_v81")
# Install Hexagon skels required at runtime
install(FILES
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libggml-htp-v73.so
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libggml-htp-v75.so
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libggml-htp-v79.so
${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libggml-htp-v81.so
TYPE LIB)