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opencl: fix q6_K flat mul_mat for Adreno A6x/A7x GPUs with older E031 compilers (#26476)
* opencl: decline KV-convert flash_attn variants on Adreno A7X (compiler SIGSEGV)

The Adreno 740 (A7X) compiler E031.41 crashes inside clBuildProgram when
building the flash_attn programs whose KV path is mixed-type or dequantized:
flash_attn_f32_f16, flash_attn_f32_q8_0, flash_attn_f32_q4_0. It is a driver
crash rather than a compile-error return, so build_program_from_source_ex()
cannot catch it. The uniform f32 and f16 programs build correctly.

Decline the three KV-convert variants on the A7X in supports_op so they never
lazy-compile; those attention layers run on the CPU backend instead. Same
idiom as the existing Intel DK=512 and X1E carve-outs.

test-backend-ops FLASH_ATTN_EXT on the 740: 226 OK / 0 FAIL, previously exit
139. Other parts are unaffected - the gate is dead code there.

* opencl: fix q6_K flat mul_mat on older Adreno E031 compilers, gated

kernel_mul_mv_q6_K_f32_flat produces ~10x-wrong output on the older Adreno
E031 compilers while q4_K and q5_K are correct. Four codegen defects, each
confirmed on-device against the CPU reference:

  1. 64-bit ulong arithmetic is miscompiled, so every weight and scale read
     hit the wrong address - the primary cause, and why q5_K (int offsets)
     was unaffected. The block index is computed in int and widened only
     inside the pointer expression.
  2. The vectorized dequant (int4/float4 bit-ops, convert_*4, dot()) is
     miscompiled; the 6-bit weights are reconstructed and the dot done
     scalar.
  3. vload4 of the f32 activations is miscompiled; replaced by a
     scalar-indexed load.
  4. The accumulation is miscompiled unless a side effect forces the partial
     sums to materialize. A printf under a guard the compiler cannot prove
     false acts as a zero-cost optimizer barrier; its placement is
     load-bearing.

The defect tracks the compiler, not the GPU generation: it reproduces on
E031.38 (Adreno 642L) and E031.41 (Adreno 740) and is fixed by E031.45
(Adreno 619), so the workarounds are gated on the compiler version. Where
they are not needed they cost real throughput - 42.4 -> 35.1 GFLOPS on an
Adreno 840 q6_K GEMV. The explicit compiler-type check is required, not
redundant: newer_than_or_same() is false for every non-E031 compiler, so
negating it alone would enable the workarounds on E17 and DX.

test-backend-ops MUL_MAT is 919/919 on the Adreno 740, 642L, 619, 840 and
850; the 740 and 642L were 909/919 before. The 642L additionally needs the
A6X per-kernel-program support to reach these tests at all.
2026-08-20 10:58:35 -07:00
.devops ci : Update OpenVINO to 2026.3, skip nemotron-h rollback test (#27292) 2026-08-18 12:02:22 +02:00
.gemini contributing: tighten AI usage policy (#18388) 2025-12-29 16:01:32 +01:00
.github CI: Use LLVM's OpenMP over MSVC_DEBUG_non_redist on Windows (#26678) 2026-08-20 15:42:26 +02:00
.pi/gg metal : dequantize quantized KV to F16 before flash attention (#27390) 2026-08-20 13:43:59 +03:00
app cmake : introduce semantic versioning (#26839) 2026-08-12 14:15:03 +02:00
benches benches : add Nemotron 3 Nano on DGX Spark (#20652) 2026-03-16 21:50:43 +02:00
ci ci : Update OpenVINO to 2026.3, skip nemotron-h rollback test (#27292) 2026-08-18 12:02:22 +02:00
cmake CI: Use LLVM's OpenMP over MSVC_DEBUG_non_redist on Windows (#26678) 2026-08-20 15:42:26 +02:00
common mtmd: add --mmproj-device argument (#23255) 2026-08-20 18:45:37 +02:00
conversion model : support DSpark for LFM2 models (#27383) 2026-08-20 16:36:57 +02:00
docs CI: Use LLVM's OpenMP over MSVC_DEBUG_non_redist on Windows (#26678) 2026-08-20 15:42:26 +02:00
examples build : fix xcframework + cmake clean-up (#27304) 2026-08-18 11:16:51 +03:00
ggml opencl: fix q6_K flat mul_mat for Adreno A6x/A7x GPUs with older E031 compilers (#26476) 2026-08-20 10:58:35 -07:00
gguf-py model : GraniteSWAForCausalLM / GraniteMoeSWAForCausalLM (#25505) 2026-08-19 16:53:31 +02:00
grammars docs : fix typos in CUDA-FEDORA.md and grammars/README.md (#24459) 2026-06-15 01:33:38 +08:00
include cmake : introduce semantic versioning (#26839) 2026-08-12 14:15:03 +02:00
licenses refactor : remove libcurl, use OpenSSL when available (#18828) 2026-01-14 18:02:47 +01:00
media media : add transparent icon svg and png [no ci] (#15891) 2025-09-10 14:51:28 +03:00
models model: add Kimi-K3 text model (#26185) 2026-08-15 17:11:05 +02:00
pocs libs : rename libcommon -> libllama-common (#21936) 2026-04-17 11:11:46 +03:00
requirements requirements: use stable torch packages on s390x (#26864) 2026-08-11 21:58:53 +08:00
scripts sync : ggml 2026-08-18 11:30:03 +03:00
skills fix: check gguf array type before reading (#27075) 2026-08-15 11:45:30 +02:00
src model : support DSpark for LFM2 models (#27383) 2026-08-20 16:36:57 +02:00
tests common : gracefully fallback on unsupported regex patterns in JSON schema (#26939) 2026-08-20 06:59:03 -05:00
tools ui: Stores split refactor (#27240) 2026-08-20 19:02:04 +02:00
vendor build : fix xcframework + cmake clean-up (#27304) 2026-08-18 11:16:51 +03:00
.clang-format fix: apply clang-format to CUDA macros (#16017) 2025-09-16 08:59:19 +02:00
.clang-tidy clang-tidy : disable warning about performance enum size (#16127) 2025-09-22 19:57:46 +02:00
.dockerignore docker : prebuild web UI for s390x build [no release] (#24829) 2026-06-20 05:54:42 -05:00
.ecrc common : Update stb_image.h to latest version (#9161) 2024-08-27 08:58:50 +03:00
.editorconfig ui: Restructure repo to use tools/ui folder and ui / UI / llama-ui / LLAMA_UI naming (#23064) 2026-05-16 02:02:40 +02:00
.flake8 llama : move end-user examples to tools directory (#13249) 2025-05-02 20:27:13 +02:00
.gitignore ui: PWA support (#23871) 2026-06-12 15:53:26 +02:00
.gitmodules ggml : remove kompute backend (#14501) 2025-07-03 07:48:32 +03:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml convert.py : add python logging instead of print() (#6511) 2024-05-03 22:36:41 +03:00
AGENTS.md agents: clarify comment style and jinja knowledge (#26405) 2026-08-01 18:45:46 +02:00
AUTHORS readme : update status badges + regen AUTHORS (#27317) 2026-08-18 14:35:04 +03:00
build-xcframework.sh build : fix xcframework + cmake clean-up (#27304) 2026-08-18 11:16:51 +03:00
CLAUDE.md contributing: tighten AI usage policy (#18388) 2025-12-29 16:01:32 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt build : fix xcframework + cmake clean-up (#27304) 2026-08-18 11:16:51 +03:00
CMakePresets.json cmake : Add CMake presets for Linux and GCC (#14656) 2025-07-13 08:12:36 +03:00
CODEOWNERS HIP: remove rocWMMA FlashAttention (#26046) 2026-07-24 17:53:54 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING.md contrib : add guideline about the "merge ready" label (#26178) 2026-07-28 08:41:04 +03:00
convert_hf_to_gguf.py convert: add option to create separate dspark GGUF (#26452) 2026-08-02 23:16:31 +08:00
convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py Add support for Laguna XS.2 & M.1 (#25165) 2026-07-22 09:54:08 +08:00
convert_llama_ggml_to_gguf.py ci : switch from pyright to ty (#20826) 2026-03-21 08:54:34 +01:00
convert_lora_to_gguf.py convert : fix lora base model arch retrieval (#24621) 2026-06-15 00:55:26 +02:00
flake.nix fix(nix): remove non-functional llama-cpp cachix cache from flake.nix (#15295) 2025-08-13 11:21:31 -07:00
LICENSE docs : Minor cleanups (#19252) 2026-02-02 08:38:55 +02:00
Makefile make : remove make in favor of CMake (#15449) 2025-08-20 13:31:16 +03:00
mypy.ini convert : partially revert PR #4818 (#5041) 2024-01-20 18:14:18 -05:00
pyproject.toml model: add Mellum architecture (#23966) 2026-06-02 22:11:12 +03:00
pyrightconfig.json ci : switch from pyright to ty (#20826) 2026-03-21 08:54:34 +01:00
README.md readme : update status badges + regen AUTHORS (#27317) 2026-08-18 14:35:04 +03:00
requirements.txt tool-call: fix Qwen 2.5 Coder support, add micro benchmarks, support trigger patterns for lazy grammars (#12034) 2025-03-05 13:05:13 +00:00
SECURITY.md security : clarify about AI-generated reports (#26579) 2026-08-05 13:27:06 +02:00
ty.toml mtmd : DeepSeek-OCR image processing fixes, img_tool::resize padding refactor (#23345) 2026-05-20 17:37:10 +02:00

llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon [In Progress] Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain