ggml-org · ggerganov · Aug 24, 2026 · Jun 20, 2026 · Jul 8, 2026 · Jul 8, 2026
diff --git a/ggml/CMakeLists.txt b/ggml/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -342,9 +342,6 @@ set(GGML_PUBLIC_HEADERS
     include/gguf.h)
 
 set_target_properties(ggml PROPERTIES PUBLIC_HEADER "${GGML_PUBLIC_HEADERS}")
-#if (GGML_METAL)
-#    set_target_properties(ggml PROPERTIES RESOURCE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/ggml-metal.metal")
-#endif()
 install(TARGETS ggml LIBRARY PUBLIC_HEADER)
 install(TARGETS ggml-base LIBRARY)
 

@@ -24,62 +24,119 @@ if (GGML_METAL_NDEBUG)
 endif()
 
 set(METALLIB_COMMON "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../ggml-common.h")
+set(METALLIB_KERNELS_COMMON     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/kernels/common.h")
+set(METALLIB_KERNELS_DEQUANTIZE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/kernels/dequantize.h")
+set(METALLIB_KERNELS_QUANTIZE   "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/kernels/quantize.h")
+
+set(METALLIB_KERNEL_SOURCES
+    kernels/fa.metal
+    kernels/mul_mv.metal
+    kernels/mul_mm.metal
+    kernels/quantize.metal
+    kernels/softmax.metal
+    kernels/norm.metal
+    kernels/unary.metal
+    kernels/binbcast.metal
+    kernels/reduce.metal
+    kernels/tri.metal
+    kernels/ssm.metal
+    kernels/wkv.metal
+    kernels/gated_delta_net.metal
+    kernels/solve_tri.metal
+    kernels/rope.metal
+    kernels/conv.metal
+    kernels/upscale.metal
+    kernels/argsort.metal
+    kernels/pool.metal
+    kernels/misc.metal
+)
+
 if (GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY)
     enable_language(ASM)
 
     add_compile_definitions(GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY)
 
-    set(METALLIB_SOURCE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/ggml-metal.metal")
-    set(METALLIB_IMPL   "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/ggml-metal-impl.h")
+    set(METALLIB_IMPL "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/ggml-metal-impl.h")
 
     file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/autogenerated")
 
-    # merge ggml-common.h and ggml-metal.metal into a single file
-    set(METALLIB_EMBED_ASM        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/autogenerated/ggml-metal-embed.s")
-    set(METALLIB_SOURCE_EMBED     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/autogenerated/ggml-metal-embed.metal")
-    set(METALLIB_SOURCE_EMBED_TMP "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/autogenerated/ggml-metal-embed.metal.tmp")
+    set(METALLIB_EMBED_ASM_FILES "")
+    foreach(src ${METALLIB_KERNEL_SOURCES})
+        get_filename_component(kind ${src} NAME_WE)
+        # symbol names must be valid C identifiers ('-' is not allowed)
+        string(REPLACE "-" "_" kind_sym ${kind})
+
+        set(SRC   "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/kernels/${kind}.metal")
+        set(EMBED "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/autogenerated/ggml-metal-embed-${kind}.metal")
+        set(ASM   "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/autogenerated/ggml-metal-embed-${kind}.s")
+
+        # only prepend headers that this source actually includes
+        set(HEADERS_FOR_SRC ${METALLIB_KERNELS_COMMON})
+        file(STRINGS ${SRC} _has_dequantize REGEX "#include \"dequantize\\.h\"")
+        file(STRINGS ${SRC} _has_quantize   REGEX "#include \"quantize\\.h\"")
+        if(_has_dequantize)
+            list(APPEND HEADERS_FOR_SRC ${METALLIB_KERNELS_DEQUANTIZE})
+        endif()
+        if(_has_quantize)
+            list(APPEND HEADERS_FOR_SRC ${METALLIB_KERNELS_QUANTIZE})
+        endif()
+
+        add_custom_command(
+            OUTPUT "${ASM}"
+            # Step 1: concatenate shared headers + this kernel source
+            COMMAND cat ${HEADERS_FOR_SRC} ${SRC} > "${EMBED}.tmp1"
+            # Step 2: remove internal #include and #pragma once
+            COMMAND sed -e "/\#include \"common.h\"/d" -e "/\#include \"dequantize.h\"/d" -e "/\#include \"quantize.h\"/d" -e "/\#pragma once/d" < "${EMBED}.tmp1" > "${EMBED}.tmp2"
+            # Step 3: inline ggml-common.h (replacing __embed_ggml-common.h__ sentinel)
+            COMMAND sed -e "/__embed_ggml-common.h__/r ${METALLIB_COMMON}" -e "/__embed_ggml-common.h__/d" < "${EMBED}.tmp2" > "${EMBED}.tmp3"
+            # Step 4: inline ggml-metal-impl.h
+            COMMAND sed -e "/\#include \"ggml-metal-impl.h\"/r ${METALLIB_IMPL}" -e "/\#include \"ggml-metal-impl.h\"/d" < "${EMBED}.tmp3" > "${EMBED}"
+            # Step 5: emit an asm chunk with kind-specific start/end symbols
+            #   note: '-' is illegal in C symbols, so we use kind_sym; the macOS
+            #   section name is limited to 16 chars so we keep it shared
+            #   across kinds (__ggml_metallib) and only vary the global symbols.
+            COMMAND echo ".section __DATA,__ggml_metallib"                       >  "${ASM}"
+            COMMAND echo ".globl _ggml_metallib_${kind_sym}_start"               >> "${ASM}"
+            COMMAND echo "_ggml_metallib_${kind_sym}_start:"                     >> "${ASM}"
+            COMMAND echo .incbin "\"${EMBED}\""                                  >> "${ASM}"
+            COMMAND echo ".globl _ggml_metallib_${kind_sym}_end"                 >> "${ASM}"
+            COMMAND echo "_ggml_metallib_${kind_sym}_end:"                       >> "${ASM}"
+            DEPENDS ../ggml-common.h ggml-metal-impl.h
+                    kernels/common.h kernels/dequantize.h kernels/quantize.h
+                    kernels/${kind}.metal
+            COMMENT "Generate embedded Metal library for ${kind}"
+            VERBATIM
+        )
 
-    add_custom_command(
-        OUTPUT "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        COMMAND echo "Embedding Metal library"
-        COMMAND sed -e "/__embed_ggml-common.h__/r ${METALLIB_COMMON}"       -e "/__embed_ggml-common.h__/d"         < "${METALLIB_SOURCE}"           > "${METALLIB_SOURCE_EMBED_TMP}"
-        COMMAND sed -e "/\#include \"ggml-metal-impl.h\"/r ${METALLIB_IMPL}" -e "/\#include \"ggml-metal-impl.h\"/d" < "${METALLIB_SOURCE_EMBED_TMP}" > "${METALLIB_SOURCE_EMBED}"
-        COMMAND echo ".section __DATA,__ggml_metallib"          >  "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        COMMAND echo ".globl _ggml_metallib_start"              >> "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        COMMAND echo "_ggml_metallib_start:"                    >> "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        COMMAND echo .incbin "\"${METALLIB_SOURCE_EMBED}\""     >> "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        COMMAND echo ".globl _ggml_metallib_end"                >> "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        COMMAND echo "_ggml_metallib_end:"                      >> "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}"
-        DEPENDS ../ggml-common.h ggml-metal.metal ggml-metal-impl.h
-        COMMENT "Generate assembly for embedded Metal library"
-        VERBATIM
-    )
+        list(APPEND METALLIB_EMBED_ASM_FILES "${ASM}")
+    endforeach()
 
-    target_sources(ggml-metal PRIVATE "${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM}")
+    target_sources(ggml-metal PRIVATE ${METALLIB_EMBED_ASM_FILES})
 else()
-    # copy metal files to bin directory
+    # copy header files to bin directory
     configure_file(../ggml-common.h  ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-common.h     COPYONLY)
-    configure_file(ggml-metal.metal  ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-metal.metal  COPYONLY)
     configure_file(ggml-metal-impl.h ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-metal-impl.h COPYONLY)
 
+    file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/kernels")
+    configure_file(kernels/common.h     ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/kernels/common.h     COPYONLY)
+    configure_file(kernels/dequantize.h ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/kernels/dequantize.h COPYONLY)
+    configure_file(kernels/quantize.h   ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/kernels/quantize.h   COPYONLY)
+
+    foreach(src ${METALLIB_KERNEL_SOURCES})
+        configure_file(${src} ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${src} COPYONLY)
+    endforeach()
+
     if (GGML_METAL_SHADER_DEBUG)
-        # custom command to do the following:
-        #   xcrun -sdk macosx metal    -fno-fast-math -c ggml-metal.metal -o ggml-metal.air
-        #   xcrun -sdk macosx metallib                   ggml-metal.air   -o default.metallib
-        #
-        # note: this is the only way I found to disable fast-math in Metal. it's ugly, but at least it works
-        #       disabling fast math is needed in order to pass tests/test-backend-ops
+        # note: disabling fast math is needed in order to pass tests/test-backend-ops
         # note: adding -fno-inline fixes the tests when using MTL_SHADER_VALIDATION=1
         # note: unfortunately, we have to call it default.metallib instead of ggml.metallib
         #       ref: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/1720
         # note: adding -g causes segmentation fault during compile
-        #set(XC_FLAGS -fno-fast-math -fno-inline -g)
         set(XC_FLAGS -fno-fast-math -fno-inline)
     else()
         set(XC_FLAGS -O3)
     endif()
 
-    # Append macOS metal versioning flags
     if (GGML_METAL_MACOSX_VERSION_MIN)
         message(STATUS "Adding  -mmacosx-version-min=${GGML_METAL_MACOSX_VERSION_MIN} flag to metal compilation")
         list   (APPEND XC_FLAGS -mmacosx-version-min=${GGML_METAL_MACOSX_VERSION_MIN})
@@ -90,35 +147,46 @@ else()
         list   (APPEND XC_FLAGS -std=${GGML_METAL_STD})
     endif()
 
+    # Compile each kernel source to .air, then link into default.metallib
+    set(AIR_FILES "")
+    foreach(src ${METALLIB_KERNEL_SOURCES})
+        get_filename_component(name ${src} NAME_WE)
+        set(AIR "${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${name}.air")
+        list(APPEND AIR_FILES ${AIR})
+        add_custom_command(
+            OUTPUT ${AIR}
+            COMMAND xcrun -sdk macosx metal ${XC_FLAGS} -I ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY} -c ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/${src} -o ${AIR}
+            DEPENDS ${src} kernels/common.h kernels/dequantize.h kernels/quantize.h ${METALLIB_COMMON} ggml-metal-impl.h
+            COMMENT "Compiling ${src}"
+            VERBATIM
+        )
+    endforeach()
+
     add_custom_command(
         OUTPUT ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/default.metallib
-        COMMAND xcrun -sdk macosx metal ${XC_FLAGS} -c ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-metal.metal -o - |
-                xcrun -sdk macosx metallib        - -o ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/default.metallib
+        COMMAND xcrun -sdk macosx metallib ${AIR_FILES} -o ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/default.metallib
         COMMAND rm -f ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-common.h
-        COMMAND rm -f ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-metal.metal
-        DEPENDS ggml-metal.metal ${METALLIB_COMMON}
-        COMMENT "Compiling Metal kernels"
-        )
+        COMMAND rm -f ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/ggml-metal-impl.h
+        COMMAND rm -rf ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/kernels
+        DEPENDS ${AIR_FILES}
+        COMMENT "Linking Metal kernels into default.metallib"
+    )
 
-    # FIXME: only add to the ggml-metal target?
     add_custom_target(
         ggml-metal-lib ALL
         DEPENDS ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/default.metallib
-        )
+    )
 endif() # GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY
 
 if (NOT GGML_METAL_EMBED_LIBRARY)
     install(
-        FILES src/ggml-metal/ggml-metal.metal
-        PERMISSIONS
-            OWNER_READ
-            OWNER_WRITE
-            GROUP_READ
-            WORLD_READ
-        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})
-
-        install(
-            FILES ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/default.metallib
-            DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
-        )
+        DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/kernels/
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}/kernels
+        FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.metal" PATTERN "*.h"
+    )
+
+    install(
+        FILES ${CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}/default.metallib
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
+    )
 endif()