# TVM Documentation This folder contains the source of TVM's documentation, hosted at https://tvm.apache.org/docs ## Build Locally ### With Docker (recommended) 1. Build TVM and the docs inside the [tlcpack/ci-gpu image](https://hub.docker.com/r/tlcpack/ci-gpu) using the [`ci.py`](../tests/scripts/ci.py) script. ```bash # If this runs into errors, try cleaning your 'build' directory python tests/scripts/ci.py docs # See other doc building options python tests/scripts/ci.py docs --help ``` 2. Serve the docs and visit http://localhost:8000 in your browser ```bash # Run an HTTP server you can visit to view the docs in your browser python tests/scripts/ci.py serve-docs ``` ### Native 1. [Build TVM](https://tvm.apache.org/docs/install/from_source.html) first in the repo root folder, then make it importable: ```bash export TVM_HOME=/path-to-tvm export TVM_LIBRARY_PATH=$TVM_HOME/build pip install --target=$TVM_HOME/python $TVM_HOME/3rdparty/tvm-ffi export PYTHONPATH=$TVM_HOME/python:$PYTHONPATH ``` `docs/conf.py` unconditionally imports `tvm` at startup, so the build will fail immediately if TVM is not importable. 2. Install dependencies ```bash # Pillow on Ubuntu may require libjpeg-dev from apt ./docker/bash.sh ci_gpu -c \ 'python3 -m pip install --quiet sphinx-book-theme==1.1.4 && python3 -m pip freeze' > frozen-requirements.txt pip install -r frozen-requirements.txt ``` 3. Generate the docs ```bash # TVM_TUTORIAL_EXEC_PATTERN=none skips the tutorial execution to the build # work on most environments (e.g. MacOS). export TVM_TUTORIAL_EXEC_PATTERN=none cd docs make html ``` 4. Run an HTTP server and visit http://localhost:8000 in your browser ```bash cd _build/html && python3 -m http.server ``` ## Only Execute Specified Tutorials The document build process will execute all the tutorials in the sphinx gallery. This will cause failure in some cases when certain machines do not have necessary environment. You can set `TVM_TUTORIAL_EXEC_PATTERN` to only execute the path that matches the regular expression pattern. For example, to only build tutorials under `/get_started/tutorials`, run ```bash python tests/scripts/ci.py docs --tutorial-pattern=/get_started/tutorials ``` To only build one specific file, do ```bash # The slash \ is used to get . in regular expression python tests/scripts/ci.py docs --tutorial-pattern=file_name\.py ``` ## Helper Scripts The following script mirrors the CI docs pipeline: it runs a sphinx pre-check (when not running locally) and then performs a full `make htmldepoly` build, including tutorial execution. You will need a GPU CI environment. ```bash tests/scripts/task_python_docs.sh ``` To build docs locally without executing tutorials (fastest local iteration): ```bash cd docs && TVM_TUTORIAL_EXEC_PATTERN=none make html ``` Note: the sphinx pre-check (warning validation) only runs in CI (`IS_LOCAL=0`). `python tests/scripts/ci.py docs` always sets `IS_LOCAL=1` and skips the pre-check regardless of other flags. To run the full build including tutorial executions: ```bash python tests/scripts/ci.py docs --full ``` ## Define the Order of Tutorials You can define the order of tutorials with `subsection_order` and `within_subsection_order` in [`conf.py`](conf.py). By default, the tutorials within one subsection are sorted by filename. ## Google Colab Integration All the TVM tutorials can be opened and used interactively in Google Colab by clicking the button at the top of the page. To do this, `sphinx-gallery` builds `.ipynb` files from each tutorial, which are automatically deployed to the [apache/tvm-site](https://github.com/apache/tvm-site/tree/asf-site) repo's `asf-site` branch by [@tvm-bot](https://github.com/tvm-bot). To make sure your tutorial runs correctly on Colab, any non-Python parts of the tutorial (e.g. dependency installations) should be prefixed by an [IPython magic command](https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/magics.html). These will not be included in the built `HTML` file. For example, to install Pytorch in your tutorial, add a ReStructured Text block like the following: ```python ###################################################################### # To run this tutorial, we must install PyTorch: # # .. code-block:: bash # # %%shell # pip install torch # ``` ### Interactive Bash Scripts In stock IPython, the `%%bash` magic command should be used to run shell commands. However, this command does not give real-time output - the tutorial's user will not see any output until the entire cell finishes running. When running commands that take several minutes (e.g. installing dependencies), this is annoying. Luckily, Google Colab has the `%%shell` magic command that does the same thing as `%%bash`, but gives output in real time. This command is specific to Colab, and its [source code](https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools) is public. Thus, `%%shell` should be used instead of `%%bash` when writing TVM tutorials.