[CI] Build macOS arm64 CPU wheel natively on the macmini queue (#48289)

Signed-off-by: mgoin <mgoin64@gmail.com>

Author: mgoin

.buildkite/release-pipeline.yaml

@@ -76,6 +76,49 @@ steps:
         env:
           DOCKER_BUILDKIT: "1"
 
+      - label: "Build wheel - macOS arm64 - CPU"
+        depends_on: ~
+        id: build-wheel-macos-arm64-cpu
+        agents:
+          queue: macmini
+        timeout_in_minutes: 90
+        commands:
+          - "bash .buildkite/scripts/build-macos-wheel.sh"
+          - "mkdir -p artifacts/transfer"
+          - "basename artifacts/dist/*.whl > artifacts/transfer/wheel.name"
+          - "shasum -a 256 artifacts/dist/*.whl > artifacts/transfer/wheel.sha256"
+          - "split -b 1m artifacts/dist/*.whl artifacts/transfer/wheel.part."
+        env:
+          BUILDKITE_ARTIFACT_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY: "1"
+          BUILDKITE_NO_HTTP2: "true"
+        artifact_paths:
+          - "artifacts/transfer/*"
+
+      - label: "Upload wheel - macOS arm64 - CPU"
+        depends_on: build-wheel-macos-arm64-cpu
+        id: upload-wheel-macos-arm64-cpu
+        agents:
+          queue: small_cpu_queue_release
+        timeout_in_minutes: 15
+        commands:
+          - 'buildkite-agent artifact download "artifacts/transfer/*" .'
+          - "mkdir -p artifacts/dist artifacts/reassembled"
+          - 'wheel_name=$$(cat artifacts/transfer/wheel.name)'
+          - '[[ "$$wheel_name" =~ ^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._+-]*\.whl$$ && "$$wheel_name" != *..* ]]'
+          - 'expected_sha=$$(awk ''{print $$1}'' artifacts/transfer/wheel.sha256)'
+          - '[[ "$$expected_sha" =~ ^[0-9a-f]{64}$$ ]]'
+          - 'cat artifacts/transfer/wheel.part.* > artifacts/reassembled/wheel'
+          - 'actual_sha=$$(shasum -a 256 artifacts/reassembled/wheel | awk ''{print $$1}'')'
+          - '[[ "$$actual_sha" == "$$expected_sha" ]]'
+          - 'mv artifacts/reassembled/wheel "artifacts/dist/$$wheel_name"'
+          - "aws sts get-caller-identity"
+          - "VLLM_WHEEL_PLATFORM=macos bash .buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh"
+          - 'bash .buildkite/scripts/annotate-build-artifact.sh "$$BUILDKITE_LABEL" "s3://vllm-wheels/$$BUILDKITE_COMMIT/$(cd artifacts/dist && echo *.whl)"'
+        plugins:
+          - aws-assume-role-with-web-identity#v1.6.0:
+              role-arn: arn:aws:iam::936637512419:role/vllm-release-macos-wheel-uploader
+              region: us-west-2
+
       - label: "Build wheel - x86_64 - CUDA 12.9"
         depends_on: ~
         id: build-wheel-x86-cuda-12-9

.buildkite/scripts/build-macos-wheel.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+#
+# Build the macOS arm64 CPU wheel natively on a macOS agent (the `macmini`
+# queue) into artifacts/dist/ for upload-nightly-wheels.sh.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# The Rust frontend build needs protoc.
+if ! command -v protoc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  brew install protobuf
+fi
+
+# upload-nightly-wheels.sh expects exactly one wheel.
+rm -rf artifacts/dist
+mkdir -p artifacts/dist
+
+export VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=cpu
+export VLLM_REQUIRE_RUST_FRONTEND=1
+export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=11.0
+# uv's CPython is universal2; force an arm64-only build and tag so the wheel
+# isn't mislabelled universal2 and installed on Intel Macs where import fails.
+export ARCHFLAGS="-arch arm64"
+export _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM="macosx-11.0-arm64"
+export CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL="${CMAKE_BUILD_PARALLEL_LEVEL:-4}"
+
+uv venv --python 3.12
+uv pip install -r requirements/build/cpu.txt --index-strategy unsafe-best-match
+uv build --wheel --no-build-isolation -o artifacts/dist
+
+ls -l artifacts/dist/*.whl

.buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh

@@ -6,8 +6,14 @@ set -ex
 # manylinux platform tag with auditwheel.
 # Index generation is handled separately by generate-and-upload-nightly-index.sh.
 
-# shellcheck source=lib/manylinux.sh
-source .buildkite/scripts/lib/manylinux.sh
+# auditwheel is Linux-only; macOS wheels already carry a valid tag, so skip the
+# manylinux retag for them.
+WHEEL_PLATFORM="${VLLM_WHEEL_PLATFORM:-linux}"
+
+if [[ "$WHEEL_PLATFORM" == "linux" ]]; then
+  # shellcheck source=lib/manylinux.sh
+  source .buildkite/scripts/lib/manylinux.sh
+fi
 
 BUCKET="vllm-wheels"
 SUBPATH=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
@@ -27,8 +33,10 @@ wheel="${wheel_files[0]}"
 
 # ========= detect manylinux tag and rename ==========
 
-wheel="$(apply_manylinux_tag "$wheel")"
-echo "Renamed wheel to: $wheel"
+if [[ "$WHEEL_PLATFORM" == "linux" ]]; then
+  wheel="$(apply_manylinux_tag "$wheel")"
+  echo "Renamed wheel to: $wheel"
+fi
 
 # Extract the version from the wheel
 version=$(unzip -p "$wheel" '**/METADATA' | grep '^Version: ' | cut -d' ' -f2)

csrc/cpu/torch_bindings.cpp

@@ -570,7 +570,8 @@ TORCH_LIBRARY_EXPAND(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, ops) {
 #endif
 
   // fused moe
-#if defined(__AVX512F__) || (defined(ARM_BF16_SUPPORT))
+#if defined(__AVX512F__) || \
+    (defined(__aarch64__) && !defined(__APPLE__) && defined(ARM_BF16_SUPPORT))
   ops.def(
       "prepack_moe_weight(Tensor weight, Tensor(a1!) packed_weight, str isa) "
       "-> ()");
@@ -581,7 +582,7 @@ TORCH_LIBRARY_EXPAND(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, ops) {
       "bool skip_weighted, "
       "str act, str isa) -> ()");
   ops.impl("cpu_fused_moe", torch::kCPU, &cpu_fused_moe);
-#endif  // #if defined(__AVX512F__) || (defined(ARM_BF16_SUPPORT))
+#endif
   ops.def(
       "mla_decode_kvcache("
       "   Tensor! out, Tensor query, Tensor kv_cache,"