From 5978d2f9ab5c858140d1b6667bb36e033254e3b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: amd-jiali <jiali.li@amd.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:32:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Print out the hipRuntimeVersion message from WARN to always
 show up (#1911)

Authored-by: Jiali Li <jialili@amd.com>
---
 src/init.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/init.cc b/src/init.cc
index a43f6d70da..df5d0d6022 100644
--- a/src/init.cc
+++ b/src/init.cc
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ ncclResult_t checkHsaEnvSetting() {
 
   INFO(NCCL_INIT, "Hipruntime version: %d, firmware version: %d", hipRuntimeVersion, firmwareVersion);
   if (!validHsaScratchEnvSetting(hsaScratchEnv, hipRuntimeVersion, firmwareVersion, devProp.gcnArchName)) {
-    WARN("HSA_NO_SCRATCH_RECLAIM=1 must be set to avoid RCCL perf hit, rocm ver:%d", hipRuntimeVersion);
+    // Always print out this warning message
+    printf("Fatal Error: HSA_NO_SCRATCH_RECLAIM=1 must be set to avoid performance degradation with HIP Runtime version:%d, GPU Firmware version:%d\n", hipRuntimeVersion, firmwareVersion);
     return ncclSystemError;
   }
   return ncclSuccess;