diff --git a/csrc/include/aiter_hip_common.h b/csrc/include/aiter_hip_common.h
index 9afcaa4ae8..7790e3d978 100644
--- a/csrc/include/aiter_hip_common.h
+++ b/csrc/include/aiter_hip_common.h
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #include <fstream>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <memory>
+#include <string_view>
+#include <algorithm>
 #ifdef AITER_EMBEDDED_HSA_HEADER
 #include AITER_EMBEDDED_HSA_HEADER
 #endif
@@ -194,6 +196,14 @@ class AiterAsmKernelFast
                                             nullptr,
                                             nullptr,
                                             nullptr);
+        // Verify registration succeeded. __hipRegisterFunction returns void so
+        // we probe via hipGetFuncBySymbol — if it returns null the runtime silently
+        // rejected the kernel (e.g. resource limits, arch mismatch). This runs
+        // once per kernel variant at init time, not on every launch.
+        hipFunction_t probe = nullptr;
+        (void)hipGetFuncBySymbol(&probe, reinterpret_cast<void*>(this));
+        AITER_CHECK(probe != nullptr,
+                    "kernel registration failed for '", kernel_name, "'.");
     }
 
     public:
@@ -218,8 +228,7 @@ class AiterAsmKernelFast
                                      HIP_LAUNCH_PARAM_END};
         hipFunction_t kernel_func = nullptr;
         // TODO Ask runtime folks to provide an API for hipLaunchKernel with extra arg
-        // Don't error check here.
-        // Failure to load the func would cause hipModuleLaunchKernel to fail anyways.
+        // Don't error check here — registration is validated once in init().
         (void)hipGetFuncBySymbol(&kernel_func, reinterpret_cast<void*>(this));
 
         HIP_CALL_LAUNCH(hipModuleLaunchKernel(kernel_func,
@@ -242,6 +251,85 @@ class AiterAsmKernel: private AiterAsmKernelFast
     private:
     std::unique_ptr<char[]> hsaco_data;
 
+    static void validate_hsaco_lds(const char* kernel_name,
+                                   const std::string& path,
+                                   const char* data,
+                                   size_t size)
+    {
+        // The AMDGPU metadata is stored as msgpack in an ELF .note section — not as
+        // raw ASCII. We scan for the amdhsa kernel descriptor's group_segment_fixed_size
+        // field in the binary kernel descriptor block instead. In the AMDHSA kernel
+        // descriptor (64 bytes at the start of the .text symbol), byte offset 0 is a
+        // uint32_t group_segment_fixed_size. However the most reliable approach without
+        // linking a msgpack parser is to search the raw ELF for the msgpack integer that
+        // follows the "group_segment_fixed_size" msgpack string key.
+        //
+        // Msgpack format for the key: 0xd9 <len8> <bytes> or 0xda <len16> <bytes> or
+        // fixstr (0xa0|len) <bytes>. The value follows immediately as a msgpack uint.
+        // We do a byte-level search: find "group_segment_fixed_size" as raw bytes, then
+        // decode the msgpack uint that follows.
+
+        static const char key[] = "group_segment_fixed_size";
+        static const size_t key_len = sizeof(key) - 1;
+
+        const char* p = data;
+        const char* end = data + size;
+
+        while(p < end)
+        {
+            // Find the key bytes in the blob
+            const char* found = std::search(p, end, key, key + key_len);
+            if(found == end)
+                return;
+
+            // The msgpack value follows the key bytes. Skip any msgpack string prefix
+            // byte (the byte before 'g' in "group_...") was already part of the key
+            // detection; now p points right after the key.
+            const char* vp = found + key_len;
+            if(vp >= end)
+                return;
+
+            // Decode the following msgpack integer
+            uint64_t declared_lds = 0;
+            uint8_t tag = static_cast<uint8_t>(*vp);
+            if(tag <= 0x7f)                        // positive fixint
+                declared_lds = tag;
+            else if(tag == 0xcc && vp + 1 < end)  // uint8
+                declared_lds = static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[1]);
+            else if(tag == 0xcd && vp + 2 < end)  // uint16 big-endian
+                declared_lds = (static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[1])) << 8) |
+                                static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[2]));
+            else if(tag == 0xce && vp + 4 < end)  // uint32 big-endian
+                declared_lds = (static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[1])) << 24) |
+                               (static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[2])) << 16) |
+                               (static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[3])) <<  8) |
+                                static_cast<uint64_t>(static_cast<uint8_t>(vp[4]));
+            else
+            {
+                p = found + 1;
+                continue;  // not a uint we recognise; keep searching
+            }
+
+            if(declared_lds == 0)
+            {
+                p = found + 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            hipDevice_t dev;
+            int max_lds = 0;
+            HIP_CALL(hipGetDevice(&dev));
+            HIP_CALL(hipDeviceGetAttribute(&max_lds, hipDeviceAttributeMaxSharedMemoryPerBlock, dev));
+
+            AITER_CHECK(static_cast<int64_t>(declared_lds) <= static_cast<int64_t>(max_lds),
+                        "kernel '", kernel_name, "' in ", path.c_str(),
+                        ": group_segment_fixed_size=", static_cast<uint32_t>(declared_lds),
+                        " exceeds device LDS limit=", max_lds,
+                        " bytes. Rebuild the .co with a smaller LDS allocation.");
+            return;  // validated OK
+        }
+    }
+
     const void* load_hsaco_file(const char* kernel_name, const char* hsaco_path)
     {
         const char* AITER_ASM_DIR = std::getenv("AITER_ASM_DIR");
@@ -261,6 +349,9 @@ class AiterAsmKernel: private AiterAsmKernelFast
             file.seekg(0, std::ios::beg);
             AITER_CHECK(
                 file.read(hsaco_data.get(), file_size), "failed to read ", full_path.c_str());
+
+            validate_hsaco_lds(kernel_name, full_path, hsaco_data.get(), file_size);
+
             return hsaco_data.get();
         }
         else