[V1] Support cross-layer KV sharing (#18212)

Signed-off-by: Yong Hoon Shin <yhshin@meta.com>

vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py

@@ -17,3 +17,36 @@ class CommonAttentionMetadata:
     seq_lens: torch.Tensor
     """(batch_size,), the length of each request including both computed tokens
     and newly scheduled tokens"""
+
+
+def validate_kv_sharing_target(current_layer_name, target_layer_name,
+                               static_forward_context):
+    error_msg = (f"Specified KV sharing target layer for {current_layer_name} "
+                 f"is not valid: target layer {target_layer_name} ")
+
+    if current_layer_name == target_layer_name:
+        raise ValueError(error_msg +
+                         "cannot be the same as the current layer.")
+
+    if target_layer_name not in static_forward_context:
+        from vllm.model_executor.models.utils import extract_layer_index
+
+        # If target layer name is not in the static fwd context, it means either
+        # a) the target layer does not come BEFORE the current layer, or
+        # b) the target layer is not an Attention layer that exists in the model
+        current_layer_idx = extract_layer_index(current_layer_name)
+        target_layer_idx = extract_layer_index(target_layer_name)
+        if current_layer_idx <= target_layer_idx:
+            raise ValueError(error_msg + "must come before the current layer.")
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(error_msg +
+                             "is not a valid Attention layer in the model.")
+
+    # Currently KV sharing is only supported between layers of the same type
+    target_layer_attn_type = static_forward_context[
+        target_layer_name].attn_type
+    expected = static_forward_context[current_layer_name].attn_type
+    if target_layer_attn_type != expected:
+        raise ValueError(
+            error_msg +
+            f"must be the same type as the current layer ({expected}).")