Closed Fuzzkatt closed 5 months ago
We are seeing numerical mismatches on GH and H100 when running the following unit tests: https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/blob/master/tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_lamb.py#L251, https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/blob/master/tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_lamb.py#L315. Running compute sanitizer on these tests reports races:
root@6b09a87d0bbc:/opt/pytorch/apex/tests/L0/run_optimizers# compute-sanitizer --tool racecheck python test_lamb.py -v -k test_multi_params ========= COMPUTE-SANITIZER test_multi_params (__main__.TestFusedLAMB) ... ========= Error: Race reported between Read access at T1 reduce_block_into_lanes<float>(T1 *, T1, int, bool)+0x2b0 in /opt/pytorch/apex/csrc/type_shim.h:350 ========= and Write access at T1 reduce_block_into_lanes<float>(T1 *, T1, int, bool)+0x5f0 in /opt/pytorch/apex/csrc/type_shim.h:333 [128 hazards]
Comparing with the pytorch reduce_block_into_lanes, we find that one major difference is the location of the final __sync_threads(): https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/1ec05c769b7e1c6ab5ba75f86b4ae6d43d77ac96/aten/src/ATen/native/cuda/WeightNorm.cu#L96. Looking at the usage: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ANVIDIA%2Fapex%20reduce_block_into_lanes&type=code, we note that share_results=False is always used so the final __sync_threads() is never called in apex use cases. Thus, in the unit tests, we hypothesize that reduce_block_into_lanes is being called multiple times. Then, because there is no sync after the read in line 350, the write in line 333 from the second iteration is racing ahead of the read in line 350 from the first iteration.
This PR attempts to fix this issue by moving the final __sync_thread() to its proper location to fix this race.
cc @eqy, @crcrpar
We are seeing numerical mismatches on GH and H100 when running the following unit tests: https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/blob/master/tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_lamb.py#L251, https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/blob/master/tests/L0/run_optimizers/test_lamb.py#L315. Running compute sanitizer on these tests reports races:
root@6b09a87d0bbc:/opt/pytorch/apex/tests/L0/run_optimizers# compute-sanitizer --tool racecheck python test_lamb.py -v -k test_multi_params ========= COMPUTE-SANITIZER test_multi_params (__main__.TestFusedLAMB) ... ========= Error: Race reported between Read access at T1 reduce_block_into_lanes<float>(T1 *, T1, int, bool)+0x2b0 in /opt/pytorch/apex/csrc/type_shim.h:350 ========= and Write access at T1 reduce_block_into_lanes<float>(T1 *, T1, int, bool)+0x5f0 in /opt/pytorch/apex/csrc/type_shim.h:333 [128 hazards]Comparing with the pytorch reduce_block_into_lanes, we find that one major difference is the location of the final __sync_threads(): https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/1ec05c769b7e1c6ab5ba75f86b4ae6d43d77ac96/aten/src/ATen/native/cuda/WeightNorm.cu#L96. Looking at the usage: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3ANVIDIA%2Fapex%20reduce_block_into_lanes&type=code, we note that share_results=False is always used so the final __sync_threads() is never called in apex use cases. Thus, in the unit tests, we hypothesize that reduce_block_into_lanes is being called multiple times. Then, because there is no sync after the read in line 350, the write in line 333 from the second iteration is racing ahead of the read in line 350 from the first iteration.
This PR attempts to fix this issue by moving the final __sync_thread() to its proper location to fix this race.
cc @eqy, @crcrpar