[cherry-pick 2.0rc1][inplace] Add ShareHolderWith for class Variable and...

[cherry-pick 2.0rc1][inplace] Add ShareHolderWith for class Variable and SharePlaceholderWith in VarBase.detach() to share the same Tensor/SelectedRows (#29267) (#29359)

paddle/fluid/framework/variable.h

@@ -69,6 +69,16 @@ class Variable {
     return holder_->Type();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * The internal of two Variables share the same Placeholder whose type can be
+   * Tensor, LoDTensor, SelectedRows, LoDTensorArray, etc.
+   *
+   * NOTE(liym27): In dynamic mode, sharing the same Placeholder also means
+   * share the same TensorInplaceVersion, which is very important for inplace
+   * operations.
+   */
+  void SharePlaceholderWith(const Variable& var);
+
  private:
   // This method hides type T, so it doesn't appear as a template parameter of
   // Variable.
@@ -113,6 +123,14 @@ class Variable {
   std::shared_ptr<Placeholder> holder_;
 };
 
+inline void Variable::SharePlaceholderWith(const Variable& var) {
+  PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(var.IsInitialized(), true,
+                    platform::errors::PreconditionNotMet(
+                        "Variable holds no memory. "
+                        "Call Variable::GetMutable() firstly."));
+  holder_ = var.holder_;
+}
+
 inline framework::TensorInplaceVersion* Variable::InplaceVersionCounter() {
   framework::TensorInplaceVersion* version_counter_ptr(nullptr);
   if (IsType<framework::LoDTensor>()) {

paddle/fluid/pybind/imperative.cc

@@ -689,13 +689,15 @@ void BindImperative(py::module *m_ptr) {
                 x = linear(data)
                 print(x.numpy())
        )DOC")
-      .def("detach",
-           [](const imperative::VarBase
-                  &self) -> std::shared_ptr<imperative::VarBase> {
+      .def(
+          "detach",
+          [](const imperative::VarBase &self)
+              -> std::shared_ptr<imperative::VarBase> {
                 PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
                     self.Var().IsInitialized(), true,
                     platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
                         "Tensor %s has not been initialized!", self.Name()));
+
                 PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
                     self.Var().IsType<framework::LoDTensor>() ||
                         self.Var().IsType<framework::SelectedRows>(),
@@ -703,38 +705,23 @@ void BindImperative(py::module *m_ptr) {
                     platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
                         "Type of Tensor[%s] must be LoDTensor or SelectedRows!",
                         self.Name()));
+
                 auto detach_var = std::make_shared<imperative::VarBase>(
                     true, "detach_" + self.Name());
+
                 detach_var->SetPersistable(self.Persistable());
                 detach_var->SetType(self.Type());
                 detach_var->SetDataType(self.DataType());
-             if (self.Var().IsType<framework::LoDTensor>()) {
-               const auto &origin_tensor =
-                   self.Var().Get<framework::LoDTensor>();
-               PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
-                   origin_tensor.IsInitialized(), true,
-                   platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
-                       "Tensor %s has not been initialized!", self.Name()));
 
-               auto *detach_tensor =
-                   detach_var->MutableVar()->GetMutable<framework::LoDTensor>();
-               detach_tensor->ShareDataWith(origin_tensor);
-             } else {
-               const auto &origin_selected_rows =
-                   self.Var().Get<framework::SelectedRows>();
-               PADDLE_ENFORCE_EQ(
-                   origin_selected_rows.value().IsInitialized(), true,
-                   platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
-                       "Tensor %s has not been initialized!", self.Name()));
+                // NOTE(liym27):
+                // Call Variable::SharePlaceholderWith but not
+                // Tensor::ShareDataWith or Tensor::ShareBufferWith, because
+                // `detach_var` should share the same TensorInplaceVersion with
+                // `self`, and only SharePlaceholderWith can also share the same
+                // TensorInplaceVersion, which is used to check whether inplace
+                // operations are correct.
+                detach_var->MutableVar()->SharePlaceholderWith(self.Var());
 
-               auto *detach_selected_rows =
-                   detach_var->MutableVar()
-                       ->GetMutable<framework::SelectedRows>();
-               detach_selected_rows->set_height(origin_selected_rows.height());
-               detach_selected_rows->set_rows(origin_selected_rows.rows());
-               detach_selected_rows->mutable_value()->ShareDataWith(
-                   origin_selected_rows.value());
-             }
                 VLOG(3) << "The detached Tensor(" << detach_var->Name()
                         << ") share data with " << self.Name();
                 return detach_var;

python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_detach.py

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import numpy as np
-import paddle.fluid as fluid
 
+import paddle
+import paddle.fluid as fluid
 from paddle.fluid.dygraph import Linear
 from paddle.fluid.dygraph.base import to_variable
 
@@ -161,5 +162,47 @@ class Test_Detach(unittest.TestCase):
             ) == "'detach' should be called by imperative Varible in imperative mode, please use fluid.dygraph.guard() as context to run it in imperative mode"
 
 
+class TestInplace(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_forward_version(self):
+        with paddle.fluid.dygraph.guard():
+            var = paddle.to_tensor(np.ones((4, 2, 3)).astype(np.float32))
+            self.assertEqual(var.inplace_version, 0)
+            detach_var_1 = var.detach()
+            self.assertEqual(detach_var_1.inplace_version, 0)
+
+            var[0] = 1.1
+            self.assertEqual(var.inplace_version, 1)
+
+            detach_var_2 = var.detach()
+            self.assertEqual(detach_var_2.inplace_version, 1)
+
+            var[0] = 3
+            self.assertEqual(detach_var_1.inplace_version, 2)
+            self.assertEqual(detach_var_2.inplace_version, 2)
+
+    def test_backward_error(self):
+        # It raises an error because the inplace operator will result
+        # in incorrect gradient computation.
+        with paddle.fluid.dygraph.guard():
+            var_a = paddle.ones(shape=[4, 2, 3], dtype="float32")
+            var_a.stop_gradient = False
+
+            var_b = var_a**2
+
+            # Here, the gradient computation will use the value of var_b
+            var_c = var_b**2
+            detach_var_b = var_b.detach()
+            detach_var_b[1:2] = 3.3  # var_b is modified inplace
+
+            var_d = var_b**2
+
+            loss = paddle.nn.functional.relu(var_c + var_d)
+            with self.assertRaisesRegexp(
+                    RuntimeError,
+                    "received tensor_version:{} != wrapper_version_snapshot:{}".
+                    format(1, 0)):
+                loss.backward()
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_var_base.py

@@ -243,11 +243,12 @@ class TestVarBase(unittest.TestCase):
             z.backward()
             self.assertTrue(np.array_equal(x.grad, [20.0]))
             self.assertTrue(np.array_equal(detach_x.grad, [60.0]))
+
             # Due to sharing of data with origin Tensor, There are some unsafe operations:
-            # with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
-            #     y = 2 * x
-            #     detach_x[:] = 5.0
-            #     y.backward()
+            with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+                y = 2**x
+                detach_x[:] = 5.0
+                y.backward()
 
     def test_write_property(self):
         with fluid.dygraph.guard():