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In train & finetune I make new allocator, allocate tensors, free the allocator and then repeat that for different groups of tensors.
Before this change the actual data pointer was used to check ownership. This pointer differed between successive allocators due to a different data buffer.
But the
buffermember used here may not differ, because it is malloced byggml_backend_buffer_init. It actually happens that the previous memory address is used, because the previous allocator along with its buffer was freed.So with this change
ggml_allocr_is_owndoes not work correctly with the use case of a temporary allocator.The allocator must be kept around as long as the tensors itself.
Small example:
This results in the allocator freeing tensors that are not actually owned by itself.
I write it 'can happen', but I actually observe this behaviour in train & finetune.
Whether it manifests itself probably depends on malloc.
I can change the train & finetune programs to not free the allocators.
This would solve the problem.
But in the above example it still is a bit weird, that
ggml_allocr_is_own(alloc, a)can unexpectedly returntruewhen the previous allocator was freed.There was a problem hiding this comment.
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Maybe I missed other cases, but this should have been fixed in #4486.
The problem is that checking the addresses doesn't really work with measure allocators. The previous implementation used virtual memory as a stopgap, but this has other problems. Ultimately, the issue is that
ggml_allocr_newcreates a temporaryggml_backend_bufferthat is freed when the allocator is freed, and from that point these tensors cannot be used anymore since they point to a freed buffer. When usingggml-backendit is possible to free the allocator if you supply your own buffer, but otherwise theggml-allocshould be kept alive for the lifetime of the tensors.There was a problem hiding this comment.
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Indeed, this solves issues somewhat for finetune. But there are some more cases. I will push PR after I come back from holiday family visit.