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fix self.device access in DataParallel #6414

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What does this PR do?

DataParallel does not maintain state during the forward on the replicas. Therefore, self.device in e.g. training_step points to the root device no matter on which gpu.
We can fix this problem by taking the device from the input tensors, these are guaranteed to be on the right device.

The only exception is when the model doesn't get a batch with tensors in it. This is rare, and the best we can do is warn the user that self.device will not work.

Fixes #6413
Fixes #6563

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@awaelchli awaelchli added bug Something isn't working strategy: dp (removed in pl) DataParallel labels Mar 8, 2021
@awaelchli awaelchli added this to the 1.2.x milestone Mar 8, 2021
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Merging #6414 (5bd3db0) into master (b46cc55) will decrease coverage by 5%.
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Really Neat !

@awaelchli awaelchli merged commit 80c5293 into master Apr 13, 2021
@awaelchli awaelchli deleted the bugfix/dp-self-device branch April 13, 2021 00:03
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