[fx] fixed tracing with apex-based T5 model (#1252)

* [fx] fixed tracing with apex-based T5 model

* polish code

* polish code

colossalai/fx/tracer/tracer.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tracer.py:
 import enum
 import inspect
 import functools
+from colossalai.fx.tracer.meta_patch import meta_patched_module
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 from torch import Tensor
@@ -181,7 +182,16 @@ class ColoTracer(Tracer):
 
     def call_module(self, m, forward, args, kwargs):
         self.orig_forward = forward
-        return super().call_module(m, forward, args, kwargs)
+        module_qualified_name = self.path_of_module(m)
+
+        # a leaf module is the torch.nn.Module subclasses starting with `torch.nn`
+        # which means customized modules are not leaf module by default
+        # if a customized or third-party module like apex.normalization.FusedRMSNorm is patched,
+        # we should treat it as leaf module as well
+        if meta_patched_module.has(m.__class__) or self.is_leaf_module(m, module_qualified_name):
+            return self.create_proxy('call_module', module_qualified_name, args, kwargs)
+        else:
+            return forward(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def proxy(self, node) -> Proxy:
         """

tests/test_fx/test_tracer/test_hf_model/test_hf_t5.py

 import pytest
 import transformers
 import torch
+from colossalai.fx.tracer.meta_patch import meta_patched_module
 from utils import trace_model_and_compare_output
 
+try:
+    import apex
+
+    @meta_patched_module.register(apex.normalization.FusedRMSNorm)
+    def apex_fused_layernorm(self, input):
+        return torch.empty(input.shape, device='meta')
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 BATCH_SIZE = 1
 SEQ_LENGHT = 16