Merge branch 'mausin/contiguous' into 'main'

Add contiguous to grad_output in layers.py

See merge request ADLR/megatron-lm!542

megatron/core/tensor_parallel/layers.py

@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ class LinearWithGradAccumulationAndAsyncCommunication(torch.autograd.Function):
         if ctx.sequence_parallel:
             handle.wait()
 
+        # Doing gather + slicing during the NeMo forward pass can make this tensor 
+        # not be contiguous. PyTorch only checks if the tensor is contiguous, and only 
+        # clones it if it's not contiguous: 
+        # https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/c47cf9bc7f9e02f649ab4ed53fe4d35732c92ab6/torch/_refs/__init__.py#L2761
+        grad_output = grad_output.contiguous()
         # Convert the tensor shapes to 2D for execution compatibility
         grad_output = grad_output.view(grad_output.shape[0] * grad_output.shape[1],
                                        grad_output.shape[2])