Fix a race condidtion issue in trial_keeper for reading log from pipe (#578)

* Fix a race condidtion issue in trial_keeper for reading log from pipe

tools/nni_trial_tool/log_utils.py

@@ -129,13 +129,15 @@ class PipeLogReader(threading.Thread):
         self.pipeReader = os.fdopen(self.fdRead)
         self.orig_stdout = sys.__stdout__
         self._is_read_completed = False
+        self.process_exit = False
 
         def _populateQueue(stream, queue):
             '''
             Collect lines from 'stream' and put them in 'quque'.
             '''
             time.sleep(5)
-            while True:                
+            while True:
+                cur_process_exit = self.process_exit       
                 try:
                     line = self.queue.get(True, 5)
                     try:
@@ -144,9 +146,10 @@ class PipeLogReader(threading.Thread):
                         self.orig_stdout.flush()
                     except Exception as e:
                         pass
-                except Exception as e:                    
-                    self._is_read_completed = True
-                    break
+                except Exception as e:
+                    if cur_process_exit == True:     
+                        self._is_read_completed = True
+                        break
 
         self.pip_log_reader_thread = threading.Thread(target = _populateQueue,
                 args = (self.pipeReader, self.queue))
@@ -175,4 +178,8 @@ class PipeLogReader(threading.Thread):
     def is_read_completed(self):
         """Return if read is completed
         """
-        return self._is_read_completed
+        return self._is_read_completed
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+    
+    def set_process_exit(self):
+        self.process_exit = True
+        return self.process_exit
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tools/nni_trial_tool/trial_keeper.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def main_loop(args):
     while True:
         retCode = process.poll()
         # child worker process exits and all stdout data is read
-        if retCode is not None and log_pipe_stdout.is_read_completed == True:
+        if retCode is not None and log_pipe_stdout.set_process_exit() and log_pipe_stdout.is_read_completed == True:
             nni_log(LogType.Info, 'subprocess terminated. Exit code is {}. Quit'.format(retCode))
             if args.pai_hdfs_output_dir is not None:
                 # Copy local directory to hdfs for OpenPAI