Get base pointer from Allocation #37978
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For performance considering, Paddle caches and manages the memory malloced from devices. The memory pointer given to user is not the base-pointer that directly returned from the device interface, as it may have undergone many transformations such as split and align by Allocator.
However, sometimes the base-pointer is required. For example, cudaIpcGetMemHandle needs a base-pointer of the device allocation created with cudaMalloc, so it can achieve memory sharing between different processes.
This PR maintains the base-pointer information in all allocators existing in Paddle, and implement a base_ptr interface in Allocation class. Thereby we can get the base-pointer from an allocation like: