[WIP] Draft: Catch readable stack trace from OOM exception via throw intercept#2218
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Motivation
When an OOM exception (
std::bad_alloc) is thrown, the C++ runtime unwinds the stack before termination, destroying the backtrace. Until now, catching the backtrace required attachingcuda-gdband reproducing the run from scratch — which is expensive, especially when OOM occurs late in a long run (e.g. 1B-vector ANN indexing).What this PR does
Introduces an
LD_PRELOADintercept on__cxa_throw()that captures the full backtrace before stack unwinding begins, for both host and device exceptions.Usage:
LD_PRELOAD=intercept_throw.so ./program(program should be built with debug symbols)
On OOM, the full symbolized backtrace is printed to stderr automatically, without debugger and re-run needed.
Example output