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[PGNCCL] Watchdog prints call-time traceback when reporting timeout (pytorch#139659)
### Motivation
Today, watchdog only reports that it found a collective timeout:
```
[rank1]:[E1104 14:02:18.767594328 ProcessGroupNCCL.cpp:688] [Rank 1] Watchdog caught collective operation timeout: WorkNCCL(SeqNum=1, OpType=ALLREDUCE, NumelIn=200, NumelOut=200, Timeout(ms)=5000) ran for 5096 milliseconds before timing out.
```
While this is nice, it is hard to associate the error with user's program or library stack.
### This PR
This PR gives watchdog the ability to report the call-time stack of the collective, so that it would be easier to track the error back to the program's behavior.
The call-time stack was recorded by Flight Recorder with minimal overhead (for details, please read this [doc](https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/fast-combined-c-python-torchscript-inductor-tracebacks/1158) written by @zdevito ). In `ProcessGroupNCCL`, we are only tracking / reporting the python part so that it fits most PyTorch users.
### Demo
[stack_demo.py](https://gist.github.com/kwen2501/6758e18d305d67fc6f3f926217825c09).
```
TORCH_NCCL_TRACE_BUFFER_SIZE=100 torchrun --nproc-per-node 2 stack_demo.py
```
`TORCH_NCCL_TRACE_BUFFER_SIZE` is for turning on the Flight Recorder.
Output:
```
[rank0]:[E1104 14:19:27.591610653 ProcessGroupNCCL.cpp:695] Stack trace of the timedout collective operation:
#0 all_reduce from /data/users/kw2501/pytorch/torch/distributed/distributed_c10d.py:2696
#1 wrapper from /data/users/kw2501/pytorch/torch/distributed/c10d_logger.py:83
#2 bar from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:15
#3 foo from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:24
#4 main from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:34
#5 <module> from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:40
[rank1]:[E1104 14:19:27.771430164 ProcessGroupNCCL.cpp:695] Stack trace of the timedout collective operation:
#0 all_gather_into_tensor from /data/users/kw2501/pytorch/torch/distributed/distributed_c10d.py:3630
#1 wrapper from /data/users/kw2501/pytorch/torch/distributed/c10d_logger.py:83
#2 baz from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:20
#3 foo from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:26
#4 main from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:34
#5 <module> from /data/users/kw2501/sync_async/repro.py:40
```
From the log above, we can tell that `bar()` and `baz()` are the places where the two ranks divert.
Pull Request resolved: pytorch#139659
Approved by: https://github.com/wconstab, https://github.com/fduwjj
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