diff --git a/paddle/.gitignore b/paddle/.gitignore
index b89bd9d94633a898e1e2205c22ec3f4c66605a42..f921eef14156a97e4fd250f014960e306b43f35a 100644
--- a/paddle/.gitignore
+++ b/paddle/.gitignore
@@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ HPPL_ERROR_LOG
 unittest.list
 proto
 dist
+setup.py
diff --git a/paddle/gserver/gradientmachines/NeuralNetwork.cpp b/paddle/gserver/gradientmachines/NeuralNetwork.cpp
index fca52828957a2da42238c9f945f5126beea95008..eb1522a178d48c1d71b5b4a63ce73f65e1167288 100644
--- a/paddle/gserver/gradientmachines/NeuralNetwork.cpp
+++ b/paddle/gserver/gradientmachines/NeuralNetwork.cpp
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ void NeuralNetwork::getState(MachineState& machineState) {
 }
 
 void NeuralNetwork::backward(const UpdateCallback& callback) {
+  gLayerStackTrace.pop("");  // tell layer trace is during backward.
   FOR_EACH_R(layer, layers_) {
     REGISTER_TIMER_INFO("BackwardTimer", (*layer)->getName().c_str());
     if ((*layer)->needGradient()) {
diff --git a/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.cpp b/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.cpp
index 50d7f5402f586771194fa5b1578293b7614ea1f2..232a478ecd93a7dcb7da7b02a5a1af37a1d1bc43 100644
--- a/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.cpp
+++ b/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.cpp
@@ -14,9 +14,44 @@ limitations under the License. */
 
 
 #include "CustomStackTrace.h"
+#include "CommandLineParser.h"
+#include <iostream>
+
+P_DEFINE_bool(layer_stack_error_only_current_thread,
+    true,
+    "Dump current thread or whole process layer stack when signal error "
+    "occurred. true means only dump current thread layer stack");
 
 namespace paddle {
 
 CustomStackTrace<std::string> gLayerStackTrace;
 
+static std::mutex gLayerStackTraceMtx;
+void installLayerStackTracer() {
+  logging::installFailureWriter([](const char* data, int sz) {
+    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(gLayerStackTraceMtx);
+    if (!gLayerStackTrace.empty()) {
+      size_t curTid = -1UL;
+      std::hash<std::thread::id> hasher;
+      gLayerStackTrace.dump([&curTid, &hasher](std::thread::id tid,
+                            bool* isForwarding,
+                            const std::string& layerName) {
+        if (curTid != hasher(tid)) {
+          if (curTid != -1UL) {
+            std::cerr << std::endl;
+          }
+          curTid = hasher(tid);
+          std::cerr << "Thread [" << tid << "] ";
+          if (isForwarding) {
+            std::cerr << (*isForwarding ? "Forwarding ": "Backwarding ");
+          }
+        }
+        std::cerr << layerName << ", ";
+      }, FLAGS_layer_stack_error_only_current_thread);
+      std::cerr << std::endl;
+    }
+    std::cerr.write(data, sz);
+  });
+}
+
 }  // namespace paddle
diff --git a/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.h b/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.h
index e1b2d2d8e5ee6ce572b10b94a42fb285078dddc1..774c4db2b9be40c38286ef1248bf77746949fd6b 100644
--- a/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.h
+++ b/paddle/utils/CustomStackTrace.h
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ limitations under the License. */
 #pragma once
 
 #include <stack>
+#include <thread>
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <functional>
 
 #include "ThreadLocal.h"
 
@@ -29,25 +32,18 @@ namespace paddle {
  * @code{.cpp}
  * 
  * paddle::CustomStackTrace<std::string> stack;
- * PASS_TEST=0;
  * for (auto& layer : layers){
  *   stack.push(layer->getName());
- *   layer->forward(passType);
+ *   layer->forward();
  * }
- * for (auto& layer : layers){
+ *
+ * stack.pop("");  // mark under pop stage.
+ *
+ * for (auto it = layers.rbegin(); it != layers.rend(); ++it){
+ *   auto& layer = *it;
  *   layer->backward(passType);
  *   stack.pop(layer->getName());
  * }
- * 
- * if(passType == PASS_TEST) {
- *   stack.clear();
- * }
- * else {
- *   stack.dump([](const std::string& layername){
- *     LOG(INFO) << "LayerName: " << layername;
- *   })
- * }
- * 
  *
  * @endcode
  */
@@ -55,45 +51,141 @@ template <typename T>
 class CustomStackTrace{
 public:
   /**
-   * @brief Pop out an item from the top of the stack. For safety the item 
-   * will be poped should equal to ip.
+   * @brief Pop out an item from the top of the stack if item == top.
+   *        Else, just set status to popping.
    */
-  void pop(const T& ip) {
-    auto& p = *logstack_;
-    CHECK_EQ(ip, p.top());
-    p.pop();
+  void pop(const T& item) {
+    pushing() = false;
+    auto& s = this->stack();
+    if (item == s.top()) {
+      s.pop();
+    }
   }
+
   /**
-   * @brief Empty the stack by sequence from top to button.
-   * @param[in] callback A function deal with each item while dumping.
-   * It must have and only have a in parameter which is the stack item.
+   * @brief clear current thread stack.
    */
-  template <typename Callback>
-  void dump(Callback callback) {
-    auto& p = *logstack_;
-    while (!p.empty()) {
-      callback(p.top());
-      p.pop();
+  void clear() {
+    auto& s = stack();
+    while (!s.empty()) {
+      s.pop();
     }
   }
+
   /**
-   * @brief Only empty the stack.
+   * @brief return true if all thread's stack is empty.
+   * @return true if empty
    */
-  void clear() {
-    dump([](const T& ip){});
+  bool empty() const {
+    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(this->mtx_);
+    for (auto p : this->stackBuffers_) {
+      std::stack<T>& s = *p.second;
+      if (!s.empty()) {
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+
+  /**
+   * @brief DumpCallback Type. It will be invoked many times by dump method.
+   *
+   * The first parameter is stack thread id.
+   * The second parameter is the last action of stack is push or not.
+   * The third parameter is the item in stack.
+   */
+  typedef std::function<void(const std::thread::id& /*threadId*/,
+                              bool* /*isPushing*/,
+                              const T& /*item*/)> DumpCallback;
+
+  /**
+   * Dump all thread stack, and all stack will be cleared.
+   */
+  void dump(const DumpCallback& callback, bool onlyCurrentThread = false) {
+    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> g(this->mtx_);
+    for (auto p : this->stackBuffers_) {
+      std::thread::id tid = p.first;
+      if (onlyCurrentThread && tid != std::this_thread::get_id()) {
+        continue;
+      }
+      std::stack<T>& s = *p.second;
+      bool* isPush = nullptr;
+      auto it = this->pushingBuffers_.find(tid);
+      if (it != this->pushingBuffers_.end()) {
+        isPush = it->second;
+      }
+
+      while (!s.empty()) {
+        callback(tid, isPush, s.top());
+        s.pop();
+      }
+    }
   }
+
   /**
-   * @brief Push item ip to the top of the stack.
+   * @brief Push item to current thread stack.
    */
-  void push(const T& ip) {
-    auto& p = *logstack_;
-    p.push(ip);
+  void push(const T& item) {
+    pushing() = true;
+    auto& p = this->stack();
+    p.push(item);
   }
 
 private:
-  ThreadLocalD<std::stack<T> > logstack_;
+  /**
+   * Get thread local attribute, and save them into a map (threadId => TYPE*)
+   *
+   * @tparam TYPE thread local attribute type.
+   * @param threadLocal Thread Local object.
+   * @param buffers a map from threadId to TYPE*
+   */
+  template <typename TYPE>
+  inline TYPE& getThreadLocal(
+      ThreadLocal<TYPE>& threadLocal,
+      std::unordered_map<std::thread::id, TYPE*>& buffers) {
+    TYPE* retv = threadLocal.get(false);
+    if (retv) {
+      return *retv;
+    } else {
+      std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard(this->mtx_);
+      retv = threadLocal.get();
+      auto id = std::this_thread::get_id();
+      buffers.insert({id, retv});
+      return *retv;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @brief Get thread local stack reference.
+   */
+  std::stack<T>& stack() {
+    return this->getThreadLocal(this->logStack_,
+                                this->stackBuffers_);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @brief Get thread local pushing flag.
+   */
+  bool& pushing() {
+    return this->getThreadLocal(this->isPushing_,
+                                this->pushingBuffers_);
+  }
+
+private:
+  mutable std::mutex mtx_;
+
+  std::unordered_map<std::thread::id, std::stack<T>* > stackBuffers_;
+  std::unordered_map<std::thread::id, bool* > pushingBuffers_;
+  ThreadLocal<bool> isPushing_;
+  ThreadLocal<std::stack<T> > logStack_;
 };
 
 extern CustomStackTrace<std::string> gLayerStackTrace;
 
+/**
+ * @brief Install a failure handler to print layer stack when error.
+ */
+extern void installLayerStackTracer();
+
 }  // namespace paddle
diff --git a/paddle/utils/Util.cpp b/paddle/utils/Util.cpp
index 1c1d75dc5bed98848fcb03366b383201ee6f5024..d8c3376fb18c48185abdcb7a6d65fa56f0eaa290 100644
--- a/paddle/utils/Util.cpp
+++ b/paddle/utils/Util.cpp
@@ -129,13 +129,7 @@ void runInitFunctions() {
 
 void initMain(int argc, char** argv) {
   initializeLogging(argc, argv);
-  logging::installFailureWriter([](const char* data, int sz) {
-    std::cerr << "Current Layer forward/backward stack is " << std::endl;
-    gLayerStackTrace.dump([](const std::string& layername){
-      std::cerr << "LayerName: " << layername << std::endl;
-    });
-    std::cerr.write(data, sz);
-  });
+  installLayerStackTracer();
   std::string line;
   for (int i = 0; i < argc; ++i) {
     line += argv[i];