linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] core_pattern: add CPU specifier

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Date:   Sun, 4 Sep 2022 11:27:18 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Guilherme G . Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Joel Savitz <jsavitz@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Renaud Métrich <rmetrich@...hat.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>, Qi Guo <qguo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core_pattern: add CPU specifier

On Sat,  3 Sep 2022 08:43:30 +0200 Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com> wrote:

> Statistically, in a large deployment regular segfaults may indicate a CPU issue.
> 
> Currently, it is not possible to find out what CPU the segfault happened on.
> There are at least two attempts to improve segfault logging with this regard,
> but they do not help in case the logs rotate.
> 
> Hence, lets make sure it is possible to permanently record a CPU
> the task ran on using a new core_pattern specifier.
> 
> ...
>
>  			}
> @@ -535,6 +539,7 @@ void do_coredump(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo)
>  		 */
>  		.mm_flags = mm->flags,
>  		.vma_meta = NULL,
> +		.cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(),
>  	};

Why use the "raw_" function here?