RT Linux in Safety-Critical Systems: The Potential and the Challenges - Elana Copperman & Shuah Khan

RT Linux in Safety-Critical Systems: The Potential and the Challenges - Elana Copperman, Mobileye & Shuah Khan, The Linux Foundation
The Real Time Linux (RTL) collaborative project was established to help coordinate the efforts around mainlining Preempt RT and ensuring that the maintainers have the ability to continue development work, long-term support and future research of RT. The RTL project has been active in adding Preempt RT features in to the mainline kernel. It is time for a closer look on how these features can be used in Safety-Critical Systems. In this talk, we provide a brief overview of Real Time Linux and potential usage in Safety-Critical systems. In addition, we will discuss how these features may be relevant to support system safety. We will go over the following areas that are most relevant: 1. Tools for analysis of system workload resource usage and performance impact. 2. Kernel configs, guidelines on usage. 3. Relevant system parameters, generic and architecture specific. 4. Test frameworks and how they may be used to investigate and demonstrate safety features.