[PATCH v5 0/1] Documentation: Add real-time kernel configuration guide

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:37:44 +0200
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.linux-rt-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

There is a no "one size fits all" solution for configuring a PREEMPT_RT
kernel.

Intorduce a PREEMPT_RT kernel configuration guide to better help system
developers and integrators.

Changelog v5
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Handle Sebastian remarks:

- Reference other documents as Jonathan prefers; i.e., no :doc: tags.
- Coalesce the CPU frequency governors text, and the tracing text.
- Add might_sleep() note to CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP.
- Mention debugfs only as "allowed".
- Mention CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE.
- Do not mention DEBUG_INFO as it's not selectable; mention the
  CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO* selectable variants.

Changelog v4
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https://msgid.link/[email protected]

Handle Sashiko review: Remove a no-longer-referenced link.  Remove
CONFIG_WQ_SYS reference, which I thought it exists due to a quick
misunderstanding of core-api/workqueue.

Changelog v3
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https://msgid.link/[email protected]

CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME: Mention that system integrators can now assign
the efi_runtime workqueue CPU affinity, then safely pin RT tasks on a
different CPU range.  This is due to:

  https://msgid.link/[email protected]

now being merged mainline.

Changelog v2
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https://msgid.link/[email protected]

Handle Rostedt remarks:

- Better reword certain paragraphs and statements
- Warn about enabling CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER and CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER

Handle Wilcox remarks:

- Remove ToC comment + minor rewording

Changelog v1
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https://msgid.link/[email protected]

Thanks,

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Ahmed S. Darwish (1):
  Documentation: real-time: Add kernel configuration guide

 Documentation/core-api/real-time/index.rst    |   1 +
 .../real-time/kernel-configuration.rst        | 307 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 308 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/real-time/kernel-configuration.rst

base-commit: 075b74841bd0065a3bda3440873c747938e69b68
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