Re: PREEMPT_RT testing on kernelci

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:05=E2=80=AFAM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I remember Daniel Wagner has been asking to include PREEMPT_RT within
> kernelci. I don't really know what the status here is. Thank you for the
> work.
>
> Since PREEMPT_RT is now available upstream, would it work to compile and
> enable some of its tests for the supported architectures on Linus' tree
> and maybe the -next tree? I don't think that happens at the moment, I
> saw only a few stable-rt trees.
>
> If so, should I just open an issue at
>         https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/issues/new
>
> Is there be anything in particular you need help with?
>

Unrelated to KernelCI - how stable is PREEMPT_RT in practice ? Reason
for asking is that I enabled it for x86_64 together with lock
debugging and got an almost immediate "sleeping function called"
backtrace.

Thanks,
Guenter