agenda: add agenda for new PREEMPT_RT training course

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>

agenda/preempt-rt-online-agenda.tex

@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,obeyspaces,spaces,hyphens]{article}
+
+\def \trainingtitle{Real-Time Linux with {\em PREEMPT\_RT} training}
+\def \trainingduration{On-line seminar, 3 sessions of 4 hours}
+\def \agendalanguage{english}
+\def \training{preempt-rt}
+
+\usepackage{agenda}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\feshowtitle
+
+\feagendasummaryitem{Title}{
+  {\bf \trainingtitle{}}
+}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Training objectives}{
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \vspace{-0.5cm}
+  \item Be able to understand the characteristics of a real-time
+    operating system
+  \item Be able to download, build and use the {\em PREEMPT\_RT} patch
+  \item Be able to identify and benchmark the hardware platform in
+    terms of real-time characteristics
+  \item Be able to configure the Linux kernel for deterministic
+    behavior.
+  \item Be able to develop, trace and debug real-time user-space Linux
+    applications.
+    \vspace{-0.5cm}
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Duration}{
+  {\bf Three} half days - 12 hours (4 hours per half day).
+}
+\onlinepedagogics{preempt-rt}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Trainer}{
+  Maxime Chevallier
+  \newline \url{https://bootlin.com/company/staff/maxime-chevallier/}
+}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Language}{
+  Oral lectures: English
+  \newline Materials: English.
+}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Audience}{
+  Companies and engineers interested in writing and benchmarking
+  real-time applications and drivers on an embedded Linux system.
+}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Prerequisites}{
+  \begin{itemize}
+    \prerequisiteembeddedlinux
+    \prerequisiteenglish
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+\feagendasummaryitem{Required equipment}{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Computer with the operating system of your choice, with the
+    Google Chrome or Chromium browser for videoconferencing
+  \item Webcam and microphone (preferably from an audio headset)
+  \item High speed access to the Internet
+  \item For people interested in our optional practical labs,
+    an installation of VirtualBox and about 30 GB of free
+    disk space.
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+\certificate{}
+\disabilities{}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Real hardware in practical demos}
+{
+  The hardware platform used for the practical demos of this training
+  session is the {\bf BeagleBone Black} board, which features:
+
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item An ARM AM335x processor from Texas Instruments (Cortex-A8
+    based), 3D acceleration, etc.
+  \item 512 MB of RAM
+  \item 2-4 GB of on-board eMMC storage
+  \item USB host and device
+  \item HDMI output
+  \item 2 x 46 pins headers, to access UARTs, SPI buses, I2C buses
+    and more.
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+{}
+{
+  \begin{center}
+  \includegraphics[width=5cm]{../slides/beagleboneblack-board/beagleboneblack.png}
+  \end{center}
+}
+
+\section{Half day 1}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture - Introduction to Real-Time behaviour and determinism}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Definition of a Real-Time Operating System
+  \item Specificities of multi-task systems
+  \item Common locking and prioritizing patterns
+  \item Overview of existing Real-Time Operating Systems
+  \item Approaches to bring Real-Time capabilities to Linux
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - The {\em PREEMPT\_RT} patch}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item History and future of the {\em PREEMPT\_RT} patch
+  \item Real-Time improvements from {\em PREEMPT\_RT} in mainline Linux
+  \item The internals of {\em PREEMPT\_RT}
+  \item Interrupt handling: threaded interrupts, softirqs
+  \item Locking primitives: mutexes and spinlocks, sleeping spinlocks
+  \item Preemption models
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+{Demo - Building a mainline Linux Kernel with the {\em PREEMPT\_RT} patch}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Downloading the Linux Kernel, and applying the patch
+  \item Configuring the Kernel
+  \item Booting the Kernel on a BeagleBone Black
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture - Hardware configuration and limitations for Real-Time}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Interrupts and deep firmwares
+  \item Interaction with power management features: CPU frequency
+    scaling and sleep states
+  \item DMA
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Half day 2}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Tools: Benchmarking, Stressing and Analyzing}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Benchmarking with {\em cyclictest}
+  \item System stressing with {\em stress-ng} and {\em hackbench}
+  \item The Linux Kernel tracing infrastructure
+  \item Latency and scheduling analysis with {\em ftrace}, {\em
+      kernelshark} or {\em LTTng}
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+{Demo - Tools: Benchmarking, Stressing and Analyzing}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Demonstration of the benchmarking and stress tools
+  \item Common benchmarking techniques
+  \item Benchmarking and configuring the BeagleBone Black Wireless
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture - Kernel infrastructures and configuration}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Good practices when writing Linux kernel drivers
+  \item Scheduling policies and priorities: {\em SCHED\_FIFO}, {\em
+      SCHED\_RR}, {\em SCHED\_DEADLINE}
+  \item CPU and IRQ Affinity
+  \item Memory management
+  \item CPU isolation with {\em isolcpus}
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Half day 3}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Real-Time Applications programming patterns}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item POSIX real-time API
+  \item Thread management and configuration
+  \item Memory management: memory allocation and memory locking, stack
+  \item Locking patterns: mutexes, priority inheritance
+  \item Inter-Process Communication
+  \item Signaling
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+{Demo - Debugging a demo application}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Make a demo userspace application deterministic
+  \item Use the tracing infrastructure to identify the cause of a latency
+  \item Learn how to use the POSIX API to manage threads, locking and memory
+  \item Learn how to use the CPU affinities and configure the scheduling policy
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Questions and Answers}
+{
+  \begin{itemize}
+  \item Questions and answers with the audience about the course topics
+  \item Extra presentations if time is left, according what most
+        participants are interested in.
+  \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\end{document}