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Sep 13

Automating Adherence to Safety Profiles After Fixing Vulnerabilities (Video)

By ELISA Blog, Seminar Series

Creating a critical safe or secure system generally comes down to two aspects. The system has to be able to meet the technical expectations to handle its criticality and there needs to be evidence these expectations are actually met. With today’s software systems being built by integrating various software components, more often using open source than custom proprietary solutions, it’s obvious that having complete and reliable evidence that the software is created with criticality considerations, such as safety profiles, in mind is key.

Demonstrating the technical capabilities of a system to achieve the safety and security qualities can be done by established analysis methods. However, proving that its process provides the systematic evidence that all has been implemented, tested, built and configured as required, needs evidence of traceability from requirement to tests and release. Typically this evidence is locked within proprietary tools, never 100%, needing manual tasks to prove traceability between items. With continuous changes due to security updates or continuous deploys, managing this systematic evidence gets impossible.

As part of the ELISA Project Seminar Series, Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, and Nicole Pappler, CTO and Founder of AlectoMetis, presented a webinar titled, “Automating Adherence to Safety Profiles After Fixing Vulnerabilities.” This video will present a model using SPDX, that allows for automated checks for integrity and availability of evidence to prove the systematic capability of software consumed by critical systems. Watch the full video below.

The ELISA Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA’s mission to define and maintain a common set of elements, processes and tools that can be incorporated into Linux-based, safety-critical systems amenable to safety certification. Speakers are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. Each seminar comprises a 45-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A, and it’s free to attend. You can watch all videos on the ELISA Project Youtube Channel ELISA Seminar Series Playlist here.

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Jul 19

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A Development Environment for DO-178C Level D Certified Linux

By ELISA Blog, Seminar Series

The ELISA Project Seminar Series focuses on hot topics related to ELISA and its mission. Presenters are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. To view past presentations, click here.

On July 18, Chuck Wolber, Software Engineer at The Boeing Company presented a seminar titled, “A Development Environment for DO-178C Level D Certified Linux.”

This video features the use of Yocto/OpenEmbedded as a tool for managing a distributed development environment, automated build and test, and ultimately delivering a DO-178C level D certified Linux platform into revenue service. It also touches on generalized aspects of traceability, team dynamics, “day one developer,” and extensibility. Watch the video:

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Nov 22

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ELISA Seminar: PREEMPT_RT – How not to break it (Video)

By Susan Remmert Blog, Seminar Series

In March, the ELISA Project launched the Monthly Seminar Series, which focuses on hot topics related to ELISA and its mission. Presenters are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities. You can find all of the seminar videos here.

In October, Sebastian Siewior from Linutronix presented a seminar titled, “PREEMPT_RT – how not to break it.”

The PREEMPT_RT patch set has only a handful patches left until it can be enabled on the X86 Architecture at the time of writing. The work has not finished once the patches are fully merged. A new issue is how to not break parts of PREEMPT_RT in future development by making assumption which are not compatible or lead to large latencies. Another problem is how to address limitations on PREEMPT_RT like the big softirq/ bottom halves lock which can lead to high latencies.

A short background of the RTL Collaborative Project: The Real Time Linux 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. In coordination with the broader community, the workgroup aims to encourage broader adoption of RT, improve testing automation and documentation and better prioritize the development roadmap.

Would like to know more on how it’s all started? You can find more details here: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/rtl/start.

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Materials from the seminar can be found here.

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Jun 22

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What is a page table and why should we care about it?(Video)

By ELISA Blog, Seminar Series

In March, the ELISA Project launched the Monthly Seminar Series, which focuses on hot topics related to ELISA and its mission. Presenters are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities.

For June, Khalid Aziz, Senior Software Engineer from Oracle, gave a presentation titled, “What is a page table and why should we care about it?” Physical memory on a computer is a shared resource. Kernel allocates and reclaims this shared resource to ensure all workloads on a system have adequate resources to complete their tasks. Accurate management of physical memory assignment is required for fairness and data safety. This is the task of Memory Management subsystem in the Linux kernel. We will discuss how the Memory Management subsystem assigns and tracks physical memory, how it ensures isolation between unrelated workloads and how it enables sharing of data in memory for workloads that need it. We will discuss the management overhead associated with isolation and dive deeper into specific approaches on managing overhead for effective sharing.

The March seminar focused on the Real-time Linux Analysis Toolset. ELISA community member Daniel Bristot De Oliveira, Senior Principal Software Engineering at Red Hat, presented the tools provided by rtla. You can find out more or watch the video here.

Mar 22

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Real-time Linux Analysis Toolset (Video)

By ELISA Blog, Seminar Series

On Wednesday, March 16, the ELISA Project officially launched its Monthly Seminar Series, which focuses on hot topics related to ELISA and its mission. Presenters are members, contributors and thought leaders from the ELISA Project and surrounding communities.

From 5.17, Linux includes a new tool named rtla, which stands for Real-time Linux Analysis. The rtla is a meta-tool that consists of a set of commands that aims to analyze the real-time properties of Linux. But instead of testing Linux as a black box, rtla leverages kernel tracing capabilities to provide precise
information about the properties and root causes of unexpected results.

In this video, Daniel presents two tools provided by rtla. The timerlat tool used to measure IRQ and thread latency for interrupt-driven applications (important for the PREEMPT_RT kernel), and the osnoise tool used to evaluate the ability of Linux to isolate, from the scheduling perspective, a workload from
the interferences from the rest of the system. The presentation also includes examples of using the tool to find the root cause of unexpected latencies and how to collect extra tracing information directly from the tool.

Stay tuned for more details about the next seminar. Until then, check out the schedule and register for the ELISA Spring Workshop, hosted online on April 5-7. Register here for free: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/elisa-workshop-spring/.