Re: [PATCH] Documentation/rv: Replace stale website link

Jonathan Corbet
2026-04-27T09:53:49Z

Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> writes:

> The sched monitor page was linking to Daniel's website which is now
> down. The main purpose of the link was to point to a source for the
> models from the original author and that can be found also in his
> published paper.
>
> Replace the link with a reference to Daniel's "A thread synchronization
> model for the PREEMPT_RT Linux kernel" which can be found online and
> includes the models definitions as well as the work behind them (not the
> original patches but since they're based on a 5.0 kernel and are mostly
> included upstream, there's little value in keeping them in the docs).
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_sched.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_sched.rst b/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_sched.rst
> index 0b96d6e147c6..661171bd7c5e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_sched.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/trace/rv/monitor_sched.rst
> @@ -365,4 +365,4 @@ constraints when processing the events::
> References
> ----------
>
> -[1] - https://bristot.me/linux-task-model
> +[1] - Daniel Bristot de Oliveira et al.: A thread synchronization model for the PREEMPT_RT Linux kernel, J. Syst. Archit., 2020.

Since, as you say, it can be found online, is there a reason not to
include a link here?

jon