PREEMPT_RT detection on kernel 6.12

[alexswerner]

Hi,

to see how things go when using a mainline kernel which has most of the PREEMPT_RT patch merged I'm trying kernel version 6.12. However, the realtime_tools does not detect that it is a kernel with PREEMPT_RT:

[ros2_control_node-1] [INFO] [1736951683.409251251] [controller_manager]: Spawning controller_manager RT thread with scheduler priority: 50
[ros2_control_node-1] [WARN] [1736951683.409437310] [controller_manager]: No real-time kernel detected on this system. See [https://control.ros.org/master/doc/ros2_control/controller_manager/doc/userdoc.html] for details on how to enable realtime scheduling.

The detection happens in

realtime_tools/src/realtime_helpers.cpp

Line 46 in 5b85370

bool has_realtime_kernel()

through checking the existence of a file /sys/kernel/realtime. This file does not exists in a 6.12 kernel with PREEMPT_RT activated. Other have noticed this as well: https://forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-questions/54542-real-time-kerel-not-detected-on-patched-6-12?start=40 . In that thread people point out that this patch creates the file:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git/commit/?h=linux-6.12.y-rt-rebase&id=3e7545de923c4e8184c2be0b95341fdc7ef1c193 . This has not been merged for now (v6.13-rc7).

[saikishor]

Hello @alexswerner!

Thanks for raising this issue. I've tried a different approach in PR: #260. Do you think this will solve the issue?. If the changes look good to you, do you mind testing it and approving the PR.

Thank you!