kernel selftest framework · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
• M Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest*
• F tools/testing/selftests/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 00/18] KVM: selftests: Add eventfd+VFIO IRQ test
  2026-06-10 20:15 · 19 replies in 7d · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 00/10] KVM: selftests: add powerpc support
  2026-06-10 12:48 · 10 replies in 7d · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v8 0/5] KVM: selftests: Add AMD PMU Host/Guest test
  2026-06-10 00:30 · 5 replies in 7d · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v14 0/4] vfio: selftest: Add NVIDIA GPU Falcon DMA test driver
  2026-06-09 23:29 · 4 replies in 7d · Rubin Du <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v5 00/34] Cleaning up the KVM clock mess
  2026-06-08 14:55 · 6 replies in 7d · David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
• WARM1d [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add FPU test case
  2026-06-09 07:27 · 2 replies in 7d · Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
• WARM3d [PATCH v3 0/8] RISC-V: KVM: Add Svadu/Zicfiss/Zicfilp FWFT support
  2026-06-07 08:11 · 2 replies in 7d · Inochi Amaoto <inochiama@gmail.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v2 00/10] KVM: selftests: Stress save+restore and #PF (ft. nested)
  2026-06-04 20:36 · 10 replies in 7d · Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
• WARM2d [RFC PATCH v2 10/10] selftests: kvm: Add guest_memfd_preservation_test
  2026-06-05 17:09 · 0 replies in 7d · Tarun Sahu <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [RFC PATCH v2 09/10] selftests: kvm: Split ____vm_create() to expose init helpers
  2026-06-05 17:08 · 0 replies in 7d · Tarun Sahu <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  45 attestations (1 Acked-by, 11 Co-developed-by, 33 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-10
• Josh Hilke <hidden>
  35 attestations (35 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-10
• Ackerley Tng <hidden>
  15 attestations (8 Co-developed-by, 1 Reported-by, 3 Reviewed-by, 3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-02
• Binbin Wu <hidden>
  10 attestations (10 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-21
• Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
  9 attestations (9 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-21
• Sagi Shahar <hidden>
  6 attestations (6 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-05-21
• David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
  5 attestations (4 Reviewed-by, 1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-09
• Quan Zhou <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-07
• Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-29
• Lisa Wang <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-05-21

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on kvm (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday Re: [PATCH v6 01/18] KVM: selftests: Build and link selftests/vfio/lib into KVM selftests
  2026-06-10 · David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 10/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: Replace u64 gpa, u64 gva|vaddr with gpa_t and gva_t
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 09/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: Use u8 instead of uint8_t
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 08/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: Use u32 instead of uint32_t
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 07/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: Use s64 instead of int64_t
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 06/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: Use u64 instead of uint64_t
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 05/10] KVM: selftests: Print the vcpu_id when KVM_CREATE_VCPU ioctl fails
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 04/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: powerpc enable kvm_create_max_vcpus test
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 03/10] KVM: PPC: selftests: add support for powerpc
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 02/10] KVM: selftests: Add aligned guest physical page allocator
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 RESEND 01/10] KVM: selftests: Move pgd_created check into virt_pgd_alloc
  2026-06-10 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 18/18] KVM: selftests: Add xAPIC support in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 17/18] KVM: selftests: Make number of vCPUs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 16/18] KVM: selftests: Verify vCPU migration during IRQ delivery in IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 15/18] KVM: selftests: Add a utility to pin a task to a random CPU, given a CPU set
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 14/18] KVM: selftests: Add kvm_sched_getaffinity() wrapper and convert users
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 13/18] KVM: selftests: Add kvm_gettid() wrapper and convert users
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 12/18] KVM: selftests: Verify non-postable IRQ remapping in IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 11/18] KVM: selftests: Make number of IRQs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 10/18] KVM: selftests: Add option to set empty routing between IRQs in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 09/18] KVM: selftests: Verify interrupts are received when IRQ affinity changes in IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 08/18] KVM: selftests: Add a helper to set proc IRQ affinity for IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 07/18] KVM: selftests: Add VFIO device support to eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 06/18] KVM: selftests: Add helper to get host IRQ from device MSI-X for IRQ bypass test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 04/18] KVM: selftests: Add helper to generate random u64 in range [min,max]
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 05/18] KVM: selftests: Add an irqfd send+receive (and later IRQ bypass) test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 03/18] KVM: selftests: Rename guest_rng to kvm_rng
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 02/18] KVM: selftests: Add macros to read/write+sync to/from guest memory
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v6 01/18] KVM: selftests: Build and link selftests/vfio/lib into KVM selftests
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v8 5/5] KVM: selftests: Add svm_pmu_host_guest_test for Host-Only/Guest-Only bits
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE188d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: selftests: test userfaultfd minor for guest_memfd
  2025-11-30 · Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> · 1 Acked-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RFC net-next v13 07/13] selftests/vsock: prepare vm management helpers for namespaces
  2025-12-24 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RFC net-next v13 08/13] selftests/vsock: add vm_dmesg_{warn,oops}_count() helpers
  2025-12-24 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RFC net-next v13 09/13] selftests/vsock: use ss to wait for listeners instead of /proc/net
  2025-12-24 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RFC net-next v13 11/13] selftests/vsock: add namespace tests for CID collisions
  2025-12-24 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE148d REVIEWED: 2 (2M) [PATCH RFC net-next v13 12/13] selftests/vsock: add tests for host <-> vm connectivity with namespaces
  2025-12-24 · Bobby Eshleman <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE146d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 5/8] KVM: SVM: Treat exit_code as an unsigned 64-bit value through all of KVM
  2025-12-30 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE154d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/5] KVM: selftests: arm64: Report set_id_reg reads of test registers as tests
  2026-01-06 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE154d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 2/5] KVM: selftests: arm64: Report register reset tests individually
  2026-01-06 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE154d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 3/5] KVM: selftests: arm64: Make set_id_regs bitfield validatity checks non-fatal
  2026-01-06 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE208d [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: selftests: arm64: Report set_id_reg reads of test registers as tests
  2025-11-14 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE208d [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: selftests: arm64: Report register reset tests individually
  2025-11-14 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE208d [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: selftests: arm64: Make set_id_regs bitfield validatity checks non-fatal
  2025-11-14 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: selftests: arm64: Skip all 32 bit IDs when set_id_regs is aarch64 only
  2025-11-14 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE201d [PATCH v2 05/10] KVM: selftests: Add nested VMX APIC cache invalidation test
  2025-11-18 · <hidden>
• STALE201d [PATCH v2 10/10] KVM: selftests: Add L2 vcpu context switch test
  2025-11-18 · <hidden>
• STALE203d [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: selftests: SYNC after guest ITS setup in vgic_lpi_stress
  2025-11-19 · Maximilian Dittgen <hidden>
• STALE195d [PATCH v3 2/6] KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic interfaces
  2025-11-20 · Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
• STALE195d [PATCH v3 1/6] KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add system registers save and restore on exception
  2025-11-20 · Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>
• STALE195d [PATCH v3 3/6] KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add exception handler register interface
  2025-11-20 · Bibo Mao <maobibo@loongson.cn>