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)

• WARM1d [PATCH v7 00/20] KVM: selftests: Add eventfd+VFIO IRQ test
  2026-06-15 19:22 · 21 replies in 7d · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v8 00/21] ARM64 PMU Partitioning
  2026-06-12 19:29 · 3 replies in 7d · Colton Lewis <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 0/5] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support
  2026-06-12 16:24 · 3 replies in 7d · Jack Thomson <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Josh Hilke <hidden>
  22 attestations (22 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-13
• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  20 attestations (4 Co-developed-by, 16 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-13
• Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-05-20

Recent patches

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

• WARM1d Re: [PATCH v7 09/20] KVM: selftests: Add VFIO device support to eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-15 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 20/20] KVM: selftests: Add xAPIC support in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 19/20] KVM: selftests: Make number of vCPUs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 17/20] KVM: selftests: Add a utility to pin a task to a random CPU, given a CPU set
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 16/20] KVM: selftests: Add kvm_sched_getaffinity() wrapper and convert users
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 18/20] KVM: selftests: Verify vCPU migration during IRQ delivery in IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 15/20] KVM: selftests: Add kvm_gettid() wrapper and convert users
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 14/20] KVM: selftests: Verify non-postable IRQ remapping in IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 13/20] KVM: selftests: Make number of IRQs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 12/20] KVM: selftests: Add option to set empty routing between IRQs in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 11/20] KVM: selftests: Verify interrupts are received when IRQ affinity changes in IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 10/20] KVM: selftests: Add a helper to set proc IRQ affinity for IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 09/20] KVM: selftests: Add VFIO device support to eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 08/20] KVM: selftests: Add helper to get host IRQ from device MSI-X for IRQ bypass test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 06/20] KVM: selftests: Add helper to generate random u64 in range [min,max]
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 07/20] KVM: selftests: Add an irqfd send+receive (and later IRQ bypass) test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 05/20] KVM: selftests: Seed libc's RNG before using it to generate a seed for KVM's pRNG
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 03/20] KVM: selftests: Rename guest_rng to kvm_rng
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 04/20] KVM: selftests: Initialize the default/global pRNG during kvm_selftest_init()
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 02/20] KVM: selftests: Add macros to read/write+sync to/from guest memory
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• WARM1d [PATCH v7 01/20] KVM: selftests: Build and link selftests/vfio/lib into KVM selftests
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 21/21] KVM: arm64: selftests: Relax testing for exceptions when partitioned
  2026-06-12 · Colton Lewis <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 20/21] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test case for Partitioned PMU
  2026-06-12 · Colton Lewis <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 19/21] KVM: selftests: Add find_bit to KVM library
  2026-06-12 · Colton Lewis <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 5/5] KVM: selftests: Add nested pre-fault test for arm64
  2026-06-12 · Jack Thomson <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 4/5] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests
  2026-06-12 · Jack Thomson <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v5 3/5] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64
  2026-06-12 · Jack Thomson <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v6 18/18] KVM: selftests: Add xAPIC support in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v6 17/18] KVM: selftests: Make number of vCPUs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-10 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v6 16/18] KVM: selftests: Verify vCPU migration during IRQ delivery in IRQ test
  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.

• STALE161d 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
• STALE161d 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
• STALE161d 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
• STALE153d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/5] KVM: selftests: Move page_align() to shared header
  2026-01-09 · Fuad Tabba <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE137d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 35/36] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce a minimal GICv5 PPI selftest
  2026-01-28 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE104d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 34/36] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce a minimal GICv5 PPI selftest
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD22d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v10 27/30] KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove spurious check for single bit safe values
  2026-03-06 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE89d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v6 38/39] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce a minimal GICv5 PPI selftest
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 1/5] KVM: selftests: arm64: Report set_id_reg reads of test registers as tests
  2026-03-17 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE84d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 2/5] KVM: selftests: arm64: Report register reset tests individually
  2026-03-17 · 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.

• STALE205d [PATCH 5/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add a test for FEAT_IDST
  2025-11-20 · Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
• STALE206d [RFC PATCH 10/13] KVM: selftests: fix MAPC RDbase target formatting in vgic_lpi_stress
  2025-11-20 · Maximilian Dittgen <hidden>
• STALE206d [RFC PATCH 12/13] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add support for stress testing direct-injected vLPIs
  2025-11-20 · Maximilian Dittgen <hidden>
• STALE206d [RFC PATCH 13/13] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test for per-vCPU vLPI control API
  2025-11-20 · Maximilian Dittgen <hidden>
• STALE201d [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Remove ARM64_FEATURE_FIELD_BITS and its last user
  2025-11-25 · Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
• STALE201d [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Consider all 7 possible levels of cache
  2025-11-25 · Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
• STALE202d [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add a test for FEAT_IDST
  2025-11-26 · Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
• STALE145d [PATCH v9 15/30] tracing: selftests: Add trace remote tests
  2025-12-02 · Vincent Donnefort <hidden>
• STALE145d [PATCH v9 30/30] tracing: selftests: Add hypervisor trace remote tests
  2025-12-02 · Vincent Donnefort <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH v3 9/9] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add a test for FEAT_IDST
  2025-12-04 · Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>