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 v7 00/10] mlx5 support for VFIO self test
  2026-09-21 22:36 · 6 replies in 7d · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 RESEND 0/9] riscv: add SBI Supervisor Software Events support
  2026-09-21 11:19 · 2 replies in 7d · Zhanpeng Zhang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v11 00/21] KVM: arm64: PMU: Use multiple host PMUs
  2026-09-20 11:22 · 3 replies in 7d · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: timers: Program CVAL from the current count when the hardware won't apply the offset
  2026-09-21 14:04 · 1 reply in 7d · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: Fix a vSError staying pending after delivery under pKVM
  2026-09-21 10:10 · 1 reply in 7d · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: pvtime: Don't lose stolen time on failed updates
  2026-09-21 09:28 · 1 reply in 7d · Hao Zhang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v12 00/25] Introduce SCMI Telemetry support
  2026-09-20 09:21 · 1 reply in 7d · Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 00/21] arm64: Move overflow sp into SP_EL1 and kernel sp into SP_EL0
  2026-09-18 16:14 · 1 reply in 7d · Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v3 00/14] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support
  2026-09-18 14:52 · 1 reply in 7d · Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v1 0/4] KVM: arm64: Honour KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_IPA_SIZE under pKVM
  2026-09-17 09:18 · 1 reply in 7d · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Itaru Kitayama <hidden>
  20 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 19 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-02
• David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
  5 attestations (3 Acked-by, 2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-21
• Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-20
• Takayuki Okamoto <hidden>
  4 attestations (4 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
  3 attestations (3 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-01
• Himanshu Chauhan <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-21
• Zhanpeng Zhang <hidden>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-21
• Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
  2 attestations (2 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-20
• Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-18
• Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
  2 attestations (2 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-18

Recent patches

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

• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 07/10] vfio: selftests: Add dev_dbg
  2026-09-21 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v7 06/10] vfio: selftests: Allow drivers to specify required region size
  2026-09-21 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 08/10] vfio: selftests: Add mlx5 driver - HW init and command interface
  2026-09-21 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 09/10] vfio: selftests: Add mlx5 driver - data path and memcpy ops
  2026-09-21 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 10/10] vfio: selftests: mlx5 driver - add send_msi support
  2026-09-21 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 05/10] selftests: Add additional kernel functions to tools/include/
  2026-09-21 · Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test a timer set past the counter's wrap
  2026-09-21 · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 RESEND 9/9] selftests/riscv: add perf user-stack SSE copy regression test
  2026-09-21 · Zhanpeng Zhang <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v10 RESEND 8/9] selftests/riscv: add SSE test module
  2026-09-21 · Zhanpeng Zhang <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Check SError is not pending after delivery
  2026-09-21 · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 2/2] KVM: selftests: Test arm64 stolen time after failed updates
  2026-09-21 · Hao Zhang <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v11 21/21] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test PMU_V3_FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-09-20 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• WARM1d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v11 13/21] KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover PMU state in MDCR_EL2
  2026-09-20 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH v11 04/21] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test SET_NR_COUNTERS after first run
  2026-09-20 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v12 25/25] [RFC] kselftest/arm64: Add SCMI Telemetry UAPI compliance testcases
  2026-09-20 · Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
• HOTtoday [PATCH v2 07/21] selftests/bpf: arm64: Use TPIDRRO_EL0 instead of SP_EL0 for 'current'
  2026-09-18 · Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
• HOTtoday REVIEWED: 17 (17M) [PATCH v3 01/13] selftests/arm64: Remove big-endian support
  2026-09-18 · Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v1 4/4] KVM: arm64: selftests: Free the VM when the GIC device probe fails
  2026-09-17 · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
• COOLING7d [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Check the mandatory SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES queries
  2026-09-14 · Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 13/13] KVM: selftests: Add nested pre-fault test for arm64
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 12/13] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 11/13] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64
  2026-09-14 · "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v10 12/20] KVM: arm64: selftests: Cover PMU state in MDCR_EL2
  2026-09-14 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v10 20/20] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test PMU_V3_FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-09-14 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v10 04/20] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test SET_NR_COUNTERS after first run
  2026-09-14 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: arm64: selftests: Support five-level stage-1 page tables
  2026-09-14 · Itaru Kitayama <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test 52-bit guest virtual addresses
  2026-09-14 · Itaru Kitayama <hidden>
• COOLING7d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add 52-bit VA guest modes
  2026-09-14 · Itaru Kitayama <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v10 9/9] selftests/riscv: add perf user-stack SSE copy regression test
  2026-09-11 · Zhanpeng Zhang <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH v10 8/9] selftests/riscv: add SSE test module
  2026-09-11 · Zhanpeng Zhang <hidden>

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.

• COLD39d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 38/39] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce a minimal GICv5 PPI selftest
  2026-03-17 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE181d 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
• STALE181d 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
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v5 3/5] KVM: selftests: arm64: Make set_id_regs bitfield validatity checks non-fatal
  2026-03-17 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE181d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 40/41] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce a minimal GICv5 PPI selftest
  2026-03-19 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE165d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v14 4/4] selftests: sud_test: Support aarch64
  2026-03-20 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE159d REVIEWED: 16 (14M) [PATCH 4/4] selftests/exec: add test for HWCAP inheritance
  2026-03-23 · Andrei Vagin <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by
• STALE125d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 3/5] kselftest/arm64: Add POE as a feature in the signal tests
  2026-04-27 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE125d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 4/5] kselftest/arm64: Move/add POE helpers to test_signals_utils.h
  2026-04-27 · Kevin Brodsky <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE146d REVIEWED: 2 (0M) [PATCH 3/3] DO NOT MERGE: selftests: perf_events: Add device memory callchain unwinding test
  2026-04-28 · Fredrik Markstrom <hidden> · 2 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.

• STALE206d [PATCH v3 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test PMU_V3_FIXED_COUNTERS_ONLY
  2026-02-25 · Akihiko Odaki <hidden>
• STALE200d [PATCH v5 36/36] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add no-vgic-v5 selftest
  2026-02-26 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden>
• STALE159d [PATCH 8/8] kselftest/arm64: Add 2025 dpISA coverage to hwcaps
  2026-03-02 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
• STALE182d [RFC patch 6/9] selftests/resctrl: Add support for HiSilicon CPU detection
  2026-03-04 · Yifan Wu <hidden>
• STALE182d [RFC patch 7/9] selftests/resctrl: Add support for HiSilicon memory bandwidth measurement
  2026-03-04 · Yifan Wu <hidden>
• STALE182d [RFC patch 9/9] selftests/resctrl: Add support for HiSilicon CAT/CMT test
  2026-03-04 · Yifan Wu <hidden>
• STALE182d [RFC patch 2/9] selftests/resctrl: Refactor resctrl_val.c for vendor-specific mem bw measurement
  2026-03-04 · Yifan Wu <hidden>
• STALE182d [RFC patch 4/9] selftests/resctrl: Move memory bandwidth measurement init and cleanup to resctrl_val.c
  2026-03-04 · Yifan Wu <hidden>
• STALE194d [PATCH v13 30/32] tracing: selftests: Add hypervisor trace remote tests
  2026-03-06 · Vincent Donnefort <hidden>
• STALE118d [PATCH v10 29/30] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add SME system registers to get-reg-list
  2026-03-06 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>