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)

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] selftests/arm64: fix spelling errors in comments
  2026-07-02 01:53 · 0 replies in 7d · Wang Yan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/6] selftests/arm64: fix spelling errors in comments
  2026-07-01 12:36 · 0 replies in 7d · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 00/20] KVM: selftests: Add eventfd+VFIO IRQ test
  2026-06-26 21:36 · 20 replies in 7d · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 5.15.y] selftests: arm64: signal: skip SVE VL change test with single VL
  2026-06-27 03:23 · 1 reply in 7d · Yijia Wang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v3 0/3] selftests/resctrl: Add dynamic linked list management for IMC counters
  2026-06-25 22:15 · 1 reply in 7d · Yifan Wu <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: Fix and test MMIO sign-extending loads
  2026-06-25 14:48 · 1 reply in 7d · Fuad Tabba <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Josh Hilke <hidden>
  33 attestations (33 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  30 attestations (6 Co-developed-by, 24 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-26
• Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
  2 attestations (1 Reported-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-06-27
• Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-06-27

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] selftests/arm64: fix spelling errors in comments
  2026-07-02 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/6] selftests/arm64: fix spelling errors in comments
  2026-07-01 · Wang Yan <hidden>
• COOLING4d REVIEWED: 10 (10M) [PATCH v2 5.15.y] kselftest/arm64: signal: Skip SVE signal test if not enough VLs supported
  2026-06-27 · Yijia Wang <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 20/20] KVM: selftests: Add xAPIC support in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 19/20] KVM: selftests: Make number of vCPUs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 18/20] KVM: selftests: Verify vCPU migration during IRQ delivery in IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 17/20] KVM: selftests: Add a utility to pin a task to a random CPU, given a CPU set
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 16/20] KVM: selftests: Add kvm_sched_getaffinity() wrapper and convert users
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 15/20] KVM: selftests: Add kvm_gettid() wrapper and convert users
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 14/20] KVM: selftests: Verify non-postable IRQ remapping in IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 13/20] KVM: selftests: Make number of IRQs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 12/20] KVM: selftests: Add option to set empty routing between IRQs in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 11/20] KVM: selftests: Verify interrupts are received when IRQ affinity changes in IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 10/20] KVM: selftests: Add a helper to set proc IRQ affinity for IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 09/20] KVM: selftests: Add VFIO device support to eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 08/20] KVM: selftests: Add helper to get host IRQ from device MSI-X for IRQ bypass test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 07/20] KVM: selftests: Add an irqfd send+receive (and later IRQ bypass) test
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 06/20] KVM: selftests: Add helper to generate random u64 in range [min,max]
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 05/20] KVM: selftests: Seed libc's RNG before using it to generate a seed for KVM's pRNG
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 04/20] KVM: selftests: Initialize the default/global pRNG during kvm_selftest_init()
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 03/20] KVM: selftests: Rename guest_rng to kvm_rng
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 02/20] KVM: selftests: Add macros to read/write+sync to/from guest memory
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v8 01/20] KVM: selftests: Build and link selftests/vfio/lib into KVM selftests
  2026-06-26 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING4d [PATCH 5.15.y] selftests: arm64: signal: skip SVE VL change test with single VL
  2026-06-26 · Yijia Wang <hidden>
• COOLING5d Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] selftests/resctrl: Enable dynamic management of IMC counters via linked list
  2026-06-25 · Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add MMIO sign-extending load test
  2026-06-25 · Fuad Tabba <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add MMIO sign-extending load test
  2026-06-22 · Fuad Tabba <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH v5 4/4] selftests/bpf: Adjust wasted entries threshold for ARM64 BRBE
  2026-06-16 · Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 20/20] KVM: selftests: Add xAPIC support in eventfd IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 19/20] KVM: selftests: Make number of vCPUs configurable in IRQ test
  2026-06-13 · 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.

• STALE191d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 27/31] dyndbg: split multi-query strings with %
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE191d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v7 28/31] selftests-dyndbg: add test_mod_submod
  2025-12-22 · Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE175d 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
• STALE175d 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
• STALE175d 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
• STALE167d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v4 4/5] KVM: selftests: Move page_align() to shared header
  2026-01-09 · Fuad Tabba <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE152d 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
• STALE118d 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
• STALE96d REVIEWED: 8 (8M) [PATCH v2 1/2] selftest/arm64: Fix sve2p1_sigill() to hwcap test
  2026-03-05 · Yifan Wu <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD36d 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

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 v3 9/9] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add a test for FEAT_IDST
  2025-12-04 · Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
• STALE167d [PATCH v5 23/24] KVM: selftests: Add find_bit to KVM library
  2025-12-09 · Colton Lewis <hidden>
• STALE167d [PATCH v5 24/24] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add test case for partitioned PMU
  2025-12-09 · Colton Lewis <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH 32/32] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce a minimal GICv5 PPI selftest
  2025-12-12 · Sascha Bischoff <hidden>
• STALE198d [PATCH v1 2/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Fix incorrect rounding in page_align()
  2025-12-15 · Fuad Tabba <hidden>
• STALE198d [PATCH v1 3/5] KVM: riscv: selftests: Fix incorrect rounding in page_align()
  2025-12-15 · Fuad Tabba <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v1 5/5] KVM: selftests: Fix typos and stale comments in kvm_util
  2025-12-15 · Fuad Tabba <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v1 4/5] KVM: selftests: Move page_align() to shared header
  2025-12-15 · Fuad Tabba <hidden>
• STALE154d [PATCH v10 16/16] selftests: sud_test: Support aarch64
  2025-12-22 · Jinjie Ruan <hidden>
• STALE117d [PATCH v9 29/30] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add SME system registers to get-reg-list
  2025-12-23 · Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>