kernel unit testing framework (kunit) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>
• M David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• R Rae Moar <raemoar63@gmail.com>

Paths

• F Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/
• F include/kunit/
• F lib/kunit/
• F rust/kernel/kunit.rs
• F rust/macros/kunit.rs
• F scripts/rustdoc_test_*
• F tools/testing/kunit/

Last 30 days

Recent patches

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

• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: kunit: Fix outdated FAQ entries
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: kunit: Test Kconfig entries shouldn't select other configs
  2026-06-27 · David Gow <david@davidgow.net>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v13 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COOLING13d REVIEWED: 16 (16M) [PATCH v13 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD55d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD55d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v12 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD55d REVIEWED: 16 (16M) [PATCH v12 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-15 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD55d IN LINUX-NEXT: 5 (2M) [PATCH v11 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-14 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD55d IN LINUX-NEXT: 5 (2M) [PATCH v11 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-14 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD55d IN LINUX-NEXT: 16 (16M) [PATCH v11 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-14 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v10 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD56d REVIEWED: 16 (16M) [PATCH v10 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-13 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v9 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 16 (16M) [PATCH v9 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 11/11] kunit: uapi: Validate usability of /proc
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 10/11] kunit: uapi: Introduce preinit executable
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 09/11] kunit: uapi: Add example for UAPI tests
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH v6 08/11] kunit: uapi: Forward test executable output to KUnit log
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE66d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v6 06/11] kunit: qemu_configs: loongarch: Enable LSX/LSAX
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v8 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v8 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v7 3/5] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE76d [PATCH v7 2/5] bug/kunit: Reduce runtime impact of warning backtrace suppression
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v7 1/5] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <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.

• STALE113d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v6 1/5] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE113d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v6 3/5] Add unit tests to verify that warning backtrace suppression works.
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE113d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v6 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v7 1/5] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 3 (0M) [PATCH v7 3/5] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• STALE76d REVIEWED: 4 (0M) [PATCH v7 5/5] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-04-20 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 14 (14M) [PATCH v8 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 5 (2M) [PATCH v8 2/4] kunit: Add backtrace suppression self-tests
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD57d REVIEWED: 6 (2M) [PATCH v8 4/4] kunit: Add documentation for warning backtrace suppression API
  2026-05-04 · Albert Esteve <hidden> · 3 Reviewed-by, 1 Acked-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD58d REVIEWED: 16 (16M) [PATCH v9 1/4] bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces
  2026-05-08 · Albert Esteve <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.

• STALE145d [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] kunit: add visibility helpers for static inline functions
  2026-02-12 · Gabriele Paoloni <hidden>
• STALE113d [PATCH v6 2/5] bug/kunit: Suppressing warning backtraces reduced impact on WARN*() sites
  2026-03-17 · Albert Esteve <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH v6 08/11] kunit: uapi: Forward test executable output to KUnit log
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH v6 07/11] kunit: Introduce UAPI testing framework
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v6 11/11] kunit: uapi: Validate usability of /proc
  2026-05-04 · Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>