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 1/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add RTAS real-time clock test
  2026-09-18 05:24 · 6 replies in 7d · Shirisha G <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix exec_prot test failure on Hash MMU
  2026-09-15 04:53 · 1 reply in 7d · Chris Chiu <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Yeswanth Krishna Tellakula <hidden>
  3 attestations (3 Tested-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
  2 attestations (2 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-08-31
• Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
  1 attestation (1 Co-developed-by) · last on 2026-09-11
• Venkat Rao Bagalkote <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reported-by) · last on 2026-09-03

Recent patches

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

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 7/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc/rtas: consolidate TEST_GEN_PROGS definitions
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 6/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add common test utilities header
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 5/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add RTAS firmware flash interface test
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 4/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add FADump sysfs interface test
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 3/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add RTAS /proc interface test
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 2/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add NVRAM access test
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• HOTtoday [PATCH 1/7] Subject: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add RTAS real-time clock test
  2026-09-18 · Shirisha G <hidden>
• WARM3d Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix exec_prot test failure on Hash MMU
  2026-09-15 · Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: selftests: Don't limit LE dirty-bitmap bitops to s390x
  2026-09-11 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: selftests: Enable kvm_create_max_vcpus test for powerpc
  2026-09-11 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: PPC: selftests: add support for powerpc
  2026-09-11 · "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Fix exec_prot test failure on Hash MMU
  2026-09-09 · Chris Chiu <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-08 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH bpf-next v4 7/7] selftests/bpf: fix repeated words in comments
  2026-09-08 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING8d [PATCH bpf-next v4 4/7] selftests/bpf: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-08 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH] selftests/powerpc/tm: Fix tcheck() reading uninitialised CR value
  2026-09-07 · Thibault Ferrante <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH bpf-next v3 7/7] selftests/bpf: fix repeated words in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH bpf-next v3 4/7] selftests/bpf: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 7/7] selftests/bpf: fix repeated words in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH v2 4/7] selftests/bpf: fix typos in comments
  2026-09-07 · Hemanth Selam <hidden>
• COOLING9d [PATCH bpf-next v1 7/7] selftests/bpf: Test timed may_goto with private stacks
  2026-09-04 · Siddharth Chintamaneni <hidden>
• COOLING11d [PATCH] bfs: remove the filesystem
  2026-09-04 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COOLING4d [PATCH] selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb: fix lost_exception_test hang with sched yield change
  2026-09-03 · Athira Rajeev <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v13 8/8] selftests/bpf: Add tailcall verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-31 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v13 7/8] selftests/bpf: Enable verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-31 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v13 6/8] selftests/bpf: Fix powerpc JIT disassembly failure
  2026-08-31 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 6/6] selftests/coredump: test failed handshakes
  2026-08-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 5/6] selftests/coredump: improve coredump size negotiation tests
  2026-08-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
• COLD28d [PATCH 4/6] selftests/coredump: test COREDUMP_MEMORY_TYPES
  2026-08-21 · Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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.

• STALE163d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v2] selftests/powerpc: Suppress -Wmaybe-uninitialized with GCC 15
  2026-03-13 · Amit Machhiwal <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by
• STALE163d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v7 2/2] selftests/bpf: Enable private stack tests for powerpc64
  2026-04-01 · <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v10 3/8] selftest/bpf: Fixing powerpc JIT disassembly failure
  2026-08-05 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v10 4/8] selftest/bpf: Enable verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-05 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD44d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v10 6/8] selftest/bpf: Add tailcall verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-05 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v11 3/8] selftests/bpf: Fixing powerpc JIT disassembly failure
  2026-08-07 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v11 4/8] selftests/bpf: Enable verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-07 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• COLD42d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v11 6/8] selftests/bpf: Add tailcall verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-07 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD31d REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v12 6/8] selftests/bpf: Fixing powerpc JIT disassembly failure
  2026-08-18 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 2 (1M) [PATCH v12 7/8] selftests/bpf: Enable verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-08-18 · Saket Kumar Bhaskar <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by, 1 Tested-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 2/4] selftest/bpf: Enable instruction array test for powerpc64
  2026-02-24 · <hidden>
• STALE205d [PATCH 4/4] selftest/bpf: Enable gotox tests for powerpc64
  2026-02-24 · <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH 2/4] selftest/bpf: Fixing powerpc JIT disassembly failure
  2026-02-24 · <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH 3/4] selftest/bpf: Enable verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-02-24 · <hidden>
• STALE186d [PATCH 4/4] selftest/bpf: Add tailcall verifier selftest for powerpc64
  2026-02-24 · <hidden>
• STALE204d [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/bpf: Enable private stack tests for powerpc64
  2026-02-25 · <hidden>
• STALE192d [RFC v2 17/21] selftests/mm: add THP PMD split test infrastructure
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
• STALE192d [RFC v2 18/21] selftests/mm: add partial_mprotect test for change_pmd_range
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
• STALE192d [RFC v2 19/21] selftests/mm: add partial_mlock test
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
• STALE192d [RFC v2 20/21] selftests/mm: add partial_mremap test for move_page_tables
  2026-02-26 · Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>