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

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
  11 attestations (1 Reviewed-by, 9 Suggested-by, 1 Tested-by) · last on 2026-09-13
• Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
  5 attestations (3 Acked-by, 2 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-09-13
• Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
  1 attestation (1 Reviewed-by) · last on 2026-09-14
• Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-09-14

Recent patches

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

• COOLING9d REVIEWED: 5 (4M) [PATCH v6 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-09-14 · Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v9 9/9] selftests/livepatch: Add function test for provides/obsoletes
  2026-09-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v9 8/9] selftests/livepatch: Add state test for provides/obsoletes
  2026-09-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING10d [PATCH v9 7/9] selftests/livepatch: Add provides/obsoletes test scenarios
  2026-09-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v9 2/9] selftests/livepatch: Adapt atomic replace tests to provides/obsoletes
  2026-09-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING10d REVIEWED: 3 (3M) [PATCH v9 1/9] selftests/livepatch: Clarify test module file names
  2026-09-13 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v8 9/9] selftests/livepatch: Add function test for provides/obsoletes
  2026-09-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v8 8/9] selftests/livepatch: Add state test for provides/obsoletes
  2026-09-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v8 7/9] selftests/livepatch: Add provides/obsoletes test scenarios
  2026-09-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v8 2/9] selftests/livepatch: Adapt atomic replace tests to provides/obsoletes
  2026-09-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v8 1/9] selftests/livepatch: Clarify test module file names
  2026-09-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH v4 2/5] selftests/livepatch: Test rejection of aliased symbols in one object
  2026-09-08 · Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] selftests: livepatch: do not require a kernel build tree to run
  2026-09-06 · Eva Kurchatova <hidden>
• COLD15d [PATCH] selftests/livepatch: Test rejection of aliased symbols in one object
  2026-09-05 · Harry Hsu <hidden>
• COLD19d REVIEWED: 11 (11M) [PATCH v4 2/2] selftests/livepatch: filter debug messages in check_result()
  2026-08-30 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 for-next 8/8] selftests/livepatch: Add test for function conflict across provides
  2026-08-25 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 for-next 7/8] selftests/livepatch: Add test for state ID conflict across provides
  2026-08-25 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 for-next 6/8] selftests/livepatch: Add provides/obsoletes test scenarios
  2026-08-25 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COOLING13d [PATCH v7 for-next 5/8] selftests/livepatch: Adapt atomic replace tests to provides/obsoletes
  2026-08-25 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v6 8/8] selftests: livepatch: Add test for function conflict across provides
  2026-08-24 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v6 7/8] selftests: livepatch: Add test for state ID conflict across provides
  2026-08-24 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v6 6/8] selftests: livepatch: Add provides/obsoletes test scenarios
  2026-08-24 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD29d [PATCH v6 5/8] selftests: livepatch: Adapt atomic replace tests to provides/obsoletes
  2026-08-24 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD27d [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/livepatch: filter debug messages in check_result()
  2026-08-21 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD34d [PATCH] selftests: livepatch: filter kobject debug messages in check_result()
  2026-08-18 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v5 9/9] selftests: livepatch: Add test for function conflict across provides
  2026-08-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v5 8/9] selftests: livepatch: Add test for state ID conflict across provides
  2026-08-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v5 7/9] selftests: livepatch: Add provides/obsoletes test scenarios
  2026-08-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH v5 6/9] selftests: livepatch: Adapt atomic replace tests to provides/obsoletes
  2026-08-09 · Yafang Shao <hidden>
• COLD29d [RFC PATCH bpf-next v3 2/2] selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
  2026-08-06 · Andrey Grodzovsky <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.

• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v4 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-06-29 · Wang Han <hidden> · 2 Reviewed-by
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 4 (3M) [PATCH v5 7/7] selftests/livepatch: Add RISC-V syscall wrapper prefix
  2026-08-04 · Wang Han <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.

• STALE175d [PATCH 6/8] selftests: livepatch: sysfs: Split tests of stack_order attribute
  2026-03-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE175d [PATCH 7/8] selftests: livepatch: sysfs: Split tests of patched attribute
  2026-03-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH v2 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH v2 5/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if replace sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE156d [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if stack_order sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-13 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH v3 1/6] selftests: livepatch: Check for ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER config
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH v3 2/6] selftests: livepatch: Replace true/false module parameter by y/n
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH v3 3/6] selftests: livepatch: Introduce does_sysfs_exist function
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH v3 4/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if patched sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>
• STALE149d [PATCH v3 5/6] selftests: livepatch: Check if replace sysfs attribute exists
  2026-04-27 · Marcos Paulo de Souza <hidden>