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 REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 00/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate partial builds across kernel configs
  2026-06-02 13:03 · 11 replies in 7d · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• WARM3d [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/8] tools build: bpf: Append EXTRA_CFLAGS and HOST_EXTRACFLAGS
  2026-06-02 14:48 · 3 replies in 7d · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Alan Maguire <hidden>
  1 attestation (1 Suggested-by) · last on 2026-06-02

Recent patches

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

• WARM3d [PATCH bpf-next v2 8/8] selftests/bpf: Avoid static LLVM linking for cross builds
  2026-06-02 · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH bpf-next v2 7/8] selftests/bpf: Use common CFLAGS for urandom_read
  2026-06-02 · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
• WARM3d [PATCH bpf-next v2 6/8] selftests/bpf: Initialize operation name before use
  2026-06-02 · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 11/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate missing files during install
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 10/11] selftests/bpf: Provide weak definitions for cross-test functions
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 09/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate benchmark build failures
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 08/11] selftests/bpf: Allow test_progs to link with a partial object set
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 07/11] selftests/bpf: Skip tests whose objects were not built
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 06/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate test file compilation failures
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 05/11] selftests/bpf: Make skeleton headers order-only prerequisites of .test.d
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 04/11] selftests/bpf: Avoid rebuilds when running emit_tests
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 03/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate BPF and skeleton generation failures
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 02/11] selftests/bpf: Fix test_kmods KDIR to honor O= and distro kernels
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• HOTtoday IN BPF-NEXT [PATCH bpf-next RESEND v12 01/11] selftests/bpf: Add BPF_STRICT_BUILD toggle
  2026-06-02 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD16d [PATCH v2 6/6] tools/build: selftests: Remove some duplicate toolchain definitions
  2026-05-18 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH v2 5/6] tools/build: selftests: Allow versioning LLVM lld
  2026-05-18 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COLD16d [PATCH v2 3/6] selftests: Remove unused LLD variable
  2026-05-18 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COLD19d [PATCH 6/6] tools/build: selftests: Remove some duplicate toolchain definitions
  2026-05-14 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COLD19d [PATCH 5/6] tools/build: selftests: Allow versioning LLVM lld
  2026-05-14 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COLD19d [PATCH 3/6] selftests: Remove unused LLD variable
  2026-05-14 · James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 11/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate missing files during install
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 10/11] selftests/bpf: Provide weak definitions for cross-test functions
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 09/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate benchmark build failures
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 08/11] selftests/bpf: Allow test_progs to link with a partial object set
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 07/11] selftests/bpf: Skip tests whose objects were not built
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 06/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate test file compilation failures
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 05/11] selftests/bpf: Make skeleton headers order-only prerequisites of .test.d
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 04/11] selftests/bpf: Avoid rebuilds when running emit_tests
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 03/11] selftests/bpf: Tolerate BPF and skeleton generation failures
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• COLD20d [PATCH bpf-next v11 02/11] selftests/bpf: Fix test_kmods KDIR to honor O= and distro kernels
  2026-04-30 · Ricardo B. Marlière <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.

• STALE115d REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.19-6.18] kselftest/kublk: include message in _Static_assert for C11 compatibility
  2026-02-10 · Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> · 1 Reviewed-by
• DORMANTno replies REVIEWED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v7 4/4] selftests/lam: Update LAM tag width and cleanup names
  2026-04-29 · Maciej Wieczor-Retman <hidden> · 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.

• STALE173d [PATCH 2/3] selftests/futex: use pthread_join to reclaim thread resources
  2025-12-11 · Yuwen Chen <hidden>
• STALE173d [PATCH 1/3] selftests/futex: reduce array declarations in the requeue_single
  2025-12-11 · Yuwen Chen <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH 2/3] selftests/sched_ext: Add -fms-extensions to bpf build flags
  2026-03-03 · Zhao Mengmeng <hidden>
• STALE95d [PATCH 3/3] selftests/sched_ext: Fix peek_dsq.bpf.c compile error for clang 17
  2026-03-03 · Zhao Mengmeng <hidden>
• STALE76d Re: [PATCH v4 29/30] selftests/nolibc: Append extra cflags
  2026-03-17 · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
• STALE75d [PATCH v5 25/26] selftests/nolibc: Append extra cflags
  2026-03-18 · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
• STALE67d [PATCH 6/6] selftests/bpf: Append extra cflags
  2026-03-23 · Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
• STALE66d [PATCH 01/10] selftests/bpf: Fall back to distro build directory for test_kmods
  2026-04-01 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH 02/10] selftests/bpf: Tolerate BPF and skeleton generation failures
  2026-04-01 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>
• STALE66d [PATCH 03/10] selftests/bpf: Avoid rebuilds when running emit_tests
  2026-04-01 · Ricardo B. Marlière <hidden>