diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/.gitignore b/tools/testing/kunit/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c791ff59a37a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_config.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..183bd5e758762
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+import collections
+import re
+
+CONFIG_IS_NOT_SET_PATTERN = r'^# CONFIG_\w+ is not set$'
+CONFIG_PATTERN = r'^CONFIG_\w+=\S+$'
+
+KconfigEntryBase = collections.namedtuple('KconfigEntry', ['raw_entry'])
+
+
+class KconfigEntry(KconfigEntryBase):
+
+	def __str__(self) -> str:
+		return self.raw_entry
+
+
+class KconfigParseError(Exception):
+	"""Error parsing Kconfig defconfig or .config."""
+
+
+class Kconfig(object):
+	"""Represents defconfig or .config specified using the Kconfig language."""
+
+	def __init__(self):
+		self._entries = []
+
+	def entries(self):
+		return set(self._entries)
+
+	def add_entry(self, entry: KconfigEntry) -> None:
+		self._entries.append(entry)
+
+	def is_subset_of(self, other: "Kconfig") -> bool:
+		return self.entries().issubset(other.entries())
+
+	def write_to_file(self, path: str) -> None:
+		with open(path, 'w') as f:
+			for entry in self.entries():
+				f.write(str(entry) + '\n')
+
+	def parse_from_string(self, blob: str) -> None:
+		"""Parses a string containing KconfigEntrys and populates this Kconfig."""
+		self._entries = []
+		is_not_set_matcher = re.compile(CONFIG_IS_NOT_SET_PATTERN)
+		config_matcher = re.compile(CONFIG_PATTERN)
+		for line in blob.split('\n'):
+			line = line.strip()
+			if not line:
+				continue
+			elif config_matcher.match(line) or is_not_set_matcher.match(line):
+				self._entries.append(KconfigEntry(line))
+			elif line[0] == '#':
+				continue
+			else:
+				raise KconfigParseError('Failed to parse: ' + line)
+
+	def read_from_file(self, path: str) -> None:
+		with open(path, 'r') as f:
+			self.parse_from_string(f.read())
diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..87abaede50513
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+import logging
+import subprocess
+import os
+
+import kunit_config
+
+KCONFIG_PATH = '.config'
+
+class ConfigError(Exception):
+	"""Represents an error trying to configure the Linux kernel."""
+
+
+class BuildError(Exception):
+	"""Represents an error trying to build the Linux kernel."""
+
+
+class LinuxSourceTreeOperations(object):
+	"""An abstraction over command line operations performed on a source tree."""
+
+	def make_mrproper(self):
+		try:
+			subprocess.check_output(['make', 'mrproper'])
+		except OSError as e:
+			raise ConfigError('Could not call make command: ' + e)
+		except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+			raise ConfigError(e.output)
+
+	def make_olddefconfig(self):
+		try:
+			subprocess.check_output(['make', 'ARCH=um', 'olddefconfig'])
+		except OSError as e:
+			raise ConfigError('Could not call make command: ' + e)
+		except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+			raise ConfigError(e.output)
+
+	def make(self):
+		try:
+			subprocess.check_output(['make', 'ARCH=um'])
+		except OSError as e:
+			raise BuildError('Could not call execute make: ' + e)
+		except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+			raise BuildError(e.output)
+
+	def linux_bin(self, params, timeout):
+		"""Runs the Linux UML binary. Must be named 'linux'."""
+		process = subprocess.Popen(
+			['./linux'] + params,
+			stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
+			stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+			stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+		process.wait(timeout=timeout)
+		return process
+
+
+class LinuxSourceTree(object):
+	"""Represents a Linux kernel source tree with KUnit tests."""
+
+	def __init__(self):
+		self._kconfig = kunit_config.Kconfig()
+		self._kconfig.read_from_file('kunitconfig')
+		self._ops = LinuxSourceTreeOperations()
+
+	def clean(self):
+		try:
+			self._ops.make_mrproper()
+		except ConfigError as e:
+			logging.error(e)
+			return False
+		return True
+
+	def build_config(self):
+		self._kconfig.write_to_file(KCONFIG_PATH)
+		try:
+			self._ops.make_olddefconfig()
+		except ConfigError as e:
+			logging.error(e)
+			return False
+		validated_kconfig = kunit_config.Kconfig()
+		validated_kconfig.read_from_file(KCONFIG_PATH)
+		if not self._kconfig.is_subset_of(validated_kconfig):
+			logging.error('Provided Kconfig is not contained in validated .config!')
+			return False
+		return True
+
+	def build_reconfig(self):
+		"""Creates a new .config if it is not a subset of the kunitconfig."""
+		if os.path.exists(KCONFIG_PATH):
+			existing_kconfig = kunit_config.Kconfig()
+			existing_kconfig.read_from_file(KCONFIG_PATH)
+			if not self._kconfig.is_subset_of(existing_kconfig):
+				print('Regenerating .config ...')
+				os.remove(KCONFIG_PATH)
+				return self.build_config()
+			else:
+				return True
+		else:
+			print('Generating .config ...')
+			return self.build_config()
+
+	def build_um_kernel(self):
+		try:
+			self._ops.make_olddefconfig()
+			self._ops.make()
+		except (ConfigError, BuildError) as e:
+			logging.error(e)
+			return False
+		used_kconfig = kunit_config.Kconfig()
+		used_kconfig.read_from_file(KCONFIG_PATH)
+		if not self._kconfig.is_subset_of(used_kconfig):
+			logging.error('Provided Kconfig is not contained in final config!')
+			return False
+		return True
+
+	def run_kernel(self, args=[]):
+		timeout = None
+		args.extend(['mem=256M'])
+		process = self._ops.linux_bin(args, timeout)
+		with open('test.log', 'w') as f:
+			for line in process.stdout:
+				f.write(line.rstrip().decode('ascii') + '\n')
+				yield line.rstrip().decode('ascii')
