diff --git a/TEST_MAPPING b/TEST_MAPPING
index 1abeb2e..5ec40f7 100644
--- a/TEST_MAPPING
+++ b/TEST_MAPPING
@@ -61,5 +61,10 @@
     {
       "name": "propertyinfoserializer_tests"
     }
+  ],
+  "imports": [
+    {
+      "path": "frameworks/base/tests/StagedInstallTest"
+    }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/fs_mgr/fs_mgr.cpp b/fs_mgr/fs_mgr.cpp
index 0ae5787..88bb234 100644
--- a/fs_mgr/fs_mgr.cpp
+++ b/fs_mgr/fs_mgr.cpp
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@
 
     LINFO << "Enabling ext4 metadata_csum on " << blk_device;
 
-    // requires to give last_fsck_time to current to avoid insane time.
+    // Must give `-T now` to prevent last_fsck_time from growing too large,
     // otherwise, tune2fs won't enable metadata_csum.
     const char* tune2fs_args[] = {TUNE2FS_BIN, "-O",        "metadata_csum,64bit,extent",
                                   "-T",        "now", blk_device.c_str()};
diff --git a/init/property_service.cpp b/init/property_service.cpp
index 1fa3362..a1e0969 100644
--- a/init/property_service.cpp
+++ b/init/property_service.cpp
@@ -994,7 +994,7 @@
                                       &property_infos)) {
             return;
         }
-        // Don't check for failure here, so we always have a sane list of properties.
+        // Don't check for failure here, since we don't always have all of these partitions.
         // E.g. In case of recovery, the vendor partition will not have mounted and we
         // still need the system / platform properties to function.
         if (access("/system_ext/etc/selinux/system_ext_property_contexts", R_OK) != -1) {
diff --git a/init/test_kill_services/init_kill_services_test.cpp b/init/test_kill_services/init_kill_services_test.cpp
index 7e543f2..66a3328 100644
--- a/init/test_kill_services/init_kill_services_test.cpp
+++ b/init/test_kill_services/init_kill_services_test.cpp
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 TEST_P(InitKillServicesTest, KillCriticalProcesses) {
     ExpectKillingServiceRecovers(GetParam());
 
-    // sanity check init is still responding
+    // Ensure that init is still responding
     EXPECT_TRUE(SetProperty("test.death.test", "asdf"));
     EXPECT_EQ(GetProperty("test.death.test", ""), "asdf");
     EXPECT_TRUE(SetProperty("test.death.test", ""));
diff --git a/liblog/properties.cpp b/liblog/properties.cpp
index 2392112..bb64008 100644
--- a/liblog/properties.cpp
+++ b/liblog/properties.cpp
@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@
     flag |= BOOL_DEFAULT_FLAG_SVELTE;
   }
 
-  /* Sanity Check */
   if (flag & (BOOL_DEFAULT_FLAG_SVELTE | BOOL_DEFAULT_FLAG_ENG)) {
     flag &= ~BOOL_DEFAULT_FLAG_TRUE_FALSE;
     flag |= BOOL_DEFAULT_TRUE;
@@ -613,4 +612,4 @@
   return 1;
 }
 
-#endif
\ No newline at end of file
+#endif
diff --git a/logcat/logcat.cpp b/logcat/logcat.cpp
index d15fa2b..c7d1634 100644
--- a/logcat/logcat.cpp
+++ b/logcat/logcat.cpp
@@ -616,15 +616,15 @@
                 if (long_options[option_index].name == wrap_str) {
                     mode |= ANDROID_LOG_WRAP | ANDROID_LOG_NONBLOCK;
                     // ToDo: implement API that supports setting a wrap timeout
-                    size_t dummy = ANDROID_LOG_WRAP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
-                    if (optarg && (!ParseUint(optarg, &dummy) || dummy < 1)) {
+                    size_t timeout = ANDROID_LOG_WRAP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT;
+                    if (optarg && (!ParseUint(optarg, &timeout) || timeout < 1)) {
                         error(EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "%s %s out of range.",
                               long_options[option_index].name, optarg);
                     }
-                    if (dummy != ANDROID_LOG_WRAP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) {
+                    if (timeout != ANDROID_LOG_WRAP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) {
                         fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: %s %u seconds, ignoring %zu\n",
                                 long_options[option_index].name, ANDROID_LOG_WRAP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
-                                dummy);
+                                timeout);
                     }
                     break;
                 }
diff --git a/logd/LogKlog.cpp b/logd/LogKlog.cpp
index dbdf7fd..d6c7d25 100644
--- a/logd/LogKlog.cpp
+++ b/logd/LogKlog.cpp
@@ -381,8 +381,8 @@
         }
         if ((i == 9) && (cp[i] == ' ')) {
             int pid = 0;
-            char dummy;
-            if (sscanf(cp + 4, "%d%c", &pid, &dummy) == 2) {
+            char placeholder;
+            if (sscanf(cp + 4, "%d%c", &pid, &placeholder) == 2) {
                 buf = cp + 10;  // skip-it-all
                 return pid;
             }
@@ -392,8 +392,8 @@
         // Mediatek kernels with modified printk
         if (*cp == '[') {
             int pid = 0;
-            char dummy;
-            if (sscanf(cp, "[%d:%*[a-z_./0-9:A-Z]]%c", &pid, &dummy) == 2) {
+            char placeholder;
+            if (sscanf(cp, "[%d:%*[a-z_./0-9:A-Z]]%c", &pid, &placeholder) == 2) {
                 return pid;
             }
             break;  // Only the first one
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@
         p = " ";
         b = 1;
     }
-    // paranoid sanity check, can not happen ...
+    // This shouldn't happen, but clamp the size if it does.
     if (b > LOGGER_ENTRY_MAX_PAYLOAD) {
         b = LOGGER_ENTRY_MAX_PAYLOAD;
     }
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@
     }
     // calculate buffer copy requirements
     ssize_t n = 1 + taglen + 1 + b + 1;
-    // paranoid sanity check, first two just can not happen ...
+    // Extra checks for likely impossible cases.
     if ((taglen > n) || (b > n) || (n > (ssize_t)USHRT_MAX) || (n <= 0)) {
         return -EINVAL;
     }
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@
     // If we malloc'd this buffer, we could get away without n's USHRT_MAX
     // test above, but we would then required a max(n, USHRT_MAX) as
     // truncating length argument to logbuf->log() below. Gain is protection
-    // of stack sanity and speedup, loss is truncated long-line content.
+    // against stack corruption and speedup, loss is truncated long-line content.
     char newstr[n];
     char* np = newstr;
 
diff --git a/logd/logd_test.cpp b/logd/logd_test.cpp
index ed34ea4..307610e 100644
--- a/logd/logd_test.cpp
+++ b/logd/logd_test.cpp
@@ -832,127 +832,3 @@
     GTEST_LOG_(INFO) << "This test does nothing.\n";
 #endif
 }
-
-#ifdef __ANDROID__
-static inline uint32_t get4LE(const uint8_t* src) {
-  return src[0] | (src[1] << 8) | (src[2] << 16) | (src[3] << 24);
-}
-
-static inline uint32_t get4LE(const char* src) {
-  return get4LE(reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(src));
-}
-#endif
-
-void __android_log_btwrite_multiple__helper(int count) {
-#ifdef __ANDROID__
-    log_time ts(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
-    usleep(100);
-    log_time ts1(CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
-
-    // We fork to create a unique pid for the submitted log messages
-    // so that we do not collide with the other _multiple_ tests.
-
-    pid_t pid = fork();
-
-    if (pid == 0) {
-        // child
-        for (int i = count; i; --i) {
-            ASSERT_LT(
-                0, __android_log_btwrite(0, EVENT_TYPE_LONG, &ts, sizeof(ts)));
-            usleep(100);
-        }
-        ASSERT_LT(0,
-                  __android_log_btwrite(0, EVENT_TYPE_LONG, &ts1, sizeof(ts1)));
-        usleep(1000000);
-
-        _exit(0);
-    }
-
-    siginfo_t info = {};
-    ASSERT_EQ(0, TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(waitid(P_PID, pid, &info, WEXITED)));
-    ASSERT_EQ(0, info.si_status);
-
-    struct logger_list* logger_list;
-    ASSERT_TRUE(nullptr != (logger_list = android_logger_list_open(LOG_ID_EVENTS,
-                                                                   ANDROID_LOG_NONBLOCK, 0, pid)));
-
-    int expected_count = (count < 2) ? count : 2;
-    int expected_chatty_count = (count <= 2) ? 0 : 1;
-    int expected_identical_count = (count < 2) ? 0 : (count - 2);
-    static const int expected_expire_count = 0;
-
-    count = 0;
-    int second_count = 0;
-    int chatty_count = 0;
-    int identical_count = 0;
-    int expire_count = 0;
-
-    for (;;) {
-        log_msg log_msg;
-        if (android_logger_list_read(logger_list, &log_msg) <= 0) break;
-
-        if ((log_msg.entry.pid != pid) || (log_msg.entry.len < (4 + 1 + 8)) ||
-            (log_msg.id() != LOG_ID_EVENTS))
-            continue;
-
-        char* eventData = log_msg.msg();
-        if (!eventData) continue;
-
-        uint32_t tag = get4LE(eventData);
-
-        if ((eventData[4] == EVENT_TYPE_LONG) &&
-            (log_msg.entry.len == (4 + 1 + 8))) {
-            if (tag != 0) continue;
-
-            log_time* tx = reinterpret_cast<log_time*>(eventData + 4 + 1);
-            if (ts == *tx) {
-                ++count;
-            } else if (ts1 == *tx) {
-                ++second_count;
-            }
-        } else if (eventData[4] == EVENT_TYPE_STRING) {
-            if (tag != CHATTY_LOG_TAG) continue;
-            ++chatty_count;
-            // int len = get4LE(eventData + 4 + 1);
-            log_msg.buf[LOGGER_ENTRY_MAX_LEN] = '\0';
-            const char* cp;
-            if ((cp = strstr(eventData + 4 + 1 + 4, " identical "))) {
-                unsigned val = 0;
-                sscanf(cp, " identical %u lines", &val);
-                identical_count += val;
-            } else if ((cp = strstr(eventData + 4 + 1 + 4, " expire "))) {
-                unsigned val = 0;
-                sscanf(cp, " expire %u lines", &val);
-                expire_count += val;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    android_logger_list_close(logger_list);
-
-    EXPECT_EQ(expected_count, count);
-    EXPECT_EQ(1, second_count);
-    EXPECT_EQ(expected_chatty_count, chatty_count);
-    EXPECT_EQ(expected_identical_count, identical_count);
-    EXPECT_EQ(expected_expire_count, expire_count);
-#else
-    count = 0;
-    GTEST_LOG_(INFO) << "This test does nothing.\n";
-#endif
-}
-
-TEST(logd, multiple_test_1) {
-    __android_log_btwrite_multiple__helper(1);
-}
-
-TEST(logd, multiple_test_2) {
-    __android_log_btwrite_multiple__helper(2);
-}
-
-TEST(logd, multiple_test_3) {
-    __android_log_btwrite_multiple__helper(3);
-}
-
-TEST(logd, multiple_test_10) {
-    __android_log_btwrite_multiple__helper(10);
-}
diff --git a/logd/main.cpp b/logd/main.cpp
index 897e11e..e7a69eb 100644
--- a/logd/main.cpp
+++ b/logd/main.cpp
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
     // Pruning configuration.
     PruneList prune_list;
 
-    std::string buffer_type = GetProperty("logd.buffer_type", "chatty");
+    std::string buffer_type = GetProperty("logd.buffer_type", "serialized");
 
     // Partial (required for chatty) or full logging statistics.
     bool enable_full_log_statistics = __android_logger_property_get_bool(
diff --git a/property_service/libpropertyinfoserializer/property_info_serializer_test.cpp b/property_service/libpropertyinfoserializer/property_info_serializer_test.cpp
index a643062..3907413 100644
--- a/property_service/libpropertyinfoserializer/property_info_serializer_test.cpp
+++ b/property_service/libpropertyinfoserializer/property_info_serializer_test.cpp
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 
   auto property_info_area = reinterpret_cast<const PropertyInfoArea*>(serialized_trie.data());
 
-  // Sanity check
+  // Smoke test
   auto root_node = property_info_area->root_node();
   EXPECT_STREQ("root", root_node.name());
   EXPECT_STREQ("default", property_info_area->context(root_node.context_index()));
diff --git a/qemu_pipe/qemu_pipe.cpp b/qemu_pipe/qemu_pipe.cpp
index beeccb0..03afb21 100644
--- a/qemu_pipe/qemu_pipe.cpp
+++ b/qemu_pipe/qemu_pipe.cpp
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 #endif
 
 int qemu_pipe_open(const char* pipeName) {
-    // Sanity check.
     if (!pipeName) {
         errno = EINVAL;
         return -1;
diff --git a/trusty/gatekeeper/trusty_gatekeeper.cpp b/trusty/gatekeeper/trusty_gatekeeper.cpp
index d149664..e416fb2 100644
--- a/trusty/gatekeeper/trusty_gatekeeper.cpp
+++ b/trusty/gatekeeper/trusty_gatekeeper.cpp
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@
 
 SizedBuffer hidl_vec2sized_buffer(const hidl_vec<uint8_t>& vec) {
     if (vec.size() == 0 || vec.size() > std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max()) return {};
-    auto dummy = new uint8_t[vec.size()];
-    std::copy(vec.begin(), vec.end(), dummy);
-    return {dummy, static_cast<uint32_t>(vec.size())};
+    auto buffer = new uint8_t[vec.size()];
+    std::copy(vec.begin(), vec.end(), buffer);
+    return {buffer, static_cast<uint32_t>(vec.size())};
 }
 
 Return<void> TrustyGateKeeperDevice::enroll(uint32_t uid,
diff --git a/trusty/keymaster/TrustyKeymaster.cpp b/trusty/keymaster/TrustyKeymaster.cpp
index f3ef747..750a9d7 100644
--- a/trusty/keymaster/TrustyKeymaster.cpp
+++ b/trusty/keymaster/TrustyKeymaster.cpp
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
 }
 
 GetHmacSharingParametersResponse TrustyKeymaster::GetHmacSharingParameters() {
-    // Dummy empty buffer to allow ForwardCommand to have something to serialize
+    // Empty buffer to allow ForwardCommand to have something to serialize
     Buffer request;
     GetHmacSharingParametersResponse response;
     ForwardCommand(KM_GET_HMAC_SHARING_PARAMETERS, request, &response);