diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore
index b19b269..1a6f09e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 fpu_syscall
 vmx_syscall
+fpu_preempt
+vmx_preempt
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile
index 41c3aca..b04fd58 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-TEST_PROGS := fpu_syscall vmx_syscall
+TEST_PROGS := fpu_syscall fpu_preempt vmx_syscall vmx_preempt
 
 all: $(TEST_PROGS)
 
@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ $(TEST_PROGS): ../harness.c
 $(TEST_PROGS): CFLAGS := $(filter-out -flto,$(CFLAGS) -O2 -g -pthread -m64 -maltivec)
 
 fpu_syscall: fpu_asm.S
+fpu_preempt: fpu_asm.S
+
 vmx_syscall: vmx_asm.S
+vmx_preempt: vmx_asm.S
 
 include ../../lib.mk
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_asm.S b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_asm.S
index b12c051..6d9ac4d4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_asm.S
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_asm.S
@@ -159,3 +159,39 @@ FUNC_START(test_fpu)
 	POP_BASIC_STACK(256)
 	blr
 FUNC_END(test_fpu)
+
+#int preempt_fpu(double *darray, int *threads_running, int *running)
+#On starting will (atomically) decrement not_ready as a signal that the FPU
+#has been loaded with darray. Will proceed to check the validity of the FPU
+#registers while running is not zero.
+FUNC_START(preempt_fpu)
+	PUSH_BASIC_STACK(256)
+	std r3,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(0)(sp) #double *darray
+	std r4,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(1)(sp) #int *threads_starting
+	std r5,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(2)(sp) #int *running
+	PUSH_FPU(STACK_FRAME_LOCAL(3,0))
+
+	bl load_fpu
+	nop
+
+	#Atomic DEC
+	ld r3,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(1)(sp)
+1:	lwarx r4,0,r3
+	addi r4,r4,-1
+	stwcx. r4,0,r3
+	bne- 1b
+
+2:	ld r3,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(0)(sp)
+	bl check_fpu
+	nop
+	cmpdi r3,0
+	bne 3f
+	ld r4,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(2)(sp)
+	ld r5,0(r4)
+	cmpwi r5,0
+	bne 2b
+
+3:	POP_FPU(STACK_FRAME_LOCAL(3,0))
+	POP_BASIC_STACK(256)
+	blr
+FUNC_END(preempt_fpu)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_preempt.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_preempt.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f85b79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_preempt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2015, Cyril Bur, IBM Corp.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This test attempts to see if the FPU registers change across preemption.
+ * Two things should be noted here a) The check_fpu function in asm only checks
+ * the non volatile registers as it is reused from the syscall test b) There is
+ * no way to be sure preemption happened so this test just uses many threads
+ * and a long wait. As such, a successful test doesn't mean much but a failure
+ * is bad.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+
+/* Time to wait for workers to get preempted (seconds) */
+#define PREEMPT_TIME 20
+/*
+ * Factor by which to multiply number of online CPUs for total number of
+ * worker threads
+ */
+#define THREAD_FACTOR 8
+
+
+__thread double darray[] = {0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0,
+		     1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0,
+		     2.1};
+
+int threads_starting;
+int running;
+
+extern void preempt_fpu(double *darray, int *threads_starting, int *running);
+
+void *preempt_fpu_c(void *p)
+{
+	int i;
+	srand(pthread_self());
+	for (i = 0; i < 21; i++)
+		darray[i] = rand();
+
+	/* Test failed if it ever returns */
+	preempt_fpu(darray, &threads_starting, &running);
+
+	return p;
+}
+
+int test_preempt_fpu(void)
+{
+	int i, rc, threads;
+	pthread_t *tids;
+
+	threads = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) * THREAD_FACTOR;
+	tids = malloc((threads) * sizeof(pthread_t));
+	FAIL_IF(!tids);
+
+	running = true;
+	threads_starting = threads;
+	for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
+		rc = pthread_create(&tids[i], NULL, preempt_fpu_c, NULL);
+		FAIL_IF(rc);
+	}
+
+	setbuf(stdout, NULL);
+	/* Not really necessary but nice to wait for every thread to start */
+	printf("\tWaiting for all workers to start...");
+	while(threads_starting)
+		asm volatile("": : :"memory");
+	printf("done\n");
+
+	printf("\tWaiting for %d seconds to let some workers get preempted...", PREEMPT_TIME);
+	sleep(PREEMPT_TIME);
+	printf("done\n");
+
+	printf("\tStopping workers...");
+	/*
+	 * Working are checking this value every loop. In preempt_fpu 'cmpwi r5,0; bne 2b'.
+	 * r5 will have loaded the value of running.
+	 */
+	running = 0;
+	for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
+		void *rc_p;
+		pthread_join(tids[i], &rc_p);
+
+		/*
+		 * Harness will say the fail was here, look at why preempt_fpu
+		 * returned
+		 */
+		if ((long) rc_p)
+			printf("oops\n");
+		FAIL_IF((long) rc_p);
+	}
+	printf("done\n");
+
+	free(tids);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	return test_harness(test_preempt_fpu, "fpu_preempt");
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_asm.S b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_asm.S
index 82ddb38..b7017d5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_asm.S
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_asm.S
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include "../basic_asm.h"
 
+#POS MUST BE 16 ALIGNED!
 #define PUSH_VMX(pos,reg) \
 	li	reg,pos; \
 	stvx	v20,reg,sp; \
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
 	addi	reg,reg,16; \
 	stvx	v31,reg,sp;
 
+#POS MUST BE 16 ALIGNED!
 #define POP_VMX(pos,reg) \
 	li	reg,pos; \
 	lvx	v20,reg,sp; \
@@ -93,7 +95,7 @@ FUNC_END(load_vmx)
 
 #Should be safe from C, only touches r4, r5 and v0,v1,v2
 FUNC_START(check_vmx)
-	PUSH_BASIC_STACK(16)
+	PUSH_BASIC_STACK(32)
 	mr r4,r3
 	li	r3,1 #assume a bad result
 	li	r5,0
@@ -162,7 +164,7 @@ FUNC_START(check_vmx)
 	cmpdi	r0,0xffffffffffffffff
 	bne	1f
 	li	r3,0
-1:	POP_BASIC_STACK(16)
+1:	POP_BASIC_STACK(32)
 	blr
 FUNC_END(check_vmx)
 
@@ -193,3 +195,40 @@ FUNC_START(test_vmx)
 	POP_BASIC_STACK(512)
 	blr
 FUNC_END(test_vmx)
+
+#int preempt_vmx(vector int *varray, int *threads_starting, int *running)
+#On starting will (atomically) decrement threads_starting as a signal that
+#the VMX have been loaded with varray. Will proceed to check the validity of
+#the VMX registers while running is not zero.
+FUNC_START(preempt_vmx)
+	PUSH_BASIC_STACK(512)
+	std r3,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(0)(sp) #vector int *varray
+	std r4,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(1)(sp) #int *threads_starting
+	std r5,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(2)(sp) #int *running
+	#VMX need to write to 16 byte aligned addresses, skip STACK_FRAME_LOCAL(3,0)
+	PUSH_VMX(STACK_FRAME_LOCAL(4,0),r4)
+
+	bl load_vmx
+	nop
+
+	#Atomic DEC
+	ld r3,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(1)(sp)
+1:	lwarx r4,0,r3
+	addi r4,r4,-1
+	stwcx. r4,0,r3
+	bne- 1b
+
+2:	ld r3,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(0)(sp)
+	bl check_vmx
+	nop
+	cmpdi r3,0
+	bne 3f
+	ld r4,STACK_FRAME_PARAM(2)(sp)
+	ld r5,0(r4)
+	cmpwi r5,0
+	bne 2b
+
+3:	POP_VMX(STACK_FRAME_LOCAL(4,0),r4)
+	POP_BASIC_STACK(512)
+	blr
+FUNC_END(preempt_vmx)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_preempt.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_preempt.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ef376c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/vmx_preempt.c
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2015, Cyril Bur, IBM Corp.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This test attempts to see if the VMX registers change across preemption.
+ * Two things should be noted here a) The check_vmx function in asm only checks
+ * the non volatile registers as it is reused from the syscall test b) There is
+ * no way to be sure preemption happened so this test just uses many threads
+ * and a long wait. As such, a successful test doesn't mean much but a failure
+ * is bad.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+
+/* Time to wait for workers to get preempted (seconds) */
+#define PREEMPT_TIME 20
+/*
+ * Factor by which to multiply number of online CPUs for total number of
+ * worker threads
+ */
+#define THREAD_FACTOR 8
+
+__thread vector int varray[] = {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10,11,12},
+	{13,14,15,16},{17,18,19,20},{21,22,23,24},
+	{25,26,27,28},{29,30,31,32},{33,34,35,36},
+	{37,38,39,40},{41,42,43,44},{45,46,47,48}};
+
+int threads_starting;
+int running;
+
+extern void preempt_vmx(vector int *varray, int *threads_starting, int *running);
+
+void *preempt_vmx_c(void *p)
+{
+	int i, j;
+	srand(pthread_self());
+	for (i = 0; i < 12; i++)
+		for (j = 0; j < 4; j++)
+			varray[i][j] = rand();
+
+	/* Test fails if it ever returns */
+	preempt_vmx(varray, &threads_starting, &running);
+	return p;
+}
+
+int test_preempt_vmx(void)
+{
+	int i, rc, threads;
+	pthread_t *tids;
+
+	threads = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) * THREAD_FACTOR;
+	tids = malloc(threads * sizeof(pthread_t));
+	FAIL_IF(!tids);
+
+	running = true;
+	threads_starting = threads;
+	for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
+		rc = pthread_create(&tids[i], NULL, preempt_vmx_c, NULL);
+		FAIL_IF(rc);
+	}
+
+	setbuf(stdout, NULL);
+	/* Not really nessesary but nice to wait for every thread to start */
+	printf("\tWaiting for all workers to start...");
+	while(threads_starting)
+		asm volatile("": : :"memory");
+	printf("done\n");
+
+	printf("\tWaiting for %d seconds to let some workers get preempted...", PREEMPT_TIME);
+	sleep(PREEMPT_TIME);
+	printf("done\n");
+
+	printf("\tStopping workers...");
+	/*
+	 * Working are checking this value every loop. In preempt_vmx 'cmpwi r5,0; bne 2b'.
+	 * r5 will have loaded the value of running.
+	 */
+	running = 0;
+	for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
+		void *rc_p;
+		pthread_join(tids[i], &rc_p);
+
+		/*
+		 * Harness will say the fail was here, look at why preempt_vmx
+		 * returned
+		 */
+		if ((long) rc_p)
+			printf("oops\n");
+		FAIL_IF((long) rc_p);
+	}
+	printf("done\n");
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	return test_harness(test_preempt_vmx, "vmx_preempt");
+}
