diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore
index e31ca6f453ed..d0c23b2e4b60 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ vmx_preempt
 fpu_signal
 vmx_signal
 vsx_preempt
+fpu_denormal
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile
index 11a10d7a2bbd..4e2049d2fd8d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-TEST_GEN_PROGS := fpu_syscall fpu_preempt fpu_signal vmx_syscall vmx_preempt vmx_signal vsx_preempt
+TEST_GEN_PROGS := fpu_syscall fpu_preempt fpu_signal fpu_denormal vmx_syscall vmx_preempt vmx_signal vsx_preempt
 
 top_srcdir = ../../../../..
 include ../../lib.mk
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_denormal.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_denormal.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5f96682abaa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/fpu_denormal.c
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright IBM Corp. 2020
+ *
+ * This test attempts to cause a FP denormal exception on POWER8 CPUs. Unfortunately
+ * if the denormal handler is not configured or working properly, this can cause a bad
+ * crash in kernel mode when the kernel tries to save FP registers when the process
+ * exits.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+
+static int test_denormal_fpu(void)
+{
+	unsigned int m32;
+	unsigned long m64;
+	volatile float f;
+	volatile double d;
+
+	/* try to induce lfs <denormal> ; stfd */
+
+	m32 = 0x00715fcf; /* random denormal */
+	memcpy((float *)&f, &m32, sizeof(f));
+	d = f;
+	memcpy(&m64, (double *)&d, sizeof(d));
+
+	FAIL_IF((long)(m64 != 0x380c57f3c0000000)); /* renormalised value */
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	return test_harness(test_denormal_fpu, "fpu_denormal");
+}