diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/fixtures/basic.c b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/basic.c
similarity index 100%
rename from tools/objtool/tests/fixtures/basic.c
rename to tools/objtool/tests/generic/fixtures/basic.c
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/test-basic.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-basic.sh
similarity index 91%
rename from tools/objtool/tests/test-basic.sh
rename to tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-basic.sh
index 6b769962399a..562edfbc8646 100755
--- a/tools/objtool/tests/test-basic.sh
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/generic/test-basic.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 # Only functions whose code changed get cloned into the patch.
 
-. "$(dirname "$0")/lib.sh"
+. "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh"
 
 setup
 build_pair basic.c
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/lib.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/lib.sh
index 46bdb985765e..fdea9b790c4d 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/tests/lib.sh
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/lib.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@
 # of regressions.
 
 TESTS_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-FIXTURES_DIR="$TESTS_DIR/fixtures"
+
+# Tests live in generic/ or in an architecture directory beside it, and each
+# carries its own fixtures.
+FIXTURES_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/fixtures" 2>/dev/null && pwd)"
 
 # The kernel's convention: CROSS_COMPILE is the one knob, with per-tool
 # overrides for what it does not cover.  objtool itself is always a host binary
@@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ OBJTOOL="${OBJTOOL:-$TESTS_DIR/../objtool}"
 #
 klp_preflight()
 {
-	local tmp tool cc_version host cc_arch
+	local tmp tool cc_version arch host cc_arch
 
 	bail() { echo "Bail out! $*" >&2; exit 1; }
 
@@ -96,8 +99,26 @@ klp_preflight()
 	esac
 	rm -rf "$tmp"
 
+	# Normalize to the kernel's SRCARCH.
+	case "${ARCH:-$(uname -m)}" in
+	x86_64|i?86)	arch=x86 ;;
+	aarch64*)	arch=arm64 ;;
+	*)		arch="${ARCH:-$(uname -m)}" ;;
+	esac
+
+	case "$(uname -m)" in
+	x86_64|i?86)	host=x86 ;;
+	aarch64*)	host=arm64 ;;
+	*)		host="$(uname -m)" ;;
+	esac
+
+	[ -z "$cc_arch" ] || [ "$cc_arch" = "$arch" ] ||
+		bail "ARCH says $arch but '$CC' builds $cc_arch objects;" \
+		     "the $arch tests would run against the wrong architecture"
+
+	KLP_TEST_ARCH="$arch"
 	KLP_TEST_PREFLIGHT=done
-	export OBJTOOL CC KLP_TEST_PREFLIGHT
+	export OBJTOOL CC KLP_TEST_ARCH KLP_TEST_PREFLIGHT
 
 	cc_version="$($CC --version 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
 	cat <<EOF
diff --git a/tools/objtool/tests/run-tests.sh b/tools/objtool/tests/run-tests.sh
index f6a3e1b7677e..48728a98d995 100755
--- a/tools/objtool/tests/run-tests.sh
+++ b/tools/objtool/tests/run-tests.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 #
 # Run the objtool klp tests.  Each test-*.sh prints one TAP result line.
 #
+# Tests live in generic/ and in a directory per architecture.  A run executes
+# generic/ plus the one matching this architecture, so a test which cannot
+# apply here is not run rather than reporting a skip; what was left out is
+# reported once, as a comment, so differing coverage is still visible.
+#
 # The harness checks the environment once up front and fails the run if the
 # suite cannot execute, rather than letting every test skip and exit 0.
 
@@ -10,13 +15,34 @@ set -u
 
 cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit 1
 
-tests=( test-*.sh )
-[ "${tests[0]}" = "test-*.sh" ] && { echo "1..0 # SKIP no tests found"; exit 0; }
-
-# Sourcing the harness runs its preflight, and exports what it found so the
-# tests inherit it rather than working it out again.
+# Sourcing the harness runs its preflight, which decides which architecture
+# this run is for -- so the test list cannot be built before it has, and the
+# tests inherit the answers rather than working them out again.
 . ./lib.sh
 
+dirs=( generic )
+[ -d "$KLP_TEST_ARCH" ] && dirs+=( "$KLP_TEST_ARCH" )
+
+tests=()
+for d in "${dirs[@]}"; do
+	for t in "$d"/test-*.sh; do
+		[ -f "$t" ] && tests+=( "$t" )
+	done
+done
+[ "${#tests[@]}" -gt 0 ] || { echo "1..0 # SKIP no tests found"; exit 0; }
+
+# Tests for another architecture are absent from this run entirely.  Say how
+# many, so a run which covers less than the tree holds does not look like one
+# that covers all of it.
+for d in */; do
+	d="${d%/}"
+	case "$d" in generic|"$KLP_TEST_ARCH") continue ;; esac
+	n=$(ls "$d"/test-*.sh 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+	[ "$n" -gt 0 ] || continue
+	echo "# not run: $n test$( [ "$n" = 1 ] || echo s ) in $d/" \
+	     "(this run is $KLP_TEST_ARCH)"
+done
+
 echo "1..${#tests[@]}"
 
 rc=0