diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff1bb16cec4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+hugepage-mmap
+hugepage-shm
+map_hugetlb
+thuge-gen