diff --git a/tests/tcg/Makefile.target b/tests/tcg/Makefile.target
index 8808beaf74..679eb56bd3 100644
--- a/tests/tcg/Makefile.target
+++ b/tests/tcg/Makefile.target
@@ -74,8 +74,11 @@ TIMEOUT=15
 endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
-# The order we include is important. We include multiarch, base arch
-# and finally arch if it's not the same as base arch.
+# The order we include is important. We include multiarch first and
+# then the target. If there are common tests shared between
+# sub-targets (e.g. ARM & AArch64) then it is up to
+# $(TARGET_NAME)/Makefile.target to include the common parent
+# architecture in its VPATH.
 -include $(SRC_PATH)/tests/tcg/multiarch/Makefile.target
 -include $(SRC_PATH)/tests/tcg/$(TARGET_NAME)/Makefile.target
 
diff --git a/tests/tcg/aarch64/Makefile.target b/tests/tcg/aarch64/Makefile.target
index e763dd9da3..9758f89f90 100644
--- a/tests/tcg/aarch64/Makefile.target
+++ b/tests/tcg/aarch64/Makefile.target
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ VPATH 		+= $(ARM_SRC)
 AARCH64_SRC=$(SRC_PATH)/tests/tcg/aarch64
 VPATH 		+= $(AARCH64_SRC)
 
-# we don't build any other ARM test
+# Float-convert Tests
 AARCH64_TESTS=fcvt
 
 fcvt: LDFLAGS+=-lm
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ run-fcvt: fcvt
 	$(call run-test,$<,$(QEMU) $<, "$< on $(TARGET_NAME)")
 	$(call diff-out,$<,$(AARCH64_SRC)/fcvt.ref)
 
+# Pauth Tests
 AARCH64_TESTS += pauth-1 pauth-2
 run-pauth-%: QEMU_OPTS += -cpu max
 
diff --git a/tests/tcg/arm/Makefile.target b/tests/tcg/arm/Makefile.target
index aa4e4e3782..7347d3d0ad 100644
--- a/tests/tcg/arm/Makefile.target
+++ b/tests/tcg/arm/Makefile.target
@@ -8,25 +8,26 @@ ARM_SRC=$(SRC_PATH)/tests/tcg/arm
 # Set search path for all sources
 VPATH 		+= $(ARM_SRC)
 
-ARM_TESTS=hello-arm test-arm-iwmmxt
-
-TESTS += $(ARM_TESTS) fcvt
-
+# Basic Hello World
+ARM_TESTS = hello-arm
 hello-arm: CFLAGS+=-marm -ffreestanding
 hello-arm: LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib
 
+# IWMXT floating point extensions
+ARM_TESTS += test-arm-iwmmxt
 test-arm-iwmmxt: CFLAGS+=-marm -march=iwmmxt -mabi=aapcs -mfpu=fpv4-sp-d16
 test-arm-iwmmxt: test-arm-iwmmxt.S
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)
 
-ifeq ($(TARGET_NAME), arm)
+# Float-convert Tests
+ARM_TESTS += fcvt
 fcvt: LDFLAGS+=-lm
 # fcvt: CFLAGS+=-march=armv8.2-a+fp16 -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8
-
 run-fcvt: fcvt
 	$(call run-test,fcvt,$(QEMU) $<,"$< on $(TARGET_NAME)")
 	$(call diff-out,fcvt,$(ARM_SRC)/fcvt.ref)
-endif
+
+TESTS += $(ARM_TESTS)
 
 # On ARM Linux only supports 4k pages
 EXTRA_RUNS+=run-test-mmap-4096