diff --git a/gnutls.changes b/gnutls.changes
index 2dd45e5..13c7b36 100644
--- a/gnutls.changes
+++ b/gnutls.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue May  5 19:06:29 UTC 2015 - dmueller@suse.com
+
+- disable testsuite run against valgrind on aarch64 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May  5 12:40:11 UTC 2015 - meissner@suse.com
 
diff --git a/gnutls.spec b/gnutls.spec
index a80f793..8716029 100644
--- a/gnutls.spec
+++ b/gnutls.spec
@@ -56,11 +56,10 @@ Requires:       libgnutls-dane%{gnutls_dane_sover} = %{version}
 %endif
 # disabled ppc - valgrind crashes on email cert tests currently. Marcus 20150413
 # disabled armv7l - valgrind appears to mishandle some insns
-%ifnarch armv7hl
-%ifarch %ix86 x86_64 ppc64 s390x ppc64le %arm aarch64
+# disabled aarch64 - valgrind mishandles exclusive load/store causing deadlocks
+%ifarch %ix86 x86_64 ppc64 s390x ppc64le
 BuildRequires:  valgrind
 %endif
-%endif
 %if %suse_version >= 1230
 BuildRequires:  makeinfo
 %endif