diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index 50b6a8a41e..ed89f9dc76 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     libtest-warnings-perl \
     libtimedate-perl \
     libtry-tiny-perl \
+    liburcu \
     libusb1 \
     libxml-namespacesupport-perl \
     libxml-parser-perl \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu/run-ptest
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5f8fb4fcfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+PTEST_PATH=$(dirname "$0")
+cd "$PTEST_PATH/tests/unit" || exit 1
+
+export URCU_TESTS_SRCDIR="$PTEST_PATH/tests"
+export URCU_TESTS_BUILDDIR="$PTEST_PATH/tests"
+export URCU_TESTS_OS_TYPE="linux"
+
+for test in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable -name "test_*" | sort); do
+    testname=$(basename "$test")
+    if ./"$test"; then
+        echo "PASS: $testname"
+    else
+        echo "FAIL: $testname"
+    fi
+done
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.15.6.bb b/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.15.6.bb
index 1cb349f55d..e02f797041 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.15.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/liburcu/liburcu_0.15.6.bb
@@ -11,15 +11,41 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=c2a92498b6e88e276f986877995425b8 \
                     file://include/urcu/uatomic/x86.h;beginline=1;endline=6;md5=358d69272ba7b5f85e29e342430d440c \
                     "
 
-SRC_URI = "http://lttng.org/files/urcu/userspace-rcu-${PV}.tar.bz2"
+SRC_URI = "http://lttng.org/files/urcu/userspace-rcu-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+           file://run-ptest \
+           "
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "850b192096eb11ebf2c70e8f97bc7da7479ee41da1bebeb44e3986908bac414f"
 
 S = "${UNPACKDIR}/userspace-rcu-${PV}"
-inherit autotools multilib_header
+inherit autotools multilib_header ptest
 
 CPPFLAGS:append:riscv64  = " -pthread -D_REENTRANT"
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash"
+
 do_install:append() {
     oe_multilib_header urcu/config.h
 }
+
+do_compile_ptest() {
+    oe_runmake -C ${B}/tests/unit check TESTS=
+}
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/unit
+
+    find ${B}/tests/unit -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable \
+        ! -name "*.la" | while read -r t; do
+        ${B}/libtool --mode=install install -m 0755 "$t" ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/unit/
+    done
+
+    install -m 0755 ${S}/tests/unit/test_get_cpu_mask_from_sysfs ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/unit/
+    install -m 0755 ${S}/tests/unit/test_get_cpu_mask_from_sysfs_cxx ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/unit/
+    install -m 0755 ${S}/tests/unit/test_get_max_cpuid_from_sysfs ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/unit/
+    install -m 0755 ${S}/tests/unit/test_get_max_cpuid_from_sysfs_cxx ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/unit/
+
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/utils
+    install -m 0644 ${S}/tests/utils/tap.sh ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/utils/
+    install -m 0644 ${S}/tests/utils/utils.sh ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/utils/
+}