diff --git a/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go b/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go
index 45ee6d6905..bfb260a143 100644
--- a/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go
+++ b/src/runtime/crash_cgo_test.go
@@ -94,11 +94,6 @@ func TestCgoExternalThreadSIGPROF(t *testing.T) {
 	case "plan9", "windows":
 		t.Skipf("no pthreads on %s", runtime.GOOS)
 	}
-	if runtime.GOARCH == "ppc64" && runtime.GOOS == "linux" {
-		// TODO(austin) External linking not implemented on
-		// linux/ppc64 (issue #8912)
-		t.Skipf("no external linking on ppc64")
-	}
 
 	exe, err := buildTestProg(t, "testprogcgo", "-tags=threadprof")
 	if err != nil {
@@ -128,7 +123,7 @@ func TestCgoExternalThreadSignal(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	got, err := testenv.CleanCmdEnv(exec.Command(exe, "CgoExternalThreadSIGPROF")).CombinedOutput()
+	got, err := testenv.CleanCmdEnv(exec.Command(exe, "CgoExternalThreadSignal")).CombinedOutput()
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("exit status: %v\n%s", err, got)
 	}