diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile
index de0b53b533d4..49327ee84e3a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 TEST_PROGS := dscr_default_test dscr_explicit_test dscr_user_test	\
-	      dscr_inherit_test dscr_inherit_exec_test dscr_sysfs_test
+	      dscr_inherit_test dscr_inherit_exec_test dscr_sysfs_test	\
+	      dscr_sysfs_thread_test
 
 dscr_default_test: LDLIBS += -lpthread
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_sysfs_thread_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_sysfs_thread_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ad97b592eccc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_sysfs_thread_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/*
+ * POWER Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) sysfs thread test
+ *
+ * This test updates the system wide DSCR default value through
+ * sysfs interface which should then update all the CPU specific
+ * DSCR default values which must also be then visible to threads
+ * executing on individual CPUs on the system.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2015, Anshuman Khandual, IBM Corporation.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published
+ * by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include "dscr.h"
+
+static int test_thread_dscr(unsigned long val)
+{
+	unsigned long cur_dscr, cur_dscr_usr;
+
+	cur_dscr = get_dscr();
+	cur_dscr_usr = get_dscr_usr();
+
+	if (val != cur_dscr) {
+		printf("[cpu %d] Kernel DSCR should be %ld but is %ld\n",
+					sched_getcpu(), val, cur_dscr);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	if (val != cur_dscr_usr) {
+		printf("[cpu %d] User DSCR should be %ld but is %ld\n",
+					sched_getcpu(), val, cur_dscr_usr);
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int check_cpu_dscr_thread(unsigned long val)
+{
+	cpu_set_t mask;
+	int cpu;
+
+	for (cpu = 0; cpu < CPU_SETSIZE; cpu++) {
+		CPU_ZERO(&mask);
+		CPU_SET(cpu, &mask);
+		if (sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(mask), &mask))
+			continue;
+
+		if (test_thread_dscr(val))
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+
+}
+
+int dscr_sysfs_thread(void)
+{
+	unsigned long orig_dscr_default;
+	int i, j;
+
+	orig_dscr_default = get_default_dscr();
+	for (i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
+		for (j = 0; j < DSCR_MAX; j++) {
+			set_default_dscr(j);
+			if (check_cpu_dscr_thread(j))
+				goto fail;
+		}
+	}
+	set_default_dscr(orig_dscr_default);
+	return 0;
+fail:
+	set_default_dscr(orig_dscr_default);
+	return 1;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	return test_harness(dscr_sysfs_thread, "dscr_sysfs_thread_test");
+}