diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c
index 0a28a6a29581..c9404ef9698e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct hmm_buffer {
 #define TWOMEG		(1 << 21)
 #define HMM_BUFFER_SIZE (1024 << 12)
 #define HMM_PATH_MAX    64
-#define NTIMES		256
+#define NTIMES		10
 
 #define ALIGN(x, a) (((x) + (a - 1)) & (~((a) - 1)))