diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-dylib-is-system.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-dylib-is-system.rs
index 5f8948ac5f1..db7f304227f 100644
--- a/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-dylib-is-system.rs
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-dylib-is-system.rs
@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@
 // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
 // except according to those terms.
 
-// ignore-windows everything is the system allocator on windows
-// ignore-musl no dylibs on musl yet
-// ignore-bitrig no jemalloc on bitrig
-// ignore-openbsd no jemalloc on openbsd
+// ignore-musl no dylibs
 // aux-build:allocator-dylib.rs
+// aux-build:allocator1.rs
 // no-prefer-dynamic
 // error-pattern: cannot link together two allocators
 
@@ -23,7 +21,18 @@
 #![feature(alloc_jemalloc)]
 
 extern crate allocator_dylib;
+
+// The main purpose of this test is to ensure that `alloc_jemalloc` **fails**
+// here (specifically the jemalloc allocator), but currently jemalloc is
+// disabled on quite a few platforms (bsds, emscripten, msvc, etc). To ensure
+// that this just passes on those platforms we link in some other allocator to
+// ensure we get the same error.
+//
+// So long as we CI linux/OSX we should be good.
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos"))]
 extern crate alloc_jemalloc;
+#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos")))]
+extern crate allocator1;
 
 fn main() {
     allocator_dylib::foo();
diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-rust-dylib-is-jemalloc.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-rust-dylib-is-jemalloc.rs
index b29797f3295..46ad226d255 100644
--- a/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-rust-dylib-is-jemalloc.rs
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/allocator-rust-dylib-is-jemalloc.rs
@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@
 // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
 // except according to those terms.
 
-// ignore-windows everything is the system allocator on windows
-// ignore-musl no dylibs on musl right now
-// ignore-bitrig no jemalloc on bitrig
-// ignore-openbsd no jemalloc on openbsd
+// ignore-musl no dylibs
 // aux-build:allocator-dylib2.rs
+// aux-build:allocator1.rs
 // error-pattern: cannot link together two allocators
 
 // Ensure that rust dynamic libraries use jemalloc as their allocator, verifying
@@ -21,9 +19,19 @@
 #![feature(alloc_system)]
 
 extern crate allocator_dylib2;
+
+// The main purpose of this test is to ensure that `alloc_system` **fails**
+// here (specifically the system allocator), but currently system is
+// disabled on quite a few platforms (bsds, emscripten, msvc, etc). To ensure
+// that this just passes on those platforms we link in some other allocator to
+// ensure we get the same error.
+//
+// So long as we CI linux/OSX we should be good.
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos"))]
 extern crate alloc_system;
+#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos")))]
+extern crate allocator1;
 
 fn main() {
     allocator_dylib2::foo();
 }
-
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/allocator-default.rs b/src/test/run-pass/allocator-default.rs
index be69a4eaddf..32ed2b33011 100644
--- a/src/test/run-pass/allocator-default.rs
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/allocator-default.rs
@@ -8,12 +8,10 @@
 // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
 // except according to those terms.
 
-#![feature(alloc_jemalloc, alloc_system)]
+#![feature(alloc_jemalloc)]
 
-#[cfg(not(any(windows, target_os = "bitrig", target_os = "openbsd", target_os="emscripten")))]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "macos"))]
 extern crate alloc_jemalloc;
-#[cfg(any(windows, target_os = "bitrig", target_os = "openbsd", target_os="emscripten"))]
-extern crate alloc_system;
 
 fn main() {
     println!("{:?}", Box::new(3));
diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/allocator-jemalloc.rs b/src/test/run-pass/allocator-jemalloc.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index ad1438f75fc..00000000000
--- a/src/test/run-pass/allocator-jemalloc.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
-// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
-// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
-// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
-// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
-// except according to those terms.
-
-// no-prefer-dynamic
-// ignore-windows no jemalloc on windows
-// ignore-bitrig no jemalloc on bitrig
-// ignore-openbsd no jemalloc on openbsd
-// ignore-emscripten no jemalloc on emscripten
-
-#![feature(alloc_jemalloc)]
-
-extern crate alloc_jemalloc;
-
-fn main() {
-    println!("{:?}", Box::new(3));
-}