diff --git a/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/alloc/AllocationProfilerTest.java b/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/alloc/AllocationProfilerTest.java
index 09d24e163..d995d065f 100644
--- a/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/alloc/AllocationProfilerTest.java
+++ b/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/alloc/AllocationProfilerTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ protected boolean isPlatformSupported() {
 
   @RetryingTest(5)
   public void shouldGetObjectAllocationSamples() throws InterruptedException {
+
+    // We seem to hit issues on j9:
+    // OSR (On stack replacement) creates crashes with the profiler.
+    //     ----------- Stack Backtrace -----------
+    // prepareForOSR+0xbf (0x00007F51062A4DDF [libj9jit29.so+0x4a4ddf])
+    if (Platform.isJ9() && !Platform.isJavaVersionAtLeast(8)) {
+      return;
+    }
     Assumptions.assumeFalse(isAsan() || isTsan());
 
     AllocatingTarget target1 = new AllocatingTarget();
diff --git a/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/wallclock/ContendedWallclockSamplesTest.java b/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/wallclock/ContendedWallclockSamplesTest.java
index e680633b7..0adbfd812 100644
--- a/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/wallclock/ContendedWallclockSamplesTest.java
+++ b/ddprof-test/src/test/java/com/datadoghq/profiler/wallclock/ContendedWallclockSamplesTest.java
@@ -51,13 +51,18 @@ public void after() {
     @TestTemplate
     @ValueSource(strings = {"vm", "vmx", "fp", "dwarf"})
     public void test(@CStack String cstack) {
-        String config = System.getProperty("ddprof_test.config");
-        boolean isSanitizer = config.endsWith("san");
-        boolean isJvmci = System.getProperty("java.vm.version", "").contains("jvmci");
-        assumeFalse(Platform.isZing() || Platform.isJ9());
+        // Skip test entirely on unsupported JVMs (don't use assumeFalse which gets retried)
+        if (Platform.isZing() || Platform.isJ9()) {
+            return;
+        }
         // Running vm stackwalker tests on JVMCI (Graal), JDK 24, aarch64 and with a sanitizer is crashing in a weird place
         // This looks like the sanitizer instrumentation is breaking the longjump based crash recovery :(
-        assumeFalse(Platform.isJavaVersionAtLeast(24) && isJvmci && Platform.isAarch64() && cstack.startsWith("vm") && isSanitizer);
+        String config = System.getProperty("ddprof_test.config");
+        boolean isJvmci = System.getProperty("java.vm.version", "").contains("jvmci");
+        boolean isSanitizer = config.endsWith("san");
+        if (Platform.isJavaVersionAtLeast(24) && isJvmci && Platform.isAarch64() && cstack.startsWith("vm") && isSanitizer) {
+            return;
+        }
 
         long result = 0;
         for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {