diff --git a/.github/workflows/action_utest.yml b/.github/workflows/action_utest.yml
index 985b82e831cde6e36deb5f87befd3524ba098447..2ff0bd8185fd87ff855fb7192ba86397c1a37573 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/action_utest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/action_utest.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
        legs:
          - {UTEST: "kernel/mem",       RTT_BSP: "bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9",    QEMU_ARCH: "arm",      QEMU_MACHINE: "vexpress-a9", CONFIG_FILE: "kernel/mem.conf",     SD_FILE: "sd.bin"}
-         - {UTEST: "kernel/semaphore",       RTT_BSP: "bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9",    QEMU_ARCH: "arm",      QEMU_MACHINE: "vexpress-a9", CONFIG_FILE: "kernel/mem.conf",     SD_FILE: "sd.bin"}
+         - {UTEST: "kernel/ipc",       RTT_BSP: "bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9",    QEMU_ARCH: "arm",      QEMU_MACHINE: "vexpress-a9", CONFIG_FILE: "kernel/ipc.conf",     SD_FILE: "sd.bin"}
          - {UTEST: "components/utest", RTT_BSP: "bsp/qemu-vexpress-a9",    QEMU_ARCH: "arm",      QEMU_MACHINE: "vexpress-a9", CONFIG_FILE: "utest_self/self.conf", SD_FILE: "sd.bin"}
          - {UTEST: "kernel/mem/riscv64", RTT_BSP: "bsp/qemu-riscv-virt64", QEMU_ARCH: "riscv64",  QEMU_MACHINE: "virt",  CONFIG_FILE: "kernel/mem.conf",   SD_FILE: "None"}
     env:
diff --git a/examples/utest/configs/kernel/ipc.conf b/examples/utest/configs/kernel/ipc.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0dcb6bd052fedfcc6c6a729d4e2d1236088e2c78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/utest/configs/kernel/ipc.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+CONFIG_UTEST_SEMAPHORE_TC=y
+
+# dependencies
+CONFIG_RT_USING_SEMAPHORE=y
diff --git a/examples/utest/configs/kernel/mem.conf b/examples/utest/configs/kernel/mem.conf
index 786532195dbff7b5536a145d88eda51ad9f6ce2e..1a311ab9ddda04b53c982e69ad66086961f7ec4d 100644
--- a/examples/utest/configs/kernel/mem.conf
+++ b/examples/utest/configs/kernel/mem.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 CONFIG_UTEST_MEMHEAP_TC=y
-CONFIG_UTEST_SEMAPHORE_TC=y
 
 # dependencies
 CONFIG_RT_USING_MEMHEAP=y
-CONFIG_RT_USING_SEMAPHORE=y