diff --git a/target/arm/op_helper.c b/target/arm/op_helper.c
index 5f3e3bdae2dede75bcd1e27b64e791b4257a02b0..d64c8670fa4ab991305148adae2514e1a802b3e7 100644
--- a/target/arm/op_helper.c
+++ b/target/arm/op_helper.c
@@ -436,6 +436,13 @@ void HELPER(yield)(CPUARMState *env)
     ARMCPU *cpu = arm_env_get_cpu(env);
     CPUState *cs = CPU(cpu);
 
+    /* When running in MTTCG we don't generate jumps to the yield and
+     * WFE helpers as it won't affect the scheduling of other vCPUs.
+     * If we wanted to more completely model WFE/SEV so we don't busy
+     * spin unnecessarily we would need to do something more involved.
+     */
+    g_assert(!parallel_cpus);
+
     /* This is a non-trappable hint instruction that generally indicates
      * that the guest is currently busy-looping. Yield control back to the
      * top level loop so that a more deserving VCPU has a chance to run.
diff --git a/target/arm/translate-a64.c b/target/arm/translate-a64.c
index e61bbd6b3b1fd34d2170fe120152908c17ddf1a1..e15eae6d4170f84e82b4e8d18167758d75e0d860 100644
--- a/target/arm/translate-a64.c
+++ b/target/arm/translate-a64.c
@@ -1328,10 +1328,14 @@ static void handle_hint(DisasContext *s, uint32_t insn,
         s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFI;
         return;
     case 1: /* YIELD */
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        }
         return;
     case 2: /* WFE */
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        }
         return;
     case 4: /* SEV */
     case 5: /* SEVL */
diff --git a/target/arm/translate.c b/target/arm/translate.c
index 4436d8f3a218b9994d191f3cb61c5b38a682e472..abc1f77ee4d6928548abfdc6b988c82b34b2c9c0 100644
--- a/target/arm/translate.c
+++ b/target/arm/translate.c
@@ -4404,20 +4404,32 @@ static void gen_exception_return(DisasContext *s, TCGv_i32 pc)
     gen_rfe(s, pc, load_cpu_field(spsr));
 }
 
+/*
+ * For WFI we will halt the vCPU until an IRQ. For WFE and YIELD we
+ * only call the helper when running single threaded TCG code to ensure
+ * the next round-robin scheduled vCPU gets a crack. In MTTCG mode we
+ * just skip this instruction. Currently the SEV/SEVL instructions
+ * which are *one* of many ways to wake the CPU from WFE are not
+ * implemented so we can't sleep like WFI does.
+ */
 static void gen_nop_hint(DisasContext *s, int val)
 {
     switch (val) {
     case 1: /* yield */
-        gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        }
         break;
     case 3: /* wfi */
         gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
         s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFI;
         break;
     case 2: /* wfe */
-        gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        }
         break;
     case 4: /* sev */
     case 5: /* sevl */