diff --git a/tests/kola/rpm-ostree/kernel-replace b/tests/kola/rpm-ostree/kernel-replace
index 4fd0dd38af..82dd80716e 100755
--- a/tests/kola/rpm-ostree/kernel-replace
+++ b/tests/kola/rpm-ostree/kernel-replace
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@
 ##   # RHCOS. See: https://github.com/containers/skopeo/issues/1846
 ##   distros: fcos
 ##   # Needs internet access as we fetch files from koji
-##   tags: "needs-internet platform-independent"
+##   # We add the "reprovision" tag here even though we aren't
+##   # reprovisioning as a hack so that in our pipeline the test
+##   # will execute with no other tests. We were seeing a lot of
+##   # timeouts on ppc64le.
+##   tags: "needs-internet platform-independent reprovision"
 ##   description: Verify that build of a container image with a new kernel
 ##     and reboot into it succeeds.