diff --git a/base/Base.jl b/base/Base.jl
index 63898854b9fac..379347f027f69 100644
--- a/base/Base.jl
+++ b/base/Base.jl
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ include("sysinfo.jl")
 include("libc.jl")
 using .Libc: getpid, gethostname, time, memcpy, memset, memmove, memcmp
 
-const USING_STOCK_GC = occursin("stock", unsafe_string(ccall(:jl_gc_active_impl, Ptr{UInt8}, ())))
+const USING_STOCK_GC = occursin("stock", GC.gc_active_impl())
 
 # These used to be in build_h.jl and are retained for backwards compatibility.
 # NOTE: keep in sync with `libblastrampoline_jll.libblastrampoline`.
diff --git a/base/gcutils.jl b/base/gcutils.jl
index 60b8ecdd17d65..d5e6f4597739f 100644
--- a/base/gcutils.jl
+++ b/base/gcutils.jl
@@ -281,4 +281,15 @@ function logging_enabled()
     ccall(:jl_is_gc_logging_enabled, Cint, ()) != 0
 end
 
+"""
+    GC.gc_active_impl()
+
+Return a string stating which GC implementation is being used and possibly
+its version according to the list of supported GCs
+"""
+function gc_active_impl()
+    unsafe_string(ccall(:jl_gc_active_impl, Ptr{UInt8}, ()))
+end
+
+
 end # module GC
diff --git a/test/checked.jl b/test/checked.jl
index 4031918a38730..b93c8796162c5 100644
--- a/test/checked.jl
+++ b/test/checked.jl
@@ -331,8 +331,12 @@ end
     @test checked_pow(BigInt(2), 2) == BigInt(4)
     @test checked_pow(BigInt(2), 100) == BigInt(1267650600228229401496703205376)
 
-    # Perf test: Make sure BigInts allocs don't scale with the power:
-    @test @allocations(checked_pow(BigInt(2), 2)) ≈ @allocations(checked_pow(BigInt(2), 10000)) rtol=0.9
+    # FIXME: Issue #57103: the following test may fail because
+    # allocation may not be logged via MMTk's fastpath allocation
+    @static if Base.USING_STOCK_GC
+        # Perf test: Make sure BigInts allocs don't scale with the power:
+        @test @allocations(checked_pow(BigInt(2), 2)) ≈ @allocations(checked_pow(BigInt(2), 10000)) rtol=0.9
+    end
 end
 
 @testset "Additional tests" begin
diff --git a/test/gc.jl b/test/gc.jl
index 18a3a3aa54ffc..3e9f03ef40d92 100644
--- a/test/gc.jl
+++ b/test/gc.jl
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ function run_gctest(file)
     end
 end
 
-#FIXME: Issue #57103 disabling tests for MMTk, since
-# they rely on information that is specific to the stock GC.
-@static if Base.USING_STOCK_GC
 function run_nonzero_page_utilization_test()
     GC.gc()
     page_utilization = Base.gc_page_utilization_data()
@@ -27,6 +24,16 @@ function run_nonzero_page_utilization_test()
     @test any(page_utilization .> 0)
 end
 
+function run_pg_size_test()
+    page_size = @ccall jl_get_pg_size()::UInt64
+    # supported page sizes: 4KB and 16KB
+    @test page_size == (1 << 12) || page_size == (1 << 14)
+end
+
+function issue_54275_alloc_string()
+    String(UInt8['a' for i in 1:10000000])
+end
+
 function issue_54275_test()
     GC.gc(true)
     baseline = Base.gc_live_bytes()
@@ -48,17 +55,6 @@ function full_sweep_reasons_test()
     @test reasons[:FULL_SWEEP_REASON_FORCED_FULL_SWEEP] >= 1
     @test keys(reasons) == Set(Base.FULL_SWEEP_REASONS)
 end
-end
-
-function run_pg_size_test()
-    page_size = @ccall jl_get_pg_size()::UInt64
-    # supported page sizes: 4KB and 16KB
-    @test page_size == (1 << 12) || page_size == (1 << 14)
-end
-
-function issue_54275_alloc_string()
-    String(UInt8['a' for i in 1:10000000])
-end
 
 # !!! note:
 #     Since we run our tests on 32bit OS as well we confine ourselves
@@ -71,6 +67,9 @@ end
     run_gctest("gc/chunks.jl")
 end
 
+#FIXME: Issue #57103 disabling tests for MMTk, since
+# they rely on information that is specific to the stock GC.
+@static if Base.USING_STOCK_GC
 @testset "GC page metrics" begin
     run_nonzero_page_utilization_test()
     run_pg_size_test()
@@ -80,13 +79,14 @@ end
     issue_54275_test()
 end
 
-@testset "Base.GC docstrings" begin
-    @test isempty(Docs.undocumented_names(GC))
-end
-
 @testset "Full GC reasons" begin
     full_sweep_reasons_test()
 end
+end
+
+@testset "Base.GC docstrings" begin
+    @test isempty(Docs.undocumented_names(GC))
+end
 
 #testset doesn't work here because this needs to run in top level
 #Check that we ensure objects in toplevel exprs are rooted