diff --git a/src/coreclr/inc/clrconfigvalues.h b/src/coreclr/inc/clrconfigvalues.h
index cd29d9b9a91b49..201a8ee097b23c 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/inc/clrconfigvalues.h
+++ b/src/coreclr/inc/clrconfigvalues.h
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ RETAIL_CONFIG_DWORD_INFO(EXTERNAL_TailCallLoopOpt, W("TailCallLoopOpt"), 1, "Con
 RETAIL_CONFIG_DWORD_INFO(EXTERNAL_Jit_NetFx40PInvokeStackResilience, W("NetFx40_PInvokeStackResilience"), (DWORD)-1, "Makes P/Invoke resilient against mismatched signature and calling convention (significant perf penalty).")
 RETAIL_CONFIG_DWORD_INFO(EXTERNAL_DisableOptimizedThreadStaticAccess, W("DisableOptimizedThreadStaticAccess"), (DWORD)0, "Disable the OptimizedThreadStaticAccess feature.")
 CONFIG_DWORD_INFO(EXTERNAL_AssertNotStaticTlsResolver, W("AssertNotStaticTlsResolver"), (DWORD)0, "Assert if we attempt to use the static tls resolver path.")
+CONFIG_DWORD_INFO(EXTERNAL_AssertStaticTlsResolver, W("AssertStaticTlsResolver"), (DWORD)0, "Assert if the static tls resolver path is not available.")
 
 // AltJitAssertOnNYI should be 0 on targets where JIT is under development or bring up stage, so as to facilitate fallback to main JIT on hitting a NYI.
 #if defined(TARGET_X86)
diff --git a/src/coreclr/vm/threadstatics.cpp b/src/coreclr/vm/threadstatics.cpp
index d5ae02973ac091..17468cc502a743 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/vm/threadstatics.cpp
+++ b/src/coreclr/vm/threadstatics.cpp
@@ -1035,6 +1035,12 @@ bool CanJITOptimizeTLSAccess()
     // Optimization is disabled for OpenBSD, which has no addressable __tls_get_addr.
 #elif !defined(TARGET_APPLE) && defined(TARGET_UNIX) && (defined(TARGET_ARM64) || defined(TARGET_LOONGARCH64))
     bool tlsResolverValid = IsValidTLSResolver();
+#ifdef _DEBUG
+    if (CLRConfig::GetConfigValue(CLRConfig::EXTERNAL_AssertStaticTlsResolver) != 0)
+    {
+        _ASSERTE(tlsResolverValid && "Static TLS resolver is not available");
+    }
+#endif // _DEBUG
     if (tlsResolverValid)
     {
         optimizeThreadStaticAccess = true;
diff --git a/src/tests/JIT/Directed/tls/TestTLSWithLoadedDlls.cs b/src/tests/JIT/Directed/tls/TestTLSWithLoadedDlls.cs
index 18385bb14cd612..ae84ef1128ad12 100644
--- a/src/tests/JIT/Directed/tls/TestTLSWithLoadedDlls.cs
+++ b/src/tests/JIT/Directed/tls/TestTLSWithLoadedDlls.cs
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
 
-// This test is verifying that the runtime properly handles the cases where the TLS infra in the runtime is forced
-// to use a dynamic resolver. This is done by means of a private config variable to validate the behavior on Linux Arm64
-// and a set of multithreaded tasks, that has been known to cause the runtime to crash when this is handled incorrectly.
+// This test verifies that the runtime uses a static TLS resolver by default on Linux Arm64 and properly handles
+// the case where loading additional TLS-using libraries forces it to use a dynamic resolver.
 
 using System;
 using System.Diagnostics;
@@ -23,6 +22,15 @@ static class TLSWithLoadedDlls
     {
         private const int CountOfLibTlsToLoad = 40;
 
+        [ThreadStatic]
+        private static int t_threadStatic;
+
+        static int AccessThreadStatic()
+        {
+            t_threadStatic = 100;
+            return t_threadStatic;
+        }
+
         static async Task DoLotsOfAsyncWork(int loopCount)
         {
             for (int i = 0; i < loopCount; i++)
@@ -48,6 +56,23 @@ static int Main(string[] args)
                 return 100;
             }
 
+            if ((args.Length == 1) && (args[0] == "AccessThreadStatic"))
+            {
+                return AccessThreadStatic();
+            }
+
+            string testAssemblyPath = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
+            if (OperatingSystem.IsLinux() && RuntimeInformation.ProcessArchitecture == Architecture.Arm64)
+            {
+                int exitCode = RunChildProcess(
+                    $"{testAssemblyPath} AccessThreadStatic",
+                    "DOTNET_AssertStaticTlsResolver");
+                if (exitCode != 100)
+                {
+                    return exitCode;
+                }
+            }
+
             int CountOfLibTlsToLoad = 60;
 
             if (OperatingSystem.IsWindows()) // Windows does not have a really long command line length limit, and doesn't have a problem with many TLS using images used
@@ -79,14 +104,19 @@ static int Main(string[] args)
             }
 
             arguments.Append(' ');
-            arguments.Append(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
+            arguments.Append(testAssemblyPath);
             arguments.Append(" RunLotsOfTasks");
 
+            return RunChildProcess(arguments.ToString(), "DOTNET_AssertNotStaticTlsResolver");
+        }
+
+        private static int RunChildProcess(string arguments, string assertionVariable)
+        {
             Process process = new Process();
             process.StartInfo.FileName = GetCorerunPath();
-            process.StartInfo.Arguments = arguments.ToString();
+            process.StartInfo.Arguments = arguments;
             process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
-            process.StartInfo.EnvironmentVariables["DOTNET_AssertNotStaticTlsResolver"] = "1";
+            process.StartInfo.EnvironmentVariables[assertionVariable] = "1";
 
             Console.WriteLine($"Launching {process.StartInfo.FileName} {process.StartInfo.Arguments}");