diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetMachine.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetMachine.cpp
index 3d818c76bd4b7..fcc30a7cfceaf 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetMachine.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetMachine.cpp
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static cl::opt<bool> EnableGISelLoadStoreOptPostLegal(
 static cl::opt<bool>
     EnableSinkFold("aarch64-enable-sink-fold",
                    cl::desc("Enable sinking and folding of instruction copies"),
-                   cl::init(false), cl::Hidden);
+                   cl::init(true), cl::Hidden);
 
 extern "C" LLVM_EXTERNAL_VISIBILITY void LLVMInitializeAArch64Target() {
   // Register the target.
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/sink-and-fold.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/sink-and-fold.ll
index 632fdb3910531..52007221e12a7 100644
--- a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/sink-and-fold.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AArch64/sink-and-fold.ll
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_llc_test_checks.py
-; RUN: llc -aarch64-enable-sink-fold=true < %s | FileCheck %s
+; RUN: llc < %s | FileCheck %s
 target triple = "aarch64-linux"
 
 declare i32 @use(...)