diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h b/llvm/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h
--- a/llvm/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm/Target/TargetMachine.h
@@ -485,6 +485,10 @@
   virtual bool useIPRA() const {
     return false;
   }
+
+  /// The default variant to use in unqualified `asm` instructions.
+  /// If this returns 0, `asm "$(foo$|bar$)"` will evaluate to `asm "foo"`.
+  virtual int unqualifiedInlineAsmVariant() const { return 0; }
 };
 
 /// Helper method for getting the code model, returning Default if
diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinterInlineAsm.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinterInlineAsm.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinterInlineAsm.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinterInlineAsm.cpp
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@
   int CurVariant = -1;            // The number of the {.|.|.} region we are in.
   const char *LastEmitted = AsmStr; // One past the last character emitted.
   unsigned NumOperands = MI->getNumOperands();
-  int AsmPrinterVariant = MAI->getAssemblerDialect();
+  int AsmPrinterVariant = MMI->getTarget().unqualifiedInlineAsmVariant();
 
   if (MAI->getEmitGNUAsmStartIndentationMarker())
     OS << '\t';
diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCTargetMachine.h b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCTargetMachine.h
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCTargetMachine.h
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCTargetMachine.h
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
   }
 
   bool isLittleEndian() const;
+
+  int unqualifiedInlineAsmVariant() const override { return 1; }
 };
 } // end namespace llvm
 
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/asm-dialect.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/asm-dialect.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/asm-dialect.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_llc_test_checks.py
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu %s -o - \
+; RUN:     | FileCheck --check-prefix=OUTPUT_ATT %s
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu %s -x86-asm-syntax=intel -o - \
+; RUN:     | FileCheck --check-prefix=OUTPUT_INTEL %s
+
+define void @f() {
+; OUTPUT_ATT-LABEL: f:
+; OUTPUT_ATT:       # %bb.0:
+; OUTPUT_ATT-NEXT:    #APP
+; OUTPUT_ATT-NEXT:    movq %rbx, %rax
+; OUTPUT_ATT-NEXT:    #NO_APP
+; OUTPUT_ATT-NEXT:    retq
+;
+; OUTPUT_INTEL-LABEL: f:
+; OUTPUT_INTEL:       # %bb.0:
+; OUTPUT_INTEL-NEXT:    #APP
+; OUTPUT_INTEL-NEXT:    mov rax, rbx
+; OUTPUT_INTEL-NEXT:    #NO_APP
+; OUTPUT_INTEL-NEXT:    ret
+  call void asm sideeffect "$(movq %rbx, %rax $|mov rax, rbx$)", "~{dirflag},~{fpsr},~{flags}"()
+
+  ret void
+}