diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/DeadStoreElimination.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/DeadStoreElimination.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/DeadStoreElimination.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/DeadStoreElimination.cpp
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
 // those cases, the flag can be used to check if DSE's MemorySSA optimizations
 // impact follow-up passes.
 static cl::opt<bool>
-    OptimizeMemorySSA("dse-optimize-memoryssa", cl::init(false), cl::Hidden,
-                      cl::desc("Allow DSE to optimize memory accesses"));
+    OptimizeMemorySSA("dse-optimize-memoryssa", cl::init(true), cl::Hidden,
+                      cl::desc("Allow DSE to optimize memory accesses."));
 
 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
 // Helper functions
diff --git a/llvm/test/Transforms/DeadStoreElimination/stores-of-existing-values.ll b/llvm/test/Transforms/DeadStoreElimination/stores-of-existing-values.ll
--- a/llvm/test/Transforms/DeadStoreElimination/stores-of-existing-values.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/Transforms/DeadStoreElimination/stores-of-existing-values.ll
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_test_checks.py
 ; RUN: opt -basic-aa -dse -dse-optimize-memoryssa=false -S %s | FileCheck --check-prefixes=CHECK,UNOPT %s
 ; RUN: opt -basic-aa -dse -dse-optimize-memoryssa -S %s | FileCheck --check-prefixes=CHECK,OPT %s
-; RUN: opt -basic-aa -dse -S %s | FileCheck --check-prefixes=CHECK,UNOPT %s
+; RUN: opt -basic-aa -dse -S %s | FileCheck --check-prefixes=CHECK,OPT %s
 
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