diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/latency/dump-object-to-disk.s b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/latency/dump-object-to-disk.s
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/latency/dump-object-to-disk.s
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# RUN: llvm-exegesis -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-unknown -mcpu=x86-64 -mode=latency --skip-measurements -opcode-name=ADDPSrr -repetition-mode=duplicate -dump-object-to-disk=1 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-ON
+# RUN: llvm-exegesis -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-unknown -mcpu=x86-64 -mode=latency --skip-measurements -opcode-name=ADDPSrr -repetition-mode=loop      -dump-object-to-disk=1 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-ON
+# RUN: llvm-exegesis -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-unknown -mcpu=x86-64 -mode=latency --skip-measurements -opcode-name=ADDPSrr -repetition-mode=duplicate -dump-object-to-disk=0 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-OFF
+# RUN: llvm-exegesis -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-unknown -mcpu=x86-64 -mode=latency --skip-measurements -opcode-name=ADDPSrr -repetition-mode=loop      -dump-object-to-disk=0 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-OFF
+# RUN: llvm-exegesis -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-unknown -mcpu=x86-64 -mode=latency --skip-measurements -opcode-name=ADDPSrr -repetition-mode=duplicate 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-OFF
+# RUN: llvm-exegesis -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-unknown -mcpu=x86-64 -mode=latency --skip-measurements -opcode-name=ADDPSrr -repetition-mode=loop 2>&1 | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-OFF
+
+CHECK-ON: Check generated assembly with
+CHECK-OFF-NOT: Check generated assembly with
diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-exegesis/llvm-exegesis.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-exegesis/llvm-exegesis.cpp
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-exegesis/llvm-exegesis.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-exegesis/llvm-exegesis.cpp
@@ -205,11 +205,11 @@
          cl::desc("Target a specific cpu type (-mcpu=help for details)"),
          cl::value_desc("cpu-name"), cl::cat(Options), cl::init("native"));
 
-static cl::opt<bool>
-    DumpObjectToDisk("dump-object-to-disk",
-                     cl::desc("dumps the generated benchmark object to disk "
-                              "and prints a message to access it"),
-                     cl::cat(BenchmarkOptions), cl::init(true));
+static cl::opt<bool> DumpObjectToDisk(
+    "dump-object-to-disk",
+    cl::desc("dumps the generated benchmark object to disk "
+             "and prints a message to access it (default = false)"),
+    cl::cat(BenchmarkOptions), cl::init(false));
 
 static ExitOnError ExitOnErr("llvm-exegesis error: ");