diff --git a/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUPromoteAlloca.cpp b/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUPromoteAlloca.cpp
index fe9e4ca0ca4..ec7ea2baec0 100644
--- a/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUPromoteAlloca.cpp
+++ b/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUPromoteAlloca.cpp
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ static cl::opt<bool> DisablePromoteAllocaToVector(
   cl::desc("Disable promote alloca to vector"),
   cl::init(false));
 
+static cl::opt<bool> DisablePromoteAllocaToLDS(
+  "disable-promote-alloca-to-lds",
+  cl::desc("Disable promote alloca to LDS"),
+  cl::init(false));
+
 // FIXME: This can create globals so should be a module pass.
 class AMDGPUPromoteAlloca : public FunctionPass {
 private:
@@ -706,6 +711,9 @@ bool AMDGPUPromoteAlloca::handleAlloca(AllocaInst &I, bool SufficientLDS) {
   if (tryPromoteAllocaToVector(&I))
     return true; // Promoted to vector.
 
+  if (DisablePromoteAllocaToLDS)
+    return false;
+
   const Function &ContainingFunction = *I.getParent()->getParent();
   CallingConv::ID CC = ContainingFunction.getCallingConv();
 
diff --git a/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/promote-alloca-to-lds-icmp.ll b/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/promote-alloca-to-lds-icmp.ll
index ebef6122990..8d12a725594 100644
--- a/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/promote-alloca-to-lds-icmp.ll
+++ b/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/promote-alloca-to-lds-icmp.ll
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 ; RUN: opt -S -mtriple=amdgcn-unknown-amdhsa -mcpu=kaveri -amdgpu-promote-alloca < %s | FileCheck %s
+; RUN: opt -S -mtriple=amdgcn-unknown-amdhsa -mcpu=kaveri -amdgpu-promote-alloca -disable-promote-alloca-to-lds< %s | FileCheck -check-prefix=NOLDS %s
 
 ; This normally would be fixed by instcombine to be compare to the GEP
 ; indices
 
+; NOLDS-NOT: addrspace(3)
+
 ; CHECK-LABEL: @lds_promoted_alloca_icmp_same_derived_pointer(
 ; CHECK: [[ARRAYGEP:%[0-9]+]] = getelementptr inbounds [256 x [16 x i32]], [256 x [16 x i32]] addrspace(3)* @lds_promoted_alloca_icmp_same_derived_pointer.alloca, i32 0, i32 %{{[0-9]+}}
 ; CHECK: %ptr0 = getelementptr inbounds [16 x i32], [16 x i32] addrspace(3)* [[ARRAYGEP]], i32 0, i32 %a