diff --git a/llvm/lib/Support/CommandLine.cpp b/llvm/lib/Support/CommandLine.cpp
index a7e0cae8b855d..55633d7cafa47 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Support/CommandLine.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Support/CommandLine.cpp
@@ -1667,13 +1667,6 @@ bool CommandLineParser::ParseCommandLineOptions(int argc,
       Handler = LookupLongOption(*ChosenSubCommand, ArgName, Value,
                                  LongOptionsUseDoubleDash, HaveDoubleDash);
 
-      // If Handler is not found in a specialized subcommand, look up handler
-      // in the top-level subcommand.
-      // cl::opt without cl::sub belongs to top-level subcommand.
-      if (!Handler && ChosenSubCommand != &SubCommand::getTopLevel())
-        Handler = LookupLongOption(SubCommand::getTopLevel(), ArgName, Value,
-                                   LongOptionsUseDoubleDash, HaveDoubleDash);
-
       // Check to see if this "option" is really a prefixed or grouped argument.
       if (!Handler && !(LongOptionsUseDoubleDash && HaveDoubleDash))
         Handler = HandlePrefixedOrGroupedOption(ArgName, Value, ErrorParsing,
diff --git a/llvm/unittests/Support/CommandLineTest.cpp b/llvm/unittests/Support/CommandLineTest.cpp
index 4411ed0f83928..41cc8260acfed 100644
--- a/llvm/unittests/Support/CommandLineTest.cpp
+++ b/llvm/unittests/Support/CommandLineTest.cpp
@@ -525,59 +525,6 @@ TEST(CommandLineTest, LookupFailsInWrongSubCommand) {
   EXPECT_FALSE(Errs.empty());
 }
 
-TEST(CommandLineTest, TopLevelOptInSubcommand) {
-  enum LiteralOptionEnum {
-    foo,
-    bar,
-    baz,
-  };
-
-  cl::ResetCommandLineParser();
-
-  // This is a top-level option and not associated with a subcommand.
-  // A command line using subcommand should parse both subcommand options and
-  // top-level options.  A valid use case is that users of llvm command line
-  // tools should be able to specify top-level options defined in any library.
-  cl::opt<std::string> TopLevelOpt("str", cl::init("txt"),
-                                   cl::desc("A top-level option."));
-
-  StackSubCommand SC("sc", "Subcommand");
-  StackOption<std::string> PositionalOpt(
-      cl::Positional, cl::desc("positional argument test coverage"),
-      cl::sub(SC));
-  StackOption<LiteralOptionEnum> LiteralOpt(
-      cl::desc("literal argument test coverage"), cl::sub(SC), cl::init(bar),
-      cl::values(clEnumVal(foo, "foo"), clEnumVal(bar, "bar"),
-                 clEnumVal(baz, "baz")));
-  StackOption<bool> EnableOpt("enable", cl::sub(SC), cl::init(false));
-  StackOption<int> ThresholdOpt("threshold", cl::sub(SC), cl::init(1));
-
-  const char *PositionalOptVal = "input-file";
-  const char *args[] = {"prog",    "sc",        PositionalOptVal,
-                        "-enable", "--str=csv", "--threshold=2"};
-
-  // cl::ParseCommandLineOptions returns true on success. Otherwise, it will
-  // print the error message to stderr and exit in this setting (`Errs` ostream
-  // is not set).
-  ASSERT_TRUE(cl::ParseCommandLineOptions(sizeof(args) / sizeof(args[0]), args,
-                                          StringRef()));
-  EXPECT_STREQ(PositionalOpt.getValue().c_str(), PositionalOptVal);
-  EXPECT_TRUE(EnableOpt);
-  // Tests that the value of `str` option is `csv` as specified.
-  EXPECT_STREQ(TopLevelOpt.getValue().c_str(), "csv");
-  EXPECT_EQ(ThresholdOpt, 2);
-
-  for (auto &[LiteralOptVal, WantLiteralOpt] :
-       {std::pair{"--bar", bar}, {"--foo", foo}, {"--baz", baz}}) {
-    const char *args[] = {"prog", "sc", LiteralOptVal};
-    ASSERT_TRUE(cl::ParseCommandLineOptions(sizeof(args) / sizeof(args[0]),
-                                            args, StringRef()));
-
-    // Tests that literal options are parsed correctly.
-    EXPECT_EQ(LiteralOpt, WantLiteralOpt);
-  }
-}
-
 TEST(CommandLineTest, AddToAllSubCommands) {
   cl::ResetCommandLineParser();