diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-dwarfdump/X86/type_units_split_dwp_v4.s b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-dwarfdump/X86/type_units_split_dwp_v4.s
index becd9d1b55693..519edf043be5d 100644
--- a/llvm/test/tools/llvm-dwarfdump/X86/type_units_split_dwp_v4.s
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/llvm-dwarfdump/X86/type_units_split_dwp_v4.s
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 ## This test uses TU index for type parsing in dwp and makes sure the DWARF4 type is
 ## successfully retrieved.
 
+## cd to a unique dir so we can refer to the file as just "test.dwo" in the
+## assembly test input below.
+# RUN: rm -rf %t
+# RUN: mkdir %t
+# RUN: cd %t
+
 # RUN: llvm-mc %s --split-dwarf-file=test.dwo -filetype obj -triple x86_64 -o test.o
 # RUN: llvm-dwp -e test.o -o test.dwp
 # RUN: llvm-dwarfdump test.dwp | FileCheck %s