diff --git a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/lit.rst b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/lit.rst
index af8a1a08be535..8c0e275e1f8ca 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/lit.rst
+++ b/llvm/docs/CommandGuide/lit.rst
@@ -191,6 +191,10 @@ EXECUTION OPTIONS
 
  Write XUnit-compatible XML test reports to the specified file.
 
+.. option:: --report-failures-only
+
+ Only include unresolved, timed out, failed and unexpectedly passed tests in the report.
+
 .. option:: --resultdb-output RESULTDB_OUTPUT
 
  Write LuCI ResultDB compatible JSON to the specified file.
diff --git a/llvm/utils/lit/lit/cl_arguments.py b/llvm/utils/lit/lit/cl_arguments.py
index a401c9a09e081..1d776e0216a1e 100644
--- a/llvm/utils/lit/lit/cl_arguments.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/lit/lit/cl_arguments.py
@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ def parse_args():
         type=lit.reports.XunitReport,
         help="Write XUnit-compatible XML test reports to the specified file",
     )
+    execution_group.add_argument(
+        "--report-failures-only",
+        help="Only include unresolved, timed out, failed"
+        " and unexpectedly passed tests in the report",
+        action="store_true",
+    )
     execution_group.add_argument(
         "--resultdb-output",
         type=lit.reports.ResultDBReport,
diff --git a/llvm/utils/lit/lit/main.py b/llvm/utils/lit/lit/main.py
index 24ba804f0c363..ba80330d22400 100755
--- a/llvm/utils/lit/lit/main.py
+++ b/llvm/utils/lit/lit/main.py
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ def main(builtin_params={}):
     print_results(discovered_tests, elapsed, opts)
 
     tests_for_report = selected_tests if opts.shard else discovered_tests
+    if opts.report_failures_only:
+        # Only report tests that failed.
+        tests_for_report = [t for t in tests_for_report if t.isFailure()]
+
     for report in opts.reports:
         report.write_results(tests_for_report, elapsed)
 
diff --git a/llvm/utils/lit/tests/xunit-output-report-failures-only.py b/llvm/utils/lit/tests/xunit-output-report-failures-only.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e15fd6a009f99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/utils/lit/tests/xunit-output-report-failures-only.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+## Check xunit output.
+# RUN: not %{lit} --report-failures-only --xunit-xml-output %t.xunit.xml %{inputs}/xunit-output
+# RUN: FileCheck --input-file=%t.xunit.xml %s
+
+# CHECK:      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+# CHECK-NEXT: <testsuites time="{{[0-9.]+}}">
+# CHECK-NEXT: <testsuite name="test-data" tests="1" failures="1" skipped="0" time="{{[0-9.]+}}">
+# CHECK-NEXT: <testcase classname="test-data.test-data" name="bad&amp;name.ini" time="{{[0-1]\.[0-9]+}}">
+# CHECK-NEXT:   <failure><![CDATA[& < > ]]]]><![CDATA[> &"]]></failure>
+# CHECK-NEXT: </testcase>
+# CHECK-NEXT: </testsuite>
+# CHECK-NEXT: </testsuites>