diff --git a/include/swift/AST/SILOptions.h b/include/swift/AST/SILOptions.h
index 75e794074f8af..31344711acc8f 100644
--- a/include/swift/AST/SILOptions.h
+++ b/include/swift/AST/SILOptions.h
@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ class SILOptions {
   /// Whether to dump verbose SIL with scope and location information.
   bool EmitVerboseSIL = false;
 
+  /// Should we sort SIL functions, vtables, witness tables, and global
+  /// variables by name when we print it out. This eases diffing of SIL files.
+  bool EmitSortedSIL = false;
+
   /// Whether to stop the optimization pipeline after serializing SIL.
   bool StopOptimizationAfterSerialization = false;
 
diff --git a/include/swift/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h b/include/swift/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h
index 9f0ba7a212327..b68d805d9833d 100644
--- a/include/swift/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h
+++ b/include/swift/Frontend/FrontendOptions.h
@@ -207,10 +207,6 @@ class FrontendOptions {
   /// \see ResilienceStrategy::Resilient
   bool EnableLibraryEvolution = false;
 
-  /// Indicates that the frontend should emit "verbose" SIL
-  /// (if asked to emit SIL).
-  bool EmitVerboseSIL = false;
-
   /// If set, this module is part of a mixed Objective-C/Swift framework, and
   /// the Objective-C half should implicitly be visible to the Swift sources.
   bool ImportUnderlyingModule = false;
@@ -251,8 +247,10 @@ class FrontendOptions {
   /// exit.
   bool PrintTargetInfo = false;
 
-  /// Should we sort SIL functions, vtables, witness tables, and global
-  /// variables by name when we print it out. This eases diffing of SIL files.
+  /// See the \ref SILOptions.EmitVerboseSIL flag.
+  bool EmitVerboseSIL = false;
+
+  /// See the \ref SILOptions.EmitSortedSIL flag.
   bool EmitSortedSIL = false;
 
   /// Indicates whether the dependency tracker should track system
diff --git a/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp b/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
index 9d861e5b12600..b8eb1b23b75e5 100644
--- a/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
+++ b/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
@@ -941,6 +941,7 @@ static bool ParseSILArgs(SILOptions &Opts, ArgList &Args,
   Opts.VerifyAll |= Args.hasArg(OPT_sil_verify_all);
   Opts.DebugSerialization |= Args.hasArg(OPT_sil_debug_serialization);
   Opts.EmitVerboseSIL |= Args.hasArg(OPT_emit_verbose_sil);
+  Opts.EmitSortedSIL |= Args.hasArg(OPT_emit_sorted_sil);
   Opts.PrintInstCounts |= Args.hasArg(OPT_print_inst_counts);
   if (const Arg *A = Args.getLastArg(OPT_external_pass_pipeline_filename))
     Opts.ExternalPassPipelineFilename = A->getValue();
diff --git a/lib/FrontendTool/FrontendTool.cpp b/lib/FrontendTool/FrontendTool.cpp
index 98ec4b7dabfc7..74b9114c458b8 100644
--- a/lib/FrontendTool/FrontendTool.cpp
+++ b/lib/FrontendTool/FrontendTool.cpp
@@ -510,8 +510,7 @@ static bool writeSIL(SILModule &SM, ModuleDecl *M, bool EmitVerboseSIL,
 
 static bool writeSIL(SILModule &SM, const PrimarySpecificPaths &PSPs,
                      const CompilerInstance &Instance,
-                     const CompilerInvocation &Invocation) {
-  const FrontendOptions &opts = Invocation.getFrontendOptions();
+                     const SILOptions &opts) {
   return writeSIL(SM, Instance.getMainModule(), opts.EmitVerboseSIL,
                   PSPs.OutputFilename, opts.EmitSortedSIL);
 }
@@ -1509,7 +1508,7 @@ static bool performCompileStepsPostSILGen(
 
   // We've been told to emit SIL after SILGen, so write it now.
   if (Action == FrontendOptions::ActionType::EmitSILGen) {
-    return writeSIL(*SM, PSPs, Instance, Invocation);
+    return writeSIL(*SM, PSPs, Instance, Invocation.getSILOptions());
   }
 
   if (Action == FrontendOptions::ActionType::EmitSIBGen) {
@@ -1578,7 +1577,7 @@ static bool performCompileStepsPostSILGen(
 
   // We've been told to write canonical SIL, so write it now.
   if (Action == FrontendOptions::ActionType::EmitSIL)
-    return writeSIL(*SM, PSPs, Instance, Invocation);
+    return writeSIL(*SM, PSPs, Instance, Invocation.getSILOptions());
 
   assert(Action >= FrontendOptions::ActionType::Immediate &&
          "All actions not requiring IRGen must have been handled!");