diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
index 616180153208a5a8e92045bfc95895ea1eea066d..77fdb46cc65a4a4b1f6e8a358ed5249e66dd4173 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ identify_qemu_append () {
 identify_qemu_args () {
 	case "$1" in
 	qemu-system-x86_64|qemu-system-i386)
+		echo -soundhw pcspk
 		;;
 	qemu-system-ppc64)
 		echo -enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER7 -nodefaults
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-test-1-run.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-test-1-run.sh
index 8dc5e4639fb4c267e6217fbc8dc3b6c9fea53f07..ea6e373edc27255efe7dccccd86b12b9eb97c189 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-test-1-run.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-test-1-run.sh
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 #
 # Usage: kvm-test-1-run.sh config builddir resdir seconds qemu-args boot_args
 #
-# qemu-args defaults to "-enable-kvm -soundhw pcspk -nographic", along with
-#			arguments specifying the number of CPUs and other
-#			options generated from the underlying CPU architecture.
+# qemu-args defaults to "-enable-kvm -nographic", along with arguments
+#			specifying the number of CPUs and other options
+#			generated from the underlying CPU architecture.
 # boot_args defaults to value returned by the per_version_boot_params
 #			shell function.
 #
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 # Generate -smp qemu argument.
-qemu_args="-enable-kvm -soundhw pcspk -nographic $qemu_args"
+qemu_args="-enable-kvm -nographic $qemu_args"
 cpu_count=`configNR_CPUS.sh $config_template`
 cpu_count=`configfrag_boot_cpus "$boot_args" "$config_template" "$cpu_count"`
 vcpus=`identify_qemu_vcpus`