diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/12/llvm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/12/llvm/default.nix
index 0d0075fddc79..33bb7b931f1e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/12/llvm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/12/llvm/default.nix
@@ -55,6 +55,12 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ ncurses zlib ];
 
+  patches = [
+    # Force a test to evaluate the saved benchmark for a CPU for which LLVM has
+    # an execution model. See NixOS/nixpkgs#119673.
+    ../../exegesis-force-bdver2.patch
+  ];
+
   postPatch = optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
     substituteInPlace cmake/modules/AddLLVM.cmake \
       --replace 'set(_install_name_dir INSTALL_NAME_DIR "@rpath")' "set(_install_name_dir)" \
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/exegesis-force-bdver2.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/exegesis-force-bdver2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c2654153ed5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/llvm/exegesis-force-bdver2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff --git a/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/uops-CMOV16rm-noreg.s b/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/uops-CMOV16rm-noreg.s
+index 3fc1f31d54dc..a4c9bdd92131 100644
+--- a/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/uops-CMOV16rm-noreg.s
++++ b/test/tools/llvm-exegesis/X86/uops-CMOV16rm-noreg.s
+@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
+ # RUN: llvm-exegesis -mode=uops -opcode-name=CMOV16rm  -benchmarks-file=%t.CMOV16rm-uops.yaml
+ # RUN: FileCheck -check-prefixes=CHECK-YAML -input-file=%t.CMOV16rm-uops.yaml %s
++# RUN: sed -i 's,cpu_name:.*,cpu_name: bdver2,g' %t.CMOV16rm-uops.yaml
+ # RUN: llvm-exegesis -mcpu=bdver2 -mode=analysis -benchmarks-file=%t.CMOV16rm-uops.yaml -analysis-clusters-output-file=- -analysis-clustering-epsilon=0.1 -analysis-inconsistency-epsilon=0.1 -analysis-numpoints=1 -analysis-clustering=naive | FileCheck -check-prefixes=CHECK-CLUSTERS %s
+ 
+ # https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41448