diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
index 5adc69f560..c1ca7b1cb3 100644
--- a/os-posix.c
+++ b/os-posix.c
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 #include "qemu/log.h"
 #include "sysemu/runstate.h"
 #include "qemu/cutils.h"
+#include "qemu/config-file.h"
+#include "qemu/option.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
 #include <sys/prctl.h>
@@ -132,6 +134,8 @@ static bool os_parse_runas_uid_gid(const char *optarg)
  */
 int os_parse_cmd_args(int index, const char *optarg)
 {
+    QemuOpts *opts;
+
     switch (index) {
     case QEMU_OPTION_runas:
         user_pwd = getpwnam(optarg);
@@ -152,8 +156,15 @@ int os_parse_cmd_args(int index, const char *optarg)
         daemonize = 1;
         break;
 #if defined(CONFIG_LINUX)
-    case QEMU_OPTION_asyncteardown:
-        init_async_teardown();
+    case QEMU_OPTION_teardown:
+        opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("teardown"),
+                                       optarg, false);
+        if (!opts) {
+            exit(1);
+        }
+        if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "async", false)) {
+            init_async_teardown();
+        }
         break;
 #endif
     default:
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index d42f60fb91..6a69b84f3c 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4763,23 +4763,28 @@ DEF("qtest", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_qtest, "", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 DEF("qtest-log", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_qtest_log, "", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 
 #ifdef __linux__
-DEF("async-teardown", 0, QEMU_OPTION_asyncteardown,
-    "-async-teardown enable asynchronous teardown\n",
+DEF("teardown", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_teardown,
+    "-teardown async[=on|off]\n"
+    "                process teardown options\n"
+    "                async=on enables asynchronous teardown\n"
+   ,
     QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
-#endif
 SRST
-``-async-teardown``
-    Enable asynchronous teardown. A new process called "cleanup/<QEMU_PID>"
-    will be created at startup sharing the address space with the main qemu
-    process, using clone. It will wait for the main qemu process to
-    terminate completely, and then exit.
-    This allows qemu to terminate very quickly even if the guest was
-    huge, leaving the teardown of the address space to the cleanup
-    process. Since the cleanup process shares the same cgroups as the
-    main qemu process, accounting is performed correctly. This only
-    works if the cleanup process is not forcefully killed with SIGKILL
-    before the main qemu process has terminated completely.
+``-teardown``
+    Set process teardown options.
+
+    ``async=on`` enables asynchronous teardown. A new process called
+    "cleanup/<QEMU_PID>" will be created at startup sharing the address
+    space with the main QEMU process, using clone. It will wait for the
+    main QEMU process to terminate completely, and then exit. This allows
+    QEMU to terminate very quickly even if the guest was huge, leaving the
+    teardown of the address space to the cleanup process. Since the cleanup
+    process shares the same cgroups as the main QEMU process, accounting is
+    performed correctly. This only works if the cleanup process is not
+    forcefully killed with SIGKILL before the main QEMU process has
+    terminated completely.
 ERST
+#endif
 
 DEF("msg", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_msg,
     "-msg [timestamp[=on|off]][,guest-name=[on|off]]\n"
diff --git a/util/async-teardown.c b/util/async-teardown.c
index 62cdeb0f20..4a5dbce958 100644
--- a/util/async-teardown.c
+++ b/util/async-teardown.c
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
  */
 
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/config-file.h"
+#include "qemu/option.h"
+#include "qemu/module.h"
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <sys/prctl.h>
 #include <sched.h>
@@ -144,3 +147,21 @@ void init_async_teardown(void)
     clone(async_teardown_fn, new_stack_for_clone(), CLONE_VM, NULL);
     sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &old_signals, NULL);
 }
+
+static QemuOptsList qemu_teardown_opts = {
+    .name = "teardown",
+    .head = QTAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(qemu_teardown_opts.head),
+    .desc = {
+        {
+            .name = "async",
+            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+        },
+        { /* end of list */ }
+    },
+};
+
+static void register_teardown(void)
+{
+    qemu_add_opts(&qemu_teardown_opts);
+}
+opts_init(register_teardown);
