diff --git a/sys/arm64/conf/GENERIC b/sys/arm64/conf/GENERIC
index 2e7fe8dff2c2..70c25e5d18e6 100644
--- a/sys/arm64/conf/GENERIC
+++ b/sys/arm64/conf/GENERIC
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ options 	MAC			# TrustedBSD MAC Framework
 options 	KDTRACE_FRAME		# Ensure frames are compiled in
 options 	KDTRACE_HOOKS		# Kernel DTrace hooks
 options 	VFP			# Floating-point support
+options 	VFS_AIO			# Real implementations of the aio_* system calls
 options 	RACCT			# Resource accounting framework
 options 	RACCT_DEFAULT_TO_DISABLED # Set kern.racct.enable=0 by default
 options 	RCTL			# Resource limits