diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/CMakeLists.txt b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/CMakeLists.txt
index ece674b2daa148..63532b72ff82ea 100644
--- a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ set(PROFILE_SOURCES
   InstrProfilingMerge.c
   InstrProfilingMergeFile.c
   InstrProfilingNameVar.c
+  InstrProfilingVersionVar.c
   InstrProfilingWriter.c
   InstrProfilingPlatformDarwin.c
   InstrProfilingPlatformFuchsia.c
diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c
index 31a9fe99629319..92ad25f62cd1b9 100644
--- a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfiling.c
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 #include "profile/InstrProfData.inc"
 
 
-COMPILER_RT_WEAK uint64_t INSTR_PROF_RAW_VERSION_VAR = INSTR_PROF_RAW_VERSION;
-
 COMPILER_RT_VISIBILITY uint64_t __llvm_profile_get_magic(void) {
   return sizeof(void *) == sizeof(uint64_t) ? (INSTR_PROF_RAW_MAGIC_64)
                                             : (INSTR_PROF_RAW_MAGIC_32);
diff --git a/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingVersionVar.c b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingVersionVar.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a6f222150794d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler-rt/lib/profile/InstrProfilingVersionVar.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+/*===- InstrProfilingVersionVar.c - profile version variable setup  -------===*\
+|*
+|* Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
+|* See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
+|* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
+|*
+\*===----------------------------------------------------------------------===*/
+
+#include "InstrProfiling.h"
+
+/* uint64 __llvm_profile_raw_version
+ *
+ * The runtime should only provide its own definition of this symbol when the
+ * user has not specified one. Set this up by moving the runtime's copy of this
+ * symbol to an object file within the archive.
+ */
+COMPILER_RT_WEAK uint64_t INSTR_PROF_RAW_VERSION_VAR = INSTR_PROF_RAW_VERSION;
diff --git a/compiler-rt/test/profile/instrprof-lto-pgogen.c b/compiler-rt/test/profile/instrprof-lto-pgogen.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0abae0d7b4c231
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler-rt/test/profile/instrprof-lto-pgogen.c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// REQUIRES: lto
+
+// RUN: %clang_pgogen=%t.profraw -flto %s -o %t
+// RUN: %run %t
+// RUN: llvm-profdata merge %t.profraw -o %t.profdata
+// RUN: llvm-profdata show %t.profdata | FileCheck %s
+
+// Testing a bug that happens when trying to generate IR
+// profile with BFD linker + LTO plugin
+
+// CHECK: Instrumentation level: IR
+int main() { return 0; }