diff --git a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.cpp b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.cpp
index e8a2d833d3cb1..d0f4dac3e13d4 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.cpp
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include "llvm/Option/ArgList.h"
 #include "llvm/Option/OptTable.h"
 #include "llvm/Option/Option.h"
+#include "llvm/ProfileData/InstrProf.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/FileSystem.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/MemoryBuffer.h"
@@ -3811,6 +3812,18 @@ SanitizerMask Linux::getSupportedSanitizers() const {
   return Res;
 }
 
+void Linux::addProfileRTLibs(const llvm::opt::ArgList &Args,
+                             llvm::opt::ArgStringList &CmdArgs) const {
+  if (!needsProfileRT(Args)) return;
+
+  // Add linker option -u__llvm_runtime_variable to cause runtime
+  // initialization module to be linked in.
+  if (!Args.hasArg(options::OPT_coverage))
+    CmdArgs.push_back(Args.MakeArgString(
+        Twine("-u", llvm::getInstrProfRuntimeHookVarName())));
+  ToolChain::addProfileRTLibs(Args, CmdArgs);
+}
+
 /// DragonFly - DragonFly tool chain which can call as(1) and ld(1) directly.
 
 DragonFly::DragonFly(const Driver &D, const llvm::Triple &Triple,
diff --git a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.h b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.h
index 01ff328779834..fcb7561b1ff9f 100644
--- a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.h
+++ b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains.h
@@ -744,6 +744,8 @@ class LLVM_LIBRARY_VISIBILITY Linux : public Generic_ELF {
       llvm::opt::ArgStringList &CC1Args) const override;
   bool isPIEDefault() const override;
   SanitizerMask getSupportedSanitizers() const override;
+  void addProfileRTLibs(const llvm::opt::ArgList &Args,
+                        llvm::opt::ArgStringList &CmdArgs) const override;
 
   std::string Linker;
   std::vector<std::string> ExtraOpts;