diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
@@ -446,7 +446,8 @@
                                       /*AddSegmentInfo=*/false) ||
       Name == getInstrProfSectionName(IPSK_covfun, Triple::ELF,
                                       /*AddSegmentInfo=*/false) ||
-      Name == ".llvmbc" || Name == ".llvmcmd")
+      Name == ".llvmbc" || Name == ".llvmcmd" ||
+      Name.startswith(".llvm.offloading."))
     return SectionKind::getMetadata();
 
   if (Name.empty() || Name[0] != '.') return K;
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/offload_sections.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/offload_sections.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/X86/offload_sections.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+; RUN: llc < %s -mtriple=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu | FileCheck %s
+
+@llvm.embedded.object = hidden constant [1 x i8] c"\00", section ".llvm.offloading.dummy"
+@llvm.compiler.used = appending global [1 x i8*] [i8* getelementptr inbounds ([1 x i8], [1 x i8]* @llvm.embedded.object, i32 0, i32 0)], section "llvm.metadata"
+
+; CHECK-DAG: .section	.llvm.offloading.dummy,""