diff --git a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AIX.cpp b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AIX.cpp
--- a/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AIX.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/Driver/ToolChains/AIX.cpp
@@ -98,9 +98,10 @@
     CmdArgs.push_back("-bnoentry");
   }
 
-  // Specify PGO linker option without LTO
-  if (!D.isUsingLTO() &&
-      (Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_fprofile_arcs, options::OPT_fno_profile_arcs,
+  // PGO instrumentation generates symbols belonging to special sections, and
+  // the linker needs to place all symbols in a particular section together in
+  // memory; the AIX linker does that under an option.
+  if (Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_fprofile_arcs, options::OPT_fno_profile_arcs,
                     false) ||
        Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_fprofile_generate,
                     options::OPT_fno_profile_generate, false) ||
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@
        Args.hasFlag(options::OPT_fcs_profile_generate_EQ,
                     options::OPT_fno_profile_generate, false) ||
        Args.hasArg(options::OPT_fcreate_profile) ||
-       Args.hasArg(options::OPT_coverage)))
+       Args.hasArg(options::OPT_coverage))
     CmdArgs.push_back("-bdbg:namedsects");
 
   // Specify linker output file.
diff --git a/clang/test/Driver/aix-ld.c b/clang/test/Driver/aix-ld.c
--- a/clang/test/Driver/aix-ld.c
+++ b/clang/test/Driver/aix-ld.c
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@
 // CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "-resource-dir" "[[RESOURCE_DIR:[^"]+]]"
 // CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "-isysroot" "[[SYSROOT:[^"]+]]"
 // CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "{{.*}}ld{{(.exe)?}}"
-// CHECK-PGO-LTO-NOT: "-bdbg:namedsects"
+// CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "-bdbg:namedsects"
 // CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "-b32"
 // CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "-bpT:0x10000000" "-bpD:0x20000000"
 // CHECK-PGO-LTO:     "[[SYSROOT]]/usr/lib{{/|\\\\}}crt0.o"