Index: ELF/Config.h
===================================================================
--- ELF/Config.h
+++ ELF/Config.h
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
   bool Mips64EL = false;
   bool NoInhibitExec;
   bool NoUndefined;
+  bool PrintGcSections;
   bool Shared;
   bool Static = false;
   bool StripAll;
Index: ELF/Driver.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/Driver.cpp
+++ ELF/Driver.cpp
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@
   Config->GcSections = Args.hasArg(OPT_gc_sections);
   Config->NoInhibitExec = Args.hasArg(OPT_noinhibit_exec);
   Config->NoUndefined = Args.hasArg(OPT_no_undefined);
+  Config->PrintGcSections = Args.hasArg(OPT_print_gc_sections);
   Config->Shared = Args.hasArg(OPT_shared);
   Config->StripAll = Args.hasArg(OPT_strip_all);
   Config->Verbose = Args.hasArg(OPT_verbose);
Index: ELF/Options.td
===================================================================
--- ELF/Options.td
+++ ELF/Options.td
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@
 def o : Separate<["-"], "o">, MetaVarName<"<path>">,
   HelpText<"Path to file to write output">;
 
+def print_gc_sections: Flag<["--"], "print-gc-sections">,
+  HelpText<"List removed unused sections">;
+
 def rpath : Separate<["-"], "rpath">,
   HelpText<"Add a DT_RUNPATH to the output">;
 
Index: ELF/Writer.cpp
===================================================================
--- ELF/Writer.cpp
+++ ELF/Writer.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "llvm/ADT/StringMap.h"
 #include "llvm/ADT/StringSwitch.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/FileOutputBuffer.h"
+#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
 #include "llvm/Support/StringSaver.h"
 
 using namespace llvm;
@@ -532,6 +533,16 @@
 }
 
 template <class ELFT>
+void reportDiscarded(InputSectionBase<ELFT> *IS,
+                     const std::unique_ptr<ObjectFile<ELFT>> &File) {
+  if (Config->PrintGcSections && IS && !IS->isLive())
+    llvm::errs() << Twine("removing unused section from '") +
+                        IS->getSectionName() + "' in file '" + File->getName() +
+                        "'"
+                 << "\n";
+}
+
+template <class ELFT>
 bool Writer<ELFT>::isDiscarded(InputSectionBase<ELFT> *IS) const {
   if (!IS || !IS->isLive() || IS == &InputSection<ELFT>::Discarded)
     return true;
@@ -564,8 +575,10 @@
 
   for (const std::unique_ptr<ObjectFile<ELFT>> &F : Symtab.getObjectFiles()) {
     for (InputSectionBase<ELFT> *C : F->getSections()) {
-      if (isDiscarded(C))
+      if (isDiscarded(C)) {
+        reportDiscarded(C, F);
         continue;
+      }
       const Elf_Shdr *H = C->getSectionHdr();
       uintX_t OutFlags = H->sh_flags & ~SHF_GROUP;
       // For SHF_MERGE we create different output sections for each sh_entsize.
Index: test/ELF/gc-sections-print.s
===================================================================
--- test/ELF/gc-sections-print.s
+++ test/ELF/gc-sections-print.s
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-unknown-linux %s -o %t
+# RUN: ld.lld %t --gc-sections --print-gc-sections -o %t2 2>&1 | FileCheck -check-prefix=PRINT %s
+
+# PRINT:      removing unused section from '.text.x' in file
+# PRINT-NEXT: removing unused section from '.text.y' in file
+
+.globl _start
+.protected a, x, y
+_start:
+ call a
+
+.section .text.a,"ax",@progbits
+a:
+ nop
+
+.section .text.x,"ax",@progbits
+x:
+ nop
+
+.section .text.y,"ax",@progbits
+y:
+ nop