Index: lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
===================================================================
--- lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
+++ lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp
@@ -461,6 +461,15 @@
   if (Config->Strip != StripPolicy::None && Name.startswith(".debug"))
     return &InputSection::Discarded;
 
+  // If -gdb-index is given, LLD creates .gdb_index section, and that
+  // section serves the same purpose as .debug_gnu_pub{names,types} sections.
+  // If that's the case, we want to eliminate .debug_gnu_pub{names,types}
+  // because they are redundant and can be huge (for example, they are
+  // about 400 MiB in total for a clang debug build.)
+  if (Config->GdbIndex &&
+      (Name == ".debug_gnu_pubnames" || Name == ".debug_gnu_pubtypes"))
+    return &InputSection::Discarded;
+
   // The linkonce feature is a sort of proto-comdat. Some glibc i386 object
   // files contain definitions of symbol "__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx" in linkonce
   // sections. Drop those sections to avoid duplicate symbol errors.
Index: lld/test/ELF/debug-gnu-pubnames.s
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ lld/test/ELF/debug-gnu-pubnames.s
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: ld.lld -e main %p/Inputs/gdb-index-a.elf %p/Inputs/gdb-index-b.elf -o %t1.exe
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -sections %t1.exe | FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK1 %s
+# CHECK1: Name: .debug_gnu_pubnames
+# CHECK1: Name: .debug_gnu_pubtypes
+
+# RUN: ld.lld -gdb-index -e main %p/Inputs/gdb-index-a.elf %p/Inputs/gdb-index-b.elf -o %t2.exe
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -sections %t2.exe | FileCheck -check-prefix=CHECK2 %s
+# CHECK2-NOT: Name: .debug_gnu_pubnames
+# CHECK2-NOT: Name: .debug_gnu_pubtypes