Index: lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetObjectFile.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetObjectFile.cpp
+++ lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64TargetObjectFile.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include "AArch64TargetObjectFile.h"
 #include "AArch64TargetMachine.h"
 #include "llvm/BinaryFormat/Dwarf.h"
+#include "llvm/BinaryFormat/ELF.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Mangler.h"
 #include "llvm/MC/MCContext.h"
 #include "llvm/MC/MCExpr.h"
@@ -23,6 +24,18 @@
                                              const TargetMachine &TM) {
   TargetLoweringObjectFileELF::Initialize(Ctx, TM);
   InitializeELF(TM.Options.UseInitArray);
+
+  bool genExecuteOnly = TM.getMCSubtargetInfo()->hasFeature(AArch64::FeatureExecuteOnly);
+
+  // Make code section unreadable when in execute-only mode
+  if (genExecuteOnly) {
+    unsigned  Type = ELF::SHT_PROGBITS;
+    unsigned Flags = ELF::SHF_EXECINSTR | ELF::SHF_ALLOC | ELF::SHF_ARM_PURECODE;
+    // Since we cannot modify flags for an existing section, we create a new
+    // section with the right flags, and use 0 as the unique ID for
+    // execute-only text
+    TextSection = Ctx.getELFSection(".text", Type, Flags, 0, "", 0U);
+  }
 }
 
 AArch64_MachoTargetObjectFile::AArch64_MachoTargetObjectFile()
Index: test/MC/AArch64/elf-execute-only-section.ll
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ test/MC/AArch64/elf-execute-only-section.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+; RUN: llc < %s -mtriple=aarch64 -mattr=+execute-only -filetype=obj %s -o - |\
+; RUN: llvm-readelf -s | FileCheck %s
+
+; CHECK-NOT: {{.text[ ]+PROGBITS[ ]+[0-9]+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+ AX[^p]}}
+; CHECK: {{.text[ ]+PROGBITS[ ]+[0-9]+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+ [0-9]+ AXp}}
+define void @test_func() {
+entry:
+  ret void
+}