diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.h b/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.h
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.h
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include "mlir/IR/Module.h"
 #include "mlir/IR/Value.h"
 
+#include "llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Function.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
@@ -103,6 +104,11 @@
   /// A converter for translating debug information.
   std::unique_ptr<detail::DebugTranslation> debugTranslation;
 
+  /// Builder for LLVM IR generation of OpenMP constructs.
+  std::unique_ptr<llvm::OpenMPIRBuilder> ompBuilder;
+  /// Precomputed pointer to OpenMP dialect.
+  const Dialect *ompDialect;
+
   /// Mappings between llvm.mlir.global definitions and corresponding globals.
   DenseMap<Operation *, llvm::GlobalValue *> globalsMapping;
 
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Dialect/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt b/mlir/lib/Dialect/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/mlir/lib/Dialect/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mlir/lib/Dialect/LLVMIR/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
   ADDITIONAL_HEADER_DIRS
   ${MLIR_MAIN_INCLUDE_DIR}/mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR
   )
-add_dependencies(MLIRLLVMIR MLIRLLVMOpsIncGen MLIRLLVMConversionsIncGen LLVMAsmParser LLVMCore LLVMSupport)
-target_link_libraries(MLIRLLVMIR LLVMAsmParser LLVMCore LLVMSupport MLIRIR)
+add_dependencies(MLIRLLVMIR MLIRLLVMOpsIncGen MLIRLLVMConversionsIncGen MLIROpenMP LLVMFrontendOpenMP LLVMAsmParser LLVMCore LLVMSupport)
+target_link_libraries(MLIRLLVMIR LLVMAsmParser LLVMCore LLVMSupport LLVMFrontendOpenMP MLIROpenMP MLIRIR)
 
 add_mlir_dialect_library(MLIRNVVMIR
   IR/NVVMDialect.cpp
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.cpp b/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Target/LLVMIR/ModuleTranslation.cpp
@@ -15,12 +15,14 @@
 
 #include "DebugTranslation.h"
 #include "mlir/Dialect/LLVMIR/LLVMDialect.h"
+#include "mlir/Dialect/OpenMP/OpenMPDialect.h"
 #include "mlir/IR/Attributes.h"
 #include "mlir/IR/Module.h"
 #include "mlir/IR/StandardTypes.h"
 #include "mlir/Support/LLVM.h"
 
 #include "llvm/ADT/SetVector.h"
+#include "llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPIRBuilder.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/BasicBlock.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/Constants.h"
 #include "llvm/IR/DerivedTypes.h"
@@ -271,7 +273,9 @@
                                      std::unique_ptr<llvm::Module> llvmModule)
     : mlirModule(module), llvmModule(std::move(llvmModule)),
       debugTranslation(
-          std::make_unique<DebugTranslation>(module, *this->llvmModule)) {
+          std::make_unique<DebugTranslation>(module, *this->llvmModule)),
+      ompDialect(
+          module->getContext()->getRegisteredDialect<omp::OpenMPDialect>()) {
   assert(satisfiesLLVMModule(mlirModule) &&
          "mlirModule should honor LLVM's module semantics.");
 }
@@ -374,6 +378,21 @@
     return success();
   }
 
+  if (opInst.getDialect() == ompDialect) {
+    if (!ompBuilder) {
+      ompBuilder =
+          std::move(std::make_unique<llvm::OpenMPIRBuilder>(*llvmModule));
+      ompBuilder->initialize();
+    }
+
+    if (isa<omp::BarrierOp>(opInst)) {
+      ompBuilder->CreateBarrier(builder.saveIP(), llvm::omp::OMPD_barrier);
+      return success();
+    }
+    return opInst.emitError("unsupported OpenMP operation: ")
+           << opInst.getName();
+  }
+
   return opInst.emitError("unsupported or non-LLVM operation: ")
          << opInst.getName();
 }
diff --git a/mlir/test/Target/openmp-llvm.mlir b/mlir/test/Target/openmp-llvm.mlir
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mlir/test/Target/openmp-llvm.mlir
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// RUN: mlir-translate -mlir-to-llvmir %s | FileCheck %s
+
+// CHECK-LABEL: define void @empty()
+// CHECK: [[OMP_THREAD:%.*]] = call i32 @__kmpc_global_thread_num(%struct.ident_t* @{{[0-9]+}})
+// CHECK-NEXT:  call void @__kmpc_barrier(%struct.ident_t* @{{[0-9]+}}, i32 [[OMP_THREAD]])
+// CHECK-NEXT:    ret void
+llvm.func @empty() {
+  omp.barrier
+  llvm.return
+}