diff --git a/clang/docs/LTOVisibility.rst b/clang/docs/LTOVisibility.rst
--- a/clang/docs/LTOVisibility.rst
+++ b/clang/docs/LTOVisibility.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@
 (e.g. classes declared in unnamed namespaces) also receive hidden LTO
 visibility.
 
+During the LTO link, all classes with public LTO visibility will be refined
+to hidden LTO visibility when the ``-lto-whole-program-visibility`` lld linker
+option is applied (``-plugin-opt=whole_program_visibility`` for gold). This
+can be used when it is known that the LTO link has whole program visibility,
+because we are LTO linking all translation units as bitcode, except certain
+(e.g.  system) libraries or other native objects known to be safe by the user or
+build system, and the binary will not dlopen any libraries deriving from the
+binary’s classes. This is useful in situations where it is not safe to specify
+``-fvisibility=hidden`` at compile time.
+
 A class defined in a translation unit built without LTO receives public
 LTO visibility regardless of its object file visibility, linkage or other
 attributes.