diff --git a/lld/ELF/Relocations.cpp b/lld/ELF/Relocations.cpp
--- a/lld/ELF/Relocations.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/Relocations.cpp
@@ -1325,8 +1325,11 @@
   // be resolved within the executable will actually be resolved that way at
   // runtime, because the main executable is always at the beginning of a search
   // list. We can leverage that fact.
-  if (!sym.isPreemptible && (!sym.isGnuIFunc() || config->zIfuncNoplt)) {
-    if (expr == R_GOT_PC && !isAbsoluteValue(sym)) {
+  // R_HEX_GD_PLT_B22_PCREL is transformed into a call to __tls_get_addr even
+  // if the symbol is in the same module.
+  if (!sym.isPreemptible && (!sym.isGnuIFunc() || config->zIfuncNoplt) &&
+      (type != R_HEX_GD_PLT_B22_PCREL)) {
+	  if (expr == R_GOT_PC && !isAbsoluteValue(sym)) {
       expr = target->adjustRelaxExpr(type, relocatedAddr, expr);
     } else {
       // The 0x8000 bit of r_addend of R_PPC_PLTREL24 is used to choose call
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/hexagon-tls-gd-symbolic.s b/lld/test/ELF/hexagon-tls-gd-symbolic.s
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/hexagon-tls-gd-symbolic.s
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# REQUIRES: hexagon
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=hexagon-unknown-elf %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: ld.lld -Bsymbolic -shared %t.o -o %t.so
+# RUN: llvm-objdump -d --no-show-raw-insn --print-imm-hex %t.so | FileCheck -check-prefix DISASM %s
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -d %t.so | FileCheck %s
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -r %t.so | FileCheck -check-prefix RELOC %s
+
+# Prior to change affiliated with this test lld for the Hexagon target would
+# error out with something like:
+# ld.lld: error: relocation R_HEX_GD_PLT_B22_PCREL cannot refer to absolute symbol: a
+# Binding to the internal symbol doesn't apply for GDPLT since Hexagon
+# will transform the call a@GDPLT to call __tls_get_addr
+
+.globl _start
+.type _start, @function
+
+_start:
+                   call a@GDPLT
+# DISASM: 10210: { call 0x10250 }
+
+
+# CHECK: DynamicSection
+# CHECK:   0x0000001E FLAGS    SYMBOLIC
+
+# RELOC: Relocations [
+# RELOC-NEXT:  Section (5) .rela.plt {
+# RELOC-NEXT:   0x302D4 R_HEX_JMP_SLOT - 0x0
+# RELOC-NEXT:   0x302D8 R_HEX_JMP_SLOT __tls_get_addr 0x0
+# RELOC-NEXT: }
+# RELOC-NEXT: ]
+
+.section        .tdata,"awT",@progbits
+.globl  a
+a:
+.word 1