diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/PowerPC/PPCPreEmitPeephole.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@
 STATISTIC(NumFrameOffFoldInPreEmit,
           "Number of folding frame offset by using r+r in pre-emit peephole");
 
+static cl::opt<bool>
+EnablePCRelLinkerOpt("ppc-pcrel-linker-opt", cl::Hidden, cl::init(true),
+                     cl::desc("enable PC Relative linker optimization"));
+
 static cl::opt<bool>
 RunPreEmitPeephole("ppc-late-peephole", cl::Hidden, cl::init(true),
                    cl::desc("Run pre-emit peephole optimizations."));
@@ -234,6 +238,10 @@
 
     bool addLinkerOpt(MachineBasicBlock &MBB, const TargetRegisterInfo *TRI) {
       MachineFunction *MF = MBB.getParent();
+      // If the linker opt is disabled then just return.
+      if (!EnablePCRelLinkerOpt)
+        return false;
+
       // Add this linker opt only if we are using PC Relative memops.
       if (!MF->getSubtarget<PPCSubtarget>().isUsingPCRelativeCalls())
         return false;
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pcrel-linkeropt-option.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pcrel-linkeropt-option.ll
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/pcrel-linkeropt-option.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+; NOTE: Assertions have been autogenerated by utils/update_llc_test_checks.py
+; RUN: llc -verify-machineinstrs -mtriple=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu \
+; RUN:   -mcpu=pwr10 -ppc-asm-full-reg-names -ppc-vsr-nums-as-vr \
+; RUN:   < %s | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=DEFAULT
+; RUN: llc -verify-machineinstrs -mtriple=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu \
+; RUN:   -mcpu=pwr10 -ppc-asm-full-reg-names -ppc-vsr-nums-as-vr \
+; RUN:   -ppc-pcrel-linker-opt=true < %s | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=ON
+; RUN: llc -verify-machineinstrs -mtriple=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu \
+; RUN:   -mcpu=pwr10 -ppc-asm-full-reg-names -ppc-vsr-nums-as-vr \
+; RUN:   -ppc-pcrel-linker-opt=false < %s | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=OFF
+
+@input8 = external local_unnamed_addr global i8, align 1
+
+define dso_local i8 @Read8() local_unnamed_addr {
+; DEFAULT-LABEL: Read8:
+; DEFAULT:       # %bb.0: # %entry
+; DEFAULT-NEXT:    pld r3, input8@got@pcrel(0), 1
+; DEFAULT-NEXT:  .Lpcrel:
+; DEFAULT-NEXT:    .reloc .Lpcrel-8,R_PPC64_PCREL_OPT,.-(.Lpcrel-8)
+; DEFAULT-NEXT:    lbz r3, 0(r3)
+; DEFAULT-NEXT:    blr
+;
+; ON-LABEL: Read8:
+; ON:       # %bb.0: # %entry
+; ON-NEXT:    pld r3, input8@got@pcrel(0), 1
+; ON-NEXT:  .Lpcrel:
+; ON-NEXT:    .reloc .Lpcrel-8,R_PPC64_PCREL_OPT,.-(.Lpcrel-8)
+; ON-NEXT:    lbz r3, 0(r3)
+; ON-NEXT:    blr
+;
+; OFF-LABEL: Read8:
+; OFF:       # %bb.0: # %entry
+; OFF-NEXT:    pld r3, input8@got@pcrel(0), 1
+; OFF-NEXT:    lbz r3, 0(r3)
+; OFF-NEXT:    blr
+entry:
+  %0 = load i8, i8* @input8, align 1
+  ret i8 %0
+}