https://github.com/llvmbot created 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/134052

Backport 9356091a98c24718572f99b51553838ed664b67a

Requested by: @nikic

>From 542310684354c41f148b8b74f8d4ab6247d85b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikita Popov <npo...@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 16:40:53 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] [GlobalMerge][PPC] Don't merge globals in llvm.metadata
 section (#131801)

The llvm.metadata section is not emitted and has special semantics. We
should not merge globals in it, similarly to how we already skip merging
of `llvm.xyz` globals.

Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/131394.

(cherry picked from commit 9356091a98c24718572f99b51553838ed664b67a)
---
 llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp                        | 3 ++-
 llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll

diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp
index 5993fc939a08a..b4650a4851c3c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/GlobalMerge.cpp
@@ -711,7 +711,8 @@ bool GlobalMergeImpl::run(Module &M) {
       continue;
 
     // Ignore all 'special' globals.
-    if (GV.getName().starts_with("llvm.") || 
GV.getName().starts_with(".llvm."))
+    if (GV.getName().starts_with("llvm.") ||
+        GV.getName().starts_with(".llvm.") || Section == "llvm.metadata")
       continue;
 
     // Ignore all "required" globals:
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll 
b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7db092e13afeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/PowerPC/global-merge-llvm-metadata.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+; RUN: llc -mtriple=powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+@index = global i32 0, align 4
+@.str = private unnamed_addr constant [1 x i8] zeroinitializer, section 
"llvm.metadata"
+@.str.1 = private unnamed_addr constant [7 x i8] c"test.c\00", section 
"llvm.metadata" 
+@llvm.global.annotations = appending global [1 x { ptr, ptr, ptr, i32, ptr }] 
[{ ptr, ptr, ptr, i32, ptr } { ptr @index, ptr @.str, ptr @.str.1, i32 1, ptr 
null }], section "llvm.metadata"
+
+; CHECK-NOT: .set
+; CHECK-NOT: _MergedGlobals

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