diff --git a/llvm/test/tools/gold/X86/disable-verify.ll b/llvm/test/tools/gold/X86/disable-verify.ll
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b5518868664c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llvm/test/tools/gold/X86/disable-verify.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+; RUN: llvm-as %s -o %t.o
+; REQUIRES: asserts
+
+; RUN: %gold -plugin %llvmshlibdir/LLVMgold.so \
+; RUN:    --plugin-opt=disable-verify \
+; RUN:    --plugin-opt=-debug-pass=Arguments \
+; RUN:    -shared %t.o -o %t2.o 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
+
+; RUN: %gold -plugin %llvmshlibdir/LLVMgold.so \
+; RUN:    --plugin-opt=-debug-pass=Arguments \
+; RUN:    -shared %t.o -o %t2.o 2>&1 | FileCheck %s -check-prefix=VERIFY
+
+target triple = "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
+
+; -disable-verify should disable output verification from the optimization
+; pipeline.
+; CHECK: Pass Arguments: {{.*}} -verify -ipsccp
+; CHECK-NOT: -verify
+
+; VERIFY: Pass Arguments: {{.*}} -verify {{.*}} -verify
+
+define void @f() {
+entry:
+  ret void
+}
diff --git a/llvm/tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp b/llvm/tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp
index a917ecfa502e..14c42671b0df 100644
--- a/llvm/tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/gold/gold-plugin.cpp
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ namespace options {
   static OutputType TheOutputType = OT_NORMAL;
   static unsigned OptLevel = 2;
   static unsigned Parallelism = 1;
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+  static bool DisableVerify = true;
+#else
+  static bool DisableVerify = false;
+#endif
   static std::string obj_path;
   static std::string extra_library_path;
   static std::string triple;
@@ -134,6 +139,8 @@ namespace options {
     } else if (opt.startswith("jobs=")) {
       if (StringRef(opt_ + 5).getAsInteger(10, Parallelism))
         message(LDPL_FATAL, "Invalid parallelism level: %s", opt_ + 5);
+    } else if (opt == "disable-verify") {
+      DisableVerify = true;
     } else {
       // Save this option to pass to the code generator.
       // ParseCommandLineOptions() expects argv[0] to be program name. Lazily
@@ -730,8 +737,10 @@ static void runLTOPasses(Module &M, TargetMachine &TM) {
   PassManagerBuilder PMB;
   PMB.LibraryInfo = new TargetLibraryInfoImpl(Triple(TM.getTargetTriple()));
   PMB.Inliner = createFunctionInliningPass();
+  // Unconditionally verify input since it is not verified before this
+  // point and has unknown origin.
   PMB.VerifyInput = true;
-  PMB.VerifyOutput = true;
+  PMB.VerifyOutput = !options::DisableVerify;
   PMB.LoopVectorize = true;
   PMB.SLPVectorize = true;
   PMB.OptLevel = options::OptLevel;