diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUTargetMachine.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUTargetMachine.cpp
index 96062b30fc012..3f90e05ce83ba 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUTargetMachine.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/AMDGPU/AMDGPUTargetMachine.cpp
@@ -791,7 +791,8 @@ void AMDGPUTargetMachine::registerPassBuilderCallbacks(PassBuilder &PB) {
   PB.registerPipelineEarlySimplificationEPCallback(
       [](ModulePassManager &PM, OptimizationLevel Level,
          ThinOrFullLTOPhase Phase) {
-        PM.addPass(AMDGPUPrintfRuntimeBindingPass());
+        if (!isLTOPreLink(Phase))
+          PM.addPass(AMDGPUPrintfRuntimeBindingPass());
 
         if (Level == OptimizationLevel::O0)
           return;
diff --git a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/print-pipeline-passes.ll b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/print-pipeline-passes.ll
index c68143f44866f..b1fc76f457ece 100644
--- a/llvm/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/print-pipeline-passes.ll
+++ b/llvm/test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/print-pipeline-passes.ll
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 ; PRE-NOT: internalize
 ; PRE-NOT: amdgpu-attributor
+; PRE-NOT: printfToRuntime
 
 define amdgpu_kernel void @kernel() {
 entry: