diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
index 5ab7661d604..09375404333 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/data.go
@@ -140,11 +140,14 @@ func relocsym(target *Target, ldr *loader.Loader, err *ErrorReporter, syms *Arch
 	if len(s.R) == 0 {
 		return
 	}
-	if s.Attr.ReadOnly() {
+	if target.IsWasm() && s.Attr.ReadOnly() {
 		// The symbol's content is backed by read-only memory.
 		// Copy it to writable memory to apply relocations.
+		// Only need to do this on Wasm. On other platforms we
+		// apply relocations to the output buffer, which is
+		// always writeable.
 		s.P = append([]byte(nil), s.P...)
-		s.Attr.Set(sym.AttrReadOnly, false)
+		// No need to unset AttrReadOnly because it will not be used.
 	}
 	for ri := int32(0); ri < int32(len(s.R)); ri++ {
 		r := &s.R[ri]
@@ -579,8 +582,10 @@ func (ctxt *Link) reloc() {
 	syms := &ctxt.ArchSyms
 	wg.Add(3)
 	go func() {
-		for _, s := range ctxt.Textp {
-			relocsym(target, ldr, reporter, syms, s)
+		if !ctxt.IsWasm() { // On Wasm, text relocations are applied in Asmb2.
+			for _, s := range ctxt.Textp {
+				relocsym(target, ldr, reporter, syms, s)
+			}
 		}
 		wg.Done()
 	}()
@@ -2503,8 +2508,6 @@ func compressSyms(ctxt *Link, syms []*sym.Symbol) []byte {
 		if len(s.R) != 0 && wasReadOnly {
 			relocbuf = append(relocbuf[:0], s.P...)
 			s.P = relocbuf
-			// TODO: This function call needs to be parallelized when the loader wavefront gets here.
-			s.Attr.Set(sym.AttrReadOnly, false)
 		}
 		relocsym(target, ldr, reporter, archSyms, s)
 		if _, err := z.Write(s.P); err != nil {
@@ -2526,7 +2529,6 @@ func compressSyms(ctxt *Link, syms []*sym.Symbol) []byte {
 		// contents, in which case we still need s.P.
 		if len(s.R) != 0 && wasReadOnly {
 			s.P = oldP
-			s.Attr.Set(sym.AttrReadOnly, wasReadOnly)
 			for i := range s.R {
 				s.R[i].Done = false
 			}
diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/outbuf.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/outbuf.go
index cee589fc054..40e02cb7cf9 100644
--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/outbuf.go
+++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/outbuf.go
@@ -291,5 +291,4 @@ func (out *OutBuf) WriteSym(s *sym.Symbol) {
 	copy(buf[pos:], s.P)
 	out.off += n
 	s.P = buf[pos : pos+n]
-	s.Attr.Set(sym.AttrReadOnly, false)
 }