diff --git a/Make.inc b/Make.inc
index 5e9f1bd092d01..a246d9c3e781e 100644
--- a/Make.inc
+++ b/Make.inc
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ SANITIZE_OPTS += -fsanitize=address
 SANITIZE_LDFLAGS += -fsanitize=address -shared-libasan
 endif
 ifeq ($(SANITIZE_THREAD),1)
-SANITIZE_OPTS += -fsanitize=thread
+SANITIZE_OPTS += -fsanitize=thread -fsanitize-ignorelist=$(JULIAHOME)/contrib/tsan/ignorelist.txt
 SANITIZE_LDFLAGS += -fsanitize=thread
 ifneq ($(CROSS_BOOTSTRAP_JULIA),)
 bootstrap_julia_flags += --target-sanitize=thread
diff --git a/contrib/tsan/ignorelist.txt b/contrib/tsan/ignorelist.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..34c9c2aced7d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/tsan/ignorelist.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mainfile:*/gc-*.c
diff --git a/contrib/tsan/suppressions.txt b/contrib/tsan/suppressions.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..706f258e65d71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/tsan/suppressions.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+deadlock:invalidate_code_instance