diff --git a/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c b/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c
index 81bab8cf90b096..16dd9413608570 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c
+++ b/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-compiler.c
@@ -403,6 +403,9 @@ typedef struct MonoAotCompile {
 	GHashTable *gshared_instances;
 	/* Hash of gshared methods where specific instances are preferred */
 	GHashTable *prefer_instances;
+	GPtrArray *exported_methods;
+	guint32 n_exported_methods;
+	guint32 exported_methods_offset;
 #ifdef EMIT_WIN32_UNWIND_INFO
 	GList *unwind_info_section_cache;
 #endif
@@ -5303,6 +5306,8 @@ MONO_RESTORE_WARNING
 						export_name = (char *)g_malloc (slen + 1);
 						sprintf (export_name, "%s%s", acfg->user_symbol_prefix, named);
 						export_name [slen] = 0;
+
+						g_ptr_array_add (acfg->exported_methods, method);
 					}
 				}
 				mono_reflection_free_custom_attr_data_args_noalloc (decoded_args);
@@ -10874,6 +10879,24 @@ emit_method_info_table (MonoAotCompile *acfg)
 			method_flags [acfg->cfgs [i]->method_index] = GUINT32_TO_UINT8 (acfg->cfgs [i]->aot_method_flags);
 	}
 	emit_aot_data (acfg, MONO_AOT_TABLE_METHOD_FLAGS_TABLE, "method_flags_table", method_flags, acfg->nmethods);
+
+	/*
+	 * If there is a runtime init callback, emit a table of exported methods.
+	 * These methods can be called before the runtime is initialized, so they need to
+	 * be inited when their AOT image is loaded.
+	 */
+	 if (acfg->aot_opts.runtime_init_callback) {
+		 acfg->n_exported_methods = acfg->exported_methods->len;
+		 if (acfg->exported_methods->len) {
+			 guint32 *arr = g_new0 (guint32, acfg->exported_methods->len);
+			 for (i = 0; i < acfg->exported_methods->len; ++i) {
+				 MonoMethod *m = (MonoMethod*)g_ptr_array_index (acfg->exported_methods, i);
+				 arr [i] = mono_method_get_token (m);
+			 }
+			 acfg->exported_methods_offset = add_to_blob_aligned (acfg, (guint8*)arr, acfg->exported_methods->len * sizeof (guint32), 4);
+			 g_free (arr);
+		 }
+	 }
 }
 
 #endif /* #if !defined(DISABLE_AOT) && !defined(DISABLE_JIT) */
@@ -11860,6 +11883,9 @@ init_aot_file_info (MonoAotCompile *acfg, MonoAotFileInfo *info)
 	info->simd_opts = acfg->simd_opts;
 	info->gc_name_index = acfg->gc_name_offset;
 	info->datafile_size = acfg->datafile_offset;
+	info->n_exported_methods = acfg->n_exported_methods;
+	info->exported_methods = acfg->exported_methods_offset;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < MONO_AOT_TABLE_NUM; ++i)
 		info->table_offsets [i] = acfg->table_offsets [i];
 	for (i = 0; i < MONO_AOT_TRAMP_NUM; ++i)
@@ -12029,6 +12055,8 @@ emit_aot_file_info (MonoAotCompile *acfg, MonoAotFileInfo *info)
 	emit_int32 (acfg, info->datafile_size);
 	emit_int32 (acfg, 0);
 	emit_int32 (acfg, 0);
+	emit_int32 (acfg, info->n_exported_methods);
+	emit_int32 (acfg, info->exported_methods);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MONO_AOT_TABLE_NUM; ++i)
 		emit_int32 (acfg, info->table_offsets [i]);
@@ -13867,6 +13895,7 @@ acfg_create (MonoAssembly *ass, guint32 jit_opts)
 	acfg->profile_methods = g_hash_table_new (NULL, NULL);
 	acfg->gshared_instances = g_hash_table_new (NULL, NULL);
 	acfg->prefer_instances = g_hash_table_new (NULL, NULL);
+	acfg->exported_methods = g_ptr_array_new ();
 	mono_os_mutex_init_recursive (&acfg->mutex);
 
 	init_got_info (&acfg->got_info);
@@ -13947,6 +13976,7 @@ acfg_free (MonoAotCompile *acfg)
 	g_ptr_array_free (acfg->image_table, TRUE);
 	g_ptr_array_free (acfg->globals, TRUE);
 	g_ptr_array_free (acfg->unwind_ops, TRUE);
+	g_ptr_array_free (acfg->exported_methods, TRUE);
 	g_hash_table_destroy (acfg->method_indexes);
 	g_hash_table_destroy (acfg->method_depth);
 	g_hash_table_destroy (acfg->plt_offset_to_entry);
diff --git a/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c b/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c
index 683fee00852e75..4d92418cb74d1c 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c
+++ b/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.c
@@ -2346,6 +2346,25 @@ load_aot_module (MonoAssemblyLoadContext *alc, MonoAssembly *assembly, gpointer
 	} else {
 		mono_trace (G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG, MONO_TRACE_AOT, "AOT: image '%s' found.", found_aot_name);
 	}
+
+	/* Initialize exported methods since they can be called without being loaded */
+	if (!amodule->out_of_date && info->n_exported_methods) {
+		guint32 *exported = (guint32*)(amodule->blob + info->exported_methods);
+
+		for (guint32 i = 0; i < info->n_exported_methods; ++i) {
+			ERROR_DECL (load_error);
+			guint32 token = exported [i];
+			MonoMethod *m = mono_get_method_checked (assembly->image, token, NULL, NULL, load_error);
+			mono_error_cleanup (load_error); /* FIXME don't swallow the error */
+			error_init (load_error);
+			if (m) {
+				mono_class_init_internal (m->klass);
+				mono_aot_get_method (m, load_error);
+				mono_error_cleanup (load_error); /* FIXME don't swallow the error */
+				error_init (load_error);
+			}
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.h b/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.h
index e9da680fa5c591..77f227f6c65950 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.h
+++ b/src/mono/mono/mini/aot-runtime.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #include "mini.h"
 
 /* Version number of the AOT file format */
-#define MONO_AOT_FILE_VERSION 184
+#define MONO_AOT_FILE_VERSION 185
 
 #define MONO_AOT_TRAMP_PAGE_SIZE 16384
 
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ typedef struct MonoAotFileInfo
 	guint32 llvm_unbox_tramp_num;
 	/* Size of entries in llvm_unbox_tramp_indexes (2/4) */
 	guint32 llvm_unbox_tramp_elemsize;
+	guint32 n_exported_methods;
+	guint32 exported_methods;
 
 	/* Arrays */
 	/* Offsets for tables inside the data file if MONO_AOT_FILE_FLAG_SEPARATE_DATA is set */
diff --git a/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-llvm.c b/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-llvm.c
index 479e767c5a5ff4..9e1e3d61b00579 100644
--- a/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-llvm.c
+++ b/src/mono/mono/mini/mini-llvm.c
@@ -13405,7 +13405,7 @@ AddJitGlobal (MonoLLVMModule *module, LLVMTypeRef type, const char *name)
 	return v;
 }
 #define FILE_INFO_NUM_HEADER_FIELDS 2
-#define FILE_INFO_NUM_SCALAR_FIELDS 23
+#define FILE_INFO_NUM_SCALAR_FIELDS 25
 #define FILE_INFO_NUM_ARRAY_FIELDS 5
 #define FILE_INFO_NUM_AOTID_FIELDS 1
 #define FILE_INFO_NFIELDS (FILE_INFO_NUM_HEADER_FIELDS + MONO_AOT_FILE_INFO_NUM_SYMBOLS + FILE_INFO_NUM_SCALAR_FIELDS + FILE_INFO_NUM_ARRAY_FIELDS + FILE_INFO_NUM_AOTID_FIELDS)
@@ -13603,6 +13603,8 @@ emit_aot_file_info (MonoLLVMModule *module)
 	fields [tindex ++] = const_int32 (info->datafile_size);
 	fields [tindex ++] = const_int32 (module->unbox_tramp_num);
 	fields [tindex ++] = const_int32 (module->unbox_tramp_elemsize);
+	fields [tindex ++] = const_int32 (info->n_exported_methods);
+	fields [tindex ++] = const_int32 (info->exported_methods);
 	/* Arrays */
 	fields [tindex ++] = llvm_array_from_uints (LLVMInt32Type (), info->table_offsets, MONO_AOT_TABLE_NUM);
 	fields [tindex ++] = llvm_array_from_uints (LLVMInt32Type (), info->num_trampolines, MONO_AOT_TRAMP_NUM);