diff --git a/library/std/src/sys/configure_builtins.rs b/library/std/src/sys/configure_builtins.rs
index 9d776b778dcb..f569ec0f5129 100644
--- a/library/std/src/sys/configure_builtins.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/sys/configure_builtins.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,49 @@
-/// Hook into .init_array to enable LSE atomic operations at startup, if
-/// supported.
-#[cfg(all(target_arch = "aarch64", target_os = "linux", not(feature = "compiler-builtins-c")))]
+/// Enable LSE atomic operations at startup, if supported.
+///
+/// Linker sections are based on what [`ctor`] does, with priorities to run slightly before user
+/// code:
+///
+/// - Apple uses the section `__mod_init_func`, `mod_init_funcs` is needed to set
+///   `S_MOD_INIT_FUNC_POINTERS`. There doesn't seem to be a way to indicate priorities.
+/// - Windows uses `.CRT$XCT`, which is run before user constructors (these should use `.CRT$XCU`).
+/// - ELF uses `.init_array` with a priority of 90, which runs before our `ARGV_INIT_ARRAY`
+///   initializer (priority 99). Both are within the 0-100 implementation-reserved range, per docs
+///   for the [`prio-ctor-dtor`] warning, and this matches compiler-rt's `CONSTRUCTOR_PRIORITY`.
+///
+/// To save startup time, the initializer is only run if outline atomic routines from
+/// compiler-builtins may be used. If LSE is known to be available then the calls are never
+/// emitted, and if we build the C intrinsics then it has its own initializer using the symbol
+/// `__aarch64_have_lse_atomics`.
+///
+/// Initialization is done in a global constructor to so we get the same behavior regardless of
+/// whether Rust's `init` is used, or if we are in a `dylib` or `no_main` situation (as opposed
+/// to doing it as part of pre-main startup). This also matches C implementations.
+///
+/// Ideally `core` would have something similar, but detecting the CPU features requires the
+/// auxiliary vector from the OS. We do the initialization in `std` rather than as part of
+/// `compiler-builtins` because a builtins->std dependency isn't possible, and inlining parts of
+/// `std-detect` would be much messier.
+///
+/// [`ctor`]: https://github.com/mmastrac/rust-ctor/blob/63382b833ddcbfb8b064f4e86bfa1ed4026ff356/shared/src/macros/mod.rs#L522-L534
+/// [`prio-ctor-dtor`]: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html
+#[cfg(all(
+    target_arch = "aarch64",
+    target_feature = "outline-atomics",
+    not(target_feature = "lse"),
+    not(feature = "compiler-builtins-c"),
+))]
 #[used]
-#[unsafe(link_section = ".init_array.90")]
+#[cfg_attr(target_vendor = "apple", unsafe(link_section = "__DATA,__mod_init_func,mod_init_funcs"))]
+#[cfg_attr(target_os = "windows", unsafe(link_section = ".CRT$XCT"))]
+#[cfg_attr(
+    not(any(target_vendor = "apple", target_os = "windows")),
+    unsafe(link_section = ".init_array.90")
+)]
 static RUST_LSE_INIT: extern "C" fn() = {
     extern "C" fn init_lse() {
         use crate::arch;
 
-        // This is provided by compiler-builtins::aarch64_linux.
+        // This is provided by compiler-builtins::aarch64_outline_atomics.
         unsafe extern "C" {
             fn __rust_enable_lse();
         }