diff --git a/bootstrap/bpglob/bpglob.go b/bootstrap/bpglob/bpglob.go
index 58ddba0e..81c0dd04 100644
--- a/bootstrap/bpglob/bpglob.go
+++ b/bootstrap/bpglob/bpglob.go
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/google/blueprint/deptools"
 	"github.com/google/blueprint/pathtools"
 )
 
@@ -38,13 +39,14 @@ var (
 
 	out = flagSet.String("o", "", "file to write list of files that match glob")
 
-	excludes     multiArg
 	versionMatch versionArg
+	globs        []globArg
 )
 
 func init() {
 	flagSet.Var(&versionMatch, "v", "version number the command line was generated for")
-	flagSet.Var(&excludes, "e", "pattern to exclude from results")
+	flagSet.Var((*patternsArgs)(&globs), "p", "pattern to include in results")
+	flagSet.Var((*excludeArgs)(&globs), "e", "pattern to exclude from results from the most recent pattern")
 }
 
 // bpglob is executed through the rules in build-globs.ninja to determine whether soong_build
@@ -90,23 +92,42 @@ func (v *versionArg) Set(s string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-type multiArg []string
-
-func (m *multiArg) String() string {
-	return `""`
+// A glob arg holds a single -p argument with zero or more following -e arguments.
+type globArg struct {
+	pattern  string
+	excludes []string
 }
 
-func (m *multiArg) Set(s string) error {
-	*m = append(*m, s)
+// patternsArgs implements flag.Value to handle -p arguments by adding a new globArg to the list.
+type patternsArgs []globArg
+
+func (p *patternsArgs) String() string { return `""` }
+
+func (p *patternsArgs) Set(s string) error {
+	globs = append(globs, globArg{
+		pattern: s,
+	})
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (m *multiArg) Get() interface{} {
-	return m
+// excludeArgs implements flag.Value to handle -e arguments by adding to the last globArg in the
+// list.
+type excludeArgs []globArg
+
+func (e *excludeArgs) String() string { return `""` }
+
+func (e *excludeArgs) Set(s string) error {
+	if len(*e) == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("-p argument is required before the first -e argument")
+	}
+
+	glob := &(*e)[len(*e)-1]
+	glob.excludes = append(glob.excludes, s)
+	return nil
 }
 
 func usage() {
-	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "usage: bpglob -o out -v version [-e excludes ...] glob")
+	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "usage: bpglob -o out -v version -p glob [-e excludes ...] [-p glob ...]")
 	flagSet.PrintDefaults()
 	os.Exit(2)
 }
@@ -143,11 +164,11 @@ func main() {
 		usage()
 	}
 
-	if flagSet.NArg() != 1 {
+	if flagSet.NArg() > 0 {
 		usage()
 	}
 
-	_, err = pathtools.GlobWithDepFile(flagSet.Arg(0), *out, *out+".d", excludes)
+	err = globsWithDepFile(*out, *out+".d", globs)
 	if err != nil {
 		// Globs here were already run in the primary builder without error.  The only errors here should be if the glob
 		// pattern was made invalid by a change in the pathtools glob implementation, in which case the primary builder
@@ -167,3 +188,37 @@ func writeErrorOutput(path string, globErr error) {
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 }
+
+// globsWithDepFile finds all files and directories that match glob.  Directories
+// will have a trailing '/'.  It compares the list of matches against the
+// contents of fileListFile, and rewrites fileListFile if it has changed.  It
+// also writes all of the directories it traversed as dependencies on fileListFile
+// to depFile.
+//
+// The format of glob is either path/*.ext for a single directory glob, or
+// path/**/*.ext for a recursive glob.
+func globsWithDepFile(fileListFile, depFile string, globs []globArg) error {
+	var results pathtools.MultipleGlobResults
+	for _, glob := range globs {
+		result, err := pathtools.Glob(glob.pattern, glob.excludes, pathtools.FollowSymlinks)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		results = append(results, result)
+	}
+
+	// Only write the output file if it has changed.
+	err := pathtools.WriteFileIfChanged(fileListFile, results.FileList(), 0666)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write file list to %q: %w", fileListFile, err)
+	}
+
+	// The depfile can be written unconditionally as its timestamp doesn't affect ninja's restat
+	// feature.
+	err = deptools.WriteDepFile(depFile, fileListFile, results.Deps())
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to write dep file to %q: %w", depFile, err)
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/bootstrap/command.go b/bootstrap/command.go
index 54eaa0ab..4a938db4 100644
--- a/bootstrap/command.go
+++ b/bootstrap/command.go
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ func RunBlueprint(args Args, ctx *blueprint.Context, config interface{}) []strin
 	ctx.RegisterModuleType("blueprint_go_binary", newGoBinaryModuleFactory(bootstrapConfig, true))
 	ctx.RegisterSingletonType("bootstrap", newSingletonFactory(bootstrapConfig))
 
-	ctx.RegisterSingletonType("glob", globSingletonFactory(ctx))
+	ctx.RegisterSingletonType("glob", globSingletonFactory(bootstrapConfig, ctx))
 
 	blueprintFiles, errs := ctx.ParseFileList(filepath.Dir(args.TopFile), filesToParse, config)
 	if len(errs) > 0 {
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ func RunBlueprint(args Args, ctx *blueprint.Context, config interface{}) []strin
 	}
 
 	if args.GlobFile != "" {
-		buffer, errs := generateGlobNinjaFile(config, ctx.Globs)
+		buffer, errs := generateGlobNinjaFile(bootstrapConfig, config, ctx.Globs)
 		if len(errs) > 0 {
 			fatalErrors(errs)
 		}
diff --git a/bootstrap/glob.go b/bootstrap/glob.go
index 9b507bb4..39c662b5 100644
--- a/bootstrap/glob.go
+++ b/bootstrap/glob.go
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ package bootstrap
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
+	"hash/fnv"
+	"io"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/google/blueprint"
 	"github.com/google/blueprint/pathtools"
@@ -45,20 +49,21 @@ var (
 	// and writes it to $out if it has changed, and writes the directories to $out.d
 	GlobRule = pctx.StaticRule("GlobRule",
 		blueprint.RuleParams{
-			Command: fmt.Sprintf(`%s -o $out -v %d $excludes "$glob"`,
+			Command: fmt.Sprintf(`%s -o $out -v %d $args`,
 				globCmd, pathtools.BPGlobArgumentVersion),
 			CommandDeps: []string{globCmd},
-			Description: "glob $glob",
+			Description: "glob",
 
 			Restat:  true,
 			Deps:    blueprint.DepsGCC,
 			Depfile: "$out.d",
 		},
-		"glob", "excludes")
+		"args")
 )
 
 // GlobFileContext is the subset of ModuleContext and SingletonContext needed by GlobFile
 type GlobFileContext interface {
+	Config() interface{}
 	Build(pctx blueprint.PackageContext, params blueprint.BuildParams)
 }
 
@@ -67,13 +72,48 @@ type GlobFileContext interface {
 // appropriate dependencies to regenerate the file if and only if the list of matching files has
 // changed.
 func GlobFile(ctx GlobFileContext, pattern string, excludes []string, fileListFile string) {
+	args := `-p "` + pattern + `"`
+	if len(excludes) > 0 {
+		args += " " + joinWithPrefixAndQuote(excludes, "-e ")
+	}
 	ctx.Build(pctx, blueprint.BuildParams{
 		Rule:    GlobRule,
 		Outputs: []string{fileListFile},
 		Args: map[string]string{
-			"glob":     pattern,
-			"excludes": joinWithPrefixAndQuote(excludes, "-e "),
+			"args": args,
 		},
+		Description: "glob " + pattern,
+	})
+}
+
+// multipleGlobFilesRule creates a rule to write to fileListFile a list of the files that match the specified
+// pattern but do not match any of the patterns specified in excludes.  The file will include
+// appropriate dependencies to regenerate the file if and only if the list of matching files has
+// changed.
+func multipleGlobFilesRule(ctx GlobFileContext, fileListFile string, shard int, globs pathtools.MultipleGlobResults) {
+	args := strings.Builder{}
+
+	for i, glob := range globs {
+		if i != 0 {
+			args.WriteString(" ")
+		}
+		args.WriteString(`-p "`)
+		args.WriteString(glob.Pattern)
+		args.WriteString(`"`)
+		for _, exclude := range glob.Excludes {
+			args.WriteString(` -e "`)
+			args.WriteString(exclude)
+			args.WriteString(`"`)
+		}
+	}
+
+	ctx.Build(pctx, blueprint.BuildParams{
+		Rule:    GlobRule,
+		Outputs: []string{fileListFile},
+		Args: map[string]string{
+			"args": args.String(),
+		},
+		Description: fmt.Sprintf("regenerate globs shard %d of %d", shard, numGlobBuckets),
 	})
 }
 
@@ -108,23 +148,42 @@ func joinWithPrefixAndQuote(strs []string, prefix string) string {
 // re-evaluate them whenever the contents of the searched directories change, and retrigger the
 // primary builder if the results change.
 type globSingleton struct {
-	globLister func() []blueprint.GlobPath
+	config     *Config
+	globLister func() pathtools.MultipleGlobResults
 	writeRule  bool
 }
 
-func globSingletonFactory(ctx *blueprint.Context) func() blueprint.Singleton {
+func globSingletonFactory(config *Config, ctx *blueprint.Context) func() blueprint.Singleton {
 	return func() blueprint.Singleton {
 		return &globSingleton{
+			config:     config,
 			globLister: ctx.Globs,
 		}
 	}
 }
 
 func (s *globSingleton) GenerateBuildActions(ctx blueprint.SingletonContext) {
+	// Sort the list of globs into buckets.  A hash function is used instead of sharding so that
+	// adding a new glob doesn't force rerunning all the buckets by shifting them all by 1.
+	globBuckets := make([]pathtools.MultipleGlobResults, numGlobBuckets)
 	for _, g := range s.globLister() {
-		fileListFile := g.FileListFile(ctx.Config().(BootstrapConfig).BuildDir())
+		bucket := globToBucket(g)
+		globBuckets[bucket] = append(globBuckets[bucket], g)
+	}
+
+	// The directory for the intermediates needs to be different for bootstrap and the primary
+	// builder.
+	globsDir := globsDir(ctx.Config().(BootstrapConfig), s.config.stage)
+
+	for i, globs := range globBuckets {
+		fileListFile := filepath.Join(globsDir, strconv.Itoa(i))
 
 		if s.writeRule {
+			// Called from generateGlobNinjaFile.  Write out the file list to disk, and add a ninja
+			// rule to run bpglob if any of the dependencies (usually directories that contain
+			// globbed files) have changed.  The file list produced by bpglob should match exactly
+			// with the file written here so that restat can prevent rerunning the primary builder.
+			//
 			// We need to write the file list here so that it has an older modified date
 			// than the build.ninja (otherwise we'd run the primary builder twice on
 			// every new glob)
@@ -132,23 +191,27 @@ func (s *globSingleton) GenerateBuildActions(ctx blueprint.SingletonContext) {
 			// We don't need to write the depfile because we're guaranteed that ninja
 			// will run the command at least once (to record it into the ninja_log), so
 			// the depfile will be loaded from that execution.
-			err := pathtools.WriteFileIfChanged(absolutePath(fileListFile), g.FileList(), 0666)
+			err := pathtools.WriteFileIfChanged(absolutePath(fileListFile), globs.FileList(), 0666)
 			if err != nil {
 				panic(fmt.Errorf("error writing %s: %s", fileListFile, err))
 			}
 
-			GlobFile(ctx, g.Pattern, g.Excludes, fileListFile)
+			// Write out the ninja rule to run bpglob.
+			multipleGlobFilesRule(ctx, fileListFile, i, globs)
 		} else {
-			// Make build.ninja depend on the fileListFile
+			// Called from the main Context, make build.ninja depend on the fileListFile.
 			ctx.AddNinjaFileDeps(fileListFile)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-func generateGlobNinjaFile(config interface{}, globLister func() []blueprint.GlobPath) ([]byte, []error) {
+func generateGlobNinjaFile(bootstrapConfig *Config, config interface{},
+	globLister func() pathtools.MultipleGlobResults) ([]byte, []error) {
+
 	ctx := blueprint.NewContext()
 	ctx.RegisterSingletonType("glob", func() blueprint.Singleton {
 		return &globSingleton{
+			config:     bootstrapConfig,
 			globLister: globLister,
 			writeRule:  true,
 		}
@@ -178,3 +241,37 @@ func generateGlobNinjaFile(config interface{}, globLister func() []blueprint.Glo
 
 	return buf.Bytes(), nil
 }
+
+// globsDir returns a different directory to store glob intermediates for the bootstrap and
+// primary builder executions.
+func globsDir(config BootstrapConfig, stage Stage) string {
+	buildDir := config.BuildDir()
+	if stage == StageMain {
+		return filepath.Join(buildDir, mainSubDir, "globs")
+	} else {
+		return filepath.Join(buildDir, bootstrapSubDir, "globs")
+	}
+}
+
+// GlobFileListFiles returns the list of sharded glob file list files for the main stage.
+func GlobFileListFiles(config BootstrapConfig) []string {
+	globsDir := globsDir(config, StageMain)
+	var fileListFiles []string
+	for i := 0; i < numGlobBuckets; i++ {
+		fileListFiles = append(fileListFiles, filepath.Join(globsDir, strconv.Itoa(i)))
+	}
+	return fileListFiles
+}
+
+const numGlobBuckets = 1024
+
+// globToBucket converts a pathtools.GlobResult into a hashed bucket number in the range
+// [0, numGlobBuckets).
+func globToBucket(g pathtools.GlobResult) int {
+	hash := fnv.New32a()
+	io.WriteString(hash, g.Pattern)
+	for _, e := range g.Excludes {
+		io.WriteString(hash, e)
+	}
+	return int(hash.Sum32() % numGlobBuckets)
+}
diff --git a/context.go b/context.go
index c900e28b..f5f095b8 100644
--- a/context.go
+++ b/context.go
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ type Context struct {
 	// cache deps modified to determine whether cachedSortedModuleGroups needs to be recalculated
 	cachedDepsModified bool
 
-	globs    map[string]GlobPath
+	globs    map[globKey]pathtools.GlobResult
 	globLock sync.Mutex
 
 	srcDir         string
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ func newContext() *Context {
 		moduleFactories:    make(map[string]ModuleFactory),
 		nameInterface:      NewSimpleNameInterface(),
 		moduleInfo:         make(map[Module]*moduleInfo),
-		globs:              make(map[string]GlobPath),
+		globs:              make(map[globKey]pathtools.GlobResult),
 		fs:                 pathtools.OsFs,
 		finishedMutators:   make(map[*mutatorInfo]bool),
 		ninjaBuildDir:      nil,
diff --git a/glob.go b/glob.go
index 67d060e5..91ae7232 100644
--- a/glob.go
+++ b/glob.go
@@ -15,50 +15,44 @@
 package blueprint
 
 import (
-	"crypto/md5"
 	"fmt"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/google/blueprint/pathtools"
 )
 
-type GlobPath struct {
-	pathtools.GlobResult
-	Name string
-}
-
-func (g *GlobPath) FileListFile(buildDir string) string {
-	return filepath.Join(buildDir, ".glob", g.Name)
-}
-
-func verifyGlob(fileName, pattern string, excludes []string, g GlobPath) {
+func verifyGlob(key globKey, pattern string, excludes []string, g pathtools.GlobResult) {
 	if pattern != g.Pattern {
-		panic(fmt.Errorf("Mismatched patterns %q and %q for glob file %q", pattern, g.Pattern, fileName))
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("Mismatched patterns %q and %q for glob key %q", pattern, g.Pattern, key))
 	}
 	if len(excludes) != len(g.Excludes) {
-		panic(fmt.Errorf("Mismatched excludes %v and %v for glob file %q", excludes, g.Excludes, fileName))
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("Mismatched excludes %v and %v for glob key %q", excludes, g.Excludes, key))
 	}
 
 	for i := range excludes {
 		if g.Excludes[i] != excludes[i] {
-			panic(fmt.Errorf("Mismatched excludes %v and %v for glob file %q", excludes, g.Excludes, fileName))
+			panic(fmt.Errorf("Mismatched excludes %v and %v for glob key %q", excludes, g.Excludes, key))
 		}
 	}
 }
 
 func (c *Context) glob(pattern string, excludes []string) ([]string, error) {
-	fileName := globToFileName(pattern, excludes)
+	// Sort excludes so that two globs with the same excludes in a different order reuse the same
+	// key.  Make a copy first to avoid modifying the caller's version.
+	excludes = append([]string(nil), excludes...)
+	sort.Strings(excludes)
+
+	key := globToKey(pattern, excludes)
 
 	// Try to get existing glob from the stored results
 	c.globLock.Lock()
-	g, exists := c.globs[fileName]
+	g, exists := c.globs[key]
 	c.globLock.Unlock()
 
 	if exists {
 		// Glob has already been done, double check it is identical
-		verifyGlob(fileName, pattern, excludes, g)
+		verifyGlob(key, pattern, excludes, g)
 		// Return a copy so that modifications don't affect the cached value.
 		return append([]string(nil), g.Matches...), nil
 	}
@@ -71,14 +65,14 @@ func (c *Context) glob(pattern string, excludes []string) ([]string, error) {
 
 	// Store the results
 	c.globLock.Lock()
-	if g, exists = c.globs[fileName]; !exists {
-		c.globs[fileName] = GlobPath{result, fileName}
+	if g, exists = c.globs[key]; !exists {
+		c.globs[key] = result
 	}
 	c.globLock.Unlock()
 
 	if exists {
 		// Getting the list raced with another goroutine, throw away the results and use theirs
-		verifyGlob(fileName, pattern, excludes, g)
+		verifyGlob(key, pattern, excludes, g)
 		// Return a copy so that modifications don't affect the cached value.
 		return append([]string(nil), g.Matches...), nil
 	}
@@ -87,49 +81,36 @@ func (c *Context) glob(pattern string, excludes []string) ([]string, error) {
 	return append([]string(nil), result.Matches...), nil
 }
 
-func (c *Context) Globs() []GlobPath {
-	fileNames := make([]string, 0, len(c.globs))
+func (c *Context) Globs() pathtools.MultipleGlobResults {
+	keys := make([]globKey, 0, len(c.globs))
 	for k := range c.globs {
-		fileNames = append(fileNames, k)
+		keys = append(keys, k)
 	}
-	sort.Strings(fileNames)
 
-	globs := make([]GlobPath, len(fileNames))
-	for i, fileName := range fileNames {
-		globs[i] = c.globs[fileName]
+	sort.Slice(keys, func(i, j int) bool {
+		if keys[i].pattern != keys[j].pattern {
+			return keys[i].pattern < keys[j].pattern
+		}
+		return keys[i].excludes < keys[j].excludes
+	})
+
+	globs := make(pathtools.MultipleGlobResults, len(keys))
+	for i, key := range keys {
+		globs[i] = c.globs[key]
 	}
 
 	return globs
 }
 
-func globToString(pattern string) string {
-	ret := ""
-	for _, c := range pattern {
-		switch {
-		case c >= 'a' && c <= 'z',
-			c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z',
-			c >= '0' && c <= '9',
-			c == '_', c == '-', c == '/':
-			ret += string(c)
-		default:
-			ret += "_"
-		}
-	}
-
-	return ret
+// globKey combines a pattern and a list of excludes into a hashable struct to be used as a key in
+// a map.
+type globKey struct {
+	pattern  string
+	excludes string
 }
 
-func globToFileName(pattern string, excludes []string) string {
-	name := globToString(pattern)
-	excludeName := ""
-	for _, e := range excludes {
-		excludeName += "__" + globToString(e)
-	}
-
-	// Prevent file names from reaching ninja's path component limit
-	if strings.Count(name, "/")+strings.Count(excludeName, "/") > 30 {
-		excludeName = fmt.Sprintf("___%x", md5.Sum([]byte(excludeName)))
-	}
-
-	return name + excludeName + ".glob"
+// globToKey converts a pattern and an excludes list into a globKey struct that is hashable and
+// usable as a key in a map.
+func globToKey(pattern string, excludes []string) globKey {
+	return globKey{pattern, strings.Join(excludes, "|")}
 }
diff --git a/pathtools/glob.go b/pathtools/glob.go
index 374770d2..14cdacfc 100644
--- a/pathtools/glob.go
+++ b/pathtools/glob.go
@@ -15,21 +15,20 @@
 package pathtools
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/google/blueprint/deptools"
 )
 
 // BPGlobArgumentVersion is used to abort argument parsing early when the bpglob argument format
 // has changed but soong_build hasn't had a chance to rerun yet to update build-globs.ninja.
 // Increment it manually when changing the bpglob argument format.  It is located here because
 // pathtools is the only package that is shared between bpglob and bootstrap.
-const BPGlobArgumentVersion = 1
+const BPGlobArgumentVersion = 2
 
 var GlobMultipleRecursiveErr = errors.New("pattern contains multiple '**'")
 var GlobLastRecursiveErr = errors.New("pattern has '**' as last path element")
@@ -54,6 +53,31 @@ func (result GlobResult) FileList() []byte {
 	return []byte(strings.Join(result.Matches, "\n") + "\n")
 }
 
+// MultipleGlobResults is a list of GlobResult structs.
+type MultipleGlobResults []GlobResult
+
+// FileList returns the list of files matched by a list of multiple globs for writing to an output file.
+func (results MultipleGlobResults) FileList() []byte {
+	multipleMatches := make([][]string, len(results))
+	for i, result := range results {
+		multipleMatches[i] = result.Matches
+	}
+	buf, err := json.Marshal(multipleMatches)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(fmt.Errorf("failed to marshal glob results to json: %w", err))
+	}
+	return buf
+}
+
+// Deps returns the deps from all of the GlobResults.
+func (results MultipleGlobResults) Deps() []string {
+	var deps []string
+	for _, result := range results {
+		deps = append(deps, result.Deps...)
+	}
+	return deps
+}
+
 // Glob returns the list of files and directories that match the given pattern
 // but do not match the given exclude patterns, along with the list of
 // directories and other dependencies that were searched to construct the file
@@ -344,32 +368,6 @@ func HasGlob(in []string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-// GlobWithDepFile finds all files and directories that match glob.  Directories
-// will have a trailing '/'.  It compares the list of matches against the
-// contents of fileListFile, and rewrites fileListFile if it has changed.  It
-// also writes all of the the directories it traversed as dependencies on
-// fileListFile to depFile.
-//
-// The format of glob is either path/*.ext for a single directory glob, or
-// path/**/*.ext for a recursive glob.
-//
-// Returns a list of file paths, and an error.
-//
-// In general ModuleContext.GlobWithDeps or SingletonContext.GlobWithDeps
-// should be used instead, as they will automatically set up dependencies
-// to rerun the primary builder when the list of matching files changes.
-func GlobWithDepFile(glob, fileListFile, depFile string, excludes []string) ([]string, error) {
-	result, err := Glob(glob, excludes, FollowSymlinks)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	WriteFileIfChanged(fileListFile, result.FileList(), 0666)
-	deptools.WriteDepFile(depFile, fileListFile, result.Deps)
-
-	return result.Matches, nil
-}
-
 // WriteFileIfChanged wraps ioutil.WriteFile, but only writes the file if
 // the files does not already exist with identical contents.  This can be used
 // along with ninja restat rules to skip rebuilding downstream rules if no