diff --git a/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/amdgcn/src/target_impl.h b/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/amdgcn/src/target_impl.h
--- a/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/amdgcn/src/target_impl.h
+++ b/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/amdgcn/src/target_impl.h
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
 #define INLINE inline
 #define NOINLINE __attribute__((noinline))
 #define ALIGN(N) __attribute__((aligned(N)))
+#define PLUGIN_ACCESSIBLE                                                      \
+  __attribute__((used)) /* Don't discard values the plugin reads */            \
+  __attribute__((visibility("default"))) /* Access via SHT_HASH */             \
+  __attribute__((section(".data")))      /* Not .bss, can write before load */
 
 #include "llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPGridValues.h"
 
diff --git a/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/common/src/omp_data.cu b/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/common/src/omp_data.cu
--- a/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/common/src/omp_data.cu
+++ b/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/common/src/omp_data.cu
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 // global device environment
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
+PLUGIN_ACCESSIBLE
 omptarget_device_environmentTy omptarget_device_environment;
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
diff --git a/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/nvptx/src/target_impl.h b/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/nvptx/src/target_impl.h
--- a/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/nvptx/src/target_impl.h
+++ b/openmp/libomptarget/deviceRTLs/nvptx/src/target_impl.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #define INLINE inline __attribute__((always_inline))
 #define NOINLINE __attribute__((noinline))
 #define ALIGN(N) __attribute__((aligned(N)))
+#define PLUGIN_ACCESSIBLE /* no annotation needed for cuda plugin */
 
 #include "llvm/Frontend/OpenMP/OMPGridValues.h"