Index: lib/Target/AMDGPU/MCTargetDesc/AMDGPUELFObjectWriter.cpp
===================================================================
--- lib/Target/AMDGPU/MCTargetDesc/AMDGPUELFObjectWriter.cpp
+++ lib/Target/AMDGPU/MCTargetDesc/AMDGPUELFObjectWriter.cpp
@@ -21,10 +21,7 @@
   AMDGPUELFObjectWriter(bool Is64Bit, bool HasRelocationAddend);
 protected:
   unsigned getRelocType(MCContext &Ctx, const MCValue &Target,
-                        const MCFixup &Fixup, bool IsPCRel) const override {
-    return Fixup.getKind();
-  }
-
+                        const MCFixup &Fixup, bool IsPCRel) const override;
 };
 
 
@@ -37,6 +34,20 @@
                             ELF::EM_AMDGPU,
                             HasRelocationAddend) { }
 
+unsigned AMDGPUELFObjectWriter::getRelocType(MCContext &Ctx,
+                                             const MCValue &Target,
+                                             const MCFixup &Fixup,
+                                             bool IsPCRel) const {
+  // SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD[01] is a special global variable that represents
+  // the scratch buffer.
+  if (Target.getSymA()->getSymbol().getName() == "SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0")
+    return ELF::R_AMDGPU_ABS32_LO;
+  if (Target.getSymA()->getSymbol().getName() == "SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD1")
+    return ELF::R_AMDGPU_ABS32_HI;
+
+  llvm_unreachable("unhandled relocation type");
+}
+
 
 MCObjectWriter *llvm::createAMDGPUELFObjectWriter(bool Is64Bit,
                                                   bool HasRelocationAddend,
Index: test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/large-alloca-compute.ll
===================================================================
--- test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/large-alloca-compute.ll
+++ test/CodeGen/AMDGPU/large-alloca-compute.ll
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
 ; ALL-LABEL: {{^}}large_alloca_compute_shader:
 
 ; GCN-DAG: s_mov_b32 s{{[0-9]+}}, SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0
-; GCN-DAG: ; fixup A - offset: 4, value: SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0, kind: FK_Data_4
+; GCN-DAG: ; fixup A - offset: 4, value: SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0
 ; GCN-DAG: s_mov_b32 s{{[0-9]+}}, SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD1
-; GCN-DAG: ; fixup A - offset: 4, value: SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD1, kind: FK_Data_4
+; GCN-DAG: ; fixup A - offset: 4, value: SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD1
 ; GCN-DAG: s_mov_b32 s{{[0-9]+}}, -1
 ; CI-DAG: s_mov_b32 s{{[0-9]+}}, 0xe8f000
 ; VI-DAG: s_mov_b32 s{{[0-9]+}}, 0xe80000
Index: test/MC/AMDGPU/reloc.s
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ test/MC/AMDGPU/reloc.s
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple amdgcn-- -mcpu=kaveri -show-encoding %s | llvm-readobj -relocations | FileCheck %s
+
+// CHECK: Relocations [
+// CHECK: R_AMDGPU_ABS32_LO SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0 0x0
+// CHECK: R_AMDGPU_ABS32_HI SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD1 0x0
+// CHECK: ]
+
+kernel:
+  s_mov_b32 s0, SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0
+  s_mov_b32 s1, SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD1
+
+.globl SCRATCH_RSRC_DWORD0