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diff --git a/includes/sys/sdt.h b/includes/sys/sdt.h
index e448c90e..3b788b88 100644
--- a/includes/sys/sdt.h
+++ b/includes/sys/sdt.h
@@ -17,9 +17,17 @@
#define STAP_PROBE_ADDR "\t.long "
#endif
+/* Allocated section needs to be writable when creating pic shared objects
+ because we store relocatable addresses in them. */
+#ifdef __PIC__
+#define ALLOCSEC "\"aw\""
+#else
+#define ALLOCSEC "\"a\""
+#endif
+
/* An allocated section .probes that holds the probe names and addrs. */
#define STAP_PROBE_DATA_(probe,guard,arg) \
- __asm__ volatile (".section .probes, \"a\"\n" \
+ __asm__ volatile (".section .probes," ALLOCSEC "\n" \
"\t.align 8\n" \
"1:\n\t.asciz " #probe "\n" \
"\t.align 4\n" \