diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
index 7d9382e5233..cf70ad6a2ec 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
@@ -776,6 +776,9 @@ SelectSectionForGlobal(const GlobalValue *GV, SectionKind Kind,
   if (Kind.isThreadLocal())
     return getTLSDataSection();
 
+  if (Kind.isReadOnly() && ReadOnlySection != 0)
+    return ReadOnlySection;
+
   return getDataSection();
 }
 
diff --git a/test/MC/COFF/rdata.ll b/test/MC/COFF/rdata.ll
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f0417811704
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/MC/COFF/rdata.ll
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+; RUN: llc -mtriple i386-pc-win32 < %s | FileCheck %s
+
+%struct.foo = type { i32, i32 }
+
+@"\01?thingy@@3Ufoo@@B" = constant %struct.foo zeroinitializer, align 4
+; CHECK: .section        .rdata