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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 5beb4b894c5a..ef09f0acb1d8 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2608,6 +2608,13 @@ static int __init gate_vma_init(void)
gate_vma.vm_end = FIXADDR_USER_END;
gate_vma.vm_flags = VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYEXEC;
gate_vma.vm_page_prot = __P101;
+ /*
+ * Make sure the vDSO gets into every core dump.
+ * Dumping its contents makes post-mortem fully interpretable later
+ * without matching up the same kernel and hardware config to see
+ * what PC values meant.
+ */
+ gate_vma.vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
return 0;
}
__initcall(gate_vma_init);