diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index a4b28c73bba0..ae0ede19879d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 	 * pages though
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC;
+	/*
+	 * 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.
+	 */
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_ALWAYSDUMP;
 	vma->vm_flags |= mm->def_flags;
 	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[vma->vm_flags & 0x7];
 	vma->vm_ops = &vdso_vmops;