diff --git a/make/CreateJmods.gmk b/make/CreateJmods.gmk
index fdfb7dc6884..212132779b1 100644
--- a/make/CreateJmods.gmk
+++ b/make/CreateJmods.gmk
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ $(IMAGES_OUTPUTDIR)/jmods/$(MODULE).jmod: $(DEPS)
             --os-version $(REQUIRED_OS_VERSION) \
 	    --modulepath $(IMAGES_OUTPUTDIR)/jmods\
             --hash-dependencies '.*' \
-            --exclude '**_the.*' \
+            --exclude '**{_the.*,*.diz,*.debuginfo,*.dSYM/**,*.pdb,*.map}' \
 	    $(JMOD_FLAGS) $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/jmods/$(notdir $@)
 	$(MV) $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/jmods/$(notdir $@) $@
 
diff --git a/make/Images.gmk b/make/Images.gmk
index 97cce400395..a50cd7ca4d4 100644
--- a/make/Images.gmk
+++ b/make/Images.gmk
@@ -422,6 +422,55 @@ ifeq ($(GCOV_ENABLED), true)
 
 endif
 
+################################################################################
+# Debug symbols
+# Since debug symbols are not included in the jmod files, they need to be copied
+# in manually after generating the images.
+
+ALL_JDK_MODULES := $(JDK_MODULES)
+ALL_JRE_MODULES := $(sort $(JRE_MODULES), $(foreach m, $(JRE_MODULES), \
+    $(call FindTransitiveDepsForModule, $m)))
+
+ifeq ($(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS), windows)
+  LIBS_TARGET_SUBDIR := bin
+else
+  LIBS_TARGET_SUBDIR := lib
+endif
+
+DEBUGINFO_SUFFIXES := .diz .debuginfo .pdb .map
+
+# Param 1 - dir to find debuginfo files in
+FindDebuginfoFiles = \
+    $(wildcard $(addprefix $1/*, $(DEBUGINFO_SUFFIXES)) \
+        $(addprefix $1/*/*, $(DEBUGINFO_SUFFIXES)) \
+        $(addprefix $1/*/*/*, $(DEBUGINFO_SUFFIXES)))
+
+# On Macosx, if debug symbols have not been zipped, find all files inside *.dSYM
+# dirs.
+ifeq ($(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS)-$(ZIP_EXTERNAL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS), macosx-false)
+  $(eval $(call FillCacheFind, \
+      $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/modules_cmds $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/modules_libs/))
+  FindDebuginfoFiles = \
+      $(if $(wildcard $1), $(call containing, .dSYM/, $(call CacheFind, $1)))
+endif
+
+# Param 1 - either JDK or JRE
+SetupCopyDebuginfo = \
+    $(foreach m, $(ALL_$1_MODULES), \
+      $(eval $(call SetupCopyFiles, COPY_$1_LIBS_DEBUGINFO_$m, \
+          SRC := $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/modules_libs/$m, \
+          DEST := $($1_IMAGE_DIR)/$(LIBS_TARGET_SUBDIR), \
+          FILES := $(call FindDebuginfoFiles, \
+              $(SUPPORT_OUTPUTDIR)/modules_libs/$m), \
+      )) \
+      $(eval $1_TARGETS += $$(COPY_$1_LIBS_DEBUGINFO_$m)) \
+    )
+
+# No space before argument to avoid having to put $(strip ) everywhere in
+# implementation above.
+$(call SetupCopyDebuginfo,JDK)
+$(call SetupCopyDebuginfo,JRE)
+
 ################################################################################
 
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