Merge branch 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 kdump update from Ingo Molnar:
 "This includes two changes:

   - Raise the crash kernel reservation limit from from ~896MB to ~4GB.

     Only very old (and already known-broken) kexec-tools is supposed to
     be affected by this negatively.

   - Allow higher than 4GB crash kernel allocations when low allocations
     fail"

* 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kdump: Fall back to reserve high crashkernel memory
  x86/kdump: Have crashkernel=X reserve under 4G by default

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index b7e23e9d1770..420bb17440fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -704,8 +704,11 @@
 			upon panic. This parameter reserves the physical
 			memory region [offset, offset + size] for that kernel
 			image. If '@offset' is omitted, then a suitable offset
-			is selected automatically. Check
-			Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
+			is selected automatically.
+			[KNL, x86_64] select a region under 4G first, and
+			fall back to reserve region above 4G when '@offset'
+			hasn't been specified.
+			See Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
 
 	crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
 			[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory