There is no 'crashkernel=auto' entry in kernel-parameters.txt, borrow it
from kexec-kdump-howto.txt file in the kexec-tools-2.0.0 package.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiao...@163.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1d6f045..9e5913e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -797,6 +797,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be 
entirely omitted.
                        It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
                        or memory reserved is below 4G.
 
+       crashkernel=auto
+                       This specification allows the kernel to decide how much
+                       memory to reserve for the purposes of kdump. It will 
make
+                       this determination based on the amount of memory you 
have
+                       in your system, and scale the allocation accordingly.
+                       Note that if you have less than 4Gb of memory in your 
system,
+                       this specification will opt to not allocate any memory 
for
+                       the purposes of kdump.
+
        cs89x0_dma=     [HW,NET]
                        Format: <dma>
 
-- 
1.9.1


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