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
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 3773905cd2c1..905dae880563 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 #include <linux/tboot.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
 #include <linux/mem_encrypt.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>
 
 #include <linux/usb/xhci-dbgp.h>
 #include <video/edid.h>
@@ -448,18 +449,17 @@ static void __init memblock_x86_reserve_range_setup_data(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE
 
 /* 16M alignment for crash kernel regions */
-#define CRASH_ALIGN		(16 << 20)
+#define CRASH_ALIGN		SZ_16M
 
 /*
  * Keep the crash kernel below this limit.  On 32 bits earlier kernels
  * would limit the kernel to the low 512 MiB due to mapping restrictions.
- * On 64bit, old kexec-tools need to under 896MiB.
  */
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-# define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX	(512 << 20)
-# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX	(512 << 20)
+# define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX	SZ_512M
+# define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX	SZ_512M
 #else
-# define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX	(896UL << 20)
+# define CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX	SZ_4G
 # define CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX	MAXMEM
 #endif
 
@@ -541,21 +541,27 @@ static void __init reserve_crashkernel(void)
 	}
 
 	/* 0 means: find the address automatically */
-	if (crash_base <= 0) {
+	if (!crash_base) {
 		/*
 		 * Set CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX upper bound for crash memory,
-		 * as old kexec-tools loads bzImage below that, unless
-		 * "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified.
+		 * crashkernel=x,high reserves memory over 4G, also allocates
+		 * 256M extra low memory for DMA buffers and swiotlb.
+		 * But the extra memory is not required for all machines.
+		 * So try low memory first and fall back to high memory
+		 * unless "crashkernel=size[KMG],high" is specified.
 		 */
-		crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN,
-						    high ? CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX
-							 : CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX,
-						    crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
+		if (!high)
+			crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN,
+						CRASH_ADDR_LOW_MAX,
+						crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
+		if (!crash_base)
+			crash_base = memblock_find_in_range(CRASH_ALIGN,
+						CRASH_ADDR_HIGH_MAX,
+						crash_size, CRASH_ALIGN);
 		if (!crash_base) {
 			pr_info("crashkernel reservation failed - No suitable area found.\n");
 			return;
 		}
-
 	} else {
 		unsigned long long start;