diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
index e9f85142182d..6f534a707b2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ramoops.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ and type of the memory area are set using three variables:
   * ``mem_size`` for the size. The memory size will be rounded down to a
     power of two.
   * ``mem_type`` to specify if the memory type (default is pgprot_writecombine).
+  * ``mem_name`` to specify a memory region defined by ``reserve_mem`` command
+    line parameter.
 
 Typically the default value of ``mem_type=0`` should be used as that sets the pstore
 mapping to pgprot_writecombine. Setting ``mem_type=1`` attempts to use
@@ -118,6 +120,17 @@ Setting the ramoops parameters can be done in several different manners:
 	return ret;
   }
 
+ D. Using a region of memory reserved via ``reserve_mem`` command line
+    parameter. The address and size will be defined by the ``reserve_mem``
+    parameter. Note, that ``reserve_mem`` may not always allocate memory
+    in the same location, and cannot be relied upon. Testing will need
+    to be done, and it may not work on every machine, nor every kernel.
+    Consider this a "best effort" approach. The ``reserve_mem`` option
+    takes a size, alignment and name as arguments. The name is used
+    to map the memory to a label that can be retrieved by ramoops.
+
+	reserver_mem=2M:4096:oops  ramoops.mem_name=oops
+
 You can specify either RAM memory or peripheral devices' memory. However, when
 specifying RAM, be sure to reserve the memory by issuing memblock_reserve()
 very early in the architecture code, e.g.::
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index b1a455f42e93..4311fcbc84f2 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ module_param_hw(mem_address, ullong, other, 0400);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_address,
 		"start of reserved RAM used to store oops/panic logs");
 
+static char *mem_name;
+module_param_named(mem_name, mem_name, charp, 0400);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_name, "name of kernel param that holds addr");
+
 static ulong mem_size;
 module_param(mem_size, ulong, 0400);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mem_size,
@@ -914,6 +918,16 @@ static void __init ramoops_register_dummy(void)
 {
 	struct ramoops_platform_data pdata;
 
+	if (mem_name) {
+		phys_addr_t start;
+		phys_addr_t size;
+
+		if (reserve_mem_find_by_name(mem_name, &start, &size)) {
+			mem_address = start;
+			mem_size = size;
+		}
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Prepare a dummy platform data structure to carry the module
 	 * parameters. If mem_size isn't set, then there are no module