diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index aa47be71df4c..37713bcf7778 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
 			See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
+	acpi_rsdp=	[ACPI,EFI,KEXEC]
+			Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
+			on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
+			second kernel for kdump.
+
 	acpi_apic_instance=	[ACPI, IOAPIC]
 			Format: <int>
 			2: use 2nd APIC table, if available
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
index 52ca9649d769..27cd1408f6d8 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
@@ -237,8 +237,23 @@ void acpi_os_vprintf(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+static unsigned long acpi_rsdp;
+static int __init setup_acpi_rsdp(char *arg)
+{
+	acpi_rsdp = simple_strtoul(arg, NULL, 16);
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("acpi_rsdp", setup_acpi_rsdp);
+#endif
+
 acpi_physical_address __init acpi_os_get_root_pointer(void)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+	if (acpi_rsdp)
+		return acpi_rsdp;
+#endif
+
 	if (efi_enabled) {
 		if (efi.acpi20 != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR)
 			return efi.acpi20;