diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/zcore.c b/drivers/s390/char/zcore.c
index 22820610022c..d415ba7f26a6 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/zcore.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/zcore.c
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static void __init set_lc_mask(struct save_area *map)
 /*
  * Initialize dump globals for a given architecture
  */
-static int __init sys_info_init(enum arch_id arch)
+static int __init sys_info_init(enum arch_id arch, unsigned long mem_end)
 {
 	int rc;
 
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static int __init sys_info_init(enum arch_id arch)
 	rc = init_cpu_info(arch);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
-	sys_info.mem_size = real_memory_size;
+	sys_info.mem_size = mem_end;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ static int __init check_sdias(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int __init get_mem_size(unsigned long *mem)
+static int __init get_mem_info(unsigned long *mem, unsigned long *end)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct mem_chunk *chunk_array;
@@ -615,28 +615,26 @@ static int __init get_mem_size(unsigned long *mem)
 		if (chunk_array[i].size == 0)
 			break;
 		*mem += chunk_array[i].size;
+		*end = max(*end, chunk_array[i].addr + chunk_array[i].size);
 	}
 	kfree(chunk_array);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int __init zcore_header_init(int arch, struct zcore_header *hdr)
+static void __init zcore_header_init(int arch, struct zcore_header *hdr,
+				     unsigned long mem_size)
 {
-	int rc, i;
-	unsigned long memory = 0;
 	u32 prefix;
+	int i;
 
 	if (arch == ARCH_S390X)
 		hdr->arch_id = DUMP_ARCH_S390X;
 	else
 		hdr->arch_id = DUMP_ARCH_S390;
-	rc = get_mem_size(&memory);
-	if (rc)
-		return rc;
-	hdr->mem_size = memory;
-	hdr->rmem_size = memory;
+	hdr->mem_size = mem_size;
+	hdr->rmem_size = mem_size;
 	hdr->mem_end = sys_info.mem_size;
-	hdr->num_pages = memory / PAGE_SIZE;
+	hdr->num_pages = mem_size / PAGE_SIZE;
 	hdr->tod = get_tod_clock();
 	get_cpu_id(&hdr->cpu_id);
 	for (i = 0; zfcpdump_save_areas[i]; i++) {
@@ -647,7 +645,6 @@ static int __init zcore_header_init(int arch, struct zcore_header *hdr)
 		hdr->lc_vec[hdr->cpu_cnt] = prefix;
 		hdr->cpu_cnt++;
 	}
-	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -682,9 +679,11 @@ static int __init zcore_reipl_init(void)
 
 static int __init zcore_init(void)
 {
+	unsigned long mem_size, mem_end;
 	unsigned char arch;
 	int rc;
 
+	mem_size = mem_end = 0;
 	if (ipl_info.type != IPL_TYPE_FCP_DUMP)
 		return -ENODATA;
 	if (OLDMEM_BASE)
@@ -727,13 +726,14 @@ static int __init zcore_init(void)
 	}
 #endif /* CONFIG_64BIT */
 
-	rc = sys_info_init(arch);
+	rc = get_mem_info(&mem_size, &mem_end);
 	if (rc)
 		goto fail;
 
-	rc = zcore_header_init(arch, &zcore_header);
+	rc = sys_info_init(arch, mem_end);
 	if (rc)
 		goto fail;
+	zcore_header_init(arch, &zcore_header, mem_size);
 
 	rc = zcore_reipl_init();
 	if (rc)