diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
index 2f813d644c69..18b7dc929234 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Description:
 		this file, the suspend image will be as small as possible.
 
 		Reading from this file will display the current image size
-		limit, which is set to 500 MB by default.
+		limit, which is set to around 2/5 of available RAM by default.
 
 What:		/sys/power/pm_trace
 Date:		August 2006
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index cc87adf44c0a..236d1fb13640 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If you want to limit the suspend image size to N bytes, do
 
 echo N > /sys/power/image_size
 
-before suspend (it is limited to 500 MB by default).
+before suspend (it is limited to around 2/5 of available RAM by default).
 
 . The resume process checks for the presence of the resume device,
 if found, it then checks the contents for the hibernation image signature.