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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and PowerPC
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:06:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324210644.28f6cf77a26dfadcc4b642e7@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260225060347.718905-1-coxu@redhat.com>

On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:03:43 +0800 Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com> wrote:

> CONFIG_CRASH_DM_CRYPT has been introduced to support LUKS-encrypted
> device dump target by addressing two challenges [1],
>  - Kdump kernel may not be able to decrypt the LUKS partition. For some
>    machines, a system administrator may not have a chance to enter the
>    password to decrypt the device in kdump initramfs after the 1st kernel
>    crashes
> 
>  - LUKS2 by default use the memory-hard Argon2 key derivation function
>    which is quite memory-consuming compared to the limited memory reserved
>    for kdump.
> 
> To also enable this feature for ARM64 and PowerPC, we need to add a
> device tree property dmcryptkeys [2] as similar to elfcorehdr to pass
> the memory address of the stored info of dm-crypt keys to the kdump
> kernel.

We don't have any ack/review tags for this series.  Could someone
please help out?



      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-25  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-25  6:03 [PATCH v5 0/3] kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and PowerPC Coiby Xu
2026-02-25  6:03 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] crash_dump/dm-crypt: Don't print in arch-specific code Coiby Xu
2026-02-25  6:03 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] crash: Align the declaration of crash_load_dm_crypt_keys with CONFIG_CRASH_DM_CRYPT Coiby Xu
2026-02-25  6:03 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel Coiby Xu
2026-03-25  4:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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