Re: Kdump with full-disk LUKS encryption

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:00:38PM +0800, Kairui Song wrote:
> 2. LUKS2 prefers Argon2 as the key derivation function, designed to
> use a lot of memory. kdump is expected to use a minimal amount of
> memory. Users will have to reserve a huge amount of memory for kdump
> to work (eg. 1G reserve for kdump with 4G total memory which is not
> reasonable).

I'm just going to sympathise with you rather than provide a good
answer here ...  We had the same problem in libguestfs where Argon2
used too much memory for our small appliance when opening LUKS2 disks.
We had to simply increase the amount of memory reserved, which is far
from ideal.

Rich.

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