diff --git a/0015-kdump-lib-initramfs-Fix-performance-regression-in-kd.patch b/0015-kdump-lib-initramfs-Fix-performance-regression-in-kd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb528ac
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+++ b/0015-kdump-lib-initramfs-Fix-performance-regression-in-kd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+From b43908c20f5a028c60b0096006a26a6e52a01279 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:54:25 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] kdump-lib-initramfs: Fix performance regression in
+ kdump_get_conf_val
+
+Rewriting kdump_get_conf_val in Bash lead to a massive performance
+regression. On my test system starting the kdump service took
+
+$ time kdumpctl start
+real    0m13.134s
+user    0m8.828s
+sys     0m7.450s
+
+which is ~20 times slower compared to kdump-utils-1.0.59-1.fc44 with
+
+$ time kdumpctl start
+real    0m0.641s
+user    0m0.208s
+sys     0m0.538s
+
+Looking at the traces shows that this is caused because Bash now has to
+handle the whole kdump.conf, including the extensive comment at the
+start, every time kdump_get_conf_val is called. This is done multiple
+times when starting the kdump service and is often cloaked by other
+functions, e.g. is_ssh_dump_target() or get_save_path().
+
+To fix the issue remove comments and empty lines in a regex again so
+that the Bash code only has to handle valid config entries. With this
+change alone the performance is almost as good as the original version
+with
+
+$ time kdumpctl start
+real    0m0.780s
+user    0m0.330s
+sys     0m0.604s
+
+In the long run it would make sense to also reduce the number of calls
+to kdump_get_conf_val.
+
+This patch also fixes the issue that subsequent blanks are replaced by a
+single space. Usually this is not an issue but there are corner cases,
+e.g. in printf-like format strings passed as an argument, where the new
+behaviour is undesirable.
+
+Fixes: d81109c ("kdump-lib-initramfs: rewrite kdump_get_conf_val")
+Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
+---
+ kdump-lib-initramfs.sh | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
+ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh b/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
+index 6f5d6db..6c64106 100755
+--- a/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
++++ b/kdump-lib-initramfs.sh
+@@ -30,38 +30,40 @@ kdump_get_conf_val()
+ 	_found=""
+ 
+ 	[ -f "$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE" ] || return
+-	while read -r _line; do
+-		_line="$(echo "$_line" | tr -s "[:blank:]" " ")"
+-		case "$_line" in
+-		"" | \#*)
+-			continue
+-			;;
+-		*\#*)
+-			_line="${_line%%\#*}"
+-			_line="${_line% }"
+-			;;
+-		esac
+-
+-		_opt=${_line%% *}
+-		_val=${_line#* }
+-
+-		case "$_val" in
+-		\"*\")
+-			# Remove quotes
+-			_val="${_val#\"}"
+-			_val="${_val%\"}"
+-			;;
+-		esac
+-
+-		if [ -z "$_to_find" ]; then
+-			echo "$_opt $_val"
+-		elif echo "$_opt" | grep -q -E "^($_to_find)$"; then
+-			# make sure to only return the last match to mirror the
+-			# old behavior
+-			_found="$_val"
+-		fi
+-	done < "$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE"
+-	[ -n "$_found" ] && echo "$_found"
++
++	# On lines that are _not_ comments or empty remove...
++	# Note: The additional braces {} are required as piping into a while
++	# loop creates a sub-shell. So without the braces $_found would only be
++	# set inside the loop but empty outside of it.
++	grep -Ev -e '^\s*#' -e '^\s*$' "$KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE" | {
++		while read -r _opt _val; do
++			# ...trailing comments...
++			case "$_val" in
++			*\#*)
++				_val="${_val%%#*}"
++				_val="${_val%"${_val##*[![:space:]]}"}"
++				;;
++			esac
++
++			# ...quotes
++			case "$_val" in
++			\"*\")
++				_val="${_val#\"}"
++				_val="${_val%\"}"
++				;;
++			esac
++
++			if [ -z "$_to_find" ]; then
++				echo "$_opt $_val"
++			elif echo "$_opt" | grep -q -E "^($_to_find)$"; then
++				# make sure to only return the last match to
++				# mirror the old behavior
++				_found="$_val"
++			fi
++		done
++
++		[ -n "$_found" ] && echo "$_found"
++	}
+ 
+ 	# make sure we return 0 even when a option isn't set
+ 	return 0
+-- 
+2.52.0
+
diff --git a/kdump-utils.spec b/kdump-utils.spec
index 9bcabd9..bb39ccd 100644
--- a/kdump-utils.spec
+++ b/kdump-utils.spec
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Patch11: 0011-kdump.sh-Skip-num-threads-when-E-and-F-option-is-pre.patch
 Patch12: 0012-powerpc-consider-CPU-count-while-calculating-crashke.patch
 Patch13: 0013-powerpc-Set-nr_cpus-16-for-kdump-kernel.patch
 Patch14: 0014-kexec-kdump-howto.txt-update-paragraphs-related-to-d.patch
+Patch15: 0015-kdump-lib-initramfs-Fix-performance-regression-in-kd.patch
 
 
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