[PATCH V3] Disable transparent hugepages in second kernel

Transparent hugepages are on by default. Disable it in kdump kernel by adding the parameter 'transparent_hugepage=never'. This might help us with some of the memory issues we are facing. after turn off THP, but also we can get more 'MemAvailable:' in the kdump kernel. 1)x86_64 without the parameter ===================== kdump:/# cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel_ibm--x3250m4--01-root ro rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-x3250m4-01/swap console=ttyS0,115200n8 rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-x3250m4-01/root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail acpi_no_memhotplug disable_cpu_apicid=0 elfcorehdr=869764K kdump:/# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 145492 kB MemFree: 68284 kB MemAvailable: 111632 kB <<------ Buffers: 36 kB Cached: 48184 kB ... added the parameter ===================== kdump:/# cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel_ibm--x3250m4--01-root ro rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-x3250m4-01/swap console=ttyS0,115200n8 rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-x3250m4-01/root LANG=en_US.UTF-8 irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail acpi_no_memhotplug transparent_hugepage=never disable_cpu_apicid=0 elfcorehdr=869764K kdump:/# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 145492 kB MemFree: 68388 kB MemAvailable: 111728 kB <<------- ... VmallocChunk: 34359659520 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ... 2)ppc64 without the parameter ==================== kdump:/# cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel_ibm--p8--05--lp6-root ro rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-p8-05-lp6/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-p8-05-lp6/swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8 irqpoll maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 ehea.use_mcs=0 panic=10 rootflags=nofail kvm_cma_resv_ratio=0 elfcorehdr=154880K kdump:/# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 480832 kB MemFree: 293952 kB MemAvailable: 427840 kB <<-------- mallocUsed: 23680 kB VmallocChunk: 8589901824 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ... added the parameter =================== kdump:/# cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-229.el7.ppc64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel_ibm--p8--05--lp6-root ro rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-p8-05-lp6/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel_ibm-p8-05-lp6/swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8 irqpoll maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 ehea.use_mcs=0 panic=10 rootflags=nofail kvm_cma_resv_ratio=0 transparent_hugepage=never elfcorehdr=154880K kdump:/# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 480832 kB MemFree: 294592 kB MemAvailable: 428480 kB <<------- ... HugePages_Total: 0 Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kdump.sysconfig.i386 | 2 +- kdump.sysconfig.ppc64 | 2 +- kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le | 2 +- kdump.sysconfig.s390x | 2 +- kdump.sysconfig.x86_64 | 2 +- 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kdump.sysconfig.i386 b/kdump.sysconfig.i386 index 84b2447..bb7a6e5 100644 --- a/kdump.sysconfig.i386 +++ b/kdump.sysconfig.i386 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="" # This variable lets us append arguments to the current kdump commandline # As taken from either KDUMP_COMMANDLINE above, or from /proc/cmdline -KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail" +KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail transparent_hugepage=never" # Any additional kexec arguments required. In most situations, this should # be left empty diff --git a/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64 b/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64 index 5295626..dd09598 100644 --- a/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64 +++ b/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="" # This variable lets us append arguments to the current kdump commandline # As taken from either KDUMP_COMMANDLINE above, or from /proc/cmdline -KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 ehea.use_mcs=0 panic=10 rootflags=nofail kvm_cma_resv_ratio=0" +KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 ehea.use_mcs=0 panic=10 rootflags=nofail kvm_cma_resv_ratio=0 transparent_hugepage=never" # Any additional kexec arguments required. In most situations, this should # be left empty diff --git a/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le b/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le index 5295626..dd09598 100644 --- a/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le +++ b/kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="" # This variable lets us append arguments to the current kdump commandline # As taken from either KDUMP_COMMANDLINE above, or from /proc/cmdline -KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 ehea.use_mcs=0 panic=10 rootflags=nofail kvm_cma_resv_ratio=0" +KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 ehea.use_mcs=0 panic=10 rootflags=nofail kvm_cma_resv_ratio=0 transparent_hugepage=never" # Any additional kexec arguments required. In most situations, this should # be left empty diff --git a/kdump.sysconfig.s390x b/kdump.sysconfig.s390x index 745dd27..b103a88 100644 --- a/kdump.sysconfig.s390x +++ b/kdump.sysconfig.s390x @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="" # This variable lets us append arguments to the current kdump commandline # As taken from either KDUMP_COMMANDLINE above, or from /proc/cmdline -KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="nr_cpus=1 cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail" +KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="nr_cpus=1 cgroup_disable=memory numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail transparent_hugepage=never" # Any additional /sbin/mkdumprd arguments required. MKDUMPRD_ARGS="" diff --git a/kdump.sysconfig.x86_64 b/kdump.sysconfig.x86_64 index d9ad9b5..7991d68 100644 --- a/kdump.sysconfig.x86_64 +++ b/kdump.sysconfig.x86_64 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ KDUMP_COMMANDLINE="" # This variable lets us append arguments to the current kdump commandline # As taken from either KDUMP_COMMANDLINE above, or from /proc/cmdline -KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail acpi_no_memhotplug" +KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND="irqpoll nr_cpus=1 reset_devices cgroup_disable=memory mce=off numa=off udev.children-max=2 panic=10 rootflags=nofail acpi_no_memhotplug transparent_hugepage=never" # Any additional kexec arguments required. In most situations, this should # be left empty -- 1.8.3.1