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Disable transparent hugepages in second kernel

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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.

From my test on two arch, not only there are no any bad effect on saving vmcore
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@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Minfei Huang <mhuang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redaht.com>
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Li Wang 2015-05-20 11:33:36 +08:00 committed by Baoquan He
parent e4a99f7523
commit 0aada50b66
5 changed files with 5 additions and 5 deletions
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kdump.sysconfig.i386
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@ -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

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kdump.sysconfig.ppc64
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@ -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

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kdump.sysconfig.ppc64le
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@ -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

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kdump.sysconfig.s390x
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@ -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=""

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kdump.sysconfig.x86_64
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@ -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