On 10/15/19 7:09 AM, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: > > > On 10/15/19 11:05 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: >> On Tue 15-10-19 10:58:36, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote: >>> On 10/15/19 9:18 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: >>>> I do agree with Qian Cai here. Kdump kernel requires a very tailored >>>> environment considering it is running in a very restricted >>>> configuration. The hugetlb pre-allocation sounds like a tooling problem >>>> and should be fixed at that layer. >>>> >>> >>> Hi Michal, thanks for your response. Can you suggest me a current way of >>> preventing hugepages for being created, using userspace? The goal for this >>> patch is exactly this, introduce such a way. >> >> Simply restrict the environment to not allocate any hugepages? Kdump >> already controls the kernel command line and it also starts only a very >> minimal subset of services. So who is allocating those hugepages? >> sysctls should be already excluded by default as Qian mentioned. >> > > > OK, thanks Michal and Qian, I'll try to make things work from kdump > perspective. The trick part is exactly preventing the sysctl to get applied > heh >
Please do let us know if this can be done in tooling. I am not opposed to the approach taken in your v2 patch as it essentially uses the hugepages_supported() functionality that exists today. However, it seems that other distros have ways around this issue. As such, I would prefer if the issue was addressed in the tooling. -- Mike Kravetz
