Public bug reported:

[Impact]
Users of kdump won't be able to dump if their system uses hugepages/hugepagesz 
on the cmdline.

[Test Case]
1) Install crashdump
2) Boot machine with hugepages= or hugepagesz= set to a significant amount of 
memory
3) Try to crash with 'echo 'c' | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger'

[Regression Potential]
If users really want to have hugepages/hugepagesz on the kexec'd kernel for 
kdump they can add this via KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND in /etc/default/kdump-tools.
This patch should also potentially go upstream.

** Affects: makedumpfile (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Chris J Arges (arges)
         Status: In Progress

** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Chris J Arges (arges)

** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634132

Title:
  using hugepages/hugepagesz causes kexec'd kernel to OOM

Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Users of kdump won't be able to dump if their system uses 
hugepages/hugepagesz on the cmdline.

  [Test Case]
  1) Install crashdump
  2) Boot machine with hugepages= or hugepagesz= set to a significant amount of 
memory
  3) Try to crash with 'echo 'c' | sudo tee /proc/sysrq-trigger'

  [Regression Potential]
  If users really want to have hugepages/hugepagesz on the kexec'd kernel for 
kdump they can add this via KDUMP_CMDLINE_APPEND in /etc/default/kdump-tools.
  This patch should also potentially go upstream.

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