Alternative way to disable transparent hugepage (THP) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Append “transparent_hugepage=never” to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub

[root@hdp-vm ~]# vi /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos/root rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap rhgb quiet transparent_hugepage=never"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

[root@hdp-vm ~]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-8be2b63ef43643f786bd865127a5a3bb
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-8be2b63ef43643f786bd865127a5a3bb.img

[root@hdp-vm ~]# reboot

[root@hdp-vm ~]# cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
always madvise [never]

[root@hdp-vm ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/centos-root ro rd.lvm.lv=centos/root rd.lvm.lv=centos/swap rhgb quiet transparent_hugepage=never