This config option is intended to be used only while trying to find anything that copies from userspace with cross page boundaries, and it looks like some vmware driver was doing exactly that.
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1373326 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373326 ** Also affects: linux via https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373326 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1627198 Title: 4.8.0 kernels do not complete boot process on VM Status in Linux: Unknown Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in linux source package in Yakkety: Fix Committed Bug description: On my native amd64 box, 4.8.0-15 works just fine, but on my VMWare Fusion 8.5 system, none of the 4.8.0 kernels complete the boot process. I tried 4.8.0-15 from yakkety and 4.8.0-16 from yakkety- proposed. Currently I am seeing the last message in my console at boot up as: [ OK ] Started Bluetooth service and then... it just sits there. Through the use of snapshots, restores, and package bisects, I've definitively narrowed it to linux-generic linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1627198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
