SysAdmin

After upgrading the kernel to 4.8.13-1-ARCH some of the vmware kernel modules failed to compile:

/tmp/modconfig-6BT70S/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1592:47: error: ‘NR_ANON_PAGES’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/tmp/modconfig-BBuLH6/vmnet-only/netif.c:468:7: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘trans_start’; did you mean ‘mem_start’?

The fix:

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cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar xf vmnet.tar
tar xf vmmon.tar
mv vmnet.tar vmnet.old.tar
mv vmmon.tar vmmon.old.tar
sed -i -e 's/dev->trans_start = jiffies/netif_trans_update(dev)/g' vmnet-only/netif.c
sed -i -e 's/unsigned int anonPages = global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES);/unsigned int anonPages = global_page_state(NR_ANON_MAPPED);/g' vmmon-only/hostif.c
tar cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
tar cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
rm -r vmnet-only
rm -r vmmon-only

vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

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