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## Patch for Vmware 12.1.1 Kernel 4.9
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**Note: User at your own risk !**
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Vmware 12.1 modules compilation is broke since kernel 4.9.
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Here’s a quick and dirty patch I came up with after failing to find a solution.
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### Usage
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1. Go to vmware modules source directory
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`cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/`
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2.
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7
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- two variables(write, force) replaced with gup_flags
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- gup flags used like this
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unsigned int flags = 0;
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flags |= FOLL_WRITE
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1, 0, pvec + pinned ---> flags, pvec + pinned
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1e9877902dc7e11d2be038371c6fbf2dfcd469d7#diff-e37c5ffd9b4db050c3f7eae7d74e64c3R1230
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write, force, pages --> flags(write=1,force=0)
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flags: the flags must be write only and not force
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FOLL_WRITE
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/6e5c8381d1db4c1cdd4b4e49d5f0d1255c2246fd/include/linux/mm.h#L227://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/6e5c8381d1db4c1cdd4b4e49d5f0d1255c2246fd/include/linux/mm.h#L2278
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