Kernel 4.8-rc1 is out, and brief details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1608.0/04804.html

VMware 12.1.1 – with the previous 4.6/4.7 patches, fails to compile vmmon:

/tmp/modconfig-gfkQLR/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit’:
/tmp/modconfig-gfkQLR/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1597:47: error: ‘NR_ANON_PAGES’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Further research revealed that NR_ANON_PAGES has been changed to NR_ANON_MAPPED in 4.8, and so the fix is quite simple..

In ~/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c, around line 1594, change
unsigned int anonPages = global_page_state(NR_ANON_PAGES);
to
unsigned int anonPages = global_page_state(NR_ANON_MAPPED);

With this change, vmmon compiles OK again..

For NVIDIA driver 367.35 – with the 4.7 patches – the compilation fails with 4.8-rc1:

/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c: In function ‘nvidia_drm_migrate_modeset_ownership’:
/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:455:26: error: ‘struct drm_minor’ has no member named ‘master’
 !file_priv->minor->master)
 ^~
/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:476:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘drm_master_put’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
 drm_master_put(&file_priv->minor->master);
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:476:37: error: ‘struct drm_minor’ has no member named ‘master’
 drm_master_put(&file_priv->minor->master);

The fix is already documented, thanks to m00ster and andresu on the Devtalk forum, and details are here:  https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/954279/linux/nvidia-367-35-dkms-build-errors-for-a-4-7-0-kernel/

I have been running driver 367.35 without these particular patches on 4.7 Final, for some time..    I applied the changes – manually – and now 367.35, with the original 4.7 patches plus these patches, compiles OK on 4.8-rc1:

 Building modules, stage 2.
 MODPOST 4 modules
 CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o
 LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko
 CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
 LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko
 CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
 LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko
 CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia.mod.o
 LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.35-patched/kernel/nvidia.ko
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.8-rc1'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-4.8-rc1'

Robert Gadsdon.   August 8, 2016.