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+#ifndef __BACKPORT_PM_RUNTIME_H
+#define __BACKPORT_PM_RUNTIME_H
+#include_next <linux/pm_runtime.h>
+
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,9,0)
+#define pm_runtime_active LINUX_BACKPORT(pm_runtime_active)
+#ifdef CONFIG_PM
+static inline bool pm_runtime_active(struct device *dev)
+{
+ return dev->power.runtime_status == RPM_ACTIVE
+ || dev->power.disable_depth;
+}
+#else
+static inline bool pm_runtime_active(struct device *dev) { return true; }
+#endif /* CONFIG_PM */
+
+#endif /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,9,0) */
+
+#endif /* __BACKPORT_PM_RUNTIME_H */
I have been following the thread on the genl-const.cocci parse error. I had the same problem and found the information very helpful. I had been killing the gentree build because I thought it was hung applying SmPL patch 0079-netdev-destructor.cocci. On my system, a 4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz machine, that patch takes about an hour and 20 minutes with the system at 100% for about an hour. After reading your discussion, I stopped killing it and it ran successfully. I am backporting to 3.4 and ran into a couple of other problems. There were 2 problems building the output against a 3.4 kernel. I wasn't sure that my kernel was the problem, so I built against the 3.4 branch of linux-stable. The first problem was caused by commit 8cdd85766293018fea01512959320a05269e97b4. Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Date: Fri Oct 13 10:48:42 2017 +0200 backports: add netdev_upper_dev_link() extack argument But make it optional (using magic.h) to let this still work on kernels that didn't change the argument. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> In file included from /home/mike/linux-backport/compat/compat-3.8.c:18: /home/mike/linux-backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h:341: error: implicit declaration of function 'netdev_upper_dev_link' /home/mike/linux-backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h: In function '_bp_netdev_upper_dev_ +#if LINUX_VERSION_IS_LESS(4,14,0) +static inline int _bp_netdev_upper_dev_link(struct net_device *dev, + struct net_device *upper_dev) +{ + return netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper_dev); +} +#define netdev_upper_dev_link3(dev, upper, extack) \ + netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper) +#define netdev_upper_dev_link2(dev, upper) \ + netdev_upper_dev_link(dev, upper) +#define netdev_upper_dev_link(...) \ + macro_dispatcher(netdev_upper_dev_link, __VA_ARGS__)(__VA_ARGS__) +#endif + I tried building against various kernels and didn't find netdev_upper_dev_link' defined until 3, so anything less that that probably has this error. I didn't know exactly what to use here so I just did an #if 0 around that section and resolved the problem for me. The second problem is in commit 2ebca7b7d087be04e25b1fc50cf08137d423af3d. Author: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> Date: Tue Apr 19 22:13:11 2016 +0300 backport: add pm_runtime_active() implementation for < 3.9 kernels The pm_runtime_active() helper function was introduced in kernel 3.9. In order to use it in earlier kernels, we need to add its implementation to the backports. Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com> [add LINUX_BACKPORT() protection] Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> /home/mike/linux-backport/backport-include/linux/pm_runtime.h: In function 'backport_pm_runtime_active': /home/mike/linux-backport/backport-include/linux/pm_runtime.h:10: error: 'struct dev_pm_info' has no member named 'runtime_status' /home/mike/linux-backport/backport-include/linux/pm_runtime.h:11: error: 'struct dev_pm_info' has no member named 'disable_depth' make[6]: *** [/home/mike/linux-backport/compat/backport-4.8.o] Error 1 In linux/pm.h, those members addition to the struct are controlled by CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME, not CONFIG_PM. I changed pm_runtime.h to use CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and that resolved the problem. Thanks for this amazing product, Mike McElroy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in