Ok, i tested it on another board (seuss) with 4.14.27, 4.15.10 and 4.16-rc4:
4.14.0: affected 4.14.27: affected 4.15.10: affected 4.16-rc: doesn't boot at all, so i can't tell
so we can rule out the bad hardware variable, and we can say for sure that is not related to kpti at all.
Another thing: once building a kernel from upstream, you clearly need to enable ZSMALLOC and ZRAM too.
Ok, i tested it on another board (seuss) with 4.14.27, 4.15.10 and 4.16-rc4:
4.14.0: affected
4.14.27: affected
4.15.10: affected
4.16-rc: doesn't boot at all, so i can't tell
so we can rule out the bad hardware variable, and we can say for sure that is not related to kpti at all.
Another thing: once building a kernel from upstream, you clearly need to enable ZSMALLOC and ZRAM too.