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by weinzierl 3093 days ago
Interestingly I get:

    dmesg -H | grep 'page tables isolation'
    [  +0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled

    grep cpu_insecure /proc/cpuinfo && echo "Patched" || echo "Unpatched!"
    Unpatched!

    cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep pti
    fpu_exception	: yes

    uname -a
    Linux host 4.9.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux
So page tables isolation seems to be enabled but neither the pti flag nor the cpu_insecure bug is in cpuinfo.

EDIT: Maybe this is because it is Xen guest. Do I need pti on a XEN guest if the host is fully patched?