Tobias noticed a compile error on 4.4.115, and it's the same on 4.9.80:
arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c: In function ‘kaiser_init’:
arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c:348:8: error: ‘vsyscall_pgprot’ undeclared
                                   (first use in this function)

It seems like his combination of kernel options doesn't work for KAISER.
X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION is not set on his system, while LEGACY_VSYSCALL
is set to NONE (LEGACY_VSYSCALL_NONE=y). He managed to get things
compiling again, by moving the 'extern unsigned long vsyscall_pgprot'
outside of the preprocessor statement. This works because the optimizer
removes that code (vsyscall_enabled() is always false) - and that's how
it was done in some older backports.
Reported-by: Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi@math.uni-bielefeld.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>