I appreciate it. I saw that but was a little exhausted to process when I posted There's a bit of hand waving around this it seems lol I have a modern/current

I appreciate it. I saw that but was a little exhausted to process when I posted There's a bit of hand waving around this it seems lol I have a modern/current kernel (4.x is ancient) built with the option enabled, my command line lacks nopti, yet I do not see the protection message. That's the root of my confusion. When I get back to my machine I'll check the sysfs file