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Equivalent to smt=1.
[KNL,x86] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
- nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, similar to disabling
- it in the BIOS except that some of the
- resource partitioning effects which are
- caused by having SMT enabled in the BIOS
- cannot be undone. Depending on the CPU
- type this might have a performance impact.
+ nosmt=force: Force disable SMT, cannot be undone
+ via the sysfs control file.
nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may