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Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions)
vulnerability.
- off - unconditionally disable
- auto - automatically select a migitation
- unret - force enable untrained return thunks,
- only effective on AMD Zen {1,2}
- based systems.
+ off - no mitigation
+ auto - automatically select a migitation
+ auto,nosmt - automatically select a mitigation,
+ disabling SMT if necessary for
+ the full mitigation (only on Zen1
+ and older without STIBP).
+ unret - force enable untrained return thunks,
+ only effective on AMD f15h-f17h
+ based systems.
+ unret,nosmt - like unret, will disable SMT when STIBP
+ is not available.
Selecting 'auto' will choose a mitigation method at run
time according to the CPU.