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@@ -6071,8 +6071,9 @@
on - unconditionally enable.
off - unconditionally disable.
- auto - (default) enable only if hardware mitigation
- control(BHI_DIS_S) is available.
+ auto - (default) enable hardware mitigation
+ (BHI_DIS_S) if available, otherwise enable
+ alternate mitigation in KVM.
spectre_v2= [X86,EARLY] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.