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off - Unconditionally enable Speculative Store Bypass
auto - Kernel detects whether the CPU model contains an
implementation of Speculative Store Bypass and
- picks the most appropriate mitigation
+ picks the most appropriate mitigation.
+ prctl - Control Speculative Store Bypass per thread
+ via prctl. Speculative Store Bypass is enabled
+ for a process by default. The state of the control
+ is inherited on fork.
Not specifying this option is equivalent to
spec_store_bypass_disable=auto.