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Yes. madaidan: nosmt=force is redundant. We already disable SMT with mds=full,nosmt . mds=full,nosmt does not make that redundant. Though, l1tf=full,force makes it redundant. l1tf=full,force https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt says Implies the ‘nosmt=force’ command line option.