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Belatedly document the disabling of Hyper-Threading. Security issues
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Belatedly document the disabling of Hyper-Threading. Security issues
are not normally documented in UPDATING on the stable branches, but
since this is a user-visible change, it needs to be here.

This is not an MFC since Hyper-Threading is enabled by default in HEAD.

Pointed out by: Erik Trulsson, via freebsd-stable

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rS147283: The new contigmalloc(9) has a bad degenerate case where there were
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