Merge tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A much quieter cycle for documentation (happily), with, one hopes, the
  bulk of the churn behind us. Significant stuff in this pull includes:

   - A set of new Chinese translations

   - Italian translation updates

   - A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format
     Documentation/features for the built docs

   - Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup

   - A new reset-controller document

   - An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten

  That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual;
  there was some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and
  an ack from Greg for that addition"

* tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (50 commits)
  docs: fix broken cross reference in translations/zh_CN
  docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
  docs: update requirements to install six module
  docs: reporting-issues: move 'outdated, need help' note to proper place
  docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means
  docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs
  docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete
  docs: Add a new text describing how to report bugs
  LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
  Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
  Documentation: fix typos found in admin-guide subdirectory
  kernel-doc: Fix example in Nested structs/unions
  docs: clean up sysctl/kernel: titles, version
  docs: trace: fix event state structure name
  docs: nios2: add missing ReST file
  scripts: get_feat.pl: reduce table width for all features output
  scripts: get_feat.pl: change the group by order
  scripts: get_feat.pl: make complete table more coincise
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs
  Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories
  ...

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
index f718a2eaf1f6..ceeed7b0798d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Bit  Log  Number  Reason that got the kernel tainted
 ===  ===  ======  ========================================================
   0  G/P       1  proprietary module was loaded
   1  _/F       2  module was force loaded
-  2  _/S       4  SMP kernel oops on an officially SMP incapable processor
+  2  _/S       4  kernel running on an out of specification system
   3  _/R       8  module was force unloaded
   4  _/M      16  processor reported a Machine Check Exception (MCE)
   5  _/B      32  bad page referenced or some unexpected page flags
@@ -116,10 +116,23 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
  1)  ``F`` if any module was force loaded by ``insmod -f``, ``' '`` if all
      modules were loaded normally.
 
- 2)  ``S`` if the oops occurred on an SMP kernel running on hardware that
-     hasn't been certified as safe to run multiprocessor.
-     Currently this occurs only on various Athlons that are not
-     SMP capable.
+ 2)  ``S`` if the kernel is running on a processor or system that is out of
+     specification: hardware has been put into an unsupported configuration,
+     therefore proper execution cannot be guaranteed.
+     Kernel will be tainted if, for example:
+
+     - on x86: PAE is forced through forcepae on intel CPUs (such as Pentium M)
+       which do not report PAE but may have a functional implementation, an SMP
+       kernel is running on non officially capable SMP Athlon CPUs, MSRs are
+       being poked at from userspace.
+     - on arm: kernel running on certain CPUs (such as Keystone 2) without
+       having certain kernel features enabled.
+     - on arm64: there are mismatched hardware features between CPUs, the
+       bootloader has booted CPUs in different modes.
+     - certain drivers are being used on non supported architectures (such as
+       scsi/snic on something else than x86_64, scsi/ips on non
+       x86/x86_64/itanium, have broken firmware settings for the
+       irqchip/irq-gic on arm64 ...).
 
  3)  ``R`` if a module was force unloaded by ``rmmod -f``, ``' '`` if all
      modules were unloaded normally.