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Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer 547f574fd9 docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means
Here's a patch updating the meaning of TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC after
Borislav introduced changes in a7e1f67ed2 and upcoming patches in tip.

TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC now means a bit more what it implies as the
flag isn't set just because of a CPU misconfiguration or mismatch.
Historically it was for SMP kernel oops on an officially SMP incapable
processor but now it also covers CPUs whose MSRs have been incorrectly
poked at from userspace, drivers being used on non supported
architectures, broken firmware, mismatched CPUs, ...

Update documentation and script to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <me@mathieu.digital>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202153244.709752-1-me@mathieu.digital
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-08 10:53:58 -07:00
arch A set of x86 fixes: 2020-11-08 10:09:36 -08:00
block blk-mq: mark flush request as IDLE in flush_end_io() 2020-10-30 08:33:49 -06:00
certs
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Documentation docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means 2020-12-08 10:53:58 -07:00
drivers TTY/Serial fixes for 5.10-rc3 2020-11-08 11:28:08 -08:00
fs Fixes for 5.10-rc3: 2020-11-08 10:23:07 -08:00
include Fixes for 5.10-rc3: 2020-11-08 10:23:07 -08:00
init
ipc
kernel fork: fix copy_process(CLONE_PARENT) race with the exiting ->real_parent 2020-11-08 11:18:39 -08:00
lib drm fixes for 5.10-rc3 2020-11-06 12:54:00 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/truncate.c: make __invalidate_mapping_pages() static 2020-11-02 12:14:19 -08:00
net Networking fixes for 5.10-rc3, including fixes from wireless, can, 2020-11-06 11:50:28 -08:00
samples
scripts scripts: get_feat.pl: reduce table width for all features output 2020-12-04 14:34:27 -07:00
security
sound ASoC: Fixes for v5.10 2020-11-05 18:19:32 +01:00
tools docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means 2020-12-08 10:53:58 -07:00
usr
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.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
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MAINTAINERS docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs 2020-12-08 10:48:04 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.10-rc3 2020-11-08 16:10:16 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.