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Think this existed in my patch patch, I noticed internally due to the 0day report that a newline was missing. On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 07:40:05PM -0000, tip-bot2 for Ashok Raj wrote: [snip] > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst > index 7d80e8c..e59a710 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst > @@ -134,7 +134,13 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting > 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 ...). > - > + - x86/x86_64: Microcode late loading is dangerous and will result in > + tainting the kernel. It requires that all CPUs rendezvous to make sure > + the update happens when the system is as quiescent as possible. However, > + a higher priority MCE/SMI/NMI can move control flow away from that > + rendezvous and interrupt the update, which can be detrimental to the > + machine. > +e ^^^^^^