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diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst b/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst
index 860fe651d645..5e40b3f437f9 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/psi.rst
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ Pressure interface
Pressure information for each resource is exported through the
respective file in /proc/pressure/ -- cpu, memory, and io.
-The format for CPU is as such::
-
- some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
-
-and for memory and IO::
+The format is as such::
some avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
full avg10=0.00 avg60=0.00 avg300=0.00 total=0
@@ -58,6 +54,9 @@ situation from a state where some tasks are stalled but the CPU is
still doing productive work. As such, time spent in this subset of the
stall state is tracked separately and exported in the "full" averages.
+CPU full is undefined at the system level, but has been reported
+since 5.13, so it is set to zero for backward compatibility.
+
The ratios (in %) are tracked as recent trends over ten, sixty, and
three hundred second windows, which gives insight into short term events
as well as medium and long term trends. The total absolute stall time