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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
index 84e04a0db0f8..c54bf3127651 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt
@@ -161,9 +161,12 @@ kernel aborted a transaction:
transactions for consistency will use this.
TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL Signal delivered.
TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused.
+ TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT Alignment fault.
+ TM_CAUSE_EMULATE Emulation that touched memory.
-These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7].
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+These can be checked by the user program's abort handler as TEXASR[0:7]. If
+bit 7 is set, it indicates that the error is consider persistent. For example
+a TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT will be persistent while a TM_CAUSE_RESCHED will not.q
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