diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec.rst
similarity index 88%
rename from Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec
rename to Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec.rst
index 3c23e0587db3..8d1c91f0c880 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================================================
 Firmware support for CPU hotplug under Linux/x86-64
----------------------------------------------------
+===================================================
 
 Linux/x86-64 supports CPU hotplug now. For various reasons Linux wants to
 know in advance of boot time the maximum number of CPUs that could be plugged
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
index e2a324cde671..c04b6eab3c76 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ x86_64 Support
    mm
    5level-paging
    fake-numa-for-cpusets
+   cpu-hotplug-spec