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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock b/kernel/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
index 6dea4fd5c..62842a857 100644
--- a/kernel/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
+++ b/kernel/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_page_dtor(),
which must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
Make sure the architecture doesn't use slab allocator for page table
-allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache and page->first_page for its pages.
-These fields share storage with page->ptl.
+allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages.
+This field shares storage with page->ptl.
PMD split lock only makes sense if you have more than two page table
levels.