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diff --git a/include/linux/atomic.h b/include/linux/atomic.h
index c56be7410130..40d6bfec0e0d 100644
--- a/include/linux/atomic.h
+++ b/include/linux/atomic.h
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
* Besides, if an arch has a special barrier for acquire/release, it could
* implement its own __atomic_op_* and use the same framework for building
* variants
+ *
+ * If an architecture overrides __atomic_op_acquire() it will probably want
+ * to define smp_mb__after_spinlock().
*/
#ifndef __atomic_op_acquire
#define __atomic_op_acquire(op, args...) \