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diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 1c68d67b832f..92a2063a0a23 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -617,6 +617,12 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(VmemmapSelfHosted, vmemmap_self_hosted)
* Please note that, confusingly, "page_mapping" refers to the inode
* address_space which maps the page from disk; whereas "page_mapped"
* refers to user virtual address space into which the page is mapped.
+ *
+ * For slab pages, since slab reuses the bits in struct page to store its
+ * internal states, the page->mapping does not exist as such, nor do these
+ * flags below. So in order to avoid testing non-existent bits, please
+ * make sure that PageSlab(page) actually evaluates to false before calling
+ * the following functions (e.g., PageAnon). See mm/slab.h.
*/
#define PAGE_MAPPING_ANON 0x1
#define PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE 0x2