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diff --git a/lib/percpu-refcount.c b/lib/percpu-refcount.c
index 4f6c6ebbbbde..8d092609928e 100644
--- a/lib/percpu-refcount.c
+++ b/lib/percpu-refcount.c
@@ -50,9 +50,10 @@ static unsigned long __percpu *percpu_count_ptr(struct percpu_ref *ref)
* @flags: PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags
* @gfp: allocation mask to use
*
- * Initializes @ref. If @flags is zero, @ref starts in percpu mode with a
- * refcount of 1; analagous to atomic_long_set(ref, 1). See the
- * definitions of PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags for flag behaviors.
+ * Initializes @ref. @ref starts out in percpu mode with a refcount of 1 unless
+ * @flags contains PERCPU_REF_INIT_ATOMIC or PERCPU_REF_INIT_DEAD. These flags
+ * change the start state to atomic with the latter setting the initial refcount
+ * to 0. See the definitions of PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags for flag behaviors.
*
* Note that @release must not sleep - it may potentially be called from RCU
* callback context by percpu_ref_kill().