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diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 009a655a5d35..2fc1602e23bb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -456,13 +456,15 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page {
/*
* Control data for the mmap() data buffer.
*
- * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an rmb(), on
- * SMP capable platforms, after reading this value -- see
- * perf_event_wakeup().
+ * User-space reading the @data_head value should issue an smp_rmb(),
+ * after reading this value.
*
* When the mapping is PROT_WRITE the @data_tail value should be
- * written by userspace to reflect the last read data. In this case
- * the kernel will not over-write unread data.
+ * written by userspace to reflect the last read data, after issueing
+ * an smp_mb() to separate the data read from the ->data_tail store.
+ * In this case the kernel will not over-write unread data.
+ *
+ * See perf_output_put_handle() for the data ordering.
*/
__u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */
__u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */