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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 06bbbed71206..61c98f03baa1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ prototypes:
 locking rules:
 	All except set_page_dirty may block
 
-			BKL	PageLocked(page)	i_sem
+			BKL	PageLocked(page)	i_mutex
 writepage:		no	yes, unlocks (see below)
 readpage:		no	yes, unlocks
 sync_page:		no	maybe
@@ -429,8 +429,9 @@ check_flags:		no
 implementations.  If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
 need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek().
 For many filesystems, it is probably safe to acquire the inode
-semaphore.  Note some filesystems (i.e. remote ones) provide no
-protection for i_size so you will need to use the BKL.
+mutex or just to use i_size_read() instead.
+Note: this does not protect the file->f_pos against concurrent modifications
+since this is something the userspace has to take care about.
 
 Note: ext2_release() was *the* source of contention on fs-intensive
 loads and dropping BKL on ->release() helps to get rid of that (we still