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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
index f8a360958f4c..e87ed5479963 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
@@ -60,17 +60,14 @@ They can be enabled individually. The full list of the parameters: ::
OBJCOPY=llvm-objcopy OBJDUMP=llvm-objdump READELF=llvm-readelf \
HOSTCC=clang HOSTCXX=clang++ HOSTAR=llvm-ar HOSTLD=ld.lld
-Currently, the integrated assembler is disabled by default. You can pass
-``LLVM_IAS=1`` to enable it.
+The integrated assembler is enabled by default. You can pass ``LLVM_IAS=0`` to
+disable it.
Omitting CROSS_COMPILE
----------------------
As explained above, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is used to set ``--target=<triple>``.
-Unless ``LLVM_IAS=1`` is specified, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is also used to derive
-``--prefix=<path>`` to search for the GNU assembler and linker.
-
If ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is not specified, the ``--target=<triple>`` is inferred
from ``ARCH``.
@@ -78,7 +75,12 @@ That means if you use only LLVM tools, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` becomes unnecessary.
For example, to cross-compile the arm64 kernel::
- make ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
+ make ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1
+
+If ``LLVM_IAS=0`` is specified, ``CROSS_COMPILE`` is also used to derive
+``--prefix=<path>`` to search for the GNU assembler and linker. ::
+
+ make ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=0 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
Supported Architectures
-----------------------