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diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
index 1eb520cd1680..e1b005918bbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcu.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
* one way to indirectly wait on an SRCU grace period is to acquire
* a mutex that is held elsewhere while calling synchronize_srcu() or
* synchronize_srcu_expedited().
+ *
+ * Note that srcu_read_lock() and the matching srcu_read_unlock() must
+ * occur in the same context, for example, it is illegal to invoke
+ * srcu_read_unlock() in an irq handler if the matching srcu_read_lock()
+ * was invoked in process context.
*/
static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp)
{