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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 833952d8b74..119b7ccdf39 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1227,8 +1227,17 @@ int zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_vma_ptes);
-/*
- * Do a quick page-table lookup for a single page.
+/**
+ * follow_page - look up a page descriptor from a user-virtual address
+ * @vma: vm_area_struct mapping @address
+ * @address: virtual address to look up
+ * @flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour
+ *
+ * @flags can have FOLL_ flags set, defined in <linux/mm.h>
+ *
+ * Returns the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or
+ * an error pointer if there is a mapping to something not represented
+ * by a page descriptor (see also vm_normal_page()).
*/
struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
unsigned int flags)