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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
index b18416f4500f..9fb0b1080d3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
@@ -55,18 +55,17 @@ flags the caller provides. The caller is required to pass in a non-null struct
pages* array, and the function then pins pages by incrementing each by a special
value: GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS.
-For compound pages, the GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead,
-an exact form of pin counting is achieved, by using the 2nd struct page
-in the compound page. A new struct page field, compound_pincount, has
-been added in order to support this.
-
-This approach for compound pages avoids the counting upper limit problems that
-are discussed below. Those limitations would have been aggravated severely by
-huge pages, because each tail page adds a refcount to the head page. And in
-fact, testing revealed that, without a separate compound_pincount field,
-page overflows were seen in some huge page stress tests.
-
-This also means that huge pages and compound pages do not suffer
+For large folios, the GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead,
+the extra space available in the struct folio is used to store the
+pincount directly.
+
+This approach for large folios avoids the counting upper limit problems
+that are discussed below. Those limitations would have been aggravated
+severely by huge pages, because each tail page adds a refcount to the
+head page. And in fact, testing revealed that, without a separate pincount
+field, refcount overflows were seen in some huge page stress tests.
+
+This also means that huge pages and large folios do not suffer
from the false positives problem that is mentioned below.::
Function
@@ -221,7 +220,7 @@ Unit testing
============
This file::
- tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
+ tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c
has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions:
@@ -264,9 +263,9 @@ place.)
Other diagnostics
=================
-dump_page() has been enhanced slightly, to handle these new counting
-fields, and to better report on compound pages in general. Specifically,
-for compound pages, the exact (compound_pincount) pincount is reported.
+dump_page() has been enhanced slightly to handle these new counting
+fields, and to better report on large folios in general. Specifically,
+for large folios, the exact pincount is reported.
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