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diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index fa5f72227e5f..ce8e00deaccb 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ static int pid_before(int base, int a, int b)
}
/*
- * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid.
+ * We might be racing with someone else trying to set pid_ns->last_pid
+ * at the pid allocation time (there's also a sysctl for this, but racing
+ * with this one is OK, see comment in kernel/pid_namespace.c about it).
* We want the winner to have the "later" value, because if the
* "earlier" value prevails, then a pid may get reused immediately.
*
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