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diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
index 833d48c9acb5..a338f40e64d3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry-ftrace.S
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
*
* ... where <entry> is either ftrace_caller or ftrace_regs_caller.
*
- * Each instrumented function follows the AAPCS, so here x0-x8 and x19-x30 are
- * live, and x9-x18 are safe to clobber.
+ * Each instrumented function follows the AAPCS, so here x0-x8 and x18-x30 are
+ * live (x18 holds the Shadow Call Stack pointer), and x9-x17 are safe to
+ * clobber.
*
* We save the callsite's context into a pt_regs before invoking any ftrace
* callbacks. So that we can get a sensible backtrace, we create a stack record