diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 232eb27..b40ac6d 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -336,6 +336,14 @@
 	unsigned long count = 0;
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * Note: this function may get called on a shmem/tmpfs mapping:
+	 * pagevec_lookup() might then return 0 prematurely (because it
+	 * got a gangful of swap entries); but it's hardly worth worrying
+	 * about - it can rarely have anything to free from such a mapping
+	 * (most pages are dirty), and already skips over any difficulties.
+	 */
+
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
 	while (index <= end && pagevec_lookup(&pvec, mapping, index,
 			min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE - 1) + 1)) {