diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 3d92049..4af288e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -472,8 +472,6 @@
 	All may block except for ->setlease.
 	No VFS locks held on entry except for ->setlease.
 
-->setlease has the file_list_lock held and must not sleep.
-
 ->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
 implementations.  If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
 need to acquire and release the appropriate locks in your ->llseek().
@@ -496,6 +494,10 @@
 ->read on directories probably must go away - we should just enforce -EISDIR
 in sys_read() and friends.
 
+->setlease operations should call generic_setlease() before or after setting
+the lease within the individual filesystem to record the result of the
+operation
+
 --------------------------- dquot_operations -------------------------------
 prototypes:
 	int (*write_dquot) (struct dquot *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 28ebd49..8be1ea3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -895,8 +895,9 @@
   splice_read: called by the VFS to splice data from file to a pipe. This
 	       method is used by the splice(2) system call
 
-  setlease: called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease.
-	    setlease has the file_lock_lock held and must not sleep.
+  setlease: called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease. setlease
+	    implementations should call generic_setlease to record or remove
+	    the lease in the inode after setting it.
 
   fallocate: called by the VFS to preallocate blocks or punch a hole.