diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
index 03e6d576295de..6bbfabbe62fc2 100644
--- a/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/kernel/smp.c
@@ -312,9 +312,10 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(call_single_data_t, csd_data);
 void __smp_call_single_queue(int cpu, struct llist_node *node)
 {
 	/*
-	 * The list addition should be visible before sending the IPI
-	 * handler locks the list to pull the entry off it because of
-	 * normal cache coherency rules implied by spinlocks.
+	 * The list addition should be visible to the target CPU when it pops
+	 * the head of the list to pull the entry off it in the IPI handler
+	 * because of normal cache coherency rules implied by the underlying
+	 * llist ops.
 	 *
 	 * If IPIs can go out of order to the cache coherency protocol
 	 * in an architecture, sufficient synchronisation should be added