diff --git a/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst b/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst
index e93ec6645238..66e3792f8a36 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst
@@ -139,18 +139,6 @@ on other CPU's, because an interrupt on another CPU doesn't interrupt the
 CPU that holds the lock, so the lock-holder can continue and eventually
 releases the lock).
 
-Note that you can be clever with read-write locks and interrupts. For
-example, if you know that the interrupt only ever gets a read-lock, then
-you can use a non-irq version of read locks everywhere - because they
-don't block on each other (and thus there is no dead-lock wrt interrupts.
-But when you do the write-lock, you have to use the irq-safe version.
-
-For an example of being clever with rw-locks, see the "waitqueue_lock"
-handling in kernel/sched/core.c - nothing ever _changes_ a wait-queue from
-within an interrupt, they only read the queue in order to know whom to
-wake up. So read-locks are safe (which is good: they are very common
-indeed), while write-locks need to protect themselves against interrupts.
-
 		Linus
 
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