diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 02069c23486d..3388ccbab7d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -524,7 +524,6 @@ struct zone {
 
 enum zone_flags {
 	ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED,		/* prevents concurrent reclaim */
-	ZONE_OOM_LOCKED,		/* zone is in OOM killer zonelist */
 	ZONE_CONGESTED,			/* zone has many dirty pages backed by
 					 * a congested BDI
 					 */
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index ddf74487f848..398c245a484a 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -988,8 +988,8 @@ bool out_of_memory(struct oom_control *oc)
 
 /*
  * The pagefault handler calls here because it is out of memory, so kill a
- * memory-hogging task.  If any populated zone has ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set, a
- * parallel oom killing is already in progress so do nothing.
+ * memory-hogging task. If oom_lock is held by somebody else, a parallel oom
+ * killing is already in progress so do nothing.
  */
 void pagefault_out_of_memory(void)
 {