diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index b315a33867f2..33692eaabab5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
  * Simple spin lock operations.  There are two variants, one clears IRQ's
  * on the local processor, one does not.
  *
- * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which are currently limited to 256
- * CPUs.
+ * These are fair FIFO ticket locks, which support up to 2^16 CPUs.
  *
  * (the type definitions are in asm/spinlock_types.h)
  */