diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
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--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
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@@ -2583,7 +2583,12 @@
 would need to be instructions following ``rcu_read_unlock()``. Although
 ``synchronize_rcu()`` would guarantee that execution reached the
 ``rcu_read_unlock()``, it would not be able to guarantee that execution
-had completely left the trampoline.
+had completely left the trampoline. Worse yet, in some situations
+the trampoline's protection must extend a few instructions *prior* to
+execution reaching the trampoline.  For example, these few instructions
+might calculate the address of the trampoline, so that entering the
+trampoline would be pre-ordained a surprisingly long time before execution
+actually reached the trampoline itself.
 
 The solution, in the form of `Tasks
 RCU <https://lwn.net/Articles/607117/>`__, is to have implicit read-side