diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 7e8f100cb56d3ead4309811a5ef645c565e467d8..16532fa0bb64cd13551df531372a4b9c4244359e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -603,12 +603,9 @@ extern struct page *mem_map;
 #endif
 
 /*
- * The pg_data_t structure is used in machines with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
- * (mostly NUMA machines?) to denote a higher-level memory zone than the
- * zone denotes.
- *
  * On NUMA machines, each NUMA node would have a pg_data_t to describe
- * it's memory layout.
+ * it's memory layout. On UMA machines there is a single pglist_data which
+ * describes the whole memory.
  *
  * Memory statistics and page replacement data structures are maintained on a
  * per-zone basis.