diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 0fa692f1094e..6043c14165d1 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1989,8 +1989,7 @@ static bool rcu_gp_init(struct rcu_state *rsp)
 	 * of the tree within the rsp->node[] array.  Note that other CPUs
 	 * will access only the leaves of the hierarchy, thus seeing that no
 	 * grace period is in progress, at least until the corresponding
-	 * leaf node has been initialized.  In addition, we have excluded
-	 * CPU-hotplug operations.
+	 * leaf node has been initialized.
 	 *
 	 * The grace period cannot complete until the initialization
 	 * process finishes, because this kthread handles both.