diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
index d4e714661826..bc2402a45741 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ struct mmu_interval_notifier;
  * a device driver to possibly ignore the invalidation if the
  * owner field matches the driver's device private pgmap owner.
  *
- * @MMU_NOTIFY_EXCLUSIVE: to signal a device driver that the device will no
- * longer have exclusive access to the page. When sent during creation of an
- * exclusive range the owner will be initialised to the value provided by the
- * caller of make_device_exclusive(), otherwise the owner will be NULL.
+ * @MMU_NOTIFY_EXCLUSIVE: conversion of a page table entry to device-exclusive.
+ * The owner is initialized to the value provided by the caller of
+ * make_device_exclusive(), such that this caller can filter out these
+ * events.
  */
 enum mmu_notifier_event {
 	MMU_NOTIFY_UNMAP = 0,
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 5b475d31ce41..4c12a05fabd9 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4003,7 +4003,7 @@ static vm_fault_t remove_device_exclusive_entry(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		folio_put(folio);
 		return ret;
 	}
-	mmu_notifier_range_init_owner(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_EXCLUSIVE, 0,
+	mmu_notifier_range_init_owner(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0,
 				vma->vm_mm, vmf->address & PAGE_MASK,
 				(vmf->address & PAGE_MASK) + PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);