diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
index cd0fb7bfba6849cb1efb1a09b8c8ada7af09cee7..8debd4f40f065ddd3a82d3ec1b83bf31fb31f175 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-tmc-etf.c
@@ -553,6 +553,11 @@ static unsigned long tmc_update_etf_buffer(struct coresight_device *csdev,
 	if (buf->snapshot)
 		handle->head += to_read;
 
+	/*
+	 * CS_LOCK() contains mb() so it can ensure visibility of the AUX trace
+	 * data before the aux_head is updated via perf_aux_output_end(), which
+	 * is expected by the perf ring buffer.
+	 */
 	CS_LOCK(drvdata->base);
 out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drvdata->spinlock, flags);