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diff --git a/include/asm-generic/div64.h b/include/asm-generic/div64.h
index a3b98c86f077..cd905b44a630 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/div64.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/div64.h
@@ -8,12 +8,14 @@
* Optimization for constant divisors on 32-bit machines:
* Copyright (C) 2006-2015 Nicolas Pitre
*
- * The semantics of do_div() are:
+ * The semantics of do_div() is, in C++ notation, observing that the name
+ * is a function-like macro and the n parameter has the semantics of a C++
+ * reference:
*
- * uint32_t do_div(uint64_t *n, uint32_t base)
+ * uint32_t do_div(uint64_t &n, uint32_t base)
* {
- * uint32_t remainder = *n % base;
- * *n = *n / base;
+ * uint32_t remainder = n % base;
+ * n = n / base;
* return remainder;
* }
*