diff --git a/src/supervisor.adoc b/src/supervisor.adoc
index 5d93955f..8ad8fe51 100644
--- a/src/supervisor.adoc
+++ b/src/supervisor.adoc
@@ -1442,8 +1442,9 @@ Two schemes to manage the A and D bits are defined:
   architecturally. However, updates to the D bit, resulting from an
   explicit store, must be exact (i.e., non-speculative), and observed in
   program order by the local hart. When two-stage address translation is
-  active, updates of the D bit in G-stage PTEs may be performed as a
-  result of speculative updates of the A bit in VS-stage PTEs.          +
+  active, updates to the D bit in G-stage PTEs may be performed by an
+  implicit access to a VS-stage PTE, if the G-stage PTE provides write
+  permission, before any speculative access to the VS-stage PTE.        +
                                                                         +
   The PTE update must appear in the global memory order before the
   memory access that caused the PTE update and before any subsequent