diff --git a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/GPU/GPUOps.td b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/GPU/GPUOps.td
--- a/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/GPU/GPUOps.td
+++ b/mlir/include/mlir/Dialect/GPU/GPUOps.td
@@ -746,8 +746,14 @@
     Arguments<(ins AnyUnrankedMemRef:$value)> {
   let summary = "Registers a memref for access from device.";
   let description = [{
-    This op registers the host memory pointed to by a memref to be accessed from
-    a device.
+    This op maps the provided host buffer into the device address space.
+
+    This operation may not be supported in every environment, there is not yet a
+    way to check at runtime whether this feature is supported.
+
+    Writes from the host are guaranteed to be visible to device kernels that are
+    launched afterwards. Writes from the device are guaranteed to be visible on
+    the host after synchronizing with the device kernel completion.
   }];
 
   let assemblyFormat = "$value attr-dict `:` type($value)";
diff --git a/mlir/lib/Conversion/GPUCommon/ConvertLaunchFuncToRuntimeCalls.cpp b/mlir/lib/Conversion/GPUCommon/ConvertLaunchFuncToRuntimeCalls.cpp
--- a/mlir/lib/Conversion/GPUCommon/ConvertLaunchFuncToRuntimeCalls.cpp
+++ b/mlir/lib/Conversion/GPUCommon/ConvertLaunchFuncToRuntimeCalls.cpp
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
        llvmIntPtrType /* intptr_t elementSizeBytes */}};
 };
 
-/// A rewrite patter to convert gpu.host_register operations into a GPU runtime
+/// A rewrite pattern to convert gpu.host_register operations into a GPU runtime
 /// call. Currently it supports CUDA and ROCm (HIP).
 class ConvertHostRegisterOpToGpuRuntimeCallPattern
     : public ConvertOpToGpuRuntimeCallPattern<gpu::HostRegisterOp> {