diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2
index 94f74ceca..1df3195e6 100644
--- a/man2/stat.2
+++ b/man2/stat.2
@@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ ext4 (since Linux 2.6.23).
 Nanosecond timestamps are not supported in ext2, ext3, and Reiserfs.
 On filesystems that do not support subsecond timestamps,
 the nanosecond fields are returned with the value 0.
-.SS Underlying kernel interface
 .SS C library/kernel ABI differences
 Over time, increases in the size of the
 .I stat
@@ -852,7 +851,10 @@ and
 The underlying system call employed by the glibc
 .BR fstatat ()
 wrapper function is actually called
-.BR fstatat64 ().
+.BR fstatat64 ()
+or, on some architectures,
+.\" strace(1) shows the name "newfstatat" on x86-64
+.BR newfstatat ().
 .SH EXAMPLE
 The following program calls
 .BR stat ()